War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [851]
‡273Bring up more from the reserves.
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§274There’s a fine death.
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*275He’s young to go crossing swords with us.
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*276He’s the nervous and bilious sort…he won’t pull through.
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*277Turtle [sauce].
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*278He would have to be invented.
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*279Till tomorrow, my dear.
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*280Get lost.
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*281But what the devil was he going to do in that galley [i.e., did he get into that mess for]?
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*282My good friend, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique (as Foka the cook says [breakfast]) may have made me sick.
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†283Courage, my angel!
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*284No, it’s my stomach…tell her it’s my stomach, tell her, Marya, tell her…
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*285Go, my friend.
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*286Adolescent girls.
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*287Shawl dance.
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*288Presumptuousness.
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*289My dear count, you are one of my best pupils. You should be dancing…Look at all the pretty young ladies.
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†290No, my dear, I’ll sit it out.
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*291Oh my cruel affliction…
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*292Thus passes the world’s glory.
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*293A crackbrain—I always said so.
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†294The cream of truly good society, the fine flower of the intellectual essence of Petersburg society.
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‡295A man of great merit.
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§296You asked for it, Georges Dandin.
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*297Prince Ippolit Kuragin—a charming young man. Monsieur Krug, envoy from Copenhagen—a deep mind…Monsieur Shitov, a man of great merit…
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*298“Vienna finds the bases of the proposed treaty so out of reach that they could not be attained even by a series of the most brilliant successes, and she casts doubt upon the means that could secure them for us.” That is the actual phrase of the Vienna cabinet.
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†299That is a flattering doubt.
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‡300One must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the emperor of Austria…The emperor of Austria could never have thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.
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§301Ah, my dear viscount…Urope will never be our sincere ally.
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#302You absolutely must come to see me…Tuesday between eight and nine. You will give me great pleasure.
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*303It’s the sword of Frederick the Great that I…
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†304Come, who are you getting at with your King of Prussia?
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‡305No, it’s nothing, I only wanted to say…I only wanted to say that we are wrong to make war “for the King of Prussia.”
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§306Your play on words is very bad, very witty, but unfair…We are not making war for the king of Prussia, but for good principles. Ah, that wicked Prince Ippolit!
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*307I beg your pardon, a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward, but hardly a distinction…a gift, rather.
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†308There have been antecedents, rather. I will remind you of Schwarzenberg.
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‡309It’s impossible.
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§310The grand cordon is a different matter…
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#311Come to dine tomorrow…in the evening. You must come…Do come.
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*312Since our great successes at Austerlitz, you know, my dear prince, that I no longer leave general headquarters. I have decidedly gotten the taste for war and have really taken to it. What I’ve seen in these three months is incredible.
I’ll begin ab ovo.“The enemy of the human race,” as you know, is attacking the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies, who have betrayed us only three times in three years. We take up their cause. But it turns out that the enemy of the human race pays no attention to our fine speeches, and in his savage and impolite manner falls upon the Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they’ve begun, beats the stuffing out of them in two seconds, and installs himself in the palace at Potsdam.
“I have the strongest desire,” the King of Prussia writes to