War And Peace: Book 4 - CHAPTER XI

作者: Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

ON THE THIRD DAY after Christmas Nikolay dined at home, which he had rarely

done of late. This was a farewell dinner in Nikolay's honour, as he was to set

off with Denisov after the baptism festival to rejoin his regiment. Twenty

persons were dining, among them Dolohov and Denisov.

Never had the love in the air of the Rostovs' house, never had the atmosphere

of being in love, made itself so strongly felt as during those Christmas

holidays. “Seize the moment of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only

thing real in the world; the rest is all nonsense. And that is the one thing we

are interested in here,” was the sentiment that atmosphere was eloquent

of.

After exhausting two pairs of horses, as he did every day without having been

everywhere he ought to have been, and everywhere he had been invited, Nikolay

reached home just at dinner-time. As soon as he went in he felt that intense

atmosphere of love in the house, but in addition to that he became conscious of

a strange embarrassment that seemed to prevail between certain persons in the

company. Sonya seemed particularly disturbed, so did Dolohov and the old

countess, and in a lesser degree Natasha. Nikolay saw that something must have

passed before dinner between Sonya and Dolohov, and with the delicate instinct

characteristic of him, he was very sympathetic and wary with both of them during

dinner. On that evening there was to be one of the dances given by Iogel, the

dancing-master, during the holidays to his pupils.

“Nikolenka, are you going to Iogel's? Please, do go,” said Natasha; “he

particularly begged you to, and Vassily Dmitritch” (this was Denisov) “is

going.”

“Where would I not go at the countess's commands!” said Denisov, who had

jestingly taken up the role of Natasha's knight in the Rostov household. “I am

ready to dance the pas de ch

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