War And Peace: Book 1 - CHAPTER VI

作者: Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

THERE was the rustle of a woman's dress in the next room. Prince Andrey started up,

as it were pulling himself together, and his face assumed the expression it had worn in

Anna Pavlovna's drawing-room. Pierre dropped his legs down off the sofa. The princess

came in. She had changed her gown, and was wearing a house dress as fresh and elegant as

the other had been. Prince Andrey got up and courteously set a chair for her.

“Why is it, I often wonder,” she began in French as always, while she hurriedly and

fussily settled herself in the low chair, “why is it Annette never married? How stupid

you gentlemen all are not to have married her. You must excuse me, but you really have no

sense about women. What an argumentative person you are, Monsieur Pierre!”

“I'm still arguing with your husband; I can't make out why he wants to go to the

war,” said Pierre, addressing the princess without any of the affectation so common in

the attitude of a young man to a young woman.

The princess shivered. Clearly Pierre's words touched a tender spot.

“Ah, that's what I say,” she said. “I can't understand, I simply can't

understand why men can't get on without war. Why is it we women want nothing of the

sort? We don't care for it. Come, you shall be the judge. I keep saying to him: here he

is uncle's adjutant, a most brilliant position. He's so well known, so appreciated by

every one. The other day at the Apraxins' I heard a lady ask: ‘So that is the famous

Prince Andr