War And Peace: Book 1 - CHAPTER XVIII

作者: Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

WHILE IN THE ROSTOVS' HALL they were dancing the sixth anglaise, while the

weary orchestra played wrong notes, and the tired footmen and cooks were getting

the supper, Count Bezuhov had just had his sixth stroke. The doctors declared

that there was no hope of recovery; the sick man received absolution and the

sacrament while unconscious. Preparations were being made for administering

extreme unction, and the house was full of the bustle and thrill of suspense

usual at such moments. Outside the house undertakers were crowding beyond the

gates, trying to escape the notice of the carriages that drove up, but eagerly

anticipating a good order for the count's funeral. The governor of Moscow, who

had been constantly sending his adjutants to inquire after the count's

condition, came himself that evening to say good-bye to the renowned grandee of

Catherine's court, Count Bezuhov.

The magnificent reception-room was full. Every one stood up respectfully when

the governor, after being half an hour alone with the sick man, came out of the

sick-room. Bestowing scanty recognition on the bows with which he was received,

he tried to escape as quickly as possible from the gaze of the doctors,

ecclesiastical personages, and relations. Prince Vassily, who had grown paler

and thinner during the last few days, escorted the governor out, and softly

repeated something to him several times over.

After seeing the governor, Prince Vassily sat down on a chair in the hall

alone, crossing one leg high over the other, leaning his elbow on his knee, and

covering his eyes with his hand. After sitting so for some time he got up, and

with steps more hurried than his wont, he crossed the long corridor, looking

round him with frightened eyes, and went to the back part of the house to the

apartments of the eldest princess.

The persons he had left in the dimly lighted reception-room, next to the

sick-room, talked in broken whispers among themselves, pausing, and looking

round with eyes full of suspense and inquiry whenever the door that led into the

dying man's room creaked as some one went in or came out.

“Man's limitation,” said a little man, an ecclesiastic of some sort, to a

lady, who was sitting near him listening na

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