War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [842]
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*2Well, my prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than possessions, estates, of the Buonaparte family. No, I warn you, if you do not tell me we are at war, if you still allow yourself to palliate all the infamies, all the atrocities of that Antichrist (upon my word, I believe it)—I no longer know you, you are no longer my friend, you are no longer…as you say…I see that I’m frightening you…
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†3If you have nothing better to do, Monsieur the Count (or My Prince), and if the prospect of spending the evening with a poor sick woman does not frighten you too much, I shall be delighted to see you here between 7 and 10 o’clock.
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‡4God, what a virulent outburst!
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*5Before all, tell me how you are doing, my dear friend.
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†6I confess to you that all these fêtes and all these fireworks are beginning to become insipid.
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‡7Don’t torment me. Well, what has been decided in connection with Novosiltsov’s dispatch? You know everything.
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§8What has been decided? It has been decided that Bonaparte has burned his boats, and I believe that we are in the process of burning ours.
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*9This famous Prussian neutrality is nothing but a trap.
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†10The viscount of Mortemart, he is allied to the Montmorency family through the Rohans.
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‡11The abbot Morio.
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§12The dowager empress.
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#13He’s a poor fellow, this baron, so it seems.
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**14Monsieur the baron of Funke was recommended to the dowager empress by her sister.
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*15Much respect.
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†16But apropos of your family…has been the delight of everyone. They find her beautiful as the day.
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‡17What do you want? Lavater would have said that I lack the bump of paternity.
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*18I am your…and to you alone can I confess it…they are the fetters of my existence.
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†19Have a mania for marriages.
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‡20Little person…a relation of ours, a princess Bolkonsky.
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§21There’s the advantage of being a father.
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#22The poor little thing is as unhappy as can be.
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**23Listen, dear Annette…Arrange this business for me and I am your…forever (…as my…writes me in…).
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††24Wait…Liza (the wife of young Bolkonsky)…It will be in your family that I serve my apprenticeship as an old maid.
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*25The most seductive woman of Petersburg.
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†26My aunt.
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*27Pleasure party.
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†28I’ve brought my work.
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‡29Don’t play a dirty trick on me…You wrote me that it was a very small soirée; look how I’m gotten up.
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§30Don’t worry, Liza, you’ll always be the prettiest.
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#31You know, my husband is leaving me…he’s going to get himself killed. Tell me, why this nasty war?
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**32What a delightful person this little princess is!
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*33It’s very nice of you, Monsieur Pierre, to have come to see a poor sick woman.
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*34Ah, there now. Tell us about that, Viscount.
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†35The viscount was known personally to my lord…The viscount is a perfect storyteller…How one can tell a man of good company.
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*36What a beautiful person!
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†37Madame, I fear for my powers before such an audience.
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‡38Wait for me, I’m going to bring my handwork…Come, what are you thinking of?…Bring me my reticule.
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*39It’s not a ghost story?
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†40No, my dear.
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‡41Because I detest ghost stories.
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§42Thigh of frightened nymph.
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*43The right of nations.
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†44You’re enlisting for the war, my prince?
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‡45General Kutuzov wanted me for his adjutant.
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§46And Liza,