War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [848]
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*167Mademoiselle Bourienne, here’s another admirer of your boor of an emperor!
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†168You know I am not a Bonapartist, my prince.
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‡169What a witty man your father is…maybe that’s why he scares me.
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*170Ah, Andrei! What a treasure of a wife you have.
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*171To understand all is to forgive all.
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†172From the street.
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*173Andrei, if you had faith, you would have turned to God, asking that He give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been answered.
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*174Ah! I thought you were in your room.
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†175No, but picture it, the old countess Zubov with false curls and a mouth full of false teeth, as if she wanted to defy the years…
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*176Male midwife.
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*177Already?
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*178We have a fully massed force of about 70,000 men, and can attack and crush the enemy if he crosses the Lech. Since we are already the masters of Ulm, we cannot lose the advantage of being masters of both banks of the Danube; so that, if the enemy does not cross the Lech, we can at any moment cross the Danube, fall upon his lines of communication, cross back lower down the Danube, and prevent the enemy, if he decides to turn all his forces against our faithful allies, from fulfilling his intention. Thus we shall cheerfully await the time when the Russian imperial army is in full readiness, and then together we shall easily find the means of preparing for the enemy the fate he deserves.
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*179You are looking at the unfortunate Mack.
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*180God, how naïve!
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*181Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies destroyed, and you find that an excuse for laughing…It’s all right for a worthless fellow, like that individual you have made friends with, but not for you, not for you.
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*182Good morning! Good morning!
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†183Already busy!
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‡184Long live the Austrians! Long live the Russians! Long live Tsar Alexander!
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§185And long live the whole world!
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*186Your Excellency.
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*187Bilibin’s sayings were peddled in all the drawing rooms of Vienna.
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†188They received me with my news like a dog in a game of ninepins [i.e., like a bull in a china shop].
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*189Nevertheless, my dear…despite the high esteem I profess for the Orthodox Russian armed forces, I own that your victory is not of the most victorious.
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†190Magic spell.
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‡191You see, my dear…That is all well and good…
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§192One archduke is as good as another.
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*193As if you were saying.
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†194It’s like a deliberate thing, a deliberate thing.
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‡195Prince Murat and all the tumult…
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§196Bridgehead.
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*197Skirmish at Dürenstein.
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†198Phrases.
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‡199It will force Austria’s hand.
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§200We must spare him the u… simply Bonaparte.
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#201They say the Orthodox army is a terrible pillager…just for the sake of…between us, my dear.
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**202Time will tell.
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*203Just tell me about it.
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*204Woman is man’s helpmeet.
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†205The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance…without expressing…as in its last note…you understand…you understand…and then if his majesty the emperor does not derogate from the principle of our alliance…Wait, I haven’t finished…I suppose that intervention will be stronger than non-intervention. And…One cannot impute our dispatch of 28 November to point-blank refusal. That is how all this will end up.
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‡206Demosthenes, I recognize you by the pebble you’ve hidden in your golden mouth!
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*207In this wretched Moravian hole…We must do him the honors of Brünn.
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*208Ah, Your