bear to remain inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to you, dear Mary, that
Princess Mary Bolkonskaya."
Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families
"First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend's mind at rest," said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.
"Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling?"
grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.
Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna
Well, what's this now? What have you been up to now, I should like to know?" she asked sternly.
"I? What have I...?" stammered Pierre.
"So it seems you're a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you."
Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but could not reply.
"If you won't answer, I'll tell you..." Helene went on. "You believe everything you're told. You were told..." Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her
All have secrets of their own
ell me what this wretched war is for
confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear
