War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [854]
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*363He is very attentive to her.
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†364One must be melancholy. And he is very melancholy with Mlle Karagin.
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‡365Really?
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*366Set rhymes.
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†367Rustic trees, your gloomy branches shake darkness and melancholy down on me.
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‡368Death is helpful and death is peaceful. / Ah! against sorrows there is no other refuge.
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*369There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy…It is a ray of light in the darkness, a nuance between sorrow and despair, which shows consolation possible.
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†370Poisonous food for too sensitive a soul, / Thou, without whom happiness would be impossible for me, / Tender melancholy, ah, come to console me, / Come to calm the torments of my gloomy retreat, / And mingle a secret sweetness / With these tears, which I feel flowing.
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‡371Ever charming and melancholy, this dear Julie.
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*372My dear, I have it from a good source that Prince Vassily is sending his son to Moscow to have him marry Julie.
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*373Natalie, your hair.
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*374How charming!
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*375Isn’t he wonderful—Duport?
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*376It’s pretty women.
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†377You will be the prettiest one. Come, dear countess, and as a pledge give me this flower.
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*378I adore little girls.
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*379Ah, my delightful one!
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†380Metallic gauze.
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*381He’s madly, quite madly in love with you, my dear.
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†382If you love someone, my delightful one, that’s no reason to cloister yourself. Even if you’re betrothed, I’m sure your betrothed would want you to go into society in his absence sooner than perish from boredom.
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*383Adorable, divine, delightful!
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*384One word, just one, in God’s name.
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*385Ah! what a foot, my dear, what a look! A goddess!!
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*386If you allow yourself, in my drawing room…
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*387I won’t be violent, don’t be afraid of anything.
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†388Being a man of honor.
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*389In that gentleman’s tracks.
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*390Dear sir, my brother, I agree to give the duchy back to the duke of Oldenburg.
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*391Good principles.
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*392To spill or not to spill the blood of his peoples.
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*393Moscow the holy city.
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*394We’ll get somewhere this time. Oh! when he mixes into it himself, things get hot…By God…There he is!…Long live the Emperor! So there are the Steppes of Asia! Vile country all the same. Good-bye, Beauché I’m reserving the best palace in Moscow for you. Good-bye! Good luck…Did you see the Emperor? Long live the Emperor!…peror! If they make me governor of the Indies, Gérard, I’ll made you minister of Kashmir, that’s settled. Long live the Emperor! Long live! long live! long live! Those rascally Cossacks, how they scuttle off. Long live the Emperor! There he is! Do you see him? I saw him twice as I see you. The little corporal…I saw him give the cross to one of the old men…Long live the Emperor!
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*395Monsieur my brother,
I learned yesterday that despite the loyalty with which I have kept my promises to Your Majesty, your troops have crossed the borders of Russia, and I have just received a note from Petersburg in which Count Lauriston announces, as the cause of this aggression, that Your Majesty has considered himself in a state of war with me from the moment when Prince Kurakin asked for his passports. The motives upon which the duke of Bassano based his refusal to deliver them to him would never have made me suppose that this step could ever serve as a pretext for aggression. Indeed, this ambassador was never authorized to take it, as he has declared himself, and as soon as I was informed of it, I made known to him how much I disapproved of him by ordering him to remain at his post. If Your Majesty is not intent on shedding the blood