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we can think about the second, Bonaparte. But lo and behold if a third enemy doesn’t rise up before us, the Orthodox Armed Forces, with loud cries for bread, meat, biscuits, fodder—and whatnot else! The stocks are empty, the roads are impracticable. The Orthodox Armed Forces start looting, and in a way of which the last campaign cannot give you the least idea. Half the regiments form free bands, which roam the countryside putting everything to fire and sword. The inhabitants are utterly ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and there is famine everywhere. Twice general headquarters has been attacked by bands of looters, and the commander in chief has asked for a battalion to drive them away. In one of those attacks they carried off my empty trunk and my dressing gown. The Emperor wants to give the heads of divisions the right to shoot the looters, but I’m very much afraid that this will oblige one half of the army to shoot the other.

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*315I know only two very real evils in life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of these evils.

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*316But it’s not as you understand it.

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*317It’s curious, I swear.

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†318What are people of God?

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‡319André, why didn’t you warn me?

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§320Delighted to see you. I’m very pleased to see you.

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*321You should know that this is a woman.

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†322André, in God’s name!

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‡323But, my good friend…you should on the contrary be grateful to me for explaining to Pierre your intimacy with this young man.

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§324Really?

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*325Princess, I swear, I didn’t want to offend her.

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*326I would like to see the great man.

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†327Do you mean Buonaparte?

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‡328My prince, I mean the emperor Napoleon.

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*329I’ll be with you in a moment.

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*330Well-built and fresh as a daisy.

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†331What is it?

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†332Another petitioner.

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*333Sire, I ask your permission to give the Legion of Honor to the bravest of your soldiers.

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†334To him who bore himself most valiantly in this last war.

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‡335Your majesty will allow me ask the opinion of the colonel.

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*336Committee of Public Safety.

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*337He is the great doer.

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*338You are afraid of falling behind.

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*339“The principle of monarchies is honor” seems incontestable to me. Certain rights and privileges of the nobility seem to me to be means of supporting that feeling.

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†340If you consider the question from that point of view.

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*341A charming woman, as witty as she is beautiful.

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*342Of the most distinguished lady of Petersburg.

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†343Bluestocking.

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*344She will be my wife.

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*345The New Year’s Eve party.

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*346Delighted to see you.

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*347He runs the whole show now.

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*348In an informal meeting.

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*349Of being a man.

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*350The pleasure of being courted…And Natalie, it must be admitted, is very susceptible to that.

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†351Between us…in the land of tenderness.

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*352You know that between cousins this intimacy sometimes leads to love: cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. Isn’t it so?

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*353Marriages are made in heaven.

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*354The wrong sort.

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†355My dear mama…your obedient son.

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*356Scum!

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*357Shawl dance.

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*358He’s charming, he has no sex.

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*359Disobey orders.

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†360Bile and a seizure of the brain. Calm yourself, I’ll come back tomorrow.

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*361The duke of Oldenburg bears his misfortune with admirable strength of character and resignation.

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†362My dear, with our five hundred thousand troops, it would be easy