{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna Schérer", "text": "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.", "pos": 4917}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna Schérer", "text": "If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette Schérer.", "pos": 5952}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Heavens! what a virulent attack!", "pos": 6168}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s mind at rest,", "pos": 6777}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling? You are staying the whole evening, I hope?", "pos": 6996}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I must put in an appearance there. My daughter is coming for me to take me there.", "pos": 7164}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.", "pos": 7329}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off,", "pos": 7443}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.", "pos": 7638}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "What can one say about it? What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.", "pos": 7736}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!", "pos": 8650}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I think, that if you had been sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me a cup of tea?", "pos": 10197}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "In a moment. À propos. I am expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been received by the Emperor. Had you heard?", "pos": 10418}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I shall be delighted to meet them. But tell me, is it true that the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all accounts is a poor creature.", "pos": 10804}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her sister,", "pos": 11470}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly beautiful. I often think. I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him. Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.", "pos": 12212}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I can’t help it. Lavater would have said I lack the bump of paternity.", "pos": 13034}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves he was mentioned at Her Majesty’s and you were pitied....", "pos": 13126}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "What would you have me do? You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That is the only difference between them.", "pos": 13457}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,", "pos": 13878}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!", "pos": 14043}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole? They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess Mary Bolkónskaya.", "pos": 14331}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "Do you know, that Anatole is costing me forty thousand rubles a year? And. And, what will it be in five years, if he goes on like this? That’s what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours rich?", "pos": 14820}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.", "pos": 15160}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Listen, dear Annette. Arrange that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of good family and that’s all I want.", "pos": 15567}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Attendez. I’ll speak to Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll start my apprenticeship as old maid.", "pos": 16085}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You have not yet seen my aunt. You do not know my aunt?", "pos": 17146}
{"speaker": "the aunt", "text": "who, thank God, was better today.", "pos": 17870}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "I have brought my work. Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me. You wrote that it was to be quite a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.", "pos": 19358}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone else,", "pos": 19783}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "You know, my husband is deserting me? He is going to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?", "pos": 19878}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "What a delightful woman this little princess is!", "pos": 20211}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor invalid. Do you know the Abbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.", "pos": 21334}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very interesting but hardly feasible.", "pos": 21962}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You think so? We will talk of it later,", "pos": 22065}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte. Contez nous çela, Vicomte. The vicomte knew the duc personally. The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur. How evidently he belongs to the best society. Come over here, Hélène, dear,", "pos": 25508}
{"speaker": "everyone", "text": "How lovely!", "pos": 27305}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,", "pos": 27530}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Wait a moment, I’ll get my work.... Now then, what are you thinking of? Fetch me my workbag. Now I am all right,", "pos": 28276}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "It’s not going to be a ghost story?", "pos": 29428}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "Why no, my dear fellow,", "pos": 29604}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Because I hate ghost stories,", "pos": 29685}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Charming!", "pos": 30730}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Charming!", "pos": 30810}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people. It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!", "pos": 31570}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But how are you to get that balance?", "pos": 31923}
{"speaker": "the abbé", "text": "I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of the climate,", "pos": 32249}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You are off to the war, Prince?", "pos": 33389}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "General Kutúzov, has been pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....", "pos": 33443}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "And Lise, your wife?", "pos": 33619}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "She will go to the country.", "pos": 33642}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?", "pos": 33672}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "André, the vicomte has been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!", "pos": 33731}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?", "pos": 34318}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I knew you would be here. I will come to supper with you. May I?", "pos": 34390}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No, impossible!", "pos": 34562}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "You must excuse me, dear Vicomte. This unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave your enchanting party,", "pos": 34829}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Very lovely,", "pos": 35405}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Very,", "pos": 35440}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.", "pos": 35534}
{"speaker": "the elderly lady", "text": "How about my son Borís, Prince? I can’t remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what news I may take back to my poor boy.", "pos": 36094}
{"speaker": "Princess Drubetskáya", "text": "What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he would be transferred to the Guards at once?", "pos": 36482}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can, but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn. That would be the best way.", "pos": 36603}
{"speaker": "Princess Drubetskáya", "text": "Listen to me, Prince. I have never yet asked you for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my father’s friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God’s sake to do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor. No, don’t be angry, but promise! I have asked Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,", "pos": 37445}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Papa, we shall be late,", "pos": 37910}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "My dear Anna Mikháylovna, it is almost impossible for me to do what you ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?", "pos": 38880}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you—I knew your kindness! Wait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards... You are on good terms with Michael Ilariónovich Kutúzov ... recommend Borís to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at rest, and then...", "pos": 39203}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as adjutants.", "pos": 39534}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "No, but do promise! I won’t let you go! My dear benefactor...", "pos": 39748}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Papa, we shall be late.", "pos": 39812}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?", "pos": 39896}
{"speaker": "she", "text": "Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?", "pos": 39938}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.", "pos": 39985}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Do promise, do promise, Vasíli!", "pos": 40034}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "and of the comedy of the people of Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as if the whole world had gone crazy.", "pos": 40697}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "‘Dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * They say he was very fine when he said that. Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’", "pos": 41062}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run over. The sovereigns will not be able to endure this man who is a menace to everything.", "pos": 41299}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing! And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending ambassadors to compliment the usurper.", "pos": 41565}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,", "pos": 42239}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer, things will have gone too far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and then....", "pos": 42340}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "The Emperor Alexander, has declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms of its rightful king,", "pos": 42942}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That is doubtful. Monsieur le Vicomte quite rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will be difficult to return to the old regime.", "pos": 43367}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "From what I have heard, almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to Bonaparte’s side.", "pos": 43550}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "It is the Buonapartists who say that. At the present time it is difficult to know the real state of French public opinion.", "pos": 43706}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Bonaparte has said so. I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow it, ‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded in.’ I do not know how far he was justified in saying so.", "pos": 43880}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "Not in the least. After the murder of the duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some people, he ever was a hero, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth.", "pos": 44313}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "The execution of the Duc d’Enghien, was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole responsibility of that deed.", "pos": 44851}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows greatness of soul?", "pos": 45140}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Capital!", "pos": 45333}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I say so, because the Bourbons fled from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life. No. Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain power.", "pos": 45550}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "Liberty and equality, high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.", "pos": 47294}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "But, my dear Monsieur Pierre, how do you explain the fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is innocent and untried?", "pos": 48144}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "to ask how monsieur explains the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not at all like the conduct of a great man!", "pos": 48335}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!", "pos": 48478}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "He’s a low fellow, say what you will,", "pos": 48589}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How do you expect him to answer you all at once? Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. So it seems to me.", "pos": 49094}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, of course!", "pos": 49319}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "that Napoleon as a man was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts which it is difficult to justify.", "pos": 49449}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost.... There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her taste. And she had a lady’s maid, also big. She said.... She said.... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some calls.’ And the whole world knew....", "pos": 49912}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I hope to see you again, but I also hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.", "pos": 52371}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "It is settled,", "pos": 53156}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I rely on you, my dear. Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au revoir!", "pos": 53339}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "—so dull—. It has been a delightful evening, has it not? Delightful!", "pos": 54007}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "All the pretty women in society will be there.", "pos": 54172}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Not all, for you will not be there; not all,", "pos": 54221}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Are you ready?", "pos": 54739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Princesse, au revoir,", "pos": 55007}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Allow me, sir. I am expecting you, Pierre,", "pos": 55276}
{"speaker": "the vicomte", "text": "Well, mon cher, your little princess is very nice, very nice indeed, quite French. Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs. I pity the poor husband, that little officer who gives himself the airs of a monarch.", "pos": 55656}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "And you were saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to know how to deal with them.", "pos": 56120}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,", "pos": 56518}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "That abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—I do not know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....", "pos": 56783}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "One can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher.", "pos": 57074}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Really, I don’t yet know. I don’t like either the one or the other.", "pos": 57327}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.", "pos": 57397}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But he must be a Freemason,", "pos": 58036}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That is all nonsense. let us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?", "pos": 58127}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is not right.", "pos": 58247}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,", "pos": 58810}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And that would be splendid,", "pos": 58892}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....", "pos": 58968}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, why are you going to the war?", "pos": 59037}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going.... I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit me!", "pos": 59089}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "how is it Annette never got married? How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you are, Monsieur Pierre!", "pos": 59709}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he wants to go to the war,", "pos": 59915}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Ah, that is just what I tell him! I don’t understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live without wars. How is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, don’t need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here he is Uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the Apráksins’ I heard a lady asking, ‘Is that the famous Prince Andrew?’ I did indeed. He is so well received everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of how to arrange it. What do you think?", "pos": 60223}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "When are you starting?", "pos": 61019}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! I won’t hear it spoken of. Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations must be broken off ... and then you know, André... I’m afraid, I’m afraid!", "pos": 61054}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,", "pos": 61716}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country.", "pos": 61783}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "With my father and sister, remember,", "pos": 61942}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to be afraid.", "pos": 62008}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,", "pos": 62328}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have....", "pos": 62509}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier. You had better go.", "pos": 62573}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here? I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no pity for me. Why is it?", "pos": 62936}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Lise!", "pos": 63242}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave like that six months ago?", "pos": 63422}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Lise, I beg you to desist,", "pos": 63520}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! An outsider is out of place here.... No, don’t distress yourself.... Good-by!", "pos": 63781}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you.", "pos": 64036}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "No, he thinks only of himself,", "pos": 64153}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Lise!", "pos": 64245}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!", "pos": 64649}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Good night, Lise,", "pos": 64780}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t look at me with such surprise. If you marry expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an idiot!... But what’s the good?... My wife, is an excellent woman, one of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to whom I mention this, because I like you.", "pos": 65590}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You don’t understand why I say this, but it is the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career, but Bonaparte when he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit, and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t marry!", "pos": 67243}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It seems funny to me, that you, you should consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have everything before you, everything. And you....", "pos": 68513}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "My part is played out. What’s the use of talking about me? Let us talk about you,", "pos": 69695}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what is there to say about me? What am I? An illegitimate son! Without a name and without means... And it really... For the present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously.", "pos": 69918}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set. Yes, you’re all right! Choose what you will; it’s all the same. You’ll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!", "pos": 70494}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What would you have, my dear fellow? Women, my dear fellow; women!", "pos": 70822}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t understand it. Women who are comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the Kurágins’ set of women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!", "pos": 70935}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Do you know? seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such a life I can’t decide or think properly about anything. One’s head aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I won’t go.", "pos": 71293}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You give me your word of honor not to go?", "pos": 71572}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "On my honor!", "pos": 71616}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I bet a hundred on Stevens!", "pos": 73961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mind, no holding on!", "pos": 74004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I bet on Dólokhov!", "pos": 74042}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Kurágin, you part our hands.", "pos": 74078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There, leave Bruin alone; here’s a bet on.", "pos": 74109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At one draught, or he loses!", "pos": 74154}
{"speaker": "the host", "text": "Jacob, bring a bottle! Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is Pétya! Good man!", "pos": 74203}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Come here; part the bets!", "pos": 74618}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I don’t understand. What’s it all about?", "pos": 74805}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here. First of all you must drink! Go on, you must drink it all, or I won’t let you go!", "pos": 74848}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I won’t,", "pos": 75501}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "You have a try, Hercules,", "pos": 77227}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Take it right out, or they’ll think I’m holding on,", "pos": 77365}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?", "pos": 77434}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "First-rate,", "pos": 77502}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Listen! I bet fifty imperials I bet fifty imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?", "pos": 77784}
{"speaker": "the Englishman", "text": "No, fifty,", "pos": 78088}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this spot and without holding on to anything. Is that right?", "pos": 78121}
{"speaker": "the Englishman", "text": "Quite right,", "pos": 78385}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Wait! Wait a bit, Kurágin. Listen! If anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you understand?", "pos": 78610}
{"speaker": "A thin young lad", "text": "Oh! Oh! Oh!", "pos": 79199}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Shut up!", "pos": 79286}
{"speaker": "this more sensible man", "text": "I say, this is folly! He’ll be killed,", "pos": 80148}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. Eh?... What then?... Eh?", "pos": 80239}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "If anyone comes meddling again. I will throw him down there. Now then!", "pos": 80419}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why is it so long?", "pos": 81586}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "It’s empty.", "pos": 82220}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well done!... Fine fellow!... There’s a bet for you!... Devil take you!", "pos": 82343}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing! Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a bottle. I’ll do it.... Bring a bottle!", "pos": 82591}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Let him do it, let him do it,", "pos": 82766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go giddy even on a staircase,", "pos": 82822}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I’ll drink it! Let’s have a bottle of rum!", "pos": 82947}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "No, you’ll never manage him that way. Wait a bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, but now we are all going to ——’s.", "pos": 83203}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Come on then. Come on!... And we’ll take Bruin with us.", "pos": 83368}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher, ma chère my dear. I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, ma chère! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!", "pos": 85599}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, Dmítri, you’ll see that things are all as they should be? That’s right! The great thing is the serving, that’s it.", "pos": 87298}
{"speaker": "The footman", "text": "Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!", "pos": 87485}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and no more. She is so affected. Ask her in. Very well, finish me off.", "pos": 87719}
{"speaker": "Visitor", "text": "Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was so delighted...", "pos": 88034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess Apráksina...", "pos": 88451}
{"speaker": "Visitor", "text": "I am so sorry for the poor count. He is in such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill him!", "pos": 88852}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 88993}
{"speaker": "Visitor", "text": "That’s what comes of a modern education. It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible things that he has been expelled by the police.", "pos": 89174}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You don’t say so!", "pos": 89427}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent back to Moscow. Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.", "pos": 89528}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "But what have they been up to?", "pos": 89866}
{"speaker": "Visitor", "text": "They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov. He is a son of Márya Ivánovna Dólokhova, such a worthy woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his back!", "pos": 89919}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!", "pos": 90405}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?", "pos": 90504}
{"speaker": "Visitor", "text": "It was all they could do to rescue the poor man. And to think it is Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s son who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite declined: I have my daughters to consider.", "pos": 90607}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Why do you say this young man is so rich? His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is illegitimate.", "pos": 91055}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "I should think he has a score of them.", "pos": 91306}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "The fact of the matter is, everyone knows Count Cyril’s reputation.... He has lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.", "pos": 91489}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "How handsome the old man still was only a year ago! I have never seen a handsomer man.", "pos": 91685}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "He is very much altered now. Well, as I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from Petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know it all very well for Prince Vasíli told me himself. Besides, Cyril Vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. He’s also my Bóry’s godfather,", "pos": 91799}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "Prince Vasíli arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on some inspection business,", "pos": 92485}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Yes, but between ourselves, that is a pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, hearing how ill he is.", "pos": 92600}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke. I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman cut! So do come and dine with us!", "pos": 92751}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Ah, here she is! My pet, whose name day it is. My dear pet!", "pos": 94098}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Ma chère, there is a time for everything. You spoil her, Ilyá,", "pos": 94185}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name day. What a charming child,", "pos": 94328}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...", "pos": 95127}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you. She is my youngest girl.", "pos": 95377}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "Tell me, my dear, is Mimi a relation of yours? A daughter, I suppose?", "pos": 95805}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "You were meaning to go out, weren’t you, Mamma? Do you want the carriage?", "pos": 97795}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,", "pos": 97905}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Ah yes, my dear, his friend Borís has become an officer, and so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t that friendship?", "pos": 99400}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "But they say that war has been declared,", "pos": 99797}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "They’ve been saying so a long while, and they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My dear, there’s friendship for you. He’s joining the hussars.", "pos": 99861}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s not at all from friendship. It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.", "pos": 100118}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. It can’t be helped!", "pos": 100428}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I have already told you, Papa, that if you don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I don’t know how to hide what I feel.", "pos": 100693}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "All right, all right! He always flares up! This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,", "pos": 101167}
{"speaker": "Julie Karágina", "text": "What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so dull without you,", "pos": 101504}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their sleeves! Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,", "pos": 102233}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Yes, and how much suffering, how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both for girls and boys.", "pos": 102454}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "It all depends on the bringing up,", "pos": 102896}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Yes, you’re quite right. Till now I have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full confidence. I know I shall always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.", "pos": 102955}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters. Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. What’s one to do, my dear?", "pos": 103427}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "What a charming creature your younger girl is, a little volcano!", "pos": 103659}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, a regular volcano. Takes after me! And what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.", "pos": 103746}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train it at that age.", "pos": 103973}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Oh no, not at all too young! Why, our mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.", "pos": 104058}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "And she’s in love with Borís already. Just fancy! Now you see if I were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they might be up to on the sly but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I was stricter.", "pos": 104169}
{"speaker": "Countess Véra", "text": "Yes, I was brought up quite differently,", "pos": 104736}
{"speaker": "The visitor", "text": "People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to make something exceptional of them,", "pos": 105290}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too clever with Véra. Well, what of that? She’s turned out splendidly all the same,", "pos": 105413}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What manners! I thought they would never go,", "pos": 105677}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Sónya, what is the matter with you? How can you?", "pos": 107067}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!", "pos": 107146}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Ah, I know what it is.", "pos": 107201}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!", "pos": 107226}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, for a mere fancy? Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are everything! And I will prove it to you.", "pos": 107293}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I don’t like you to talk like that.", "pos": 107705}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, then, I won’t; only forgive me, Sónya!", "pos": 107743}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Borís, come here. I have something to tell you. Here, here!", "pos": 107957}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "What is the something?", "pos": 108185}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Kiss the doll. Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here. Closer, closer! And me? Would you like to kiss me?", "pos": 108329}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "How funny you are! Natásha, you know that I love you, but....", "pos": 108854}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You are in love with me?", "pos": 109306}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Yes, I am, but please don’t let us do like that.... In another four years ... then I will ask for your hand.", "pos": 109351}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen. All right! Then it’s settled?", "pos": 109482}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Settled!", "pos": 109652}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Forever? Till death itself?", "pos": 109678}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "With you I will be quite frank. There are not many left of us old friends! That’s why I so value your friendship.", "pos": 110290}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Véra, how is it you have so little tact? Don’t you see you are not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or...", "pos": 110515}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone,", "pos": 110764}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "You always manage to do things at the wrong time. And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and Borís, or between you two? It’s all nonsense!", "pos": 111563}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Now, Véra, what does it matter to you? All have secrets of their own,", "pos": 112001}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "I should think not,", "pos": 112336}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Natálya Ilyníchna behaves very well to me,", "pos": 112487}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t, Borís! You are such a diplomat that it is really tiresome. Why does she bother me? You’ll never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more and your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with Berg as much as you please,", "pos": 112581}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors... The unpleasant things were said to me,", "pos": 113226}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Ah, my dear, my life is not all roses either. Don’t I know that at the rate we are living our means won’t last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what besides! But don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed everything. I often wonder at you, Annette—how at your age you can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn’t possibly do it.", "pos": 113996}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Ah, my love. God grant you never know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love to distraction! One learns many things then. That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or four times—till I get what I want. I don’t mind what they think of me.", "pos": 114606}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?", "pos": 115090}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, and put the matter before the Emperor,", "pos": 115315}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Has Prince Vasíli aged much? I have not seen him since we acted together at the Rumyántsovs’ theatricals. I expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days,", "pos": 115542}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "He is just the same as ever, overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head at all. He said to me, ‘I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my position is now a terrible one. My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t know how to equip Borís. I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov. If he will not assist his godson—you know he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to equip him.", "pos": 115772}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "that here lives Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov so rich, all alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....", "pos": 116934}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Surely he will leave something to Borís,", "pos": 117129}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it’s really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.", "pos": 117191}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Good-by, my dear. Wish me good luck.", "pos": 117700}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Are you going to Count Cyril Vladímirovich, my dear? If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my dear. We will see how Tarás distinguishes himself today. He says Count Orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!", "pos": 117847}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "My dear Borís. My dear Borís, be affectionate and attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladímirovich is your godfather after all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice to him, as you so well know how to be.", "pos": 118251}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of it... But I have promised and will do it for your sake. We may as well go back,", "pos": 118819}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "My dear! I know Count Cyril Vladímirovich is very ill... that’s why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, my friend... I only need see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich: he is staying here, is he not? Please announce me. Princess Drubetskáya to see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich. My dear, you promised me!", "pos": 119492}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Then it is certain?", "pos": 121101}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Prince, humanum est errare, * but...", "pos": 121140}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our dear invalid? Is it possible? Oh, how awful! It is terrible to think.... This is my son. He wanted to thank you himself.", "pos": 121572}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Believe me, Prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you have done for us.", "pos": 122187}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna Mikháylovna. Try to serve well and show yourself worthy. I am glad.... Are you here on leave?", "pos": 122271}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,", "pos": 122762}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Are you living with your mother?", "pos": 123028}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I am living at Countess Rostóva’s,", "pos": 123063}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "That is, with Ilyá Rostóv who married Nataly Shinshiná,", "pos": 123148}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I know, I know. I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, I am told.", "pos": 123229}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "But a very kind man, Prince. What do the doctors say?", "pos": 123447}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "They give little hope,", "pos": 123746}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me and Borís. He is his godson. If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle. I know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with him except the young princesses.... They are still young.... Has he performed his final duty, Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. We women, Prince, always know how to say these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for me. I am used to suffering.", "pos": 123791}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna Mikháylovna? Let us wait until evening. The doctors are expecting a crisis.", "pos": 124959}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a Christian... Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you. I have come, and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you have gone through,", "pos": 125106}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I shall go in to see the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him to dinner. I suppose he won’t go?", "pos": 126160}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "On the contrary,", "pos": 126395}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How do you do, cousin? You don’t recognize me?", "pos": 128265}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "I recognize you only too well, too well.", "pos": 128329}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How is the count? Can I see him?", "pos": 128372}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.", "pos": 128456}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Can I see the count?", "pos": 128580}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is almost time,", "pos": 128623}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see him.", "pos": 129009}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "My dear fellow, if you are going to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all.", "pos": 129277}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "England is done for. Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the rights of man, is sentenced to...", "pos": 129907}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Do you remember me? I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not well.", "pos": 130534}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,", "pos": 130675}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Count Rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,", "pos": 130982}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ah, Count Rostóv! Then you are his son, Ilyá? Only fancy, I didn’t know you at first. Do you remember how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It’s such an age...", "pos": 131105}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "You are mistaken. I am Borís, son of Princess Anna Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot.", "pos": 131315}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I’ve mixed everything up. One has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Borís? Of course. Well, now we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. If only Villeneuve doesn’t make a mess of things!", "pos": 131618}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics. I know nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy with gossip. Just now they are talking about you and your father. Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip. Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...", "pos": 132136}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, it is all very horrid, very horrid.", "pos": 132844}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "And it must seem to you, it must seem to you that everyone is trying to get something out of the rich man?", "pos": 133011}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "So it does,", "pos": 133191}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.", "pos": 133221}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know very well...", "pos": 133804}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You must excuse me, but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to dinner at the Rostóvs’?", "pos": 133922}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, but I say, you are a wonderful fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you don’t know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but it’s splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It’s queer, that you should have suspected me! Well, what of it! I hope we’ll get better acquainted. Do you know, I have not once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for him as a man, but what can one do?", "pos": 134397}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?", "pos": 135114}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is dreadful, dreadful!", "pos": 136097}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but cost me what it may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be left like this. Every moment is precious. I can’t think why his nieces put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... Adieu, Prince! May God support you...", "pos": 136141}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Adieu, ma bonne,", "pos": 136414}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, he is in a dreadful state,", "pos": 136479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?", "pos": 136603}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.", "pos": 136678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?", "pos": 136743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!", "pos": 136799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma...", "pos": 136849}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!", "pos": 136902}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is the matter with you, my dear?", "pos": 137166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t you wish to serve me? Then I’ll find you another place.", "pos": 137270}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am very sorry, ma’am,", "pos": 137571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ask the count to come to me.", "pos": 137616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, little countess? What a sauté of game au madère we are to have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were not ill-spent. He is worth it!", "pos": 137726}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are your commands, little countess?", "pos": 137980}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You see, my dear... What’s that mess?", "pos": 138023}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s the sauté, most likely,", "pos": 138100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, you see, Count, I want some money.", "pos": 138155}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, little countess!", "pos": 138219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,", "pos": 138302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who’s there?", "pos": 138442}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Send Dmítri to me!", "pos": 138606}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is what I want, my dear fellow,", "pos": 138764}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bring me...", "pos": 138864}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don’t bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones for the countess.", "pos": 138901}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, Dmítri, clean ones, please,", "pos": 139051}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When would you like them, your excellency?", "pos": 139121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Allow me to inform you... But, don’t be uneasy,", "pos": 139180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I was forgetting... Do you wish it brought at once?", "pos": 139355}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess.", "pos": 139409}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a treasure that Dmítri is,", "pos": 139465}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is never any ‘impossible’ with him. That’s a thing I hate! Everything is possible.", "pos": 139561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world,", "pos": 139652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I am in great need of this sum.", "pos": 139738}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,", "pos": 139776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, my dear?", "pos": 140124}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...", "pos": 140161}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,", "pos": 140294}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.", "pos": 140612}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, then, old chap, mon très honorable Alphonse Kárlovich,", "pos": 143401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; *", "pos": 143620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you want to make something out of your company?", "pos": 143669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, Peter Nikoláevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own position now, Peter Nikoláevich...", "pos": 143773}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Consider my position, Peter Nikoláevich. Were I in the cavalry I should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and thirty,", "pos": 144404}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Besides that, Peter Nikoláevich, by exchanging into the Guards I shall be in a more prominent position, and vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to put a little aside and to send something to my father,", "pos": 144784}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the proverb says,", "pos": 145145}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or horse—that I’ll warrant,", "pos": 146072}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You have only lately arrived?", "pos": 147452}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oui, madame,", "pos": 147508}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You have not yet seen my husband?", "pos": 147555}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Non, madame.", "pos": 147591}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very interesting.", "pos": 147639}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Very interesting.", "pos": 147718}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Razumóvskis... It was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apráksina...", "pos": 148056}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Márya Dmítrievna?", "pos": 148209}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Herself. Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her children. Well, you old sinner, you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just see how these nestlings are growing up. You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not.... Well, how’s my Cossack? I know she’s a scamp of a girl, but I like her. Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit. Come here, my friend... Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my evident duty. A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war. Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?", "pos": 148256}
{"speaker": "the butler", "text": "Dry Madeira Hungarian Rhine wine", "pos": 152866}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte? He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be our turn next.", "pos": 154633}
{"speaker": "The colonel", "text": "It is for the reasson, my goot sir, for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell as ze sanctity of its alliances... Zat, my dear sir, is vy...", "pos": 154916}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* ‘Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but turn spindles at home!’? Cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) Suvórov now—he knew what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,", "pos": 155786}
{"speaker": "Colonel of hussars", "text": "Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood! and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible as po-o-ossible. Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, how do you judge of it?", "pos": 156267}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I am quite of your opinion. I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer,", "pos": 156860}
{"speaker": "Julie Karágina", "text": "What you said just now was splendid!", "pos": 157294}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "What are you thumping the table for? and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French are here?", "pos": 157787}
{"speaker": "Colonel of hussars", "text": "I am speaking ze truce,", "pos": 157925}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "It’s all about the war. You know my son’s going, Márya Dmítrievna? My son is going.", "pos": 157984}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "I have four sons in the army but still I don’t fret. It is all in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a battle,", "pos": 158106}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I will. Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?", "pos": 158526}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Cossack!", "pos": 159249}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma! What sweets are we going to have? Márya Dmítrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don’t like ice cream. No! What kind, Márya Dmítrievna? What kind?", "pos": 159409}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What shall we sing?", "pos": 161598}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "The Brook,", "pos": 161631}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, then, let’s be quick. Borís, come here,", "pos": 161665}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!", "pos": 162569}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry, still, I should not cry, but you can’t... no one can understand... what a soul he has! It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and Borís also, he is nice... there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it can’t be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma that I am spoiling Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God is my witness. I love her so much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice everything, only I have nothing....", "pos": 163023}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya. I’m sure Véra has said something to you since dinner? Hasn’t she?", "pos": 164282}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry me, but that he’ll marry Julie. You see how he’s been with her all day... Natásha, what have I done to deserve it?...", "pos": 164445}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya, don’t believe her, darling! Don’t believe her! Do you remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don’t quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. And Borís says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about it. And he is so clever and so good! Don’t you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya! Véra’s spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.", "pos": 164915}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Do you think so?... Really? Truly?", "pos": 165911}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Really, truly! Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’ Come along! Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny! I feel so happy!", "pos": 165996}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.", "pos": 167573}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I am afraid of mixing the figures, but if you will be my teacher...", "pos": 167621}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Dear, dear! Just look at her!", "pos": 168292}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised at?", "pos": 168426}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Semën! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?", "pos": 169247}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Look at Papa!", "pos": 169425}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!", "pos": 170320}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "That’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,", "pos": 172223}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "That was a Daniel Cooper!", "pos": 172292}
{"speaker": "an old priest", "text": "The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be o’erpassed,", "pos": 174417}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?", "pos": 174586}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,", "pos": 174744}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who was that? The Military Governor himself?", "pos": 174892}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How young-looking he is!", "pos": 174986}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.", "pos": 175013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.", "pos": 175140}
{"speaker": "Dr. Lorrain", "text": "Beautiful. The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow one feels as if one were in the country.", "pos": 175410}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Yes, indeed. So he may have something to drink?", "pos": 175582}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Has he taken his medicine?", "pos": 175688}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 175717}
{"speaker": "Dr. Lorrain", "text": "Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,", "pos": 175757}
{"speaker": "a German doctor", "text": "Dere has neffer been a gase, dat one liffs after de sird stroke.", "pos": 175893}
{"speaker": "the aide-de-camp", "text": "And what a well-preserved man he was! And who will inherit his wealth?", "pos": 176009}
{"speaker": "the German", "text": "It von’t go begging. Do you think he can last till morning?", "pos": 176134}
{"speaker": "Lorrain", "text": "Tonight, not later,", "pos": 176576}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "Ah, is it you, cousin? Has anything happened? I am so terrified.", "pos": 177162}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, Catiche. You have made the place warm, I must say. Well, sit down: let’s have a talk.", "pos": 177394}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I thought perhaps something had happened. I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can’t.", "pos": 177660}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, my dear?", "pos": 177873}
{"speaker": "prince", "text": "well?", "pos": 177992}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "And I? do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a very serious talk.", "pos": 178461}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna, at such a moment as this one must think of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you all, like children of my own, as you know. And then of course my family has also to be considered,", "pos": 179134}
{"speaker": "prince", "text": "You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count,", "pos": 179680}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin, and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow his noble soul peacefully to leave this...", "pos": 180244}
{"speaker": "prince", "text": "Yes, yes, of course. But... in short, the fact is... you know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.", "pos": 180426}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "He has made wills enough! But he cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate.", "pos": 180757}
{"speaker": "prince", "text": "But, my dear, what if a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the count’s services, his request would be granted?...", "pos": 180884}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I can tell you more, that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then as soon as all is over, and the count’s papers are opened, the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate son.", "pos": 181335}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "And our share?", "pos": 181831}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...", "pos": 181931}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "What next? I am a woman, and you think we are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... un bâtard!", "pos": 182274}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezúkhov, and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit! That’s certain.", "pos": 182644}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,", "pos": 183155}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "My dear Princess Catherine Semënovna I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the will in Pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmítri Onúfrich and he says the same.", "pos": 183391}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "That would be a fine thing! I never wanted anything and I don’t now. And this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have sacrificed everything for his sake! It’s splendid! Fine! I don’t want anything, Prince.", "pos": 184153}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters...", "pos": 184462}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the blackest ingratitude—in this house...", "pos": 184588}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Do you or do you not know where that will is?", "pos": 184764}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has been intriguing!", "pos": 184873}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Who sacrificed everything for him", "pos": 185548}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "though he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin. I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel.", "pos": 185676}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart.", "pos": 185928}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "No, I have a wicked heart.", "pos": 185990}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I know your heart. I value your friendship and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him and you.", "pos": 186019}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing—I know!", "pos": 186587}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "That’s not the point, my dear.", "pos": 186666}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "It’s that protégé of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskáya, that Anna Mikháylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the infamous, vile woman!", "pos": 186699}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Do not let us lose any time...", "pos": 186851}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid.", "pos": 186884}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "We’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it sooner?", "pos": 187224}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow. Now I know! Yes; if I have a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman! And what does she come worming herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time will come!", "pos": 187291}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?", "pos": 189451}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "Yes, the door to the left, ma’am.", "pos": 189539}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Perhaps the count did not ask for me. I’d better go to my own room.", "pos": 189654}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Ah, my friend! believe me I suffer no less than you do, but be a man!", "pos": 189822}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But really, hadn’t I better go away?", "pos": 189986}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death. I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests.", "pos": 190078}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "God be thanked that you are in time, all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young man is the count’s son. What a terrible moment! Dear doctor, this young man is the count’s son. Is there any hope? Trust in His mercy!", "pos": 193495}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is well!", "pos": 196248}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How is...", "pos": 196379}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be administered. Come.", "pos": 197286}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be impossible...", "pos": 202754}
{"speaker": "one of the servants", "text": "Catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him! Catch hold from underneath. Here!", "pos": 203220}
{"speaker": "different voices", "text": "Here!", "pos": 203349}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Come.", "pos": 204388}
{"speaker": "the servant", "text": "Wants to turn on the other side,", "pos": 206736}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "He is dozing. Let us go.", "pos": 207592}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I can’t bear the sight of that woman.", "pos": 208058}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room. Go and take something, my poor Anna Mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.", "pos": 208098}
{"speaker": "Lorrain", "text": "There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup of this delicious Russian tea,", "pos": 208425}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not necessary,", "pos": 210030}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "But, my dear princess, won’t this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is already prepared...", "pos": 210232}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Come, my dear Anna Mikháylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You know how fond the count is of her.", "pos": 210808}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I don’t even know what is in this paper. All I know is that his real will is in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....", "pos": 210912}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "I know, my dear, kind princess. Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous en conjure... Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a family consultation; is it not so, Prince?", "pos": 211256}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Why don’t you speak, cousin? Why do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? Intriguer!", "pos": 211900}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Oh! this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you. And you too! Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?", "pos": 212375}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "But, Prince, after such a solemn sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your opinion,", "pos": 212648}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Remember that you will answer for the consequences. You don’t know what you are doing.", "pos": 212987}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Vile woman!", "pos": 213107}
{"speaker": "the second of the three sisters", "text": "What are you doing! He is dying and you leave me alone with him!", "pos": 213499}
{"speaker": "the eldest sister", "text": "Yes, now you may be glad! this is what you have been waiting for.", "pos": 213960}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Ah, my friend! How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is awful...", "pos": 214345}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Pierre! He is no more.... Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as tears. Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes duties on you, and you must be a man. Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís. But he had no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s wish?", "pos": 214740}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,", "pos": 216735}
{"speaker": "Manservant", "text": "Please walk in.", "pos": 219873}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Quite well? All right then, sit down. For tomorrow! Wait a bit, here’s a letter for you. From Héloïse?", "pos": 221069}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, it’s from Julie,", "pos": 221790}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I’ll let two more letters pass, but the third I’ll read. I’m afraid you write much nonsense. I’ll read the third!", "pos": 221874}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Read this if you like, Father,", "pos": 222017}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "The third, I said the third! Well, madam. Now, madam, these triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...", "pos": 222117}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well now, isn’t she a fool! This won’t do, Princess; it won’t do. Mathematics are most important, madam! I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and you’ll like it. It will drive all the nonsense out of your head. Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Héloïse has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go.", "pos": 223597}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me as I write?", "pos": 225071}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "She flatters me,", "pos": 226030}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal auntie Anna Mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ choice has fallen. I don’t know what you will think of it, but I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find out about him. But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife.", "pos": 226641}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince Vasíli, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine Saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are terribly true. I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre. So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings toward him whom He may give me for husband.", "pos": 230924}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched mine. I have written to my poor mother. Princess, I must warn you, the prince has been scolding Michael Ivánovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared.", "pos": 235943}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Ah, dear friend. I have asked you never to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge him and would not have others do so.", "pos": 236557}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary’s room,", "pos": 237994}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Why, this is a palace! Let’s come, quick, quick! Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by surprise.", "pos": 238244}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You’ve grown older, Tíkhon,", "pos": 238646}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Ah! what joy for the princess! At last! I must let her know.", "pos": 238919}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne. I know you already through my sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She was not expecting us?", "pos": 238999}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary and the little princess", "text": "Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...", "pos": 240488}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I dreamed last night... You were not expecting us?...", "pos": 240562}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?...", "pos": 240620}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "And you have grown stouter!...", "pos": 240657}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "I knew the princess at once,", "pos": 240690}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "And I had no idea!... Ah, Andrew, I did not see you.", "pos": 240752}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "So you are really going to the war, Andrew?", "pos": 242110}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, and even tomorrow,", "pos": 242191}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had promotion...", "pos": 242238}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is it certain?", "pos": 242455}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Yes, quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful...", "pos": 242544}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "She needs rest. Don’t you, Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the same?", "pos": 242699}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, just the same. Though I don’t know what your opinion will be,", "pos": 242840}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the lathe?", "pos": 242941}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and my geometry lessons,", "pos": 243174}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte? You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?", "pos": 244073}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is pregnant. How is your health?", "pos": 244824}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.", "pos": 245018}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Thank God,", "pos": 245146}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on, tell me how the Germans have taught you to fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’", "pos": 245181}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Give me time to collect my wits, Father. Why, I have not yet had time to settle down!", "pos": 245389}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Nonsense, nonsense! The house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy’s too... a simultaneous expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is neutral... I know that. What about Austria?", "pos": 245593}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "The white one, the white one! And will she soon be confined? That’s bad! Go on, go on. Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.", "pos": 247271}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t say it’s a plan I approve of. I am only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, not worse than this one.", "pos": 247797}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, you’ve told me nothing new. Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.", "pos": 247954}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How thoroughly like him that is! Everyone has his Achilles’ heel. Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!", "pos": 249908}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I’m glad, glad, to see you. Sit down, sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivánovich! Ho, ho! You’ve been in a hurry. That’s bad! You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,", "pos": 251073}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has cried her eyes out,", "pos": 251946}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, Michael Ivánovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time of it. Prince Andrew has been telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I never thought much of him. He is a great tactician!", "pos": 252283}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "The past always seems good, but did not Suvórov himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know how to escape?", "pos": 253567}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Who told you that? Who? Suvórov! Suvórov!... Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you’ll find out what those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvórov couldn’t manage them so what chance has Michael Kutúzov? No, my dear boy, you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to fetch the Frenchman, Moreau. Wonderful!... Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help you, but we’ll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great commander among them! Hm!...", "pos": 253715}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t at all say that all the plans are good. I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great general!", "pos": 254824}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Michael Ivánovich! Didn’t I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same thing.", "pos": 255028}
{"speaker": "The architect", "text": "To be sure, your excellency,", "pos": 255231}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another. He made his reputation fighting them.", "pos": 255328}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state of affairs? But it troubles me. I don’t sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown his skill?", "pos": 256141}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That would take too long to tell,", "pos": 256368}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,", "pos": 256422}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!", "pos": 256583}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Dieu sait quand reviendra.", "pos": 256627}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What a clever man your father is, perhaps that is why I am afraid of him.", "pos": 257001}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I hear you have given orders to harness, and I did so wish to have another talk with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrúsha,", "pos": 258658}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And where is Lise?", "pos": 259180}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have. She is quite a child: such a dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.", "pos": 259251}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into everyone’s situation. Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * Think what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her condition! It’s very hard. You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,", "pos": 259622}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I... that’s different. Why speak of me? I don’t want any other life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne....", "pos": 260282}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,", "pos": 260671}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don’t need her, and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: ‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.’ Father took her when she was homeless after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads splendidly.", "pos": 260742}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father’s character sometimes makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?", "pos": 261442}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "For me? For me?... Trying for me!...", "pos": 261646}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting very trying,", "pos": 261695}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of intellectual pride, and that’s a great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I am. The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, Andrew... is Father’s way of treating religious subjects. I don’t understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a monk he received and had a long talk with.", "pos": 261877}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your powder,", "pos": 262778}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. Andrew... I have a great favor to ask of you.", "pos": 262893}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is it, dear?", "pos": 263044}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No—promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, Andrúsha!...", "pos": 263064}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Even if it were a great deal of trouble...", "pos": 263448}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father’s father, our grandfather, wore it in all his wars. So you promise?", "pos": 263551}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Of course. What is it?", "pos": 263810}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off. Do you promise?", "pos": 263835}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... To please you... I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.", "pos": 263940}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace. Please, Andrew, for my sake!...", "pos": 264200}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Thank you, my dear.", "pos": 264958}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always used to be. Don’t judge Lise harshly. She is so sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.", "pos": 265073}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Másha, or blamed her. Why do you say all this to me? I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And I am sorry for that. Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this is so I don’t know...", "pos": 265268}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been answered.", "pos": 266855}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, maybe! Go, Másha; I’ll come immediately.", "pos": 267005}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Oh! I thought you were in your room,", "pos": 267334}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... Ha, ha, ha! Mary!", "pos": 267943}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Going? I’ve come to say good-by. Kiss me here. Thanks, thanks!", "pos": 269420}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your hands....", "pos": 269840}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Why talk nonsense? Say what you want.", "pos": 269912}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let him be here.... I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work. I know that out of a million cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.", "pos": 269952}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Hm... Hm... I’ll do it. It’s a bad business, eh?", "pos": 270398}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is bad, Father?", "pos": 270593}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "The wife!", "pos": 270616}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t understand!", "pos": 270676}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "No, it can’t be helped, lad. They’re all like that; one can’t unmarry. Don’t be afraid; I won’t tell anyone, but you know it yourself. What’s to be done? She’s pretty! I will do everything. Make your mind easy. Listen! don’t worry about your wife: what can be done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilariónovich. * I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkónski’s son need not serve under anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here. I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvórov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful.", "pos": 270718}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I will do it all, Father,", "pos": 272673}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, now, good-by! Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, your old father... but if I hear that you have not behaved like a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!", "pos": 272710}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You need not have said that to me, Father. I also wanted to ask you, if I’m killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please.", "pos": 273038}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Not let the wife have him? We’ve said good-by. Go!", "pos": 273322}
{"speaker": "both princesses", "text": "What is it? What?", "pos": 273631}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well!", "pos": 273874}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Andrew, already!", "pos": 274009}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Adieu, Mary,", "pos": 274291}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Gone? That’s all right!", "pos": 274939}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Well, Michael Mítrich, sir? We had our hands full last night. However, I think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?", "pos": 278325}
{"speaker": "The battalion commander", "text": "It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsarítsin Meadow.", "pos": 278631}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "What?", "pos": 278700}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "A fine mess we’ve made of it! There now! Didn’t I tell you, Michael Mítrich, that if it was said ‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats? Oh, my God! Company commanders! Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?", "pos": 280053}
{"speaker": "the aide-de-camp", "text": "In an hour’s time, I should say.", "pos": 280536}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Shall we have time to change clothes?", "pos": 280571}
{"speaker": "the aide-de-camp", "text": "I don’t know, General....", "pos": 280611}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Whatever is this? This! Commander of the third company!", "pos": 281439}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to the general... third company to the commander.", "pos": 281527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The general to the third company,", "pos": 281812}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this? What have you been after? The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...? Well, why don’t you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a Hungarian?", "pos": 282360}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Your excellency...", "pos": 283073}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your excellency?... nobody knows.", "pos": 283094}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Your excellency, it’s the officer Dólokhov, who has been reduced to the ranks,", "pos": 283191}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the others.", "pos": 283297}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.", "pos": 283441}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Gave him leave? Leave? That’s just like you young men. Leave indeed.... One says a word to you and you... What? I beg you to dress your men decently. H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg? Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... the ras...", "pos": 283503}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure...", "pos": 284512}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!", "pos": 284607}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Not bound to endure insults,", "pos": 284661}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "I request you to have the goodness to change your coat,", "pos": 284845}
{"speaker": "the signaler", "text": "He’s coming!", "pos": 284941}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Att-ention!", "pos": 285320}
{"speaker": "The regiment", "text": "Health to your ex... len... len... lency!", "pos": 286339}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah, Timókhin!", "pos": 288920}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Another Ismail comrade. A brave officer! Are you satisfied with him?", "pos": 289545}
{"speaker": "The regimental commander", "text": "Highly satisfied, your excellency!", "pos": 289799}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "We all have our weaknesses. He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.", "pos": 289836}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the ranks in this regiment.", "pos": 290607}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Where is Dólokhov? Have you a complaint to make?", "pos": 290699}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "This is Dólokhov,", "pos": 291056}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah! I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve well.", "pos": 291096}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "One thing I ask of your excellency. I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!", "pos": 291481}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "You won’t bear me a grudge, Prokhór Ignátych? It’s in the Emperor’s service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very pleased!", "pos": 292224}
{"speaker": "Captain Timókhin", "text": "Don’t mention it, General, as if I’d be so bold!", "pos": 292735}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "And tell Mr. Dólokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be quite easy. And tell me, please—I’ve been meaning to ask—how is he behaving himself, and in general...", "pos": 292960}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; but his character...", "pos": 293121}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "And what about his character?", "pos": 293228}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "It’s different on different days. One day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.", "pos": 293292}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "Oh, well, well! Still, one must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important connections... Well, then, you just...", "pos": 293494}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "I will, your excellency,", "pos": 293670}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "Well, of course, of course! After the next affair... epaulettes.", "pos": 293774}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "Well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,", "pos": 294269}
{"speaker": "Subaltern", "text": "In a word, a hearty one...", "pos": 294372}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "And they said Kutúzov was blind of one eye? And so he is! Quite blind! No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... he noticed everything... When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I... And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as they do the guns. I say, Fédeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau. Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are putting them down. When they’ve been put down, the war with Buonaparte will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you’re a fool. You’d better listen more carefully! What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat cooked before we reach our quarters. Give me a biscuit, you devil! And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That’s just it, friend! Ah, well, never mind, here you are. They might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles without eating. Wasn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still and are drawn along. And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all seemed to be Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.", "pos": 294648}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Singers to the front", "pos": 296109}
{"speaker": "Drummer", "text": "Morning dawned, the sun was rising. On then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kámenski.", "pos": 296370}
{"speaker": "Drummer", "text": "Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!", "pos": 297096}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Oh, my bower new...!", "pos": 297129}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "My dear fellow, how are you?", "pos": 298615}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "How am I? I am as you see.", "pos": 298720}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "And how do you get on with the officers?", "pos": 298930}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the staff?", "pos": 298991}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "I was attached; I’m on duty.", "pos": 299069}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?", "pos": 299341}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "The devil only knows! They say so.", "pos": 299403}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I’m glad,", "pos": 299440}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!", "pos": 299513}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Why, have you too much money?", "pos": 299591}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Do come.", "pos": 299623}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till I get reinstated.", "pos": 299634}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Well, that’s only till the first engagement.", "pos": 299716}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "We shall see.", "pos": 299763}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the staff...", "pos": 299803}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Don’t trouble. If I want anything, I won’t beg—I’ll take it!", "pos": 299892}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Well, never mind; I only...", "pos": 299955}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "And I only...", "pos": 299985}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Good-by.", "pos": 300001}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Good health...", "pos": 300012}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah!... All I can say, General. All I can say, General, is that if the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, General.", "pos": 300777}
{"speaker": "Austrian general", "text": "On the contrary. On the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,", "pos": 301977}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Give me that letter. Please have a look at it We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves.", "pos": 303245}
{"speaker": "Austrian general", "text": "But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect the worst,", "pos": 304315}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Excuse me, General. Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlóvski all the reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are these, make a neat memorandum in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.", "pos": 304541}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "Well, Prince?", "pos": 307013}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not advancing.", "pos": 307046}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "And why is it?", "pos": 307120}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Any news from Mack?", "pos": 307175}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "No.", "pos": 307197}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.", "pos": 307203}
{"speaker": "Unknown General", "text": "Commander in Chief Kutúzov?", "pos": 307565}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "The commander in chief is engaged. Whom shall I announce? The commander in chief is engaged,", "pos": 307739}
{"speaker": "Mack", "text": "Vous voyez le malheureux Mack,", "pos": 308821}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Why are you so glum?", "pos": 310505}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "There’s nothing to be gay about,", "pos": 310600}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, please make way! Your excellency. I have the honor to congratulate you. I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite well, only a little bruised just here,", "pos": 311124}
{"speaker": "Austrian general", "text": "Gott, wie naiv!", "pos": 312074}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself. I can’t prevent your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my presence, I will teach you to behave yourself.", "pos": 312508}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "What’s the matter? I only congratulated them,", "pos": 312871}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am not jesting with you; please be silent!", "pos": 312933}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Come, what’s the matter, old fellow?", "pos": 313071}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What’s the matter? Don’t you understand that either we are officers serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous trouvez là le mot pour rire. C’est bien pour un garçon de rien comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas pour vous. Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this way,", "pos": 313147}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Ah, Bondarénko, dear friend! Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,", "pos": 315269}
{"speaker": "Bondarénko", "text": "Yes, your excellency,", "pos": 315517}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Splendid! What a horse he will be!", "pos": 315923}
{"speaker": "Landlord", "text": "Schön gut Morgen! Schön gut Morgen!", "pos": 316241}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Schon fleissig? Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! Kaiser Alexander hoch!", "pos": 316405}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "Und die ganze Welt hoch!", "pos": 316838}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Und vivat die ganze Welt!", "pos": 316975}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "Hasn’t been in since the evening. Must have been losing. I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee? He’s coming! Now for trouble!", "pos": 317475}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Lavwúska! take it off, blockhead!", "pos": 318161}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "Well, I am taking it off,", "pos": 318230}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Ah, you’re up already,", "pos": 318285}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Long ago. I have already been for the hay, and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.", "pos": 318343}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a damned fool! Such ill luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo there! Tea! And what devil made me go to that wat? Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one cahd. He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; gives the singles and snatches the doubles!", "pos": 318440}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Wetched! Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the purse undah the pillow,", "pos": 319825}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving? I saw you riding this morning...", "pos": 320739}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, he’s all right, a good horse. He’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,", "pos": 321034}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "The hoof’s cracked! That’s nothing. I’ll teach you what to do and show you what kind of rivet to use.", "pos": 321241}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, please do,", "pos": 321345}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "I’ll show you, I’ll show you! It’s not a secret. And it’s a horse you’ll thank me for.", "pos": 321376}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Then I’ll have it brought round,", "pos": 321465}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Ugh! I don’t like that fellow,", "pos": 321867}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Have you told them to bring the horse?", "pos": 322274}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I have.", "pos": 322376}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denísov about yesterday’s order. Have you got it, Denísov?", "pos": 322386}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Not yet. But where are you off to?", "pos": 322493}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,", "pos": 322530}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I am witing to her. You see, my fwiend, we sleep when we don’t love. We are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... Who’s that now? Send him to the devil, I’m busy!", "pos": 322925}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It’s the quartermaster for the money.", "pos": 323426}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Wetched business. How much is left in the puhse?", "pos": 323578}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Seven new and three old imperials.", "pos": 323684}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you sca’cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh,", "pos": 323721}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Please, Denísov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know,", "pos": 323843}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don’t,", "pos": 323930}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will offend me. Really I have some,", "pos": 324000}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "No, I tell you. Where have you put it, Wostóv?", "pos": 324113}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Under the lower pillow.", "pos": 324232}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "It’s not there.", "pos": 324258}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "That’s a miwacle. Wait, haven’t you dropped it? Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept it under your head like a treasure. I put it just here. Where is it? I haven’t been in the room. It must be where you put it. But it isn’t?...", "pos": 324342}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget it. Feel in your pockets.", "pos": 324790}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, if I hadn’t thought of it being a treasure, but I remember putting it there.", "pos": 324886}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and yourselves. It must be here somewhere,", "pos": 325557}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it! If the purse isn’t found I’ll flog you, I’ll flog you all. I must have that purse, I tell you,", "pos": 325680}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Denísov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,", "pos": 326124}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Nonsense! You are mad, I tell you. I won’t allow it. The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be found.", "pos": 326338}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I know who has taken it,", "pos": 326539}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "And I tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!", "pos": 326626}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Do you understand what you’re saying? There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it is not so, then...", "pos": 326863}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,", "pos": 327063}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!", "pos": 327746}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 327828}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Allow me to look at your purse,", "pos": 328425}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Yes, it’s a nice purse. Yes, yes. Look at it, young man. If we get to Vienna I’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched little towns there’s nowhere to spend it. Well, let me have it, young man, I’m going. And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite decently here. Now then, let me have it. Well, young man?", "pos": 328579}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Come here. That money is Denísov’s; you took it...", "pos": 329747}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "What? What? How dare you? What? We must have an explanation...", "pos": 329926}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I know it and shall prove it,", "pos": 330426}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "I... Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it... I have an old father and mother!...", "pos": 330471}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "O God, how could you do it?", "pos": 330956}
{"speaker": "Telyánin", "text": "Count...", "pos": 331020}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Don’t touch me. If you need it, take the money,", "pos": 331068}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "And I tell you, Rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!", "pos": 331315}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I will allow no one to call me a liar! He told me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...", "pos": 331656}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen. You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an officer has stolen...", "pos": 331983}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am not a diplomatist. That’s why I joined the hussars, thinking that here one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him give me satisfaction...", "pos": 332207}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "That’s all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the point. Ask Denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to demand satisfaction of his regimental commander? You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other officers. Bogdánich shuts you up.", "pos": 332512}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.", "pos": 333069}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must apologize.", "pos": 333128}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not on any account!", "pos": 333208}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "I did not expect this of you. You don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. And Bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment! You have been in the regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when it is said ‘There are thieves among the Pávlograd officers!’ But it’s not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denísov? It’s not the same!", "pos": 333248}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "That’s twue, devil take it! Now then, Wostóv, now then!", "pos": 335245}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. You’re wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it’s true I’m to blame, to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?...", "pos": 335427}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "Come, that’s right, Count!", "pos": 335744}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "he’s a fine fellow.", "pos": 335898}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "That’s better, Count. Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!", "pos": 335920}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me, but I can’t apologize, by God I can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy asking forgiveness?", "pos": 336096}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay for your obstinacy,", "pos": 336344}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "No, on my word it’s not obstinacy! I can’t describe the feeling. I can’t... Well, it’s as you like. And what has become of that scoundrel?", "pos": 336443}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "He has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list tomowwow,", "pos": 336630}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "It is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it.", "pos": 336721}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. I’d kill him!", "pos": 336804}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What brings you here?", "pos": 336943}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’re to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his whole army.", "pos": 337011}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s not true!", "pos": 337091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve seen him myself!", "pos": 337108}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?", "pos": 337132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how did you come here?", "pos": 337180}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on Mack’s arrival... What’s the matter, Rostóv? You look as if you’d just come out of a hot bath.", "pos": 337269}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two days.", "pos": 337499}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’re going into action, gentlemen!", "pos": 337687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, thank God! We’ve been sitting here too long!", "pos": 337725}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It’s a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?", "pos": 339618}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a lovely place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a splendid house!", "pos": 339887}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look, Prince,", "pos": 339985}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. They’ll ransack that castle,", "pos": 340133}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "So they will. No, but what I should like, would be to slip in over there. That would be fine, gentlemen! Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls among them. On my word I’d give five years of my life for it!", "pos": 340327}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They must be feeling dull, too,", "pos": 340750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, so it is, so it is,", "pos": 340947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’ll be fired on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?", "pos": 341064}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?", "pos": 341405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a bad business,", "pos": 341469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "our men have been wasting time.", "pos": 341532}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Hadn’t I better ride over, your excellency?", "pos": 341566}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, please do,", "pos": 341629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and tell the hussars that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.", "pos": 341739}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Very good. I’ll really call in on the nuns,", "pos": 341891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now then, let’s see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!", "pos": 342195}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have a little fun to pass the time.", "pos": 342310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Crew, to your guns!", "pos": 342348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One!", "pos": 342472}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "What a fine fellow you are, friend! What a fellow! You can’t wait a moment! Don’t you see the general wants to pass?", "pos": 343658}
{"speaker": "convoyman", "text": "Hi there, boys! Keep to the left! Wait a bit.", "pos": 344040}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "It’s as if a dam had burst. Are there many more of you to come?", "pos": 345224}
{"speaker": "waggish soldier", "text": "A million all but one!", "pos": 345321}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "If he begins popping at the bridge now, you’ll forget to scratch yourself.", "pos": 345448}
{"speaker": "orderly", "text": "Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?", "pos": 345664}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt end of his gun...", "pos": 345891}
{"speaker": "another soldier", "text": "Yes, the ham was just delicious...", "pos": 346064}
{"speaker": "sergeant", "text": "Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll all be killed,", "pos": 346264}
{"speaker": "young soldier", "text": "As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean. I felt like dying of fright. I did, ‘pon my word, I got that frightened!", "pos": 346396}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!", "pos": 347349}
{"speaker": "another soldier", "text": "Sell me the missis,", "pos": 347403}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "See how smart she’s made herself! Oh, the devils! There, Fedótov, you should be quartered on them! I have seen as much before now, mate!", "pos": 347544}
{"speaker": "infantry officer", "text": "Where are you going?", "pos": 347687}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Take it if you like,", "pos": 347881}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "And why are they stopping? There’s no proper order! Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can’t you wait? It’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here’s an officer jammed in too", "pos": 348319}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Just see where it carries to!", "pos": 348837}
{"speaker": "another soldier", "text": "Encouraging us to get along quicker,", "pos": 348929}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Hey, Cossack, my horse! Now, then, you there! get out of the way! Make way!", "pos": 349063}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "Nesvítski, Nesvítski! you numskull!", "pos": 349451}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!", "pos": 349757}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Ah, Váska! What’s up with you?", "pos": 349995}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "The squadwon can’t pass. What is this? They’re like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I’ll hack you with my saber!", "pos": 350058}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "How’s it you’re not drunk today?", "pos": 350726}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "They don’t even give one time to dwink! They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they mean to fight, let’s fight. But the devil knows what this is.", "pos": 350813}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "What a dandy you are today!", "pos": 351003}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Of course. I’m going into action! I’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, and scented myself.", "pos": 351221}
{"speaker": "infantry soldier", "text": "Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!", "pos": 352397}
{"speaker": "another infantry soldier", "text": "What good are they? They’re led about just for show!", "pos": 352442}
{"speaker": "Hussar", "text": "Don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!", "pos": 352515}
{"speaker": "infantryman", "text": "I’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed. Perched up there, you’re more like a bird than a man.", "pos": 352635}
{"speaker": "corporal", "text": "There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. You’d look fine,", "pos": 352862}
{"speaker": "Hussar", "text": "Take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!", "pos": 353024}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! Look at me,", "pos": 357255}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "Well, what about it? It won’t come to a fight. You’ll see—we shall retire.", "pos": 358239}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "The devil only knows what they’re about! Ah, Wostóv, you’ve got it at last. Your excellency! Let us attack them! I’ll dwive them off.", "pos": 358338}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "Attack indeed! And why are you stopping here? Don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron back.", "pos": 358707}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Colonel, there is an order to stop and fire the bridge.", "pos": 360738}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "An order to who?", "pos": 360899}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "I don’t myself know ‘to who,’ but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’", "pos": 360946}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "How’s this, Colonel? I told you to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.", "pos": 361340}
{"speaker": "colonel", "text": "You spoke to me of inflammable material, but you said nothing about firing it.", "pos": 361611}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "But, my dear sir, wasn’t I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material had been put in position?", "pos": 361702}
{"speaker": "The colonel", "text": "I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would burn it, I could not know by the holy spirit!", "pos": 361932}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Ah, that’s always the way! How did you get here?", "pos": 362184}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!", "pos": 362306}
{"speaker": "The colonel", "text": "You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer...", "pos": 362370}
{"speaker": "the officer of the suite", "text": "Colonel. You must be quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.", "pos": 362453}
{"speaker": "The colonel", "text": "I will the bridge fire,", "pos": 362693}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "There, it’s just as I thought. He wishes to test me! Let him see whether I am a coward!", "pos": 363072}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look sharp!", "pos": 363617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stretchers!", "pos": 364273}
{"speaker": "The colonel", "text": "At boss zides, Captain,", "pos": 364572}
{"speaker": "Bogdánich", "text": "Who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come back, Cadet! Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount,", "pos": 364957}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "Oh, every bullet has its billet,", "pos": 365210}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will they burn the bridge or not? Who’ll get there first? Will they get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot range and wipe them out?", "pos": 365705}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Ugh. The hussars will get it hot! they are within grapeshot range now.", "pos": 366147}
{"speaker": "the officer of the suite", "text": "He shouldn’t have taken so many men,", "pos": 366238}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "True enough, two smart fellows could have done the job just as well.", "pos": 366308}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Ah, your excellency. Ah, your excellency! How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our Bogdánich knows how things are done.", "pos": 366401}
{"speaker": "the officer of the suite", "text": "There now! that’s grapeshot.", "pos": 366847}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Oh! Oh! Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, fallen!", "pos": 367249}
{"speaker": "the officer of the suite", "text": "Two, I think.", "pos": 367386}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "If I were Tsar I would never go to war,", "pos": 367402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stretchers!", "pos": 368744}
{"speaker": "the wounded man", "text": "Oooh! For Christ’s sake let me alone!", "pos": 368808}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I were there. In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never again see the sun, this water, that gorge!... O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect me!", "pos": 369436}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "Well, fwiend? So you’ve smelt powdah!", "pos": 370345}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s all over; but I am a coward—yes, a coward! Was that grapeshot?", "pos": 370427}
{"speaker": "Váska Denísov", "text": "Yes and no mistake! You worked like wegular bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them shooting at you like a target.", "pos": 370644}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "Here’s something for you to report. See if I don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.", "pos": 371210}
{"speaker": "Bogdánich", "text": "Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!", "pos": 371313}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And if he asks about the losses?", "pos": 371399}
{"speaker": "Bogdánich", "text": "A trifle, two hussars wounded, and one knocked out,", "pos": 371434}
{"speaker": "the soldier", "text": "Day before yesterday, on the Danube,", "pos": 376900}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That’s for them all. Get well soon, lads! There’s plenty to do still.", "pos": 377034}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "What news, sir?", "pos": 377185}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Good news!... Go on!", "pos": 377265}
{"speaker": "the official", "text": "To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find the adjutant on duty. He will conduct you to the Minister of War.", "pos": 378398}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Away from the smell of powder, they probably think it easy to gain victories!", "pos": 379331}
{"speaker": "Minister of War", "text": "Take this and deliver it,", "pos": 379943}
{"speaker": "Minister of War", "text": "From General Field Marshal Kutúzov? I hope it is good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was high time! Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt! What a calamity! What a calamity! Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is not captured. I am very glad you have brought good news, though Schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade. However, I will let you know. Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to see you,", "pos": 380820}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor. Franz, put the prince’s things in my bedroom. So you’re a messenger of victory, eh? Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see.", "pos": 382261}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Well, now tell me about your exploits,", "pos": 385778}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of skittles,", "pos": 385953}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Cependant, mon cher, malgré la haute estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.", "pos": 386203}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But seriously, we can at any rate say without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...", "pos": 386788}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?", "pos": 386910}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.", "pos": 386966}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "And why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have been there at seven in the morning.", "pos": 387176}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?", "pos": 387369}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "I know, you’re thinking it’s very easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but still why didn’t you capture him? So don’t be surprised if not only the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the Prater... True, we have no Prater here...", "pos": 387523}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher. I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can’t make it out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care to hear the details.", "pos": 388114}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "That’s just it, my dear fellow. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its defense—as much as to say: ‘Heaven is with us, but heaven help you and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. It’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? It’s too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!", "pos": 388601}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?", "pos": 389740}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Count Lichtenfels was here this morning, and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be received as a savior.", "pos": 390076}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all. How is it Vienna was taken? What of the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?", "pos": 390373}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is defending us—doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad quarter of an hour between two fires.", "pos": 390772}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But still this does not mean that the campaign is over,", "pos": 391216}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren’t say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, that will decide the matter, but those who devised it. The only question is what will come of the meeting between the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.", "pos": 391294}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What an extraordinary genius! and what luck the man has!", "pos": 391955}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Buonaparte? I think, however, now that he lays down laws for Austria at Schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de l’u! I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply Bonaparte!", "pos": 392107}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But joking apart, do you really think the campaign is over?", "pos": 392482}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital taken, and all this for the beaux yeux of His Sardinian Majesty. And therefore—this is between ourselves—I instinctively feel that we are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.", "pos": 392566}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Impossible! That would be too base.", "pos": 393114}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "If we live we shall see,", "pos": 393175}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, that all happened!", "pos": 394136}
{"speaker": "one of “ours", "text": "We must let him see Amelie, she’s exquisite!", "pos": 398409}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane interests,", "pos": 398501}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,", "pos": 398593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where to?", "pos": 398745}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "To the Emperor.", "pos": 398757}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh! Oh! Oh!", "pos": 398775}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, au revoir, Bolkónski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to dinner,", "pos": 398789}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’ll take you in hand.", "pos": 398887}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,", "pos": 398913}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, I can’t,", "pos": 399084}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as you will see.", "pos": 399192}
{"speaker": "Emperor Francis", "text": "Tell me, when did the battle begin? Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?", "pos": 399903}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "At what o’clock did the battle begin?", "pos": 400241}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at the front, but at Dürrenstein, where I was, our attack began after five in the afternoon,", "pos": 400300}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "How many miles?", "pos": 400672}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "From where to where, Your Majesty?", "pos": 400690}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "From Dürrenstein to Krems.", "pos": 400727}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.", "pos": 400756}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "The French have abandoned the left bank?", "pos": 400796}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.", "pos": 400839}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Is there sufficient forage in Krems?", "pos": 400917}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forage has not been supplied to the extent...", "pos": 400956}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?", "pos": 401033}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "At seven o’clock, I believe.", "pos": 401079}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "At seven o’clock? It’s very sad, very sad!", "pos": 401110}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 402665}
{"speaker": "Franz", "text": "Oh, your excellency! we are to move on still farther. The scoundrel is again at our heels!", "pos": 402689}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Eh? What?", "pos": 402854}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "There now! Confess that this is delightful. This affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without striking a blow!", "pos": 402958}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the town knows? I come from the archduchess’. I heard nothing there.", "pos": 403142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?", "pos": 403277}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I did not... What is it all about?", "pos": 403328}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "What’s it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or two.", "pos": 403401}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was mined?", "pos": 403609}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.", "pos": 403681}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It will be cut off,", "pos": 403780}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "That’s just it. Listen! The French entered Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) ‘Gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.", "pos": 403876}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Stop jesting,", "pos": 404704}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Stop this jesting,", "pos": 405322}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "I am not jesting. Nothing is truer or sadder. These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. ‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi! The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken! But what is best of all, is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor rascality....", "pos": 405352}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It may be treachery,", "pos": 408005}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light. It’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is just as at Ulm... it is... C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackés Where are you off to?", "pos": 408172}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am going away.", "pos": 408793}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Where to?", "pos": 408812}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "To the army.", "pos": 408824}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "But you meant to stay another two days?", "pos": 408839}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But now I am off at once.", "pos": 408881}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Do you know, mon cher. I have been thinking about you. Why are you going? Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is heroism!", "pos": 408989}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 409393}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.", "pos": 409427}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Do stop joking, Bilíbin,", "pos": 409922}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two things, either you will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.", "pos": 409966}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I cannot argue about it,", "pos": 410361}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "My dear fellow, you are a hero!", "pos": 410465}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Cette armée russe que l’or de l’Angleterre a transportée des extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même sort—(le sort de l’armée d’Ulm).", "pos": 411423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And should there be nothing left but to die?", "pos": 411791}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, if need be, I shall do it no worse than others.", "pos": 411850}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,", "pos": 413381}
{"speaker": "Doctor's wife", "text": "Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven’s sake... Protect me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost our people...", "pos": 414353}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "I’ll flatten you into a pancake! Turn back with your slut!", "pos": 414579}
{"speaker": "Doctor's wife", "text": "Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?", "pos": 414684}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?", "pos": 414767}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!", "pos": 414947}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Let them pass, I tell you!", "pos": 414985}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "And who are you? who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,", "pos": 415060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,", "pos": 415300}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Kind...ly let—them—pass!", "pos": 415809}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s this disorder. Do as you like.", "pos": 415890}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Bolkónski! Bolkónski!... Don’t you hear? Eh? Come quick...", "pos": 416816}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Where is the commander in chief?", "pos": 417174}
{"speaker": "the adjutant", "text": "Here, in that house,", "pos": 417226}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?", "pos": 417272}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could do to get here.", "pos": 417342}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "And we, my dear boy! It’s terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, we’re getting it still worse. But sit down and have something to eat.", "pos": 417430}
{"speaker": "the other adjutant", "text": "You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is,", "pos": 417586}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Where are headquarters?", "pos": 417733}
{"speaker": "the other adjutant", "text": "We are to spend the night in Znaim.", "pos": 417759}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses. They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But what’s the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that,", "pos": 417797}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It’s nothing. What is the commander in chief doing here?", "pos": 418123}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "I can’t make out at all,", "pos": 418308}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, abominable, quite abominable!", "pos": 418351}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "Second line... have you written it? The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian...", "pos": 419129}
{"speaker": "the clerk", "text": "One can’t write so fast, your honor,", "pos": 419239}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "Immediately, Prince. Dispositions for Bagratión.", "pos": 419911}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What about capitulation?", "pos": 419980}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.", "pos": 420007}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Well, have you finished?", "pos": 420539}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "One moment, your excellency.", "pos": 420588}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I have the honor to present myself,", "pos": 420756}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later! Well, good-by, Prince. My blessing, and may Christ be with you in your great endeavor! Christ be with you! Get in with me,", "pos": 420861}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.", "pos": 421472}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Get in. I need good officers myself, need them myself! There is still much, much before us. If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God,", "pos": 421579}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s death. That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment,", "pos": 422234}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor.", "pos": 428124}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "However, there will hardly be an engagement today,", "pos": 430287}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "There now, Prince! We can’t stop those fellows. The officers don’t keep them in hand. And there, they crowd in and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a moment.", "pos": 431171}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,", "pos": 431514}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "Why didn’t you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you something. Now what does this mean, gentlemen? You know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, Captain. Well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Captain Túshin? One would think that as an artillery officer you would set a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots! Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of you, all!", "pos": 431640}
{"speaker": "Captain Túshin", "text": "The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,", "pos": 432968}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "Kindly return to your posts,", "pos": 433232}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "Voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince. That’s our battery. It’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without his boots. You can see everything from there; let’s go there, Prince.", "pos": 434320}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Thank you very much, I will go on alone, please don’t trouble yourself further.", "pos": 434775}
{"speaker": "the major", "text": "It’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he’s a scoundrel. Go on! Go on! Go on, go on!", "pos": 437379}
{"speaker": "one soldier", "text": "Look! Look there! Hark to him jabbering! Fine, isn’t it? It’s all the Frenchy can do to keep up with him. There now, Sídorov!", "pos": 438678}
{"speaker": "Sídorov", "text": "Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!", "pos": 438987}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Now then, go on, go on! More, please: more! What’s he saying?", "pos": 439302}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,", "pos": 439871}
{"speaker": "the French grenadier", "text": "Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!", "pos": 439954}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "We’ll make you dance as we did under Suvórov...,", "pos": 440086}
{"speaker": "a Frenchman", "text": "Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?", "pos": 440179}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "It’s ancient history. The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the others...", "pos": 440256}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Bonaparte...", "pos": 440405}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacré nom...!", "pos": 440471}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "The devil skin your Emperor. Let us go, Iván Lukích,", "pos": 440539}
{"speaker": "the picket soldiers", "text": "Ah, that’s the way to talk French. Now, Sídorov, you have a try!", "pos": 440714}
{"speaker": "Sídorov", "text": "Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaská,", "pos": 440899}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If the enemy attacks the right flank, the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and retreat to the dip by echelons.", "pos": 444011}
{"speaker": "a familiar voice", "text": "No, friend, what I say is that if it were possible to know what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That’s so, friend.", "pos": 444725}
{"speaker": "a younger voice", "text": "Afraid or not, you can’t escape it anyhow.", "pos": 444976}
{"speaker": "a third manly voice", "text": "All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people. Of course you artillery men are very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and snacks.", "pos": 445021}
{"speaker": "the first speaker", "text": "Yes, one is afraid. One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.", "pos": 445308}
{"speaker": "the manly voice", "text": "Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,", "pos": 445596}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "that’s the captain who stood up in the sutler’s hut without his boots.", "pos": 445685}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Some herb vodka? Certainly! But still, to conceive a future life...", "pos": 445823}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It has begun. Here it is! But where and how will my Toulon present itself?", "pos": 447777}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Is there anything at all behind that impassive face?", "pos": 449066}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Very good!", "pos": 449259}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "He wants to see a battle, but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach already.", "pos": 450243}
{"speaker": "the accountant", "text": "Oh, leave off!", "pos": 450383}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince,", "pos": 450582}
{"speaker": "the accountant", "text": "What’s that that has fallen?", "pos": 450869}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "A French pancake,", "pos": 450941}
{"speaker": "the accountant", "text": "So that’s what they hit with? How awful!", "pos": 450979}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Whose company?", "pos": 452190}
{"speaker": "the red-haired, freckled gunner", "text": "Captain Túshin’s, your excellency!", "pos": 452395}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 452513}
{"speaker": "Captain Túshin", "text": "Lift it two lines more and it will be just right. Number Two! Fire, Medvédev!", "pos": 453218}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Very good!", "pos": 454036}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Very good!", "pos": 455718}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is this? It can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.", "pos": 458936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Cavalry!", "pos": 460003}
{"speaker": "Commander of the Regiment", "text": "Please, your excellency, for God’s sake! There, you see! We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister your hands.", "pos": 461035}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "They march splendidly,", "pos": 462258}
{"speaker": "Company Commander", "text": "Left... left... left...", "pos": 463690}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Left... left... left...", "pos": 463996}
{"speaker": "Company Commander", "text": "Close up!", "pos": 464350}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Well done, lads!", "pos": 464803}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!", "pos": 464845}
{"speaker": "Morose Soldier", "text": "We know that ourselves!", "pos": 465046}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Forward, with God!", "pos": 465507}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 466516}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Hurrah—ah!—ah!", "pos": 466526}
{"speaker": "German Colonel", "text": "He higher iss dan I in rank, so let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, sount ze retreat!", "pos": 468726}
{"speaker": "Infantry General", "text": "Once again, Colonel. I can’t leave half my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you, to occupy the position and prepare for an attack.", "pos": 469455}
{"speaker": "Pavlograd Colonel", "text": "I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business! If you vere in the cavalry...", "pos": 469630}
{"speaker": "Infantry General", "text": "I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if you are not aware of the fact...", "pos": 469762}
{"speaker": "Pavlograd Colonel", "text": "Quite avare, your excellency. Vill you be so goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!", "pos": 469865}
{"speaker": "Infantry General", "text": "You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure and I won’t allow it to be said!", "pos": 470108}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "If only they would be quick!", "pos": 472629}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Fo’ward, with God, lads! At a twot fo’ward!", "pos": 472806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Faster!", "pos": 473192}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, how I will slash at him!", "pos": 473622}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hur-a-a-a-ah!", "pos": 473701}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Let anyone come my way now,", "pos": 473740}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed! No, I am wounded and the horse is killed. Where, on which side, was now the line that had so sharply divided the two armies? Can something bad have happened to me? Ah, here are people coming. They will help me! It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will take me too? Who are these men? Can they be French? Who are they? Why are they running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone is so fond of? But perhaps they may do it!", "pos": 474388}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, better not look. No, there’s some mistake. They can’t have wanted to kill me.", "pos": 477524}
{"speaker": "one soldier", "text": "Cut off!", "pos": 478510}
{"speaker": "The fugitives", "text": "Surrounded! Cut off? We’re lost!", "pos": 478616}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Your excellency, here are two trophies. I have taken an officer prisoner. I stopped the company. The whole company can bear witness. I beg you will remember this, your excellency!", "pos": 481972}
{"speaker": "The commander", "text": "All right, all right,", "pos": 482285}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your excellency!", "pos": 482495}
{"speaker": "The artillerymen", "text": "Look at them scurrying! It’s burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!", "pos": 483527}
{"speaker": "The soldiers", "text": "Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!", "pos": 483833}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "refill my pipe for that one! Smack at ‘em, lads!", "pos": 485046}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "There... he’s puffing again. Now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.", "pos": 487425}
{"speaker": "An artilleryman", "text": "What do you want, your honor?", "pos": 487623}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Nothing... only a shell... Come along, our Matvévna!", "pos": 487722}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Ah! Breathing again, breathing! Now then, Matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!", "pos": 488362}
{"speaker": "Staff officer", "text": "Captain Túshin! Captain!", "pos": 488689}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...", "pos": 488855}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Why are they down on me? I... don’t... I...", "pos": 488921}
{"speaker": "the staff officer", "text": "Retire! All to retire!", "pos": 489332}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I cannot be afraid,", "pos": 489918}
{"speaker": "artilleryman", "text": "A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off. Not like your honor!", "pos": 490263}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, till we meet again...", "pos": 490686}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Good-by, my dear fellow. Dear soul! Good-by, my dear fellow!", "pos": 490757}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Captain, for God’s sake! I’ve hurt my arm. For God’s sake... I can’t walk. For God’s sake! Tell them to give me a seat, for God’s sake!", "pos": 492195}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Give him a seat. Lay a cloak for him to sit on, lad. And where is the wounded officer?", "pos": 492482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has been set down. He died,", "pos": 492630}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, Antónov. What, are you wounded, my lad?", "pos": 492680}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, it’s a sprain.", "pos": 493132}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?", "pos": 493153}
{"speaker": "artilleryman", "text": "It was the officer, your honor, stained it,", "pos": 493217}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not hurt, Petróv?", "pos": 494100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! They won’t make another push now,", "pos": 494131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You couldn’t see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn’t there something to drink?", "pos": 494211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did he say?", "pos": 495087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where to, now?", "pos": 495104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Halt, is it?", "pos": 495119}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You don’t mind your honor?", "pos": 496868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve lost my company, your honor. I don’t know where... such bad luck!", "pos": 496914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You picked it up?... I dare say! You’re very smart!", "pos": 497336}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Must one die like a dog?", "pos": 497556}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Still aching?", "pos": 498173}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 498223}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your honor, you’re wanted by the general. He is in the hut here,", "pos": 498230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and that’s what I did.", "pos": 499865}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By the way, your excellency, I should inform you,", "pos": 500331}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that Private Dólokhov, who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my presence and particularly distinguished himself.", "pos": 500494}
{"speaker": "Zherkóv", "text": "I saw the Pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency. They broke up two squares, your excellency.", "pos": 500635}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were abandoned in the center? I think I sent you?", "pos": 501224}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One was damaged,", "pos": 501650}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and the other I can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only just left.... It is true that it was hot there,", "pos": 501697}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Oh, but you were there?", "pos": 501959}
{"speaker": "Staff officer", "text": "Of course, we only just missed one another,", "pos": 502034}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I had not the pleasure of seeing you,", "pos": 502131}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "How was it a gun was abandoned?", "pos": 502544}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "I don’t know... your excellency... I had no men... your excellency.", "pos": 503096}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Your excellency! you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin’s battery. I went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two guns smashed, and no supports at all. And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion, we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,", "pos": 503697}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!", "pos": 504545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Eh, is anything hurting you?", "pos": 506570}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!", "pos": 506714}
{"speaker": "People", "text": "With your remarkable kindness. With your excellent heart. You are yourself so honorable, Count. Were he as clever as you,", "pos": 509965}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a great deal from the deceased,", "pos": 511190}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "You know I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I propose is the only thing possible. Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last. We start tomorrow and I’m giving you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you. Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible recollections. Yes, yes, my boy. And my valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting. You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; you won’t require it. We’ll go into the accounts later. what was due from the Ryazán estate", "pos": 513237}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna Schérer", "text": "You will find the beautiful Hélène here, whom it is always delightful to see.", "pos": 517002}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening. My dear Hélène, be charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count who will not refuse to accompany you. Isn’t she exquisite? And how she carries herself! For so young a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? I only wanted to know your opinion,", "pos": 518706}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I hope you won’t say that it is dull in my house again,", "pos": 520082}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "That is probably the work of Vinesse,", "pos": 520911}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am? You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,", "pos": 522033}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Well, I will leave you in your little corner. I see you are all right there. I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house? That’s a good thing, but don’t move from Prince Vasíli’s. It is good to have a friend like the prince. I know something about that. Don’t I? And you are still so young. You need advice. Don’t be angry with me for exercising an old woman’s privilege. If you marry it will be a different thing,", "pos": 523158}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, she’s good looking. But she’s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid. There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasíli is her father... It’s bad.... But no! Why did this thought never occur to me before?", "pos": 524583}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "This is all very fine, but things must be settled. Youth, frivolity... well, God be with him, but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my affair. I am her father.", "pos": 526972}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Till tomorrow. Be in to dinner or I shall not see you. I am staying in for your sake,", "pos": 528573}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It is time I understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent girl, she never makes a mistake, never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!", "pos": 528896}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What am I doing? I need resolution. Can it be that I have none?", "pos": 530224}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides reports reach me,", "pos": 532849}
{"speaker": "one of the ladies", "text": "Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?", "pos": 532905}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther, ‘Sergéy Kuzmích... From all sides... From all sides... Sergéy Kuzmích...’ Poor Vyazmítinov could not get any farther! He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered ‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.", "pos": 532990}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,", "pos": 533498}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Don’t be unkind. He is such a worthy and excellent man, our dear Vyazmítinov....", "pos": 533572}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.", "pos": 534759}
{"speaker": "The old princess", "text": "Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to be thus boldly, provocatively happy.", "pos": 535182}
{"speaker": "a diplomatist", "text": "And what nonsense all this is that I am saying! That’s happiness!", "pos": 535345}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "So it is all finished! And how has it all happened? How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it will certainly happen! But no doubt it always is and must be so! And besides, what have I done to bring it about? How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasíli. Then there was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it begin, when did it all come about?", "pos": 536482}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkónski. How absent-minded you are, my dear fellow.", "pos": 538050}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, what of it, if you all know it? What of it? It’s the truth!", "pos": 538272}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmütz?", "pos": 538431}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How can one talk or think of such trifles? Yes, from Olmütz,", "pos": 538571}
{"speaker": "The old general", "text": "Oh, the old fool. That Princess Hélène will be beautiful still when she’s fifty.", "pos": 539212}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I think I may congratulate you. If I hadn’t this headache I’d have stayed longer.", "pos": 539309}
{"speaker": "an inner voice", "text": "This happiness is not for you. This happiness is for those who have not in them what there is in you.", "pos": 539987}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, Lëlya? Sergéy Kuzmích—From all sides—", "pos": 540791}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Well, it is your own fault.", "pos": 541606}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!", "pos": 541636}
{"speaker": "Princess Kurágina", "text": "Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...", "pos": 542039}
{"speaker": "the elderly lady", "text": "Marriages are made in heaven,", "pos": 542108}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Aline, go and see what they are about.", "pos": 542369}
{"speaker": "Princess Kurágina", "text": "Still the same,", "pos": 542612}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Thank God! My wife has told me everything! My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased. I loved your father... and she will make you a good wife... God bless you!... Princess, come here!", "pos": 543037}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "All this had to be and could not be otherwise, so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt. Hélène! Something special is always said in such cases. Oh, take those off... those... It is too late now, it’s done; besides I love her. Je vous aime!", "pos": 543687}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at the same time, my honored benefactor. My son Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his father, he feels for you.", "pos": 545244}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are coming to us of their own accord,", "pos": 545606}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Do you hear how he’s walking? Stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....", "pos": 546750}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Can a sleigh pass?", "pos": 547432}
{"speaker": "the overseer", "text": "The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor. It would have been hard to drive up, your honor. I heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.", "pos": 547581}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders? The road is not swept for the princess my daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!", "pos": 547971}
{"speaker": "the overseer", "text": "Your honor, I thought...", "pos": 548165}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "You thought! Rascals! Blackguards!... I’ll teach you to think! Thought... Blackguards... Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!", "pos": 548192}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "I know nothing, I am the same as usual,", "pos": 549040}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will say (as he has done before) that I’m in the dumps.", "pos": 549285}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Fool... or dummy! Where is the princess? Hiding?", "pos": 549525}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "She is not very well, so she won’t come down. It is natural in her state.", "pos": 549740}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Hm! Hm!", "pos": 549871}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "I am afraid for the baby. Heaven knows what a fright might do.", "pos": 550195}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "So we are to have visitors, mon prince? His Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?", "pos": 550827}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the service. Why his son is coming I don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. I don’t want him. Are you unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot Alpátych called him this morning?", "pos": 551040}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, mon père.", "pos": 551400}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Yes, I feel a kind of oppression,", "pos": 551967}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Do you want anything?", "pos": 552066}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "No, merci, mon père.", "pos": 552090}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, all right, all right. Has the snow been shoveled back?", "pos": 552113}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven’s sake... It was only my stupidity.", "pos": 552262}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "All right, all right,", "pos": 552344}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?", "pos": 553705}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious with the old prince.", "pos": 553870}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "If he starts a row I’ll go away. I can’t bear those old men! Eh?", "pos": 553961}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Remember, for you everything depends on this.", "pos": 554051}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never happen! How shall I enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can’t now be myself with him.", "pos": 554348}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "You know they’ve come, Marie?", "pos": 555122}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess? They’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself up at all!", "pos": 555702}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty. You have a maroon dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may be at stake. But this one is too light, it’s not becoming!", "pos": 556918}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "No, it will not do. No, Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie, bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,", "pos": 558151}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Come, dear princess, just one more little effort.", "pos": 558750}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,", "pos": 558912}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, leave me alone,", "pos": 559133}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "At least, change your coiffure. Didn’t I tell you. Mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.", "pos": 559455}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to me,", "pos": 559703}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "You will change it, won’t you?", "pos": 560276}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,", "pos": 560994}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "O God, how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to fulfill Thy will? Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will.", "pos": 561702}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Voilà Marie!", "pos": 562939}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to ourselves, dear prince. It’s not as at Annette’s receptions where you always ran away; you remember cette chère Annette!", "pos": 566152}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!", "pos": 566425}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "And our little tea table?", "pos": 566479}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 566507}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Why is it you were never at Annette’s? Ah, I know, I know, your brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh! I have even heard of your doings in Paris!", "pos": 566518}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "And didn’t Hippolyte tell you? didn’t he tell you how he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,", "pos": 566781}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see! Well! How d’ye do? How d’ye do? Glad to see you!", "pos": 569476}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Friendship laughs at distance. Here is my second son; please love and befriend him.", "pos": 570072}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow! Well, come and kiss me. And so they are writing from Potsdam already? Is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh? Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.", "pos": 570266}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "It was my fault, mon père,", "pos": 571231}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "You must do as you please, but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s plain enough as it is.", "pos": 571306}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,", "pos": 571552}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Now you, young prince, what’s your name? come here, let us talk and get acquainted.", "pos": 571635}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Now the fun begins,", "pos": 571766}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Well, my dear boy, I hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?", "pos": 571854}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "No, I have been transferred to the line,", "pos": 572105}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Ah! That’s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. Well, are you off to the front?", "pos": 572200}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... what is it I am attached to, Papa?", "pos": 572366}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "A splendid soldier, splendid! ‘What am I attached to!’ Ha, ha, ha! You may go. And so you’ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vasíli, haven’t you?", "pos": 572522}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there is much better than ours.", "pos": 572867}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now. Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can’t part from her? What an idea! I’m ready for it tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You know my principles—everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and I’ll see. Let her marry, it’s all the same to me!", "pos": 572965}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I will tell you frankly. You know, you see right through people. Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent son or kinsman.", "pos": 573737}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "All right, all right, we’ll see!", "pos": 574019}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But am I not too cold with him? I try to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine that I do not like him.", "pos": 574858}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!", "pos": 575164}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How she loves me! How happy I am now, and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? Can it be possible?", "pos": 578174}
{"speaker": "Princess", "text": "What delicacy! Is it possible that Amélie thinks I could be jealous of her, and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?", "pos": 578889}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!", "pos": 579164}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, kind, that is the chief thing,", "pos": 579489}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "I told you it was all lumps and holes! I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my fault!", "pos": 580716}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice it. Fr... fr... fr! And don’t I see that that idiot had eyes only for Bourienne—I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but I’ll let her see.... What devil brought them here? I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not much of it left. Devil take ‘em! Gone to bed?", "pos": 581381}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.", "pos": 582946}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "No good... no good...", "pos": 583013}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I have had a proposition made me concerning you. I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasíli has not come and brought his pupil with him for the sake of my beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.", "pos": 584471}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How am I to understand you, mon père?", "pos": 584855}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "How understand me! Prince Vasíli finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil’s behalf. That’s how it’s to be understood! ‘How understand it’!... And I ask you!", "pos": 584946}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I do not know what you think, Father,", "pos": 585177}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I’m not going to get married. What about you? That’s what I want to know.", "pos": 585241}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I wish only to do your will, but if I had to express my own desire...", "pos": 585681}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "That’s admirable! He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the wife, while you... Now then, now then, I’m only joking! Remember this, Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life’s happiness depends on your decision. Never mind me!", "pos": 585812}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But I do not know, Father!", "pos": 586341}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!", "pos": 586370}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!", "pos": 588279}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Why? I love you more than ever, and I will try to do all I can for your happiness.", "pos": 588360}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...", "pos": 588467}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I quite understand. Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,", "pos": 588591}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Ah, my dear, my dear! My son’s fate is in your hands. Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a daughter!", "pos": 589030}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Fr... fr... The prince is making a proposition to you in his pupil’s—I mean, his son’s—name. Do you wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kurágin’s wife? Reply: yes or no, and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion. Yes, or no?", "pos": 589287}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my life from yours. I don’t wish to marry,", "pos": 589694}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!", "pos": 589892}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so long. Say ‘perhaps.’", "pos": 590156}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.", "pos": 590384}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go! Very, very glad to have seen you,", "pos": 590505}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "My vocation is a different one. My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might have done the same!...", "pos": 590725}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "My dear friend?", "pos": 591984}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How tell the little countess!", "pos": 592105}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "You are a little slyboots,", "pos": 593970}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "A letter from Nikólenka! I’m sure of it!", "pos": 594009}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "But for God’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your mamma.", "pos": 594120}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at once. No, on my true word of honor. I won’t tell anyone! Nikólenka... wounded... a letter,", "pos": 594193}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Nicholas!", "pos": 594573}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he wrote himself,", "pos": 594819}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "There now! It’s true that all you women are crybabies. Now I’m very glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. You are all blubberers and understand nothing.", "pos": 594932}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "You haven’t read the letter?", "pos": 595217}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an officer.", "pos": 595261}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Thank God! But perhaps she deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.", "pos": 595331}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "If I’d been in Nikólenka’s place I would have killed even more of those Frenchmen. What nasty brutes they are! I’d have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them. I’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,", "pos": 595470}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Do you remember him?", "pos": 595773}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Do I remember Nicholas?", "pos": 595860}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, Sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, remember everything? I remember Nikólenka too, I remember him well. But I don’t remember Borís. I don’t remember him a bit.", "pos": 595886}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "What! You don’t remember Borís? I am in love with your brother once for all and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him as long as I live.", "pos": 596196}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Shall you write to him?", "pos": 597094}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I don’t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,", "pos": 597417}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?", "pos": 597493}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "No.", "pos": 597553}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And I should be ashamed to write to Borís. I’m not going to.", "pos": 597559}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "It’s because she was in love with that fat one in spectacles and now she’s in love with that singer that’s why she’s ashamed!", "pos": 597799}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Pétya, you’re stupid!", "pos": 598044}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Not more stupid than you, madam,", "pos": 598082}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Don’t come in. Come later. It is done!", "pos": 598507}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "dear Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.", "pos": 599946}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "Why are you crying, Mamma? From all he says one should be glad and not cry.", "pos": 600309}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What a style! How charmingly he describes! And what a soul! Not a word about himself.... Not a word! About some Denísov or other, though he himself, I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so high—I always said....", "pos": 602017}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Well, how are you going to get out of that?", "pos": 607154}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "We’ll try to,", "pos": 607213}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Here he is at last! And Berg too! Oh, you petisenfans, allay cushay dormir! Dear me, how you have changed!", "pos": 607319}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, not like us sinners of the line. Eh, is she pretty?", "pos": 608483}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Why do you shout so? You’ll frighten them! I did not expect you today. I only sent you the note yesterday by Bolkónski—an adjutant of Kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? Been under fire already?", "pos": 608844}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "As you see,", "pos": 609319}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Indeed? Yes, yes! And we too have had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and balls! I can’t tell you. And the Tsarévich was very gracious to all our officers.", "pos": 609342}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, you Guards! I say, send for some wine.", "pos": 609900}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "If you really want it. Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,", "pos": 609982}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum. As for us, Count, we get along on our pay. I can tell you for myself...", "pos": 610379}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I say, Berg, my dear fellow, when you get a letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil! Don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak from my heart as to an old acquaintance.", "pos": 610548}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,", "pos": 611060}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Go across to our hosts: they invited you,", "pos": 611179}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh dear, what a beast I am!", "pos": 611554}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Why?", "pos": 611624}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am! Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let’s have some! What nonsense! Much I need it!", "pos": 611631}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Why have you thrown that away?", "pos": 612175}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it for!", "pos": 612221}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Why ‘What the devil’? This letter would be of great use to you.", "pos": 612295}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.", "pos": 612414}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 612466}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s a lackey’s job!", "pos": 612493}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "You are still the same dreamer, I see,", "pos": 612516}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And you’re still the same diplomatist! But that’s not the point... Come, how are you?", "pos": 612591}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Well, as you see. So far everything’s all right, but I confess I should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.", "pos": 612693}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why?", "pos": 612824}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to make as successful a career of it as possible.", "pos": 612831}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, that’s it!", "pos": 612949}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Shouldn’t we now send for Berg? He would drink with you. I can’t.", "pos": 613171}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?", "pos": 613254}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,", "pos": 613359}
{"speaker": "Grand Duke", "text": "Arnauts!", "pos": 614243}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and so my conscience was at ease. I came forward.... Well, he stormed at me, as the saying is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ and ‘To Siberia!’ I knew I was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?...", "pos": 614366}
{"speaker": "Grand Duke", "text": "Hey, are you dumb?", "pos": 615184}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Still I remained silent. And what do you think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of the Day. That’s what keeping one’s head means. That’s the way, Count,", "pos": 615216}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, that was fine,", "pos": 615457}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You cannot imagine what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,", "pos": 617334}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "We shall probably advance. As to your business, we will talk of it later Come to me after the review and we will do what is possible. I think you were talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?", "pos": 618703}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I was there,", "pos": 619552}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, there are many stories now told about that affair!", "pos": 619742}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, stories! Yes, many stories! But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!", "pos": 619800}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Of whom you imagine me to be one?", "pos": 620133}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I am not talking about you. I don’t know you and, frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.", "pos": 620359}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And I will tell you this, you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to displease you. However, you know my name and where to find me, but don’t forget that I do not regard either myself or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review I shall expect you, Drubetskóy. Au revoir!", "pos": 620487}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 625727}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 626452}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "I thank you all, gentlemen, I thank you with my whole heart. You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of them.", "pos": 628458}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 628852}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "Fine fellows, the Pávlograds!", "pos": 631053}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Very well, then, be so good as to wait,", "pos": 635053}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. When Germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it! Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have been thinking about you.", "pos": 636170}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Yes, I was thinking of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from Prince Kurágin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards won’t be in action,", "pos": 636654}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "All right, all right. We’ll talk it over. Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at your disposal. You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you. It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorúkov; I have to go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you somewhere nearer the sun.", "pos": 636902}
{"speaker": "Prince Dolgorúkov", "text": "Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear fellow. I must confess to having been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with Russian valor—what more could be wished for?", "pos": 640776}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "So the attack is definitely resolved on?", "pos": 641364}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him today for the Emperor.", "pos": 641424}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Is that so? And what did he say?", "pos": 641619}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most amusing, was that we could not think how to address the reply! If not as ‘Consul’ and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to ‘General Bonaparte.’", "pos": 641674}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General Bonaparte, there is a difference,", "pos": 642026}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "That’s just it. You know Bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. He suggested addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’", "pos": 642149}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Only that?", "pos": 642346}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "All the same, it was Bilíbin who found a suitable form for the address. He is a wise and clever fellow.", "pos": 642375}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What was it?", "pos": 642481}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement français. Good, wasn’t it?", "pos": 642496}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, but he will dislike it extremely,", "pos": 642633}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of French adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!", "pos": 642690}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Delightful! But I have come to you, Prince, as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see...", "pos": 643456}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Oh, what a nuisance. You know I should be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young man. But you see... another time!", "pos": 643676}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Who was that?", "pos": 644978}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of men—the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartorýski.... It is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,", "pos": 645007}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Come here, Wostóv. Let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!", "pos": 647293}
{"speaker": "one of the officers", "text": "There! They are bringing another!", "pos": 647495}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Sell us that horse!", "pos": 647740}
{"speaker": "Cossacks", "text": "If you like, your honor!", "pos": 647798}
{"speaker": "French dragoon", "text": "But don’t hurt my little horse!", "pos": 648339}
{"speaker": "the Alsatian", "text": "But don’t hurt my little horse!", "pos": 648879}
{"speaker": "the Cossack", "text": "Alley! Alley!", "pos": 649062}
{"speaker": "hussars", "text": "The Emperor! The Emperor!", "pos": 649143}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "The Pávlograd hussars?", "pos": 650455}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The reserves, sire!", "pos": 650493}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "Gently, gently! Can’t you do it more gently? What a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!", "pos": 653154}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not ‘our Sovereign, the Emperor,’ as they say at official dinners, but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the French!", "pos": 654018}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "If we fought before, not letting the French pass, as at Schön Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!", "pos": 654236}
{"speaker": "Officers", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 654575}
{"speaker": "Kírsten", "text": "Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over our enemies! Hurrah!", "pos": 655071}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "As there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen in love with the Tsar,", "pos": 655390}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Denísov, don’t make fun of it! It is such a lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...", "pos": 655488}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...", "pos": 655586}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, you don’t understand!", "pos": 655651}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Well, how d’you do, my dear fellow? The fete is for tomorrow. How is your old fellow? Out of sorts?", "pos": 660803}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I won’t say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be heard.", "pos": 660961}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.", "pos": 661034}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, you have seen him? Well, what is Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?", "pos": 661232}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as a general engagement. If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!", "pos": 661334}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But tell me, what is he like, eh?", "pos": 661809}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call him ‘Your Majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more. Despite my great respect for old Kutúzov, we should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all the experience of old Cunctators.", "pos": 661871}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are situated,", "pos": 662557}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Oh, that is all the same. All eventualities have been foreseen. If he is standing before Brünn... There will be a council of war at Kutúzov’s tonight, though; you can say all this there,", "pos": 662802}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I will do so,", "pos": 663572}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen? Whether tomorrow brings victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de Lichtenstein, le Prince de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on like all those Polish names.", "pos": 663634}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Be quiet, backbiter! It is not true; there are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be a third, Count Arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.", "pos": 664147}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "However, I think General Kutúzov has come out. I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!", "pos": 664340}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!", "pos": 664740}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,", "pos": 667120}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,", "pos": 667585}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805. As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second column marches... The third column marches...", "pos": 668387}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "You can tell me your views later, but now be so good as to look at the map and listen.", "pos": 670659}
{"speaker": "Langeron", "text": "A geography lesson!", "pos": 670987}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "So you are still at that silly business!", "pos": 672421}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "If he could attack us, he would have done so today,", "pos": 672901}
{"speaker": "Langeron", "text": "So you think he is powerless?", "pos": 672964}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "He has forty thousand men at most,", "pos": 673011}
{"speaker": "Langeron", "text": "In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,", "pos": 673157}
{"speaker": "Milorádovich", "text": "Ma foi! tomorrow we shall see all that on the battlefield.", "pos": 673454}
{"speaker": "Weyrother", "text": "The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from his camp. What does that mean? Either he is retreating, which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position. But even if he also took up a position in the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.", "pos": 673785}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How is that?...", "pos": 674184}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for it is past midnight—cannot now be altered. You have heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is nothing more important... than to have a good sleep.", "pos": 674364}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But was it really not possible for Kutúzov to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, and my life, my life, must be risked? Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,", "pos": 675024}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow! Tomorrow everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all I can do.", "pos": 675855}
{"speaker": "another voice", "text": "But death and suffering?", "pos": 676710}
{"speaker": "the other voice", "text": "Well and then? If before that you are not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...", "pos": 677075}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well then,", "pos": 677206}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why not?... It might easily happen, that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would unmask his deceivers! Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and watchword—shaft, Olmütz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in reserve tomorrow. I’ll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won’t be long now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back I’ll go to the general and ask him. I expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une tache. There now... it’s not a tache... Natásha... sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won’t she be surprised when I tell her how I’ve seen the Emperor?) Natásha... take my sabretache... Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes here. But what was I thinking? I mustn’t forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. Oh yes! Natásha... sabretache... saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along the Tverskáya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about him too, just opposite Gúryev’s house... Old Gúryev.... Oh, but Denísov’s a fine fellow. But that’s all nonsense. The chief thing is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that’s nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I was thinking of. Yes, Na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That’s right! What? What? What?... Cut them down! What?...", "pos": 679516}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What’s that? What do you make of it? That must be the enemy’s camp! Why, don’t you hear it? From the direction, it must be the enemy,", "pos": 683061}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "They can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,", "pos": 684003}
{"speaker": "Prince Dolgorúkov", "text": "Believe me, it is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.", "pos": 684860}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Hardly. I saw them this evening on that knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... Officer! are the enemy’s skirmishers still there?", "pos": 685040}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "They were there this evening, but now I don’t know, your excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?", "pos": 685251}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Well, go and see,", "pos": 685461}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 685505}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Your honor, there he is!", "pos": 686783}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, some more! Some more!", "pos": 687397}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "What’s your name?", "pos": 688429}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Count Rostóv.", "pos": 688449}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.", "pos": 688465}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son?", "pos": 688516}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?", "pos": 688587}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "I will give the order.", "pos": 688631}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There now, the Kúrskies have also gone past,", "pos": 693736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular Moscow!", "pos": 693812}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up against the French?", "pos": 695055}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, one can’t hear them. They’d be firing if we had.", "pos": 695145}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It’s all those damned Germans’ muddling! What stupid devils!", "pos": 695200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up behind. And now here we stand hungry.", "pos": 695376}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the way,", "pos": 695481}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, those damned Germans! They don’t know their own country!", "pos": 695574}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "What division are you?", "pos": 695651}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Eighteenth.", "pos": 695708}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you won’t get there till evening.", "pos": 695726}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "What stupid orders! They don’t themselves know what they are doing!", "pos": 695823}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Tafa-lafa! But what he’s jabbering no one can make out. I’d shoot them, the scoundrels!", "pos": 695993}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got halfway. Fine orders!", "pos": 696144}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "There we shall encounter difficulties, and there. I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of me. That may be the very standard with which I shall lead the army.", "pos": 703050}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the village! Don’t you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the enemy?", "pos": 704478}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,", "pos": 704749}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "You’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! Very fine!", "pos": 704863}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the dispositions...", "pos": 704941}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "The dispositions! Who told you that?... Kindly do as you are ordered.", "pos": 705022}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 705124}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "My dear fellow, the old man is as surly as a dog.", "pos": 705136}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the village. Tell it to stop and await my orders. And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted. What are they doing? What are they doing?", "pos": 705711}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "All right, all right! Plenty of time, your excellency. Plenty of time,", "pos": 706942}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Attention!", "pos": 708050}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "Why aren’t you beginning, Michael Ilariónovich?", "pos": 710191}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I am waiting, Your Majesty. Waiting, Your Majesty. Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your Majesty.", "pos": 710352}
{"speaker": "The Tsar", "text": "You know, Michael Ilariónovich, we are not on the Empress’ Field where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,", "pos": 710878}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "That is just why I do not begin, sire. That is just why I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the Empress’ Field. However, if you command it, Your Majesty,", "pos": 711219}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "God be with you, general!", "pos": 712671}
{"speaker": "Milorádovich", "text": "Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, sire. Lads! Lads, it’s not the first village you’ve had to take,", "pos": 712717}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Glad to do our best!", "pos": 713559}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Look, look! It’s the French!", "pos": 714864}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But how is that?", "pos": 715280}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "The Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,", "pos": 715700}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Brothers! All’s lost!", "pos": 715931}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You are wounded?", "pos": 716689}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "The wound is not here, it is there! Stop them!", "pos": 716772}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Get on! Why are you hindering us?", "pos": 717251}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Stop those wretches!", "pos": 718076}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Oh! Oh! Oh! Bolkónski! Bolkónski! what’s that?", "pos": 718688}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forward, lads! Hurrah!", "pos": 719100}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 719607}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in chief, your excellency?", "pos": 723225}
{"speaker": "Dolgorúkov", "text": "You can give the message to His Majesty,", "pos": 723354}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "That is no business of mine,", "pos": 726431}
{"speaker": "An Officer", "text": "Charge!", "pos": 727323}
{"speaker": "the Horse Guards", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 728249}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see the Emperor immediately!", "pos": 728985}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Rostóv!", "pos": 729494}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What?", "pos": 729504}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I say, we’ve been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!", "pos": 729548}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Have you? Well, how did it go?", "pos": 729734}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "We drove them back! Can you imagine it? Where are you off to?", "pos": 729778}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "With a message to His Majesty.", "pos": 730255}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "There he is!", "pos": 730288}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the Emperor,", "pos": 730575}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Count! Count! Count! I am wounded in my right hand and I remained at the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the von Bergs—have been knights!", "pos": 730700}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What can it be? The enemy in the rear of our army? Impossible! But be that what it may, there is no riding round it now. I must look for the commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with the rest. What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is firing?", "pos": 731484}
{"speaker": "fugitives", "text": "The devil knows! They’ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!", "pos": 732213}
{"speaker": "one of the fugitives", "text": "Kill the Germans! May the devil take them—the traitors!", "pos": 732398}
{"speaker": "a German", "text": "Zum Henker diese Russen!", "pos": 732471}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "My God! What does it all mean? And here, where at any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it can’t be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!", "pos": 732771}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutúzov?", "pos": 733930}
{"speaker": "the soldier", "text": "Eh, brother! They’ve all bolted long ago!", "pos": 734111}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It can’t be! It must have been someone else.", "pos": 734530}
{"speaker": "the batman/groom", "text": "I saw him myself. I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I’ve seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It’s time I knew the Imperial horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except the Tsar!", "pos": 734592}
{"speaker": "a wounded officer", "text": "Who is it you want? The commander in chief? He was killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.", "pos": 735117}
{"speaker": "another officer", "text": "Not killed—wounded!", "pos": 735248}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who? Kutúzov?", "pos": 735301}
{"speaker": "the wounded officer", "text": "Not Kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders are there,", "pos": 735331}
{"speaker": "a soldier", "text": "Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once! They’d kill you there!", "pos": 735899}
{"speaker": "another soldier", "text": "Oh, what are you talking about? Where is he to go? That way is nearer.", "pos": 736017}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to save myself?", "pos": 736192}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What would she feel, if she saw me here now on this field with the cannon aimed at me?", "pos": 737384}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!", "pos": 739261}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight of him? Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him,", "pos": 740300}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And I might have been in his place! What have I done?", "pos": 742005}
{"speaker": "the groom", "text": "Tit! I say, Tit!", "pos": 742976}
{"speaker": "Tit", "text": "What?", "pos": 743011}
{"speaker": "the groom", "text": "Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!", "pos": 743057}
{"speaker": "Tit", "text": "Oh, you fool!", "pos": 743082}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here another two minutes and it is certain death,", "pos": 745506}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Turn this way! turn this way! It bears!...", "pos": 745812}
{"speaker": "innumerable voices", "text": "Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go on!", "pos": 746520}
{"speaker": "shouts from behind", "text": "Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go on! Go on!", "pos": 747127}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Fine men!", "pos": 748919}
{"speaker": "an adjutant", "text": "The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your Majesty,", "pos": 749110}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Have some brought from the reserve. That’s a fine death!", "pos": 749257}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Ah! He is alive. Lift this young man up and carry him to the dressing station.", "pos": 750656}
{"speaker": "a French convoy officer", "text": "We must halt here: the Emperor will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen prisoners.", "pos": 751443}
{"speaker": "another officer", "text": "There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, that he is probably tired of them,", "pos": 751557}
{"speaker": "a French convoy officer", "text": "All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor Alexander’s Guards,", "pos": 751682}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Which is the senior? You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse Guards?", "pos": 752075}
{"speaker": "Repnín", "text": "I commanded a squadron,", "pos": 752265}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,", "pos": 752307}
{"speaker": "Repnín", "text": "The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,", "pos": 752368}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I bestow it with pleasure. And who is that young man beside you? He’s very young to come to meddle with us.", "pos": 752446}
{"speaker": "Sukhtélen", "text": "Youth is no hindrance to courage,", "pos": 752655}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "A splendid reply! Young man, you will go far! Well, and you, young man. How do you feel, mon brave?", "pos": 752730}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, Prince Repnín!", "pos": 754181}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be good,", "pos": 754800}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Lord, have mercy on me!", "pos": 755173}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But to whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in words—the Great All or Nothing- or to that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.", "pos": 755201}
{"speaker": "Larrey", "text": "He is a nervous, bilious subject, and will not recover.", "pos": 756534}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs! Denísov! We’re here! He’s asleep. There’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhár, has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! And here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can’t you hurry up? Now then!", "pos": 757258}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Which house is it?", "pos": 757881}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don’t you see? That’s our house. Of course, it’s our house! Denísov, Denísov! We’re almost there! Dmítri, those lights are in our house, aren’t they?", "pos": 757920}
{"speaker": "Dmítri", "text": "Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.", "pos": 758228}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Then they’ve not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, don’t forget to put out my new coat. Now then, get on. Do wake up, Váska! Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for vodka—get on!", "pos": 758284}
{"speaker": "Prokófy", "text": "Gracious heavens! The young count! Can it be? My treasure!", "pos": 759782}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "All well?", "pos": 760077}
{"speaker": "Prokófy", "text": "Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They’ve just finished supper. Let me have a look at you, your excellency.", "pos": 760125}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Is everything quite all right?", "pos": 760227}
{"speaker": "Prokófy", "text": "The Lord be thanked, yes!", "pos": 760260}
{"speaker": "Family Member", "text": "And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!... Here he is... our own... Kólya, * dear fellow... How he has changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!... And me, kiss me! Dearest... and me!", "pos": 761053}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "And me too!", "pos": 761482}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Vasíli Denísov, your son’s friend,", "pos": 762719}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "You are most welcome! I know, I know. Nicholas wrote us... Natásha, Véra, look! Here is Denísov!", "pos": 762835}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Darling Denísov!", "pos": 763055}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Hallo, Gwíska—my pipe! Wostóv, get up!", "pos": 764420}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why, is it late?", "pos": 764599}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Late! It’s nearly ten o’clock. Nicholas! Get up!", "pos": 764618}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Directly!", "pos": 765049}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Is this your saber?", "pos": 765301}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!", "pos": 765543}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Is this your saber? Or is it yours?", "pos": 765609}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, how nice, how splendid! No, but listen, now you are quite a man, aren’t you? I’m awfully glad you’re my brother. I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as we? No?", "pos": 766571}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why did Sónya run away?", "pos": 767051}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, yes! That’s a whole long story! How are you going to speak to her—thou or you?", "pos": 767091}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "As may happen,", "pos": 767176}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, call her you, please! I’ll tell you all about it some other time. No, I’ll tell you now. You know Sónya’s my dearest friend. Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here! I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the fire and pressed it there!", "pos": 767206}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, and is that all?", "pos": 768074}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.", "pos": 768109}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, what then?", "pos": 768308}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, she loves me and you like that. Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to forget all that.... She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it? I shall love him always, but let him be free.", "pos": 768327}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I never go back on my word. Besides, Sónya is so charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.", "pos": 768753}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, no! she and I have already talked it over. We knew you’d say so. But it won’t do, because you see, if you say that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.", "pos": 768872}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, they have taken a wise decision. I must remain free. Well then, that’s excellent. We’ll talk it over later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you! Well, and are you still true to Borís?", "pos": 769645}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, what nonsense! I don’t think about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.", "pos": 769876}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Dear me! Then what are you up to now?", "pos": 770003}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Now? Have you seen Duport?", "pos": 770043}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No.", "pos": 770127}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Not seen Duport—the famous dancer? Well then, you won’t understand. That’s what I’m up to. See, I’m standing! See! So that’s what I’m up to! I’ll never marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don’t tell anyone. No, but don’t you think it’s nice?", "pos": 770133}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Borís?", "pos": 770786}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell him so when I see him!", "pos": 770855}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Dear me!", "pos": 770924}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But that’s all rubbish. And is Denísov nice?", "pos": 770948}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, indeed!", "pos": 771030}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, Denísov?", "pos": 771045}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why terrible? No, Váska is a splendid fellow.", "pos": 771115}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You call him Váska? That’s funny! And is he very nice?", "pos": 771181}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Very.", "pos": 771238}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well then, be quick. We’ll all have breakfast together.", "pos": 771246}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "How strange it is, that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet like strangers.", "pos": 772223}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you know!", "pos": 777017}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "Shall we have three cold dishes then?", "pos": 777086}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "We can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,", "pos": 777164}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "Then am I to order those large sterlets?", "pos": 777259}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. Ah, dear me! I was forgetting. We must have another entrée. Ah, goodness gracious! Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmítri! Eh, Dmítri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate. Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots here on Friday. Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl! Now, if you would only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like that sort of thing.", "pos": 777321}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagratión worried himself less before the battle of Schön Grabern than you do now,", "pos": 778566}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, you talk, but try it yourself! What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktíst? Laughing at us old fellows!", "pos": 778746}
{"speaker": "Feoktíst", "text": "That’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their business!", "pos": 779026}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "That’s it, that’s it! Now I’ve got you, so take the sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so you’ll have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy Ilyúshka, the one who danced at Count Orlóv’s, you remember, in a white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.", "pos": 779168}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him? Dear, dear!...", "pos": 779734}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "No matter at all, my dear count. But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís is now on the staff.", "pos": 780129}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell Bezúkhov to come. I’ll put his name down. Is his wife with him?", "pos": 780559}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate. If what we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give him what consolation I can.", "pos": 780724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wh-what is the matter?", "pos": 781032}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son, has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here and that daredevil after her! They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.", "pos": 781126}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow over. It will be a tremendous banquet.", "pos": 781589}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "Had there been no Bagratión, it would have been necessary to invent him,", "pos": 784437}
{"speaker": "Prince Dolgorúkov", "text": "If you go on modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,", "pos": 784731}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "French soldiers have to be incited to battle by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian soldiers only need to be restrained and held back!", "pos": 784906}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs to us.", "pos": 786780}
{"speaker": "Count Ilyá Rostóv", "text": "Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasíli Ignátovich... How d’ye do, old fellow?", "pos": 788932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He’s arrived!", "pos": 789267}
{"speaker": "Count Ilyá Rostóv", "text": "Make way, dear boy! Make way, make way!", "pos": 791251}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Well, I will read them, then!", "pos": 792243}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign And on the throne our Titus shield. A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! E’en fortunate Napoleon Knows by experience, now, Bagratión, And dare not Herculean Russians trouble...", "pos": 792504}
{"speaker": "Count Ilyá Rostóv", "text": "There will be many toasts, it’s time to begin. To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!", "pos": 794776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 795149}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 795191}
{"speaker": "Nicholas Rostóv", "text": "To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor! Hurrah!", "pos": 795378}
{"speaker": "Count Ilyá Rostóv", "text": "To the health of the hero of our last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!", "pos": 795835}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 795955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Russians! O’er all barriers on! Courage conquest guarantees; Have we not Bagratión? He brings foemen to their knees,... etc.", "pos": 796094}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What are you about? Don’t you hear it’s His Majesty the Emperor’s health?", "pos": 800485}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why, I didn’t recognize you!", "pos": 800759}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 800849}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Why don’t you renew the acquaintance?", "pos": 800859}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Confound him, he’s a fool!", "pos": 800924}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,", "pos": 800966}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well, now to the health of handsome women! Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their lovers!", "pos": 801145}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How dare you take it?", "pos": 801937}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Don’t! Don’t! What are you about?", "pos": 802104}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You shan’t have it!", "pos": 802305}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!", "pos": 802400}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well then, till tomorrow at Sokólniki,", "pos": 803103}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And do you feel quite calm?", "pos": 803205}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well, you see, I’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostromá used to tell me.", "pos": 803266}
{"speaker": "Bear huntsman", "text": "Everyone fears a bear, but when you see one your fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!", "pos": 803681}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "And that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.", "pos": 803809}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Will it be long? Are things ready?", "pos": 805018}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "I should not be doing my duty, Count, and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...", "pos": 805179}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh yes, it is horribly stupid,", "pos": 805582}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent will accept them. You know, Count, it is much more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to convey....", "pos": 805628}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No! What is there to talk about? It’s all the same.... Is everything ready? Only tell me where to go and where to shoot. Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot,", "pos": 806044}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "No apologies, none whatever,", "pos": 806458}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well, begin!", "pos": 807306}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "All right,", "pos": 807336}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "As the adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!", "pos": 807607}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "So I can fire when I like!", "pos": 808178}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "No-o-o! no, it’s not over. Plea... Please. To your barrier!", "pos": 809234}
{"speaker": "Nesvítski", "text": "Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!", "pos": 810238}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Cover yourself!", "pos": 810305}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Missed!", "pos": 810649}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Folly... folly! Death... lies...", "pos": 810862}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well? How do you feel?", "pos": 811387}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Bad! But it’s not that, my friend— Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don’t matter, but I have killed her, killed... She won’t get over it! She won’t survive....", "pos": 811422}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who?", "pos": 811624}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,", "pos": 811645}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Let him do what he pleases, she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going to have any children by me. I’m not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous promener,", "pos": 815094}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a criminal, and from their point of view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a martyr’s death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity? Why did I tell her that ‘Je vous aime’? Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?", "pos": 816569}
{"speaker": "the valet", "text": "The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at home,", "pos": 818148}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Well, what’s this now? What have you been up to now, I should like to know?", "pos": 819156}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I? What have I...?", "pos": 819253}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "So it seems you’re a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you. If you won’t answer, I’ll tell you... You believe everything you’re told. You were told... that Dólokhov was my lover, and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this duel prove? That you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause. A man who’s a better man than you in every way...", "pos": 819292}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Hm... Hm...!", "pos": 820214}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer yours.", "pos": 820303}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Don’t speak to me... I beg you,", "pos": 820445}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so,", "pos": 820505}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "We had better separate,", "pos": 821049}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune. Separate! That’s a thing to frighten me with!", "pos": 821106}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I’ll kill you! Get out!", "pos": 821290}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Your son, fell before my eyes, a standard in his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.", "pos": 823040}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Ah, Princess Mary!", "pos": 823894}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Father! Andrew!", "pos": 824527}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Bad news! He’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! Kutúzov writes... Killed!", "pos": 824717}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Father, do not turn away from me, let us weep together.", "pos": 825308}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Scoundrels! Blackguards! Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, go and tell Lise.", "pos": 825378}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Father, tell me how it happened,", "pos": 825934}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell Lise. I will follow.", "pos": 825998}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Mary, give me your hand. There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, Mary, I am going to love him very much. What is the matter, Mary?", "pos": 826479}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew,", "pos": 827089}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Has anything come from Andrew?", "pos": 827864}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I feel afraid.", "pos": 827908}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "So there’s nothing?", "pos": 827991}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 828013}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Dearest. Dearest, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as Fóka the cook calls it—has disagreed with me.", "pos": 828925}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you are very pale!", "pos": 829491}
{"speaker": "one of the maids", "text": "Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdánovna be sent for?", "pos": 829665}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh yes, perhaps that’s it. I’ll go. Courage, my angel.", "pos": 829873}
{"speaker": "Lise", "text": "Oh, no, no! No, it’s only indigestion?... Say it’s only indigestion, say so, Mary! Say... Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!", "pos": 830005}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Mary Bogdánovna, I think it’s beginning!", "pos": 830610}
{"speaker": "Mary Bogdánovna", "text": "Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess. You young ladies should not know anything about it.", "pos": 830725}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?", "pos": 830865}
{"speaker": "Mary Bogdánovna", "text": "No matter, Princess, don’t be alarmed. We’ll manage very well without a doctor.", "pos": 831083}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha, and here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his saint, my angel,", "pos": 832157}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!", "pos": 832327}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "God is merciful, birdie.", "pos": 832353}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Say only that ‘the prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.", "pos": 833490}
{"speaker": "Mary Bogdánovna", "text": "Inform the prince that labor has begun,", "pos": 833568}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Very good!", "pos": 833706}
{"speaker": "Nurse Sávishna", "text": "God is merciful, doctors are never needed,", "pos": 835304}
{"speaker": "Nurse Sávishna", "text": "Princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue! With lanterns. Most likely the doctor.", "pos": 835935}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, my God! thank God! I must go and meet him, he does not know Russian.", "pos": 836087}
{"speaker": "Andrew", "text": "Thank God! And Father?", "pos": 836737}
{"speaker": "Demyán", "text": "Gone to bed,", "pos": 836780}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You did not get my letter? What a strange fate, Másha darling!", "pos": 837446}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "My darling! God is merciful....", "pos": 838616}
{"speaker": "Mary Bogdánovna", "text": "Go, dear,", "pos": 839262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can’t come in!", "pos": 839689}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can’t!", "pos": 839708}
{"speaker": "Mary Ivánovna", "text": "Yes, Count, he is too noble and pure-souled for our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it honorable, of Bezúkhov? And Fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it together? And there! Bezúkhov got off scotfree, while Fédya had to bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! It’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out there as he. And now—this duel! Have these people no feeling, or honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so straight! It’s well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. And then to call him out, reckoning on Fédya not fighting because he owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand Fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!", "pos": 843487}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I know people consider me a bad man! Let them! I don’t care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy. I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. I have not yet met that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a one I’d give my life for her! But those!... And believe me, if I still value my life it is only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.", "pos": 844879}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, yes, I quite understand,", "pos": 845819}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "There’s nothing for me to understand, he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...", "pos": 847349}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, Denísov is quite different, you must understand what a soul there is in Dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. What a heart!", "pos": 847677}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, I don’t know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And do you know he has fallen in love with Sónya?", "pos": 847895}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What nonsense...", "pos": 848011}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I’m certain of it; you’ll see.", "pos": 848030}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nicholas, will you come to Iogel’s? Please do! He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.", "pos": 851389}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Where would I not go at the countess’ command! I’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.", "pos": 851516}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "If I have time. But I promised the Arkhárovs; they have a party. And you?", "pos": 851695}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Perhaps,", "pos": 851899}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And I was looking for you. I told you, but you would not believe it. He has proposed to Sónya!", "pos": 852258}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises and accept the offer,", "pos": 852839}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And fancy! she refused him quite definitely! she told him she loved another.", "pos": 852979}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, my Sónya could not have done otherwise!", "pos": 853083}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change once she has said...", "pos": 853148}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And Mamma pressed her!", "pos": 853239}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes. Do you know, Nicholas—don’t be angry—but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but I know for certain that you won’t marry her.", "pos": 853293}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Now you don’t know that at all! But I must talk to her. What a darling Sónya is!", "pos": 853463}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, she is indeed a darling! I’ll send her to you.", "pos": 853586}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Sophie, if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...", "pos": 853892}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I have already refused,", "pos": 854113}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...", "pos": 854159}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Nicholas, don’t tell me that!", "pos": 854285}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....", "pos": 854327}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "That is enough for me,", "pos": 854530}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider Dólokhov’s offer,", "pos": 854577}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and always shall, and I want nothing more.", "pos": 854921}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of misleading you.", "pos": 855028}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, how delightful it is!", "pos": 857290}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!", "pos": 857449}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who?", "pos": 857509}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Countess Natásha. And how she dances! What gwace!", "pos": 857516}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who are you talking about?", "pos": 857617}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "About your sister,", "pos": 857646}
{"speaker": "Iogel", "text": "My dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance. Look how many charming young ladies—", "pos": 857710}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "No, my dear fellow, I’ll be a wallflower. Don’t you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?", "pos": 857933}
{"speaker": "Iogel", "text": "Oh no! You were only inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!", "pos": 858050}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "This is not at all the thing. What sort of Polish mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly.", "pos": 858954}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!", "pos": 859199}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Please, Vasíli Dmítrich, do come!", "pos": 859581}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Oh no, let me off, Countess,", "pos": 859639}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Now then, Váska,", "pos": 859687}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "They coax me as if I were Váska the cat!", "pos": 859721}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I’ll sing for you a whole evening,", "pos": 859787}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!", "pos": 859838}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What does this mean?", "pos": 861490}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "It’s a long time since we met. Thanks for coming. I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his chorus.", "pos": 862843}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I called once or twice at your house,", "pos": 862977}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You may punt. None but fools trust to luck in play. Or are you afraid to play with me?", "pos": 863065}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘He’s a fool who trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try. Well, you’d better not play. Bank, gentlemen! Why don’t you play?", "pos": 863783}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I have no money with me,", "pos": 864362}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I’ll trust you. Gentlemen. Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning. Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I ask you to put the money on your cards. Don’t stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards. Leave it, you’ll win it back all the sooner. I lose to the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?", "pos": 864398}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "So you are not afraid to play with me? Yes, gentlemen, I’ve been told there’s a rumor going about Moscow that I’m a sharper, so I advise you to be careful.", "pos": 867627}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Come now, deal!", "pos": 867929}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Oh, those Moscow gossips!", "pos": 867965}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Aah!", "pos": 868047}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Still, don’t ruin yourself!", "pos": 868214}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or quits... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?", "pos": 869389}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can’t want my ruin. Wasn’t he my friend? Wasn’t I fond of him? But it’s not his fault. What’s he to do if he has such luck?... And it’s not my fault either. I have done nothing wrong. Have I killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it will all end in nothing!", "pos": 870187}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Supper, it’s time for supper! And here are the gypsies!", "pos": 871737}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, won’t you go on? I had a splendid card all ready. It’s all up! I’m lost! Now a bullet through my brain—that’s all that’s left me! Come now, just this one more little card!", "pos": 871988}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "All right! All right! Twenty-one rubles,", "pos": 872297}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s all the same to me. I only want to see whether you will let me win this ten, or beat it.", "pos": 872667}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You owe forty-three thousand, Count. One does get tired sitting so long,", "pos": 872965}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, I’m tired too,", "pos": 873114}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "When am I to receive the money, Count?", "pos": 873226}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?", "pos": 873319}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I say, Rostóv, you know the saying, ‘Lucky in love, unlucky at cards.’ Your cousin is in love with you, I know.", "pos": 873388}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,", "pos": 873578}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Your cousin...", "pos": 873938}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to mention her!", "pos": 874010}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Then when am I to have it?", "pos": 874112}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Tomorrow,", "pos": 874141}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Splendid! Excellent! Another verse,", "pos": 875787}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Everything’s still the same with them,", "pos": 875883}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, and here’s Nicholas!", "pos": 876026}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Is Papa at home?", "pos": 876087}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I am so glad you’ve come! We are enjoying ourselves! Vasíli Dmítrich is staying a day longer for my sake! Did you know?", "pos": 876116}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "No, Papa is not back yet,", "pos": 876277}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!", "pos": 876317}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "All wight! All wight! It’s no good making excuses now! It’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—I entweat you!", "pos": 876638}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What is the matter?", "pos": 876807}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, nothing. Will Papa be back soon?", "pos": 876840}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I expect so.", "pos": 876948}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Everything’s the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where am I to go? Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There’s nothing to be happy about! My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain is the only thing left me—not singing! Go away? But where to? It’s one—let them sing!", "pos": 876963}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Nikólenka, what is the matter?", "pos": 877765}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I am too happy now to spoil my enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow. No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as I am. Now, Sónya!", "pos": 878201}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And what is she so pleased about? Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?", "pos": 878773}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What is this? What has happened to her? How she is singing today! Oh mio crudele affetto. Oh mio crudele affetto. Oh, this senseless life of ours! All this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natásha, now then, dearest! Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She’s taken it! Thank God! Ah, God! How fine! Did I really take it? How fortunate! What were losses, and Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob and yet be happy....", "pos": 880165}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well—had a good time?", "pos": 881718}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes. Ah, it can’t be avoided! Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I need some money.", "pos": 881822}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "Dear me! I told you it would not be enough. How much?", "pos": 882276}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Very much. I have lost a little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.", "pos": 882386}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "What! To whom?... Nonsense!", "pos": 882585}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I promised to pay tomorrow,", "pos": 882713}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well!...", "pos": 882758}
{"speaker": "Son", "text": "It can’t be helped! It happens to everyone!", "pos": 882848}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, yes, it will be difficult, I fear, difficult to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?", "pos": 883304}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Papa! Pa-pa! forgive me!", "pos": 883588}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me... Made what? Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!", "pos": 883889}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Don’t, Natásha! What nonsense!", "pos": 884177}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact. I come to ask you what to do, and you call it ‘nonsense!’", "pos": 884242}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "If it is true that Monsieur Denísov has made you a proposal, tell him he is a fool, that’s all!", "pos": 884412}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, he’s not a fool!", "pos": 884510}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well then, what do you want? You’re all in love nowadays. Well, if you are in love, marry him! Good luck to you!", "pos": 884576}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, Mamma, I’m not in love with him, I suppose I’m not in love with him.", "pos": 884739}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well then, tell him so.", "pos": 884814}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, are you cross? Don’t be cross, dear! Is it my fault?", "pos": 884840}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?", "pos": 884902}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It’s all very well for you. You should have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came out accidently.", "pos": 884995}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well, all the same, you must refuse him.", "pos": 885216}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I mustn’t. I am so sorry for him! He’s so nice.", "pos": 885259}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well then, accept his offer. It’s high time for you to be married,", "pos": 885313}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, Mamma, but I’m so sorry for him. I don’t know how I’m to say it.", "pos": 885431}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "And there’s nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself,", "pos": 885502}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen at the door,", "pos": 885668}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Nataly, decide my fate. It is in your hands.", "pos": 885945}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Vasíli Dmítrich, I’m so sorry for you!... No, but you are so nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always love you.", "pos": 886039}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Vasíli Dmítrich, I thank you for the honor, but my daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not have obliged me to give this refusal.", "pos": 886391}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Countess... Countess, I have done w’ong, but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family that I would give my life twice over... Well, good-by, Countess,", "pos": 886693}
{"speaker": "valet", "text": "Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and tea?", "pos": 888591}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Is this good or bad? It is good for me, bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as possible. And I, shot Dólokhov because I considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all? You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease asking. I have hundreds of rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered cloak looking timidly at me. And what does she want the money for? As if that money could add a hair’s breadth to happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with eternity. And why did she resist her seducer when she loved him? God could not have put into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife—as she once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been found out, nothing discovered. All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.", "pos": 890330}
{"speaker": "postmaster", "text": "I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this gentleman,", "pos": 892675}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "No. Give me the book,", "pos": 894742}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not mistaken. I have heard of you, my dear sir, and of your misfortune. Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune. I regret it very much, my dear sir. I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for greater reasons. You are unhappy, my dear sir. You are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my power.", "pos": 895350}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, yes! I am very grateful to you. Where are you traveling from?", "pos": 896436}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "But if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me, say so, my dear sir.", "pos": 896715}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your acquaintance. Allow me to ask, are you a Mason?", "pos": 896887}
{"speaker": "the stranger", "text": "Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons. And in their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.", "pos": 897139}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I am afraid. I am afraid I am very far from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one another.", "pos": 897325}
{"speaker": "the Mason", "text": "I know your outlook,", "pos": 897674}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Just as I may suppose you to be deluded,", "pos": 898047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should never dare to say that I know the truth,", "pos": 898123}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in God,", "pos": 898548}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir,", "pos": 898905}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, I am unhappy,", "pos": 899038}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!", "pos": 899104}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If He were not,", "pos": 899419}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He exists, but to understand Him is hard,", "pos": 900043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who art thou? Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,", "pos": 900641}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,", "pos": 902030}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I do not understand. I don’t understand,", "pos": 902100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,", "pos": 902462}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, that is so,", "pos": 902733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to perfect one’s self. And to attain this end, we have the light called conscience that God has implanted in our souls.", "pos": 902779}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 903367}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?", "pos": 903396}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I hate my life,", "pos": 903741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear sir!", "pos": 903789}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev", "text": "How about the horses?", "pos": 905236}
{"speaker": "the servant", "text": "The exchange horses have just come. Will you not rest here?", "pos": 905297}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev", "text": "No, tell them to harness.", "pos": 905383}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev", "text": "Where are you going to now, my dear sir?", "pos": 906094}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I?... I’m going to Petersburg. I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and perhaps I may...", "pos": 906137}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev", "text": "Help comes from God alone, but such measure of help as our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski", "pos": 906618}
{"speaker": "Mason", "text": "Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, my dear sir, and success.", "pos": 906889}
{"speaker": "Willarski", "text": "I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,", "pos": 908781}
{"speaker": "Willarski", "text": "which I beg you to answer in all sincerity—not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you renounced your former convictions—do you believe in God?", "pos": 909432}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes... yes, I believe in God. Yes, I do believe in God,", "pos": 909606}
{"speaker": "Willarski", "text": "My carriage is at your service.", "pos": 909793}
{"speaker": "Willarski", "text": "Whatever happens to you, you must bear it all manfully if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood. I wish you courage and success,", "pos": 911078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For what have you come hither?", "pos": 913733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why have you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, enlightenment?", "pos": 913855}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes... I... I... desire regeneration,", "pos": 914737}
{"speaker": "Smolyanínov", "text": "Very well. Have you any idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your aim?", "pos": 914809}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration. I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who have virtuous aims. I imagine...", "pos": 914980}
{"speaker": "Smolyanínov", "text": "Good! Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in religion?", "pos": 915448}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it. I have been an atheist,", "pos": 915583}
{"speaker": "Smolyanínov", "text": "You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?", "pos": 915771}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 915936}
{"speaker": "Smolyanínov", "text": "Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order, and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them capable of receiving it. By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.", "pos": 916056}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death, to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and peace.", "pos": 918516}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, that must be so. It must be so, but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only now gradually opening before me.", "pos": 918802}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "I am ready for everything, that our Order delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph, is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol. If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation. In token of generosity I ask you to give me all your valuables.", "pos": 919640}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But I have nothing here,", "pos": 920688}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "What you have with you: watch, money, rings.... In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.", "pos": 920788}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief passion,", "pos": 921728}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "My passion! I have had so many,", "pos": 921822}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the path of virtue,", "pos": 921872}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Women,", "pos": 922162}
{"speaker": "Rhetor", "text": "For the last time I say to you—turn all your attention upon yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without us but within....", "pos": 922388}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, I agree,", "pos": 922970}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now thou hast seen the lesser light,", "pos": 925058}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sic transit gloria mundi.", "pos": 925262}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He must first receive the trowel,", "pos": 926399}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, hush, please!", "pos": 926466}
{"speaker": "the Grand Master", "text": "Dear brother, these woman’s gloves are intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry. But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck hands that are unclean.", "pos": 927841}
{"speaker": "the Grand Master", "text": "In our temples we recognize no other distinctions, but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother’s aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which thou hast lost.", "pos": 929115}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you quarreled with Hélène, mon cher? You are under a delusion. I know all about it, and I can tell you positively that Hélène is as innocent before you as Christ was before the Jews. And why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I know all about it and understand it all. You behaved as becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and me in the eyes of society, and even of the court. She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, dear boy, it is simply a misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to suffer for it. I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to Hélène.", "pos": 931518}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Now, dear boy, say ‘yes,’ and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.", "pos": 933680}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go! Go!", "pos": 933972}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "What’s the matter with you? Are you ill?", "pos": 934195}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Go!", "pos": 934238}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "A bit touched—I always said so.", "pos": 936061}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "I said from the first. I said at the time and before anyone else that that senseless young man was spoiled by the depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold all that has happened.", "pos": 936095}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!", "pos": 938208}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Prince Hippolyte Kurágin—charming young fellow; M. Kronq,—chargé d’affaires from Copenhagen—a profound intellect. Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit", "pos": 939254}
{"speaker": "Danish chargé d’affaires", "text": "Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,", "pos": 941490}
{"speaker": "the man of profound intellect", "text": "The doubt is flattering,", "pos": 941771}
{"speaker": "Mortemart", "text": "We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of Austria. The Emperor of Austria can never have thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.", "pos": 941857}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Ah, my dear vicomte. L’Urope L’Urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.", "pos": 942052}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "You absolutely must come and see me. On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.", "pos": 943523}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You know her husband, of course? Ah, she is such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before her—please don’t! It is too painful for her!", "pos": 943916}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Le Roi de Prusse! Le Roi de Prusse?", "pos": 944309}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I...", "pos": 944696}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Le Roi de Prusse...", "pos": 944805}
{"speaker": "Mortemart", "text": "Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?", "pos": 944982}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "Oh, it’s nothing. I only wished to say... I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse!", "pos": 945070}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust. We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!", "pos": 945440}
{"speaker": "the man of profound intellect", "text": "You know N— N— received a snuffbox with the portrait last year? Why shouldn’t S— S— get the same distinction?", "pos": 945869}
{"speaker": "the diplomatist", "text": "Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor’s portrait is a reward but not a distinction, a gift, rather.", "pos": 946021}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.", "pos": 946147}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "It’s impossible,", "pos": 946200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter....", "pos": 946236}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "It is of great importance to me,", "pos": 946483}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Come to dinner tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!", "pos": 947229}
{"speaker": "one of the nursemaids", "text": "If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,", "pos": 951255}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 951527}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "My dear, better wait a bit... later...", "pos": 952018}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things off—and this is what comes of it!", "pos": 952148}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "My dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,", "pos": 952333}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Perhaps we’d really better not wake him,", "pos": 952520}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "As you please... really... I think so... but as you please,", "pos": 952583}
{"speaker": "the maid", "text": "Pétrusha has come with papers from your father,", "pos": 953203}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Devil take them! Well?", "pos": 953297}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Still the same. Wait, for heaven’s sake. Karl Ivánich always says that sleep is more important than anything,", "pos": 953497}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!", "pos": 953715}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew, don’t!", "pos": 953816}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But I wish it. I beg you—give it him!", "pos": 953966}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful news—if it’s not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and say I’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When mischief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Kórchevo without delay and carry out instructions!", "pos": 954455}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No, pardon me, I won’t go now till the child is better. Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant? Yes, we have gained a victory over Bonaparte, just when I’m not serving. Yes, yes, he’s always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!", "pos": 955547}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz, as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. I begin ab ovo. The enemy of the human race, the enemy of the human race", "pos": 956782}
{"speaker": "King of Prussia", "text": "I most ardently desire, that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have succeeded!", "pos": 957567}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All this is absolutely true.", "pos": 957956}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "'From all my riding,' he writes to the Emperor, 'I have got a saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring.", "pos": 959881}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. There are thousands such as I in Russia.", "pos": 960734}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, isn’t it logical?", "pos": 961186}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultúsk. In short, we retreat after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General Buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhöwden. General Buxhöwden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhöwden pursues us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.”", "pos": 961273}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "My dear,", "pos": 965231}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "He has perspired,", "pos": 966999}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I was coming to tell you so.", "pos": 967039}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, this is the one thing left me now,", "pos": 967688}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, do so.", "pos": 971401}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good, and how little attention we pay to it!", "pos": 976416}
{"speaker": "Antón", "text": "Well, what is it? A visitor,", "pos": 979475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ask him to wait,", "pos": 979556}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,", "pos": 979865}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I can’t tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly know myself again.", "pos": 981692}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,", "pos": 981781}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, and you? What are your plans?", "pos": 981853}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Plans! My plans? Well, you see, I’m building. I mean to settle here altogether next year....", "pos": 981891}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I meant to ask...", "pos": 982158}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels and all you have been doing on your estates. I’ll tell you what, my dear fellow. I am only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know her already. We will go after dinner. And would you now like to look round my place? However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then we’ll set off. I was very much surprised when I heard of it,", "pos": 982231}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you know it is all over, and forever.", "pos": 983953}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forever? Nothing’s forever.", "pos": 984044}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But you know how it all ended, don’t you? You heard of the duel?", "pos": 984096}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And so you had to go through that too!", "pos": 984163}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,", "pos": 984204}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why so? To kill a vicious dog is a very good thing really.", "pos": 984278}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, to kill a man is bad—wrong.", "pos": 984362}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why is it wrong? It is not given to man to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.", "pos": 984396}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What does harm to another is wrong,", "pos": 984602}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And who has told you what is bad for another man?", "pos": 984827}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Bad! Bad! We all know what is bad for ourselves.", "pos": 984889}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is something I cannot inflict on others. I only know two very real evils in life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy now.", "pos": 984960}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice? No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least trying to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are saying.", "pos": 985375}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you’ll get on with her. Perhaps you are right for yourself, but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I lived for glory.—And after all what is glory? The same love of others, a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—So I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have become calmer since I began to live only for myself.", "pos": 985917}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what do you mean by living only for yourself? What about your son, your sister, and your father?", "pos": 986513}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But that’s just the same as myself—they are not others. The others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and evil. Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.", "pos": 986649}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You are joking. What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give them rest and leisure? And I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not think so yourself. And the main thing is, that I know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the only sure happiness in life.", "pos": 987014}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter. I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us. Well, you want an argument, come on then. Come, let’s argue then. You talk of schools, education and so forth; that is, you want to raise him from his animal condition and awaken in him spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my means. Then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ But as I see it, physical labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as mental activity is to you or me. You can’t help thinking. I go to bed after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was it you talked about? Ah, yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! Killed them, yes!", "pos": 988271}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful! I don’t understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I collapsed so that I don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is it with you?...", "pos": 990709}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why not wash? That is not cleanly, on the contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. I’m alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I can without hurting others.", "pos": 991052}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit without moving, undertaking nothing....", "pos": 991282}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness necessary for the position. Then there’s this house, which must be built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. And now there’s this recruiting.", "pos": 991391}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why aren’t you serving in the army?", "pos": 991892}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "After Austerlitz! No, thank you very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the Russian army! Well, as I was saying, now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active service is to serve under him.", "pos": 991930}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Then you are serving?", "pos": 992416}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am.", "pos": 992440}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And why do you serve?", "pos": 992474}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at Yúkhnovna hanged. So I am serving because I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him from actions which would torment him afterwards.", "pos": 992498}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, there you see!", "pos": 993107}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, but it is not as you imagine. I did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again is for myself. There now, you wish to liberate your serfs, that is a very good thing, but not for you—I don’t suppose you ever had anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain themselves and grow more and more miserable.", "pos": 993130}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "So that’s what I’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads. No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,", "pos": 994698}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, but why do you think so? why do you think so? You should not think so.", "pos": 995763}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Think? What about?", "pos": 995924}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "About life, about man’s destiny. It can’t be so. I myself thought like that, and do you know what saved me? Freemasonry! No, don’t smile. Freemasonry is not a religious ceremonial sect, as I thought it was: Freemasonry is the best expression of the best, the eternal, aspects of humanity. Only our holy brotherhood has the real meaning of life, all the rest is a dream. Understand, my dear fellow, that outside this union all is filled with deceit and falsehood and I agree with you that nothing is left for an intelligent and good man but to live out his life, like you, merely trying not to harm others. But make our fundamental convictions your own, join our brotherhood, give yourself up to us, let yourself be guided, and you will at once feel yourself, as I have felt myself, a part of that vast invisible chain the beginning of which is hidden in heaven,", "pos": 995980}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, what do you think about it? Why are you silent?", "pos": 997789}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What do I think about it? I am listening to you. It’s all very well.... You say: join our brotherhood and we will show you the aim of life, the destiny of man, and the laws which govern the world. But who are we? Men. How is it you know everything? Why do I alone not see what you see? You see a reign of goodness and truth on earth, but I don’t see it.", "pos": 997861}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Do you believe in a future life?", "pos": 998241}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "A future life?", "pos": 998286}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You say you can’t see a reign of goodness and truth on earth. Nor could I, and it cannot be seen if one looks on our life here as the end of everything. On earth, here on this earth there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole universe there is a kingdom of truth, and we who are now the children of earth are—eternally—children of the whole universe. Don’t I feel in my soul that I am part of this vast harmonious whole? Don’t I feel that I form one link, one step, between the lower and higher beings, in this vast harmonious multitude of beings in whom the Deity—the Supreme Power if you prefer the term—is manifest? If I see, clearly see, that ladder leading from plant to man, why should I suppose it breaks off at me and does not go farther and farther? I feel that I cannot vanish, since nothing vanishes in this world, but that I shall always exist and always have existed. I feel that beyond me and above me there are spirits, and that in this world there is truth.", "pos": 998476}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, that is Herder’s theory, but it is not that which can convince me, dear friend—life and death are what convince. What convinces is when one sees a being dear to one, bound up with one’s own life, before whom one was to blame and had hoped to make it right and suddenly that being is seized with pain, suffers, and ceases to exist.... Why? It cannot be that there is no answer. And I believe there is.... That’s what convinces, that is what has convinced me,", "pos": 999518}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, of course, isn’t that what I’m saying?", "pos": 1000080}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in....", "pos": 1000146}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, that’s it then! You know that there is a there and there is a Someone? There is the future life. The Someone is—God. If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man’s highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole,", "pos": 1000431}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, if it only were so! However, it is time to get on,", "pos": 1001812}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Those are Mary’s ‘God’s folk,’ They have mistaken us for my father. This is the one matter in which she disobeys him. He orders these pilgrims to be driven away, but she receives them. Let us go and see my sister. I have not found her yet, she is hiding now, sitting with her ‘God’s folk.’ It will serve her right, she will be confused, but you will see her ‘God’s folk.’ It’s really very curious.", "pos": 1003083}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What are ‘God’s folk’?", "pos": 1003973}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew, why didn’t you warn me? Charmée de vous voir. Je suis très contente de vous voir,", "pos": 1004422}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Il faut que vous sachiez que c’est une femme,", "pos": 1005209}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew, au nom de Dieu!", "pos": 1005289}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Mais, ma bonne amie, vous devriez au contraire m’être reconnaissante de ce que j’explique à Pierre votre intimité avec ce jeune homme.", "pos": 1005598}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Really?", "pos": 1005884}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Where have you been? To Kiev?", "pos": 1006585}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "I have, good sir. Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint. And now I’m from Kolyázin, master, where a great and wonderful blessing has been revealed.", "pos": 1006652}
{"speaker": "Ivánushka", "text": "I go by myself, benefactor. I only came across Pelagéya in Yúkhnovo....", "pos": 1006937}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "In Kolyázin, master, a wonderful blessing has been revealed.", "pos": 1007146}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Andrew, do leave off,", "pos": 1007261}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Don’t tell him, Pelagéya.", "pos": 1007305}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "No... why not, my dear, why shouldn’t I? I like him. He is kind, he is one of God’s chosen, he’s a benefactor, he once gave me ten rubles, I remember. When I was in Kiev, Crazy Cyril says to me (he’s one of God’s own and goes barefoot summer and winter), he says, ‘Why are you not going to the right place? Go to Kolyázin where a wonder-working icon of the Holy Mother of God has been revealed.’ On hearing those words I said good-by to the holy folk and went. So I come, master, and the people say to me: ‘A great blessing has been revealed, holy oil trickles from the cheeks of our blessed Mother, the Holy Virgin Mother of God.’...", "pos": 1007333}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "All right, all right, you can tell us afterwards,", "pos": 1008062}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Did you see it yourselves?", "pos": 1008175}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "Oh, yes, master, I was found worthy. Such a brightness on the face like the light of heaven, and from the blessed Mother’s cheek it drops and drops....", "pos": 1008217}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But, dear me, that must be a fraud!", "pos": 1008371}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "Oh, master, what are you saying?", "pos": 1008476}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They impose on the people,", "pos": 1008583}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "Lord Jesus Christ! Oh, don’t speak so, master! There was a general who did not believe, and said, ‘The monks cheat,’ and as soon as he’d said it he went blind. And he dreamed that the Holy Virgin Mother of the Kiev catacombs came to him and said, ‘Believe in me and I will make you whole.’ So he begged: ‘Take me to her, take me to her.’ It’s the real truth I’m telling you, I saw it myself. So he was brought, quite blind, straight to her, and he goes up to her and falls down and says, ‘Make me whole,’ says he, ‘and I’ll give thee what the Tsar bestowed on me.’ I saw it myself, master, the star is fixed into the icon. Well, and what do you think? He received his sight! It’s a sin to speak so. God will punish you,", "pos": 1008625}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How did the star get into the icon?", "pos": 1009439}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And was the Holy Mother promoted to the rank of general?", "pos": 1009491}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "Oh, master, master, what a sin! And you who have a son! Master, what have you said? God forgive you! Lord forgive him! My dear, what does it mean?...", "pos": 1009641}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Now, why need you do it? Why did you come to me?...", "pos": 1010164}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Come, Pelagéya, I was joking. Princesse, ma parole, je n’ai pas voulu l’offenser. I did not mean anything, I was only joking. It was all my fault, and Andrew was only joking.", "pos": 1010240}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya", "text": "I’d pray awhile to one, ponder awhile, then go on to another. I’d sleep a bit and then again go and kiss the relics, and there was such peace all around, such blessedness, that one don’t want to come out, even into the light of heaven again.", "pos": 1011112}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You are very kind,", "pos": 1011543}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, I really did not mean to hurt her feelings. I understand them so well and have the greatest respect for them.", "pos": 1011581}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I have known you a long time, you see, and am as fond of you as of a brother. How do you find Andrew? I am very anxious about him. His health was better in the winter, but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure. And I am also very much afraid for him spiritually. He has not a character like us women who, when we suffer, can weep away our sorrows. He keeps it all within him. Today he is cheerful and in good spirits, but that is the effect of your visit—he is not often like that. If you could persuade him to go abroad. He needs activity, and this quiet regular life is very bad for him. Others don’t notice it, but I see it.", "pos": 1011761}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Who’s that? Ah! Very glad! Kiss me. Drain the blood from men’s veins and put in water instead, then there will be no more war! Old women’s nonsense—old women’s nonsense! The marshal, a Count Rostóv, hasn’t sent half his contingent. He came to town and wanted to invite me to dinner—I gave him a pretty dinner!... And there, look at this.... Well, my boy. A fine fellow—your friend—I like him! He stirs me up. Another says clever things and one doesn’t care to listen, but this one talks rubbish yet stirs an old fellow up. Well, go! Get along! Perhaps I’ll come and sit with you at supper. We’ll have another dispute. Make friends with my little fool, Princess Mary,", "pos": 1012703}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "The count has come!", "pos": 1015865}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Say what you like.... She is like a sister to me, and I can’t tell you how it offended me... because... well, for that reason....", "pos": 1024331}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Ah, what a mad bweed you Wostóvs are!", "pos": 1024602}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I ordered you not to let them eat that Máshka woot stuff! And I saw with my own eyes how Lazarchúk bwought some fwom the fields.", "pos": 1027067}
{"speaker": "the quartermaster", "text": "I have given the order again and again, your honor, but they don’t obey,", "pos": 1027222}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Let him fuss and bustle now, my job’s done and I’m lying down—capitally!", "pos": 1027384}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Saddle! Second platoon!", "pos": 1027753}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Where are they off to now?", "pos": 1027779}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Let God and our gweat monarch judge me afterwards!", "pos": 1028133}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "There now, Denísov has been worrying, and here are the provisions.", "pos": 1028888}
{"speaker": "the officers", "text": "So they are! Won’t the soldiers be glad!", "pos": 1028972}
{"speaker": "one of the officers", "text": "I warn you, Captain,", "pos": 1029167}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Haven’t I told you I won’t give them up?", "pos": 1029263}
{"speaker": "one of the officers", "text": "You will answer for it, Captain. It is mutiny—seizing the transport of one’s own army. Our men have had nothing to eat for two days.", "pos": 1029323}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "And mine have had nothing for two weeks,", "pos": 1029458}
{"speaker": "the infantry officer", "text": "It is robbery! You’ll answer for it, sir!", "pos": 1029515}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Now, what are you pestewing me for? I shall answer for it and not you, and you’d better not buzz about here till you get hurt. Be off! Go!", "pos": 1029605}
{"speaker": "the little officer", "text": "Very well, then! If you are determined to rob, I’ll...", "pos": 1029819}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Go to the devil! quick ma’ch, while you’re safe and sound!", "pos": 1029937}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Very well, very well!", "pos": 1030043}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "A dog astwide a fence! A weal dog astwide a fence! I’ve taken twansports from the infantwy by force! After all, can’t let our men starve.", "pos": 1030166}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "This is how I look at this affair: I know nothing about it and won’t begin proceedings, but I advise you to ride over to the staff and settle the business there in the commissariat department and if possible sign a receipt for such and such stores received. If not, as the demand was booked against an infantry regiment, there will be a row and the affair may end badly.", "pos": 1030887}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Twy me for wobbewy... oh! Some more water... Let them twy me, but I’ll always thwash scoundwels... and I’ll tell the Empewo’... Ice... I get there, 'Now then, where’s your chief’s quarters?' They were pointed out. 'Please to wait.' 'I’ve widden twenty miles and have duties to attend to and no time to wait. Announce me.' Vewy well, so out comes their head chief—also took it into his head to lecture me: 'It’s wobbewy!'—'Wobbewy,' I say, 'is not done by man who seizes pwovisions to feed his soldiers, but by him who takes them to fill his own pockets!' 'Will you please be silent?' 'Vewy good!' Then he says: 'Go and give a weceipt to the commissioner, but your affair will be passed on to headquarters.' I go to the commissioner. I enter, and at the table... who do you think? No, but wait a bit!... Who is it that’s starving us? Telyánin! ‘What? So it’s you who’s starving us to death! Is it? Take this and this!’ and I hit him so pat, stwaight on his snout... ‘Ah, what a... what a...!’ and I sta’ted fwashing him... Well, I’ve had a bit of fun I can tell you! I’d have killed him if they hadn’t taken him away!", "pos": 1031747}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But what are you shouting for? Calm yourself. You’ve set your arm bleeding afresh. Wait, we must tie it up again.", "pos": 1033352}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "I can’t tear myself to pieces. Come to Makár Alexéevich in the evening. I shall be there. Oh, do the best you can! Isn’t it all the same? What do you want, sir?", "pos": 1036964}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "What do you want? The bullets having spared you, do you want to try typhus? This is a pesthouse, sir.", "pos": 1037260}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How so?", "pos": 1037364}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Typhus, sir. It’s death to go in. Only we two, Makéev and I keep on here. Some five of us doctors have died in this place.... When a new one comes he is done for in a week,", "pos": 1037388}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Four hundred, sir, and they’re always sending me fresh ones. There are four hundred? Eh?", "pos": 1038068}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Major Denísov. He was wounded at Molliten.", "pos": 1038297}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Dead, I fancy. Eh, Makéev? Is he tall and with reddish hair? There was one like that. That one is dead, I fancy. However, I’ll look up our list. We had a list. Have you got it, Makéev?", "pos": 1038363}
{"speaker": "Makár Alexéevich", "text": "But if you’ll step into the officers’ wards you’ll see for yourself,", "pos": 1038809}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Ah, you’d better not go, sir, or you may have to stay here yourself. Only don’t blame me!", "pos": 1038909}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "May I go in and look?", "pos": 1039640}
{"speaker": "The assistant", "text": "What is there to see?", "pos": 1039664}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who looks after the sick here?", "pos": 1041309}
{"speaker": "The commissariat soldier", "text": "Good day, your honor!", "pos": 1041498}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Get him to his place and give him some water,", "pos": 1041626}
{"speaker": "The commissariat soldier", "text": "Yes, your honor,", "pos": 1041712}
{"speaker": "The old soldier", "text": "And how we’ve been begging, your honor. He’s been dead since morning. After all we’re men, not dogs.", "pos": 1042788}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I’ll send someone at once. He shall be taken away—taken away at once. Let us go, your honor.", "pos": 1042934}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "See where we’ve met again! Túshin, Túshin, don’t you remember, who gave you a lift at Schön Grabern? And I’ve had a bit cut off, you see... Looking for Vasíli Dmítrich Denísov? My neighbor. Here, here,", "pos": 1043838}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Ah, Wostóv? How are you, how are you?", "pos": 1044687}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Me petition the Empewo’! What for? If I were a wobber I would ask mercy, but I’m being court-martialed for bwinging wobbers to book. Let them twy me, I’m not afwaid of anyone. I’ve served the Tsar and my countwy honowably and have not stolen! And am I to be degwaded?... Listen, I’m w’iting to them stwaight. This is what I say: ‘If I had wobbed the Tweasuwy...’", "pos": 1046740}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "It’s certainly well written, but that’s not the point, Vasíli Dmítrich. One has to submit, and Vasíli Dmítrich doesn’t want to. You know the auditor told you it was a bad business.", "pos": 1047254}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, let it be bad,", "pos": 1047484}
{"speaker": "Túshin", "text": "The auditor wrote out a petition for you, and you ought to sign it and ask this gentleman to take it. No doubt he has connections on the staff. You won’t find a better opportunity.", "pos": 1047521}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Haven’t I said I’m not going to gwovel?", "pos": 1047746}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Yes, wait a bit. It seems it’s no use knocking one’s head against a wall! Hand it in. It seems...", "pos": 1048556}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I should like to see the great man,", "pos": 1049487}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "You are speaking of Buonaparte?", "pos": 1049624}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I am speaking, Prince, of the Emperor Napoleon,", "pos": 1049772}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "You will go far,", "pos": 1049888}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Ah, it’s you? Very glad, very glad to see you,", "pos": 1053847}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I’ve come at a bad time I think. I should not have come, but I have business,", "pos": 1053988}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "No, I only wonder how you managed to get away from your regiment. Dans un moment je suis à vous,", "pos": 1054084}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I see I’m intruding,", "pos": 1054273}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Oh, come now! As if you could come at a wrong time! Count Zhilínski—le Comte N. N.—le Capitaine S. S.,", "pos": 1054664}
{"speaker": "Frenchman", "text": "the latter had probably come to Tilsit to see the Emperor.", "pos": 1055535}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, I came on business,", "pos": 1055595}
{"speaker": "Visitors", "text": "And what is he sitting here for?", "pos": 1056039}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Anyhow, I’m in your way. Come and talk over my business and I’ll go away.", "pos": 1056104}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Oh, no, not at all. But if you are tired, come and lie down in my room and have a rest.", "pos": 1056205}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, really...", "pos": 1056309}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "I have heard of such cases and know that His Majesty is very severe in such affairs. I think it would be best not to bring it before the Emperor, but to apply to the commander of the corps.... But in general, I think...", "pos": 1057129}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "So you don’t want to do anything? Well then, say so!", "pos": 1057351}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "On the contrary, I will do what I can. Only I thought...", "pos": 1057474}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well then, go, go, go...", "pos": 1057591}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Borís doesn’t want to help me and I don’t want to ask him. That’s settled. All is over between us, but I won’t leave here without having done all I can for Denísov and certainly not without getting his letter to the Emperor. The Emperor!... He is here! I may see him at any moment. If only I were to hand the letter direct to him and tell him all... could they really arrest me for my civilian clothes? Surely not! He would understand on whose side justice lies. He understands everything, knows everything. Who can be more just, more magnanimous than he? And even if they did arrest me for being here, what would it matter? After all, people do go in.... It’s all nonsense! I’ll go in and hand the letter to the Emperor myself so much the worse for Drubetskóy who drives me to it! No, I won’t miss my opportunity now, as I did after Austerlitz. I will fall at his feet and beseech him. He will lift me up, will listen, and will even thank me. ‘I am happy when I can do good, but to remedy injustice is the greatest happiness,’", "pos": 1059096}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whom do you want?", "pos": 1061017}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "To hand in a letter, a petition, to His Majesty,", "pos": 1061055}
{"speaker": "Official", "text": "A petition? This way, to the officer on duty only it won’t be accepted.", "pos": 1061149}
{"speaker": "Man with braces", "text": "A good figure and in her first bloom. What is it? A petition?", "pos": 1061920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1062053}
{"speaker": "Man with braces", "text": "Another petitioner,", "pos": 1062103}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell him to come later. He’ll be coming out directly, we must go.", "pos": 1062159}
{"speaker": "Man with braces", "text": "Later... later! Tomorrow. It’s too late... Whom have you come from? Who are you?", "pos": 1062227}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I come from Major Denísov,", "pos": 1062386}
{"speaker": "Man with braces", "text": "Are you an officer?", "pos": 1062432}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Lieutenant Count Rostóv.", "pos": 1062454}
{"speaker": "Man with braces", "text": "What audacity! Hand it in through your commander. And go along with you... go,", "pos": 1062481}
{"speaker": "Cavalry General", "text": "What are you doing here, sir, in civilian dress? I’m sorry, sorry for that fine fellow. Give me the letter.", "pos": 1063159}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "I cannot do it, General. I cannot, because the law is stronger than I,", "pos": 1065464}
{"speaker": "Battalions", "text": "Hurrah! Vive l’Empereur!", "pos": 1066590}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "something to Alexander", "pos": 1066636}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Sire, I ask your permission to present the Legion of Honor to the bravest of your soldiers. To him who has borne himself most bravely in this last war,", "pos": 1067483}
{"speaker": "Alexander", "text": "Will Your Majesty allow me to consult the colonel?", "pos": 1068102}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "To whom shall it be given?", "pos": 1068423}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "To whomever Your Majesty commands.", "pos": 1068518}
{"speaker": "Emperor Alexander", "text": "But we must give him an answer.", "pos": 1068633}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Can it be me?", "pos": 1068743}
{"speaker": "Kozlóvski", "text": "Lázarev!", "pos": 1068775}
{"speaker": "Voices", "text": "Where are you off to? Stop here!", "pos": 1068889}
{"speaker": "An Officer", "text": "What d’you think of the treat? All on silver plate. Have you seen Lázarev?", "pos": 1071257}
{"speaker": "another officer", "text": "I have.", "pos": 1071360}
{"speaker": "An Officer", "text": "Tomorrow, I hear, the Preobrazhénskis will give them a dinner.", "pos": 1071370}
{"speaker": "another officer", "text": "Yes, but what luck for Lázarev! Twelve hundred francs’ pension for life.", "pos": 1071435}
{"speaker": "A Preobrazhénsk soldier", "text": "Here’s a cap, lads!", "pos": 1071510}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a fine thing! First-rate!", "pos": 1071594}
{"speaker": "One Guards’ officer", "text": "Have you heard the password? The day before yesterday it was ‘Napoléon, France, bravoure’; yesterday, ‘Alexandre, Russie, grandeur.’ One day our Emperor gives it and next day Napoleon. Tomorrow our Emperor will send a St. George’s Cross to the bravest of the French Guards. It has to be done. He must respond in kind.", "pos": 1071627}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Rostóv! How d’you do? We missed one another,", "pos": 1072135}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Nothing, nothing,", "pos": 1072298}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "You’ll call round?", "pos": 1072334}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, I will.", "pos": 1072355}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How can you judge what’s best? How can you judge the Emperor’s actions? What right have we to argue? We cannot comprehend either the Emperor’s aims or his actions!", "pos": 1074334}
{"speaker": "An Officer", "text": "But I never said a word about the Emperor!", "pos": 1074552}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "We are not diplomatic officials, we are soldiers and nothing more. If we are ordered to die, we must die. If we’re punished, it means that we have deserved it, it’s not for us to judge. If the Emperor pleases to recognize Bonaparte as Emperor and to conclude an alliance with him, it means that that is the right thing to do. If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left! That way we shall be saying there is no God—nothing! Our business is to do our duty, to fight and not to think! That’s all....", "pos": 1074758}
{"speaker": "one of the officers", "text": "And to drink,", "pos": 1075470}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, and to drink. Hullo there! Another bottle!", "pos": 1075536}
{"speaker": "Peter", "text": "How pleasant it is, your excellency!", "pos": 1079852}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What?", "pos": 1079924}
{"speaker": "Peter", "text": "It’s pleasant, your excellency!", "pos": 1079932}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is he talking about? Oh, the spring, I suppose. Yes, really everything is green already.... How early! The birches and cherry and alders too are coming out.... But the oaks show no sign yet. Ah, here is one oak!", "pos": 1079966}
{"speaker": "the oak", "text": "Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud? There is no spring, no sun, no happiness! Look at those cramped dead firs, ever the same, and at me too, sticking out my broken and barked fingers just where they have grown, whether from my back or my sides: as they have grown so I stand, and I do not believe in your hopes and your lies.", "pos": 1080892}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, the oak is right, a thousand times right. Let others—the young—yield afresh to that fraud, but we know life, our life is finished!", "pos": 1081582}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is she so glad about? What is she thinking of? Not of the military regulations or of the arrangement of the Ryazán serfs’ quitrents. Of what is she thinking? Why is she so happy?", "pos": 1083441}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is she thinking about? Why is she so glad?", "pos": 1084303}
{"speaker": "First Girlish Voice", "text": "Just once more. Sire,", "pos": 1085624}
{"speaker": "Second Girlish Voice", "text": "But when are you coming to bed?", "pos": 1085713}
{"speaker": "First Girlish Voice", "text": "I won’t, I can’t sleep, what’s the use? Come now for the last time.", "pos": 1085770}
{"speaker": "Second Girlish Voice", "text": "Oh, how lovely! Now go to sleep, and there’s an end of it.", "pos": 1085904}
{"speaker": "First Girlish Voice", "text": "You go to sleep, but I can’t. Sónya! Sónya! Oh, how can you sleep? Only look how glorious it is! Ah, how glorious! Do wake up, Sónya! There never, never was such a lovely night before! Do just come and see what a moon!... Oh, how lovely! Come here.... Darling, sweetheart, come here! There, you see? I feel like sitting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, straining tight, as tight as possible, and flying away! Like this....", "pos": 1085965}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Take care, you’ll fall out. It’s past one o’clock.", "pos": 1086847}
{"speaker": "First Girlish Voice", "text": "Oh, you only spoil things for me. All right, go, go! O God, O God! What does it mean? To bed then, if it must be!", "pos": 1086966}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "My dear, little Nicholas can’t go out today, it’s very cold.", "pos": 1092196}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If it were hot, he could go out in his smock, but as it is cold he must wear warm clothes, which were designed for that purpose. That is what follows from the fact that it is cold; and not that a child who needs fresh air should remain at home,", "pos": 1092312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Síla Andréevich", "pos": 1096310}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Uncle will give it to us hot,", "pos": 1096343}
{"speaker": "Officer on Duty", "text": "To the right, at the window.", "pos": 1097373}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "What is your petition?", "pos": 1097679}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am not petitioning, your excellency,", "pos": 1097721}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "Sit down. Prince Bolkónski?", "pos": 1097830}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am not petitioning about anything. His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to send your excellency a project submitted by me...", "pos": 1097871}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "You see, my dear sir, I have read your project. You are proposing new military laws? There are many laws but no one to carry out the old ones. Nowadays everybody designs laws, it is easier writing than doing.", "pos": 1097999}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I came at His Majesty the Emperor’s wish to learn from your excellency how you propose to deal with the memorandum I have presented,", "pos": 1098376}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "I have endorsed a resolution on your memorandum and sent it to the committee. I do not approve of it. Here! Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating.", "pos": 1098540}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "To what committee has the memorandum been referred?", "pos": 1098990}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "To the Committee on Army Regulations, and I have recommended that your honor should be appointed a member, but without a salary.", "pos": 1099068}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t want one.", "pos": 1099221}
{"speaker": "Arakchéev", "text": "A member without salary. I have the honor... Eh! Call the next one! Who else is there?", "pos": 1099241}
{"speaker": "Count Kochubéy", "text": "Mon cher, even in this case you can’t do without Michael Mikháylovich Speránski. He manages everything. I’ll speak to him. He has promised to come this evening.", "pos": 1101924}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What has Speránski to do with the army regulations?", "pos": 1102087}
{"speaker": "Count Kochubéy", "text": "We were talking to him about you a few days ago, and about your freed plowmen.", "pos": 1102240}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Oh, is it you, Prince, who have freed your serfs?", "pos": 1102343}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It was a small estate that brought in no profit,", "pos": 1102472}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Afraid of being late... There’s one thing I don’t understand. Who will plow the land if they are set free? It is easy to write laws, but difficult to rule.... Just the same as now—I ask you, Count—who will be heads of the departments when everybody has to pass examinations?", "pos": 1102622}
{"speaker": "Count Kochubéy", "text": "Those who pass the examinations, I suppose,", "pos": 1102956}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Well, I have Pryánichnikov serving under me, a splendid man, a priceless man, but he’s sixty. Is he to go up for examination?", "pos": 1103058}
{"speaker": "Count Kochubéy", "text": "Yes, that’s a difficulty, as education is not at all general, but...", "pos": 1103186}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "I am very glad to make your acquaintance. I had heard of you, as everyone has. The chairman of the Committee on Army Regulations is my good friend Monsieur Magnítski, and if you like I can put you in touch with him. I hope you will find him sympathetic and ready to co-operate in promoting all that is reasonable.", "pos": 1105565}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "I had no chance to talk with you, Prince, during the animated conversation in which that venerable gentleman involved me. I have known of you for a long time: first from your action with regard to your serfs, a first example, of which it is very desirable that there should be more imitators; and secondly because you are one of those gentlemen of the chamber who have not considered themselves offended by the new decree concerning the ranks allotted to courtiers, which is causing so much gossip and tittle-tattle.", "pos": 1107038}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No, my father did not wish me to take advantage of the privilege. I began the service from the lower grade.", "pos": 1107768}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Your father, a man of the last century, evidently stands above our contemporaries who so condemn this measure which merely re-establishes natural justice.", "pos": 1107900}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I think, however, that these condemnations have some ground,", "pos": 1108057}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Grounds of personal ambition maybe,", "pos": 1108484}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And of state interest to some extent,", "pos": 1108548}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1108608}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I am an admirer of Montesquieu, and his idea that le principe des monarchies est l’honneur me paraît incontestable. Certains droits et privilèges de la noblesse me paraissent être des moyens de soutenir ce sentiment.", "pos": 1108672}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Si vous envisagez la question sous ce point de vue. If you regard the question from that point of view. An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation, is one similar to the Légion d’honneur of the great Emperor Napoleon, not harmful but helpful to the success of the service, but not a class or court privilege.", "pos": 1109224}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I do not dispute that, but it cannot be denied that court privileges have attained the same end. Every courtier considers himself bound to maintain his position worthily.", "pos": 1109995}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Yet you do not care to avail yourself of the privilege, Prince. If you will do me the honor of calling on me on Wednesday. I will, after talking with Magnítski, let you know what may interest you, and shall also have the pleasure of a more detailed chat with you.", "pos": 1110194}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "We regard everything that is above the common level of rooted custom... But we want the wolves to be fed and the sheep to be safe... They cannot understand this... We, you and I, understand what they are and who we are.", "pos": 1112982}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "And that is all the state has for the millions it has spent. We want to give the Senate new juridical powers, but we have no laws. That is why it is a sin for men like you, Prince, not to serve in these times! But nobody possesses it, so what would you have? It is a vicious circle from which we must break a way out.", "pos": 1116550}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Dear Brothers, it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge—we must act—act! We are drowsing, but we must act. For the dissemination of pure truth and to secure the triumph of virtue, we must cleanse men from prejudice, diffuse principles in harmony with the spirit of the times, undertake the education of the young, unite ourselves in indissoluble bonds with the wisest men, boldly yet prudently overcome superstitions, infidelity, and folly, and form of those devoted to us a body linked together by unity of purpose and possessed of authority and power. To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue. But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today. What is to be done in these circumstances? To favor revolutions, overthrow everything, repel force by force?... No! We are very far from that. Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence. The whole plan of our order should be based on the idea of preparing men of firmness and virtue bound together by unity of conviction—aiming at the punishment of vice and folly, and patronizing talent and virtue: raising worthy men from the dust and attaching them to our Brotherhood. Only then will our order have the power unobtrusively to bind the hands of the protectors of disorder and to control them without their being aware of it. In a word, we must found a form of government holding universal sway, which should be diffused over the whole world without destroying the bonds of citizenship, and beside which all other governments can continue in their customary course and do everything except what impedes the great aim of our order, which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice. This aim was that of Christianity itself. It taught men to be wise and good and for their own benefit to follow the example and instruction of the best and wisest men. At that time, when everything was plunged in darkness, preaching alone was of course sufficient. The novelty of Truth endowed her with special strength, but now we need much more powerful methods. It is now necessary that man, governed by his senses, should find in virtue a charm palpable to those senses. It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. Our order should provide means to that end. As soon as we have a certain number of worthy men in every state, each of them again training two others and all being closely united, everything will be possible for our order, which has already in secret accomplished much for the welfare of mankind.", "pos": 1122551}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No one is right and no one is to blame; so she too is not to blame,", "pos": 1128326}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich", "text": "the chief duty of a true Mason, as I have told you, lies in perfecting himself. We often think that by removing all the difficulties of our life we shall more quickly reach our aim, but on the contrary, my dear sir, it is only in the midst of worldly cares that we can attain our three chief aims: (1) Self-knowledge—for man can only know himself by comparison, (2) Self-perfecting, which can only be attained by conflict, and (3) The attainment of the chief virtue—love of death. Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.", "pos": 1130969}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "C’est un superbe animal.", "pos": 1134499}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "d’ une femme charmante, aussi spirituelle que belle.", "pos": 1134753}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "That’s a superb animal. Of a charming woman, as witty as she is lovely.", "pos": 1136046}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "mon page", "pos": 1137634}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations. There has never been an instance of a bluestocking being carried away by affairs of the heart What a strange antipathy, yet I used to like him very much. Got up at eight, read the Scriptures, then went to my duties. (By Joseph Alexéevich’s advice Pierre had entered the service of the state and served on one of the committees.) Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after dinner copied out some passages for the Brothers. In the evening I went down to the countess and told a funny story about B., and only remembered that I ought not to have done so when everybody laughed loudly at it. I am going to bed with a happy and tranquil mind. Great God, help me to walk in Thy paths, (1) to conquer anger by calmness and deliberation, (2) to vanquish lust by self-restraint and repulsion, (3) to withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs.", "pos": 1138160}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "O God, help and strengthen me that I may walk in Thy ways!", "pos": 1140190}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Great Architect of Nature, help me to find the true path out of the labyrinth of lies!", "pos": 1142347}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "he hoped I was enjoying perfect peace of mind in spite of my wife’s absence.", "pos": 1143869}
{"speaker": "Voice", "text": "Thy day!", "pos": 1144939}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich", "text": "Tell me frankly what is your chief temptation? Do you know it? I think you know it already.", "pos": 1147321}
{"speaker": "Narrator", "text": "sloth was my chief temptation.", "pos": 1147455}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich", "text": "one should not deprive a wife of one’s embraces", "pos": 1147668}
{"speaker": "Narrator", "text": "I should be ashamed to do it,", "pos": 1147784}
{"speaker": "Gospel", "text": "The life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.", "pos": 1147908}
{"speaker": "Joseph Alexéevich", "text": "Hast thou noticed that my face is different?", "pos": 1148513}
{"speaker": "Narrator", "text": "I should have known you had I met you by chance. Am I telling the truth? I drew that,", "pos": 1148725}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "das soll mein Weib werden,", "pos": 1152676}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "You see, you see, I have considered it all, and should not marry if I had not thought it all out or if it were in any way unsuitable. But on the contrary, my papa and mamma are now provided for—I have arranged that rent for them in the Baltic Provinces—and I can live in Petersburg on my pay, and with her fortune and my good management we can get along nicely. I am not marrying for money—I consider that dishonorable—but a wife should bring her share and a husband his. I have my position in the service, she has connections and some means. In our times that is worth something, isn’t it? But above all, she is a handsome, estimable girl, and she loves me.... And I love her, because her character is sensible and very good. Now the other sister, though they are the same family, is quite different—an unpleasant character and has not the same intelligence. She is so... you know?... Unpleasant... But my fiancée!... Well, you will be coming, to dine, to take tea with us,", "pos": 1153626}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "I like your being businesslike about it.... I like it. You shall be satisfied....", "pos": 1156568}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Because, consider, Count—if I allowed myself to marry now without having definite means to maintain my wife, I should be acting badly.... Or at least twenty thousand, Count, and then a note of hand for only sixty thousand.", "pos": 1156925}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, yes, all right! Only excuse me, my dear fellow, I’ll give you twenty thousand and a note of hand for eighty thousand as well. Yes, yes! Kiss me.", "pos": 1157528}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Nowadays old friends are not remembered", "pos": 1158547}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well, do you recognize your little madcap playmate?", "pos": 1160057}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "How handsome you have grown!", "pos": 1160213}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I should think so! And is Papa older?", "pos": 1160244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Can it be that this couch will be my grave?", "pos": 1163476}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Now then, now then!", "pos": 1164421}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, can we have a talk? Yes? Now, just one on your throat and another... that’ll do!", "pos": 1164453}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "Well, what is it tonight? What is it tonight?—But I have to tell you...", "pos": 1164849}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "About Borís... I know, that’s what I have come about. Don’t say it—I know. No, do tell me! Tell me, Mamma! He’s nice?", "pos": 1165318}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha, you are sixteen. At your age I was married. You say Borís is nice. He is very nice, and I love him like a son. But what then?... What are you thinking about? You have quite turned his head, I can see that....", "pos": 1165488}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, what then?", "pos": 1166071}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You have quite turned his head, and why? What do you want of him? You know you can’t marry him.", "pos": 1166100}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1166198}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Because he is young, because he is poor, because he is a relation... and because you yourself don’t love him.", "pos": 1166254}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How do you know?", "pos": 1166366}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I know. It is not right, darling!", "pos": 1166385}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But if I want to...", "pos": 1166421}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Leave off talking nonsense,", "pos": 1166457}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But if I want to...", "pos": 1166506}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha, I am in earnest...", "pos": 1166528}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "January, February, March, April, May. Speak, Mamma, why don’t you say anything? Speak!", "pos": 1166811}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "It won’t do, my love! Not everyone will understand this friendship dating from your childish days, and to see him so intimate with you may injure you in the eyes of other young men who visit us, and above all it torments him for nothing. He may already have found a suitable and wealthy match, and now he’s half crazy.", "pos": 1167051}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Crazy?", "pos": 1167372}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I’ll tell you some things about myself. I had a cousin...", "pos": 1167399}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I know! Cyril Matvéich... but he is old.", "pos": 1167459}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "He was not always old. But this is what I’ll do, Natásha, I’ll have a talk with Borís. He need not come so often....", "pos": 1167502}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why not, if he likes to?", "pos": 1167621}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Because I know it will end in nothing....", "pos": 1167648}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How can you know? No, Mamma, don’t speak to him! What nonsense! Well, I won’t marry, but let him come if he enjoys it and I enjoy it. Not to marry, but just so,", "pos": 1167692}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "How so, my pet?", "pos": 1167975}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Just so. There’s no need for me to marry him. But... just so.", "pos": 1167993}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Just so, just so,", "pos": 1168057}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t laugh, stop! You’re shaking the whole bed! You’re awfully like me, just such another giggler.... Wait... June. July, August. But, Mamma, is he very much in love? What do you think? Was anybody ever so much in love with you? And he’s very nice, very, very nice. Only not quite my taste—he is so narrow, like the dining-room clock.... Don’t you understand? Narrow, you know—gray, light gray...", "pos": 1168183}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What rubbish you’re talking!", "pos": 1168735}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t you really understand? Nicholas would understand.... Bezúkhov, now, is blue, dark-blue and red, and he is square.", "pos": 1168804}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You flirt with him too,", "pos": 1168926}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, he is a Freemason, I have found out. He is fine, dark-blue and red.... How can I explain it to you?", "pos": 1168981}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Little countess! You’re not asleep?", "pos": 1169087}
{"speaker": "the crowd", "text": "The Emperor?... No, a minister... prince... ambassador. Don’t you see the plumes?...", "pos": 1171569}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "That’s not the way, that’s not the way, Sónya! That bow is not right. Come here!", "pos": 1173725}
{"speaker": "the maid", "text": "Allow me, Miss! I can’t do it like that,", "pos": 1174004}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, dear! Well then, wait. That’s right, Sónya.", "pos": 1174093}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Aren’t you ready? It is nearly ten,", "pos": 1174143}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Directly! Directly! And you, Mamma?", "pos": 1174207}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I have only my cap to pin on.", "pos": 1174245}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t do it without me! You won’t do it right.", "pos": 1174277}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "But it’s already ten.", "pos": 1174344}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mávra, quicker, darling!", "pos": 1175178}
{"speaker": "the maid", "text": "Give me my thimble, Miss, from there...", "pos": 1175205}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Whenever will you be ready? Here is some scent. Perónskaya must be tired of waiting.", "pos": 1175247}
{"speaker": "the maid", "text": "It’s ready, Miss,", "pos": 1175372}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "In a minute! In a minute! Don’t come in, Papa! Oh, Papa! how nice you look! Charming!", "pos": 1175625}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "If you please, Miss! allow me,", "pos": 1176091}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Say what you like, say what you like, it’s still too long.", "pos": 1176266}
{"speaker": "Mávra", "text": "Really, madam, it is not at all too long,", "pos": 1176477}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Well, if it’s too long we’ll tack it up... we’ll tack it up in one minute,", "pos": 1176577}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Oo-oo, my beauty! she looks better than any of you!", "pos": 1176891}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, your cap, more to this side. I’ll arrange it. Oh goodness! What has happened? Really it was not my fault!", "pos": 1177051}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Never mind, I’ll run it up, it won’t show,", "pos": 1177317}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "What a beauty—a very queen! And Sónya! They are lovely!", "pos": 1177377}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Charmé de vous voir,", "pos": 1180273}
{"speaker": "host", "text": "Charming!", "pos": 1180851}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "There are some like ourselves and some worse,", "pos": 1181233}
{"speaker": "Perónskaya", "text": "That is the Dutch ambassador, do you see? That gray-haired man. Ah, here she is, the Queen of Petersburg, Countess Bezúkhova. How lovely! She is quite equal to Márya Antónovna. See how the men, young and old, pay court to her. Beautiful and clever... they say Prince —— is quite mad about her. But see, those two, though not good-looking, are even more run after. She is a splendid match, a millionairess. And look, here come her suitors. That is Bezúkhova’s brother, Anatole Kurágin. He’s handsome, isn’t he? I hear they will marry him to that rich girl. But your cousin, Drubetskóy, is also very attentive to her. They say she has millions. Oh yes, that’s the French ambassador himself! Looks as if he were a king! All the same, the French are charming, very charming. No one more charming in society. Ah, here she is! Yes, she is still the most beautiful of them all, our Márya Antónovna! And how simply she is dressed! Lovely! And that stout one in spectacles is the universal Freemason. Put him beside his wife and he looks a regular buffoon!", "pos": 1181377}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "There’s someone else we know—Bolkónski, do you see, Mamma? You remember, he stayed a night with us at Otrádnoe.", "pos": 1183789}
{"speaker": "Perónskaya", "text": "Oh, you know him? I can’t bear him. Il fait à présent la pluie et le beau temps. He’s too proud for anything. He’s too proud for anything. Takes after his father. And he’s hand in glove with Speránski, writing some project or other. Just look how he treats the ladies! Takes after his father. And he’s hand in glove with Speránski, writing some project or other. Just look how he treats the ladies! I’d give it to him if he treated me as he does those ladies.", "pos": 1183947}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alexander, Elisaveta, all our hearts you ravish quite...", "pos": 1184853}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Is it possible no one will ask me, that I shall not be among the first to dance? Is it possible that not one of all these men will notice me? They do not even seem to see me, or if they do they look as if they were saying, ‘Ah, she’s not the one I’m after, so it’s not worth looking at her!’ No, it’s impossible. They must know how I long to dance, how splendidly I dance, and how they would enjoy dancing with me.", "pos": 1186395}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You always dance. I have a protégée, the young Rostóva, here. Ask her,", "pos": 1189806}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Where is she? Excuse me! we will finish this conversation elsewhere—at a ball one must dance.", "pos": 1189888}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Allow me to introduce you to my daughter,", "pos": 1190348}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me,", "pos": 1190434}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I have long been waiting for you,", "pos": 1190890}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I’d be glad to sit beside you and rest: I’m tired; but you see how they keep asking me, and I’m glad of it, I’m happy and I love everybody, and you and I understand it all,", "pos": 1194297}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If she goes to her cousin first and then to another lady, she will be my wife. What rubbish sometimes enters one’s head! but what is certain is that that girl is so charming, so original, that she won’t be dancing here a month before she will be married.... Such as she are rare here,", "pos": 1194606}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How can you ask such a question? I have never enjoyed myself so much before!", "pos": 1195407}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How delightful it is, Count! Isn’t it?", "pos": 1196258}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I am very glad,", "pos": 1196380}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How can people be dissatisfied with anything? Especially such a capital fellow as Bezúkhov!", "pos": 1196412}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, it was a very brilliant ball. Yes, that little Rostóva is very charming. There’s something fresh, original, un-Petersburg-like about her that distinguishes her.", "pos": 1196807}
{"speaker": "Bítski", "text": "The Sovereign plainly said that the Council and Senate are estates of the realm, he said that the government must rest not on authority but on secure bases. The Emperor said that the fiscal system must be reorganized and the accounts published. Ah, yes! Today’s events mark an epoch, the greatest epoch in our history,", "pos": 1198002}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What does it matter to me or to Bítski what the Emperor was pleased to say at the Council? Can all that make me any happier or better?", "pos": 1198808}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "with only a few friends,", "pos": 1199107}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Very pleased to see you, Prince. One moment... We have agreed that this is a dinner for recreation, with not a word about business!", "pos": 1201146}
{"speaker": "Speránski", "text": "Nowadays good wine rides in a carriage and pair. Now for the recitation! A wonderful talent! Where are you off to so early?", "pos": 1204373}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I promised to go to a reception.", "pos": 1205207}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, they are capital people, who of course have not the slightest idea what a treasure they possess in Natásha; but they are kindly folk and form the best possible setting for this strikingly poetic, charming girl, overflowing with life!", "pos": 1207709}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, all life with all its joys, is open to me? I must use my freedom while I feel so much strength and youth in me. Pierre was right when he said one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!", "pos": 1209975}
{"speaker": "Colonel Berg", "text": "I have just been to see the countess, your wife. Unfortunately she could not grant my request, but I hope, Count, I shall be more fortunate with you,", "pos": 1210988}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What is it you wish, Colonel? I am at your service.", "pos": 1211162}
{"speaker": "Colonel Berg", "text": "I have now quite settled in my new rooms, Count and so I wish to arrange just a small party for my own and my wife’s friends. I wished to ask the countess and you to do me the honor of coming to tea and to supper.", "pos": 1211216}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "But don’t be late, Count, if I may venture to ask; about ten minutes to eight, please. We shall make up a rubber. Our general is coming. He is very good to me. We shall have supper, Count. So you will do me the favor.", "pos": 1212023}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "You can get to know something, you can ask for something. See how I managed from my first promotion. My comrades are still nobodies, while I am only waiting for a vacancy to command a regiment, and have the happiness to be your husband. And how have I obtained all this? Chiefly by knowing how to choose my aquaintances. It goes without saying that one must be conscientious and methodical.", "pos": 1212802}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "The only thing is, we mustn’t have children too soon,", "pos": 1214200}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "Yes. I don’t at all want that. We must live for society.", "pos": 1214314}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Princess Yusúpova wore one exactly like this. This is what comes of knowing how to make acquaintances. This is what comes of knowing how to conduct oneself.", "pos": 1214390}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "But please don’t interrupt me when I am entertaining the guests, because I know what interests each of them and what to say to different people.", "pos": 1214801}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "It can’t be helped: men must sometimes have masculine conversation,", "pos": 1214980}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What’s the matter with her? What has happened to her?", "pos": 1217954}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Something very important is happening between them,", "pos": 1219136}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "What do you think? You are so discerning, Prince, and understand people’s characters so well at a glance. What do you think of Natalie? Could she be constant in her attachments? Could she, like other women love a man once for all and remain true to him forever? That is what I consider true love. What do you think, Prince?", "pos": 1220230}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I know your sister too little, to be able to solve so delicate a question, and then I have noticed that the less attractive a woman is the more constant she is likely to be,", "pos": 1220618}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "Yes, that is true, Prince. In our days, in our days a girl has so much freedom that the pleasure of being courted often stifles real feeling in her. And it must be confessed that Natalie is very susceptible. I think no one has been more courted than she, but till quite lately she never cared seriously for anyone. Now you know, Count, even our dear cousin Borís, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness... You are friendly with Borís, aren’t you?", "pos": 1220956}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, I know him....", "pos": 1221980}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "I expect he has told you of his childish love for Natásha?", "pos": 1222002}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh, there was childish love?", "pos": 1222063}
{"speaker": "Véra", "text": "Yes, you know between cousins intimacy often leads to love. Le cousinage est un dangereux voisinage. Don’t you think so?", "pos": 1222147}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh, undoubtedly!", "pos": 1222316}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1222592}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I must... I must have a talk with you. You know that pair of women’s gloves? I... but no, I will talk to you later on,", "pos": 1222724}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well, what?", "pos": 1224944}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma! For heaven’s sake don’t ask me anything now! One can’t talk about that. But such a... such a... never happened to me before! Only I feel afraid in his presence. I am always afraid when I’m with him. What does that mean? Does it mean that it’s the real thing? Yes? Mamma, are you asleep?", "pos": 1224958}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "No, my love; I am frightened myself. Now go!", "pos": 1225591}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "All the same I shan’t sleep. What silliness, to sleep! Mummy! Mummy! such a thing never happened to me before. And could we ever have thought!... And it had to happen that he should come specially to Petersburg while we are here. And it had to happen that we should meet at that ball. It is fate. Clearly it is fate that everything led up to this! Already then, directly I saw him I felt something peculiar.", "pos": 1225661}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What else did he say to you? What are those verses? Read them...", "pos": 1226477}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a widower?", "pos": 1226646}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Don’t, Natásha! Pray to God. Marriages are made in heaven,", "pos": 1226703}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Darling Mummy, how I love you! How happy I am!", "pos": 1226783}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ah, it’s you! And I, you see, am hard at it.", "pos": 1228582}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, dear heart. I wanted to tell you about it yesterday and I have come to do so today. I never experienced anything like it before. I am in love, my friend!", "pos": 1228986}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "With Natásha Rostóva, yes?", "pos": 1229261}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, yes! Who else should it be? I should never have believed it, but the feeling is stronger than I. Yesterday I tormented myself and suffered, but I would not exchange even that torment for anything in the world, I have not lived till now. At last I live, but I can’t live without her! But can she love me?... I am too old for her.... Why don’t you speak?", "pos": 1229299}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I? I? What did I tell you? I always thought it.... That girl is such a treasure... she is a rare girl.... My dear friend, I entreat you, don’t philosophize, don’t doubt, marry, marry, marry.... And I am sure there will not be a happier man than you.", "pos": 1229659}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But what of her?", "pos": 1229986}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "She loves you.", "pos": 1230005}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Don’t talk rubbish...", "pos": 1230022}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "She does, I know,", "pos": 1230106}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But do listen. Do you know the condition I am in? I must talk about it to someone.", "pos": 1230148}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, go on, go on. I am very glad,", "pos": 1230283}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I should not have believed anyone who told me that I was capable of such love. It is not at all the same feeling that I knew in the past. The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness....", "pos": 1231056}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Darkness and gloom, yes, yes, I understand that.", "pos": 1231412}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I cannot help loving the light, it is not my fault. And I am very happy! You understand me? I know you are glad for my sake.", "pos": 1231484}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 1231611}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "If only they would let me end my days as I want to,", "pos": 1232141}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "Fourthly and finally. I beg you to put it off for a year: go abroad, take a cure, look out as you wanted to for a German tutor for Prince Nicholas. Then if your love or passion or obstinacy—as you please—is still as great, marry! And that’s my last word on it. Mind, the last...", "pos": 1232718}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Leave off, Mamma! I don’t think, and don’t want to think about it! He just came and then left off, left off.... And I don’t at all want to get married. And I am afraid of him; I have now become quite calm, quite calm.", "pos": 1234518}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What’s the good of making so much of it? Things are nice as it is. There, that’s me! Well, and very nice too! I need nobody. How charming that Natásha is! Pretty, a good voice, young, and in nobody’s way if only they leave her in peace.", "pos": 1235535}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At home?", "pos": 1236673}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma! Bolkónski has come! Mamma, it is awful, it is unbearable! I don’t want... to be tormented? What am I to do?...", "pos": 1237008}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "It is long since we had the pleasure...", "pos": 1237361}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I have not been to see you all this time because I have been at my father’s. I had to talk over a very important matter with him. I only got back last night. I want to have a talk with you, Countess,", "pos": 1237535}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I am at your disposal,", "pos": 1237848}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "At once? This instant!... No, it can’t be!", "pos": 1238066}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Go, Natásha! I will call you,", "pos": 1238266}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I have come, Countess, to ask for your daughter’s hand,", "pos": 1238426}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Your offer... Your offer... is agreeable to us, and I accept your offer. I am glad. And my husband... I hope... but it will depend on her....", "pos": 1238560}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I will speak to her when I have your consent.... Do you give it to me?", "pos": 1238799}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Yes. I am sure my husband will consent, but your father...", "pos": 1238892}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "My father, to whom I have told my plans, has made it an express condition of his consent that the wedding is not to take place for a year. And I wished to tell you of that,", "pos": 1239243}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "It is true that Natásha is still young, but—so long as that?...", "pos": 1239438}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It is unavoidable,", "pos": 1239504}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I will send her to you. Lord have mercy upon us!", "pos": 1239557}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, Mamma?... Well?...", "pos": 1239918}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Go, go to him. He is asking for your hand. Go... go,", "pos": 1239945}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me? Yes, everything! He alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.", "pos": 1240236}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I have loved you from the very first moment I saw you. May I hope?", "pos": 1240477}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot but know? Why speak, when words cannot express what one feels?", "pos": 1240644}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Do you love me?", "pos": 1240810}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 1240828}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What is it? What’s the matter?", "pos": 1240961}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, I am so happy!", "pos": 1240994}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Did your mother tell you that it cannot be for a year?", "pos": 1241653}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Is it possible that I—the ‘chit of a girl,’ as everybody called me, is it possible that I am now to be the wife and the equal of this strange, dear, clever man whom even my father looks up to? Can it be true? Can it be true that there can be no more playing with life, that now I am grown up, that on me now lies a responsibility for my every word and deed? Yes, but what did he ask me? No,", "pos": 1241760}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forgive me! But you are so young, and I have already been through so much in life. I am afraid for you, you do not yet know yourself. Hard as this year which delays my happiness will be, it will give you time to be sure of yourself. I ask you to make me happy in a year, but you are free: our engagement shall remain a secret, and should you find that you do not love me, or should you come to love...", "pos": 1242227}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why do you say that? You know that from the very day you first came to Otrádnoe I have loved you,", "pos": 1242817}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "In a year you will learn to know yourself....", "pos": 1242997}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "A whole year! But why a year? Why a year?... And can’t it be helped? It’s awful! Oh, it’s awful! awful! I shall die, waiting a year: it’s impossible, it’s awful! No, no! I’ll do anything! I am so happy.", "pos": 1243045}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1246635}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I cannot take him away from his grandfather, and besides...", "pos": 1246682}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How I should have loved him! but I know you wish to avoid any pretext for finding fault with us.", "pos": 1246744}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What does he look for in me? He is trying to discover something by looking at me! What if what he seeks in me is not there?", "pos": 1247439}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You have known Bezúkhov a long time? Do you like him?", "pos": 1248366}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, he’s a dear, but very absurd.", "pos": 1248434}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Do you know I have entrusted him with our secret? I have known him from childhood. He has a heart of gold. I beg you, Natalie. I am going away and heaven knows what may happen. You may cease to... all right, I know I am not to say that. Only this, then: whatever may happen to you when I am not here...", "pos": 1248611}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What can happen?", "pos": 1248961}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Whatever trouble may come. I beg you, Mademoiselle Sophie, whatever may happen, to turn to him alone for advice and help! He is a most absent-minded and absurd fellow, but he has a heart of gold.", "pos": 1248980}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t go! Oh, why did he go away?", "pos": 1249583}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "You want to make him into an old maid like yourself! A pity! Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid,", "pos": 1250812}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Besides, the matter was not then so definitely settled as it is now. My father then insisted on a delay of a year and now already six months, half of that period, have passed, and my resolution is firmer than ever. If the doctors did not keep me here at the spas I should be back in Russia, but as it is I have to postpone my return for three months. You know me and my relations with Father. I want nothing from him. I have been and always shall be independent; but to go against his will and arouse his anger, now that he may perhaps remain with us such a short time, would destroy half my happiness. I am now writing to him about the same question, and beg you to choose a good moment to hand him the letter and to let me know how he looks at the whole matter and whether there is hope that he may consent to reduce the term by four months.", "pos": 1258613}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Write and tell your brother to wait till I am dead.... It won’t be long—I shall soon set him free. Marry, marry, my boy!... A good family!... Clever people, eh? Rich, eh? Yes, a nice stepmother little Nicholas will have! Write and tell him that he may marry tomorrow if he likes. She will be little Nicholas’ stepmother and I’ll marry Bourienne!... Ha, ha, ha! He mustn’t be without a stepmother either! Only one thing, no more women are wanted in my house—let him marry and live by himself. Perhaps you will go and live with him too? Go in heaven’s name! Go out into the frost... the frost... the frost! Why shouldn’t I marry her? She’ll make a splendid princess!", "pos": 1259610}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How is it that no one realizes this? No one except these despised God’s folk who, wallet on back, come to me by the back door, afraid of being seen by the prince, not for fear of ill-usage by him but for fear of causing him to sin. To leave family, home, and all the cares of worldly welfare, in order without clinging to anything to wander in hempen rags from place to place under an assumed name, doing no one any harm but praying for all—for those who drive one away as well as for those who protect one: higher than that life and truth there is no life or truth!", "pos": 1262381}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I shall come to a place and pray there, and before having time to get used to it or getting to love it, I shall go farther. I will go on till my legs fail, and I’ll lie down and die somewhere, and shall at last reach that eternal, quiet haven, where there is neither sorrow nor sighing...", "pos": 1264660}
{"speaker": "Nicholas Rostóv", "text": "My dear Mamma. Your obedient son,", "pos": 1267250}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "For God’s sake, I implore you, come at once if you do not wish to make me and the whole family wretched,", "pos": 1268671}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You’re not the same at all,", "pos": 1272392}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How? Am I uglier?", "pos": 1272431}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "On the contrary, but what dignity? A princess!", "pos": 1272451}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes, yes! Well, are you glad? I am so tranquil and happy now.", "pos": 1272521}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Very glad. He is an excellent fellow.... And are you very much in love?", "pos": 1272745}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How shall I put it? I was in love with Borís, with my teacher, and with Denísov, but this is quite different. I feel at peace and settled. I know that no better man than he exists, and I am calm and contented now. Not at all as before. You don’t at all understand,", "pos": 1272840}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You see he writes, he writes that he won’t come before December. What can be keeping him? Illness, probably! His health is very delicate. Don’t tell Natásha. And don’t attach importance to her being so bright: that’s because she’s living through the last days of her girlhood, but I know what she is like every time we receive a letter from him! However, God grant that everything turns out well! He is an excellent man!", "pos": 1274186}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Robber!... Ungrateful wretch!... I’ll hack the dog to pieces! I’m not my father!... Robbing us!... Be off! Never let me see your face here again, you villain!", "pos": 1275708}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "But you know, my dear boy, it’s a pity you got excited! Mítenka has told me all about it.", "pos": 1277211}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I knew that I should never understand anything in this crazy world.", "pos": 1277303}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "You were angry that he had not entered those 700 rubles. But they were carried forward—and you did not look at the other page.", "pos": 1277394}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Papa, he is a blackguard and a thief! I know he is! And what I have done, I have done; but, if you like, I won’t speak to him again.", "pos": 1277523}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "No, my dear boy No, I beg you to attend to the business. I am old. I...", "pos": 1277658}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, Papa. Forgive me if I have caused you unpleasantness. I understand it all less than you do. Devil take all these peasants, and money matters, and carryings forward from page to page. I used to understand what a ‘corner’ and the stakes at cards meant, but carrying forward to another page I don’t understand at all. This. You say it rests with me. Well, I don’t like Anna Mikháylovna and I don’t like Borís, but they were our friends and poor. Well then, this!", "pos": 1277892}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "O-hoy!", "pos": 1281194}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Daniel!", "pos": 1281836}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "What orders, your excellency?", "pos": 1282114}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It’s a good day, eh? For a hunt and a gallop, eh?", "pos": 1282372}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "I sent Uvárka at dawn to listen. He says she’s moved them into the Otrádnoe enclosure. They were howling there.", "pos": 1282517}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "We ought to go, don’t you think so? Come to me with Uvárka.", "pos": 1282831}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "As you please.", "pos": 1282910}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Then put off feeding them.", "pos": 1282927}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "Yes, sir.", "pos": 1282956}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You are going? I knew you would! Sónya said you wouldn’t go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn’t help going.", "pos": 1283861}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, we are going. We are going, but only wolf hunting: it would be dull for you.", "pos": 1284011}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You know it is my greatest pleasure. It’s not fair; you are going by yourself, are having the horses saddled and said nothing to us about it.", "pos": 1284215}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "'No barrier bars a Russian’s path'—we’ll go!", "pos": 1284376}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But you can’t. Mamma said you mustn’t,", "pos": 1284437}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, I’ll go. I shall certainly go. Daniel, tell them to saddle for us, and Michael must come with my dogs,", "pos": 1284504}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Good morning, Uncle!", "pos": 1287004}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "That’s it. Come on!... I was sure of it. I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist it and it’s a good thing you’re going. That’s it! Come on! Take the covert at once, for my Gírchik says the Ilágins are at Kornikí with their hounds. That’s it. Come on!... They’ll take the cubs from under your very nose.", "pos": 1287070}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "That’s where I’m going. Shall we join up our packs?", "pos": 1287521}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Good morning, Uncle! We are going too!", "pos": 1288202}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Good morning, good morning! But don’t go overriding the hounds,", "pos": 1288258}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nicholas, what a fine dog Truníla is! He knew me,", "pos": 1288346}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "In the first place, Truníla is not a ‘dog,’ but a harrier,", "pos": 1288445}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You mustn’t think we’ll be in anyone’s way, Uncle. We’ll go to our places and won’t budge.", "pos": 1288662}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "A good thing too, little countess, only mind you don’t fall off your horse, because—that’s it, come on!—you’ve nothing to hold on to. Well, nephew, you’re going for a big wolf. Mind and don’t let her slip!", "pos": 1288767}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "That’s as may happen. Karáy, here!", "pos": 1289333}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, Nastásya Ivánovna! If you scare away the beast, Daniel’ll give it you!", "pos": 1291649}
{"speaker": "Nastásya Ivánovna", "text": "I know a thing or two myself!", "pos": 1291767}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Hush! Have you seen the young countess? Where is she?", "pos": 1291823}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "With young Count Peter, by the Zhárov rank grass. Though she’s a lady, she’s very fond of hunting.", "pos": 1291934}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "And you’re surprised at the way she rides, Simon, eh? She’s as good as many a man!", "pos": 1292062}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "Of course! It’s marvelous. So bold, so easy!", "pos": 1292165}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "And Nicholas? Where is he? By the Lyádov upland, isn’t he?", "pos": 1292212}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "Yes, sir. He knows where to stand. He understands the matter so well that Daniel and I are often quite astounded,", "pos": 1292273}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Rides well, eh? And how well he looks on his horse, eh?", "pos": 1292444}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "A perfect picture! How he chased a fox out of the rank grass by the Zavárzinsk thicket the other day! Leaped a fearful place; what a sight when they rushed from the covert... the horse worth a thousand rubles and the rider beyond all price! Yes, one would have to search far to find another as smart.", "pos": 1292502}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "To search far... To search far,", "pos": 1292805}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "The other day when he came out from Mass in full uniform, Michael Sidórych... They are on the scent of the cubs... straight to the Lyádov uplands.", "pos": 1292970}
{"speaker": "Simon", "text": "Back!", "pos": 1294636}
{"speaker": "Mítka", "text": "Look out!", "pos": 1295153}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "Ulyulyulyu! ulyulyu!... Blast you! You’ve let the wolf go!... What sportsmen!", "pos": 1296313}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What would it be to Thee to do this for me? I know Thou art great, and that it is a sin to ask this of Thee, but for God’s sake do let the old wolf come my way and let Karáy spring at it—in sight of ‘Uncle’ who is watching from over there—and seize it by the throat in a death grip! No, I shan’t have such luck, yet what wouldn’t it be worth! It is not to be! Everywhere, at cards and in war, I am always unlucky. Only once in my life to get an old wolf, I want only that! No, it can’t be!", "pos": 1297921}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Ulyulyulyu! Shall I loose them or not?", "pos": 1299773}
{"speaker": "The wolf", "text": "Back or forward? Eh, no matter, forward...", "pos": 1300334}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Ulyulyu!", "pos": 1300512}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Ulyulyulyulyu! She’ll get away! No, it’s impossible! Karáy, ulyulyu!...", "pos": 1301247}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Karáy? Old fellow!...", "pos": 1302661}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh my God! Why?", "pos": 1303941}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "Don’t! We’ll gag her!", "pos": 1305706}
{"speaker": "Old Count Rostóv", "text": "Oh, what a formidable one! A formidable one, eh?", "pos": 1306613}
{"speaker": "Daniel", "text": "Yes, your excellency,", "pos": 1306715}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Ah, but you are a crusty fellow, friend!", "pos": 1306858}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What’s this? Where’s that huntsman from? He is not ‘Uncle’s’ man.", "pos": 1308554}
{"speaker": "Nicholas’ groom", "text": "That’s Ilágin’s huntsman having a row with our Iván,", "pos": 1308981}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What has happened?", "pos": 1309735}
{"speaker": "The huntsman", "text": "A likely thing, killing a fox our dogs had hunted! And it was my gray bitch that caught it! Go to law, indeed!... He snatches at the fox! I gave him one with the fox. Here it is on my saddle! Do you want a taste of this?...", "pos": 1309772}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "A fine little bitch, that! Is she swift?", "pos": 1312948}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "That one? Yes, she’s a good dog, gets what she’s after. So in your parts, too, the harvest is nothing to boast of, Count? That black-spotted one of yours is fine—well shaped!", "pos": 1313021}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, she’s fast enough. If only a full-grown hare would cross the field now I’d show you what sort of borzoi she is,", "pos": 1313570}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "I don’t understand, how some sportsmen can be so jealous about game and dogs. For myself, I can tell you, Count, I enjoy riding in company such as this... what could be better? but as for counting skins and what one takes, I don’t care about that.", "pos": 1313806}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Of course not!", "pos": 1314115}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "Or being upset because someone else’s borzoi and not mine catches something. All I care about is to enjoy seeing the chase, is it not so, Count? For I consider that...", "pos": 1314132}
{"speaker": "one of the borzoi whippers-in", "text": "A-tu! A-tu!", "pos": 1314302}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "Ah, he has found one, I think,", "pos": 1314559}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, we must ride up.... Shall we both course it? And suppose they outdo my Mílka at once!", "pos": 1314616}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "A full-grown one? And you, Michael Nikanórovich?", "pos": 1314909}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "How can I join in? Why, you’ve given a village for each of your borzois! That’s it, come on! Yours are worth thousands. Try yours against one another, you two, and I’ll look on! Rugáy, hey, hey! Rugáyushka!", "pos": 1315179}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How is it pointing?", "pos": 1315915}
{"speaker": "All the hunt", "text": "Stop!", "pos": 1316340}
{"speaker": "borzoi whips", "text": "A-tu!", "pos": 1316409}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Miláshka, dear!", "pos": 1317648}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "Erzá, darling!", "pos": 1317987}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Rugáy, Rugáyushka! That’s it, come on!", "pos": 1318424}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "That’s it, come on! That’s a dog!... There, it has beaten them all, the thousand-ruble as well as the one-ruble borzois. That’s it, come on! There are your thousand-ruble ones.... That’s it, come on!... Rugáy, here’s a pad for you! You’ve deserved it, that’s it, come on!", "pos": 1319223}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "She’d tired herself out, she’d run it down three times by herself,", "pos": 1319740}
{"speaker": "Ilágin's groom", "text": "But what is there in running across it like that?", "pos": 1319901}
{"speaker": "Ilágin", "text": "Once she had missed it and turned it away, any mongrel could take it,", "pos": 1319974}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "And if you put up at my house that will be better still. That’s it, come on! You see it’s damp weather, and you could rest, and the little countess could be driven home in a trap.", "pos": 1321586}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Arínka! Look, she sits sideways! There she sits and her skirt dangles.... See, she’s got a little hunting horn!", "pos": 1322497}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Goodness gracious! See her knife?...", "pos": 1322611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Isn’t she a Tartar!", "pos": 1322650}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How is it you didn’t go head over heels?", "pos": 1322672}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "That’s right, young countess, that’s it, come on! I never saw anyone like her! She’s ridden all day like a man, and is as fresh as ever!", "pos": 1325263}
{"speaker": "Anísya Fëdorovna", "text": "Take this, little Lady-Countess!", "pos": 1327228}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "This, you see, is how I am finishing my days... Death will come. That’s it, come on! Nothing will remain. Then why harm anyone?", "pos": 1328147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why don’t you enter the service, Uncle?", "pos": 1328897}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "I did once, but gave it up. I am not fit for it. That’s it, come on! I can’t make head or tail of it. That’s for you—I haven’t brains enough. Now, hunting is another matter—that’s it, come on! Open the door, there! Why have you shut it? That’s Mítka, my coachman.... I have got him a good balaláyka. I’m fond of it,", "pos": 1328939}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How good! Really very good!", "pos": 1329866}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Very good? Not ‘very good’--it’s simply delicious! More, please, more!", "pos": 1330016}
{"speaker": "Anísya Fëdorovna", "text": "You like listening? That’s a good player of ours,", "pos": 1330848}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "He doesn’t play that part right! Here he ought to burst out—that’s it, come on!—ought to burst out.", "pos": 1330973}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Do you play then?", "pos": 1331127}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Anísya, go and see if the strings of my guitar are all right. I haven’t touched it for a long time. That’s it—come on! I’ve given it up.", "pos": 1331198}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Lovely, lovely! Go on, Uncle, go on! Nicholas, Nicholas! Go on, Uncle dear,", "pos": 1332641}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Now then, niece!", "pos": 1333523}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Well, little countess; that’s it—come on! Well done, niece! Now a fine young fellow must be found as husband for you. That’s it—come on!", "pos": 1334854}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "He’s chosen already,", "pos": 1335058}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Oh?", "pos": 1335104}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And such a one! What did Nicholas’ smile mean when he said ‘chosen already’? Is he glad of it or not? It is as if he thought my Bolkónski would not approve of or understand our gaiety. But he would understand it all. Where is he now? Don’t dare to think about it,", "pos": 1335208}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Good-by, dear niece,", "pos": 1337064}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What a darling Uncle is!", "pos": 1337322}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes. You’re not cold?", "pos": 1337405}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No. I’m quite, quite all right. I feel so comfortable!", "pos": 1337450}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Got it?", "pos": 1338067}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What were you thinking about just now, Nicholas?", "pos": 1338092}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I? Well, you see, first I thought that Rugáy, the red hound, was like Uncle, and that if he were a man he would always keep Uncle near him, if not for his riding, then for his manner. What a good fellow Uncle is! Don’t you think so?... Well, and you?", "pos": 1338213}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I? Wait a bit, wait.... Yes, first I thought that we are driving along and imagining that we are going home, but that heaven knows where we are really going in the darkness, and that we shall arrive and suddenly find that we are not in Otrádnoe, but in Fairyland. And then I thought... No, nothing else.", "pos": 1338503}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I know, I expect you thought of him,", "pos": 1338809}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No. How well Anísya carried herself, how well! And do you know. I know that I shall never again be as happy and tranquil as I am now.", "pos": 1338914}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Rubbish, nonsense, humbug!", "pos": 1339330}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, there are still lights in the drawing room!", "pos": 1339609}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But, Mamma, suppose I loved a girl who has no fortune, would you expect me to sacrifice my feelings and my honor for the sake of money?", "pos": 1343581}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "No, you have not understood me. You have not understood me, Nikólenka. It is your happiness I wish for,", "pos": 1343829}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Mamma, don’t cry! Only tell me that you wish it, and you know I will give my life, anything, to put you at ease. I would sacrifice anything for you—even my feelings.", "pos": 1344087}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "No, you have not understood me, don’t let us talk about it,", "pos": 1344421}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Maybe I do love a poor girl. Am I to sacrifice my feelings and my honor for money? must not respond to her faithful, devoted love? I can always sacrifice my feelings for my family’s welfare, but I can’t coerce my feelings.", "pos": 1344519}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why are you wandering about like an outcast? What do you want? Him... I want him... now, this minute! I want him!", "pos": 1347653}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Don’t look at me, Mamma! Don’t look; I shall cry directly. Sit down with me a little,", "pos": 1347919}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, I want him. Why should I be wasted like this, Mamma?", "pos": 1348028}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Stop playing—there’s a time for everything,", "pos": 1348425}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Let her alone, Kondrátevna. Go, Mavrúshka, go. What can I do with them? Oh, Nikíta, please go... where can I send him?... Yes, go to the yard and fetch a fowl, please, a cock, and you, Misha, bring me some oats.", "pos": 1348491}
{"speaker": "Misha", "text": "Just a few oats?", "pos": 1348929}
{"speaker": "Old Man", "text": "Go, go quickly,", "pos": 1348984}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And you, Theodore, get me a piece of chalk.", "pos": 1349025}
{"speaker": "Fóka", "text": "Oh dear, what a young lady!", "pos": 1349362}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What can I do, where can I go? Nastásya Ivánovna, what sort of children shall I have?", "pos": 1349743}
{"speaker": "Buffoon", "text": "Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers,", "pos": 1349954}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "O Lord, O Lord, it’s always the same! Oh, where am I to go? What am I to do with myself?", "pos": 1350014}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Pétya! Pétya! Carry me downstairs. No, don’t... the island of Madagascar!", "pos": 1350833}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Sónya, what is this? Oh, you are there! I don’t know. A storm?", "pos": 1352142}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, it’s the chorus from The Water-Carrier, listen! Where were you going?", "pos": 1352544}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "To change the water in this glass. I am just finishing the design.", "pos": 1352703}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You always find something to do, but I can’t. And where’s Nicholas?", "pos": 1352772}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Asleep, I think.", "pos": 1352858}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya, go and wake him. Tell him I want him to come and sing. Oh, if only he would come quicker! I am so afraid it will never be! And, worst of all, I am growing old—that’s the thing! There won’t then be in me what there is now. But perhaps he’ll come today, will come immediately. Perhaps he has come and is sitting in the drawing room. Perhaps he came yesterday and I have forgotten it.", "pos": 1352877}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Ah, here she is! Well, sit down by me.", "pos": 1353804}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma! give him to me, give him, Mamma, quickly, quickly! My God, my God! The same faces, the same talk, Papa holding his cup and blowing in the same way! Does it ever happen to you does it ever happen to you to feel as if there were nothing more to come—nothing; that everything good is past? And to feel not exactly dull, but sad?", "pos": 1353974}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I should think so! I have felt like that when everything was all right and everyone was cheerful. The thought has come into my mind that I was already tired of it all, and that we must all die. Once in the regiment I had not gone to some merrymaking where there was music... and suddenly I felt so depressed...", "pos": 1354864}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh yes, I know, I know, I know! When I was quite little that used to be so with me. Do you remember when I was punished once about some plums? You were all dancing, and I sat sobbing in the schoolroom? I shall never forget it: I felt sad and sorry for everyone, for myself, and for everyone. And I was innocent—that was the chief thing. Do you remember?", "pos": 1355191}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I remember. I remember that I came to you afterwards and wanted to comfort you, but do you know, I felt ashamed to. We were terribly absurd. I had a funny doll then and wanted to give it to you. Do you remember?", "pos": 1355589}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And do you remember, how once, long, long ago, when we were quite little, Uncle called us into the study—that was in the old house—and it was dark—we went in and suddenly there stood...", "pos": 1355824}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "A Negro. Of course I remember. Even now I don’t know whether there really was a Negro, or if we only dreamed it or were told about him.", "pos": 1356050}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "He was gray, you remember, and had white teeth, and stood and looked at us....", "pos": 1356234}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Sónya, do you remember?", "pos": 1356315}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes, yes, I do remember something too,", "pos": 1356357}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You know I have asked Papa and Mamma about that Negro, and they say there was no Negro at all. But you see, you remember!", "pos": 1356422}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Of course I do, I remember his teeth as if I had just seen them.", "pos": 1356562}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How strange it is! It’s as if it were a dream! I like that.", "pos": 1356629}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "And do you remember how we rolled hard-boiled eggs in the ballroom, and suddenly two old women began spinning round on the carpet? Was that real or not? Do you remember what fun it was?", "pos": 1356691}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, and you remember how Papa in his blue overcoat fired a gun in the porch?", "pos": 1356879}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And I remember their telling me that you had been born under a cabbage, and I remember that I dared not disbelieve it then, but knew that it was not true, and I felt so uncomfortable.", "pos": 1357715}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "They have brought the cock, Miss,", "pos": 1358006}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "It isn’t wanted, Pólya. Tell them to take it away,", "pos": 1358065}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Mr. Dimmler, please play my favorite nocturne by Field,", "pos": 1358325}
{"speaker": "Dimmler", "text": "How quiet you young people are!", "pos": 1358514}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, we’re philosophizing,", "pos": 1358548}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Do you know, that when one goes on and on recalling memories, one at last begins to remember what happened before one was in the world....", "pos": 1359162}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "That is metempsychosis. The Egyptians believed that our souls have lived in animals, and will go back into animals again.", "pos": 1359369}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I don’t believe we ever were in animals. But I am certain that we were angels somewhere there, and have been here, and that is why we remember....", "pos": 1359563}
{"speaker": "Dimmler", "text": "May I join you?", "pos": 1359780}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "If we have been angels, why have we fallen lower? No, that can’t be!", "pos": 1359861}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Not lower, who said we were lower?... How do I know what I was before? The soul is immortal—well then, if I shall always live I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.", "pos": 1359949}
{"speaker": "Dimmler", "text": "Yes, but it is hard for us to imagine eternity,", "pos": 1360167}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why is it hard to imagine eternity? It is now today, and it will be tomorrow, and always; and there was yesterday, and the day before....", "pos": 1360347}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha! Now it’s your turn. Sing me something. Why are you sitting there like conspirators?", "pos": 1360503}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, I don’t at all want to,", "pos": 1360629}
{"speaker": "Dimmler", "text": "Ah, Countess, that’s a European talent, she has nothing to learn—what softness, tenderness, and strength....", "pos": 1362048}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Ah, how afraid I am for her, how afraid I am!", "pos": 1362178}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Idiot! It’s nothing, Mamma, really it’s nothing; only Pétya startled me,", "pos": 1362553}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "No, why disturb the old fellow? Besides, you wouldn’t have room to turn round there. If you must go, go to the Melyukóvs’.", "pos": 1364131}
{"speaker": "old count", "text": "That’s right, my dear. I’ll dress up at once and go with them. I’ll make Pashette open her eyes.", "pos": 1364391}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You go ahead, Zakhár!", "pos": 1366371}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "A hare’s track, a lot of tracks!", "pos": 1367481}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "How light it is, Nicholas! What is it, Nicholas?", "pos": 1367570}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 1367929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Isn’t it time to begin now?", "pos": 1368381}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Gee up, my darlings!", "pos": 1368661}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Where are we? It’s the Kosóy meadow, I suppose. But no—this is something new I’ve never seen before. This isn’t the Kosóy meadow nor the Dëmkin hill, and heaven only knows what it is! It is something new and enchanted. Well, whatever it may be...", "pos": 1369349}
{"speaker": "Zakhár", "text": "Now, look out, master! No you won’t, master!", "pos": 1369896}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Zakhár is shouting that I should turn to the left, but why to the left? Are we getting to the Melyukóvs’? Is this Melyukóvka? Heaven only knows where we are going, and heaven knows what is happening to us—but it is very strange and pleasant whatever it is.", "pos": 1370719}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Look, his mustache and eyelashes are all white!", "pos": 1371033}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I think this used to be Natásha, and that was Madame Schoss, but perhaps it’s not, and this Circassian with the mustache I don’t know, but I love her. Aren’t you cold?", "pos": 1371175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 1371533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who is it?", "pos": 1372016}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The mummers from the count’s. I know by the horses,", "pos": 1372057}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear me! there’s no recognizing them! And Natásha! See whom she looks like! She really reminds me of somebody. But Herr Dimmler—isn’t he good! I didn’t know him! And how he dances. Dear me, there’s a Circassian. Really, how becoming it is to dear Sónya. And who is that? Well, you have cheered us up! Nikíta and Vanya—clear away the tables! And we were sitting so quietly. Ha, ha, ha!... The hussar, the hussar! Just like a boy! And the legs!... I can’t look at him...", "pos": 1372945}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya Danílovna", "text": "And who is this? I suppose it is one of the Rostóvs! Well, Mr. Hussar, and what regiment do you serve in? Here, hand some fruit jelly to the Turk! That’s not forbidden by his law. My little Sásha! Look at Sásha!", "pos": 1374212}
{"speaker": "old maid", "text": "Now to tell one’s fortune in the empty bathhouse is frightening!", "pos": 1375606}
{"speaker": "eldest Melyukóv girl", "text": "Why?", "pos": 1375735}
{"speaker": "old maid", "text": "You wouldn’t go, it takes courage....", "pos": 1375773}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I’ll go,", "pos": 1375813}
{"speaker": "second Melyukóv girl", "text": "Tell what happened to the young lady!", "pos": 1375836}
{"speaker": "old maid", "text": "Well, a young lady once went out, took a cock, laid the table for two, all properly, and sat down. After sitting a while, she suddenly hears someone coming... a sleigh drives up with harness bells; she hears him coming! He comes in, just in the shape of a man, like an officer—comes in and sits down to table with her.", "pos": 1375907}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah! ah! Yes? And how... did he speak?", "pos": 1376250}
{"speaker": "old maid", "text": "Yes, like a man. Everything quite all right, and he began persuading her; and she should have kept him talking till cockcrow, but she got frightened, just got frightened and hid her face in her hands. Then he caught her up. It was lucky the maids ran in just then....", "pos": 1376340}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya Danílovna", "text": "Now, why frighten them?", "pos": 1376610}
{"speaker": "daughter", "text": "Mamma, you used to try your fate yourself...", "pos": 1376661}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "And how does one do it in a barn?", "pos": 1376727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, say you went to the barn now, and listened. It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking—that’s bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too.", "pos": 1376779}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mamma, tell us what happened to you in the barn.", "pos": 1376968}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya Danílovna", "text": "Oh, I’ve forgotten... But none of you would go?", "pos": 1377046}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes, I will; Pelagéya Danílovna, let me! I’ll go,", "pos": 1377111}
{"speaker": "Pelagéya Danílovna", "text": "Well, why not, if you’re not afraid?", "pos": 1377175}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Louisa Ivánovna, may I?", "pos": 1377214}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I’m not afraid of anything. May I go at once?", "pos": 1377843}
{"speaker": "old maidservant", "text": "Straight, straight, along the path, Miss. Only, don’t look back.", "pos": 1379528}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I am not afraid,", "pos": 1379595}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Sónya!", "pos": 1380395}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Nicholas!", "pos": 1380405}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Sónya, is it well with thee?", "pos": 1381334}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes! And with thee?", "pos": 1381393}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Natásha! do you know I have made up my mind about Sónya?", "pos": 1381554}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Have you told her?", "pos": 1381639}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, how strange you are with that mustache and those eyebrows!... Natásha—are you glad?", "pos": 1381711}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I am so glad, so glad! I was beginning to be vexed with you. I did not tell you, but you have been treating her badly. What a heart she has, Nicholas! I am horrid sometimes, but I was ashamed to be happy while Sónya was not. Now I am so glad! Well, run back to her.", "pos": 1381801}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, wait a bit.... Oh, how funny you look! Natásha, it’s magical, isn’t it?", "pos": 1382090}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes. You have done splendidly.", "pos": 1382322}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Had I seen her before as she is now. I should long ago have asked her what to do and have done whatever she told me, and all would have been well. So you are glad and I have done right?", "pos": 1382370}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, quite right! I had a quarrel with Mamma some time ago about it. Mamma said she was angling for you. How could she say such a thing! I nearly stormed at Mamma. I will never let anyone say anything bad of Sónya, for there is nothing but good in her.", "pos": 1382580}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Then it’s all right?", "pos": 1382834}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Only when will all that be? I am afraid never.... It would be too good!", "pos": 1383719}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Sit down, Natásha; perhaps you’ll see him,", "pos": 1383848}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I see someone with a mustache,", "pos": 1383992}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "You mustn’t laugh, Miss,", "pos": 1384060}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why is it others see things and I don’t? You sit down now, Sónya. You absolutely must, tonight! Do it for me.... Today I feel so frightened!", "pos": 1384655}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Now, Miss Sónya is sure to see something, while you do nothing but laugh.", "pos": 1384888}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I know she will. She saw something last year. Of course she will!", "pos": 1385026}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Oh, Natásha!", "pos": 1385267}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Did you see? Did you? What was it? Of course she will! You saw him?", "pos": 1385293}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes. Wait a bit... I... saw him. Yes, I saw him,", "pos": 1385730}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How? Standing or lying?", "pos": 1386032}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "No, I saw... At first there was nothing, then I saw him lying down.", "pos": 1386058}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Andrew lying? Is he ill?", "pos": 1386128}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "No, on the contrary, on the contrary! His face was cheerful, and he turned to me.", "pos": 1386211}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, and then, Sónya?...", "pos": 1386376}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "After that, I could not make out what there was; something blue and red....", "pos": 1386404}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya! When will he come back? When shall I see him! O, God, how afraid I am for him and for myself and about everything!...", "pos": 1386482}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "he was of age, that Prince Andrew was marrying without his father’s consent, and he could do the same, but that she would never receive that intriguer as her daughter.", "pos": 1389462}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Nicholas, you are talking nonsense! Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet, I tell you!...", "pos": 1390157}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma darling, it’s not at all so... my poor, sweet darling. Nicholas, I’ll explain to you. Go away! Listen, Mamma darling,", "pos": 1390287}
{"speaker": "Young ladies", "text": "Il est charmant; il n’a pas de sexe,", "pos": 1396717}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "while I am still discontented and want to do something for mankind. But perhaps all these comrades of mine struggled just like me and sought something new, a path in life of their own, and like me were brought by force of circumstances, society, and race—by that elemental force against which man is powerless—to the condition I am in. What for? Why? What is going on in the world? Hélène, who has never cared for anything but her own body and is one of the stupidest women in the world, is regarded by people as the acme of intelligence and refinement, and they pay homage to her. Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now that he has become a wretched comedian the Emperor Francis wants to offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage. The Spaniards, through the Catholic clergy, offer praise to God for their victory over the French on the fourteenth of June, and the French, also through the Catholic clergy, offer praise because on that same fourteenth of June they defeated the Spaniards. My brother Masons swear by the blood that they are ready to sacrifice everything for their neighbor, but they do not give a ruble each to the collections for the poor, and they intrigue, the Astraea Lodge against the Manna Seekers, and fuss about an authentic Scotch carpet and a charter that nobody needs, and the meaning of which the very man who wrote it does not understand. We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches—but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution. I understand the deception and confusion, but how am I to tell them all that I see? I have tried, and have always found that they too in the depths of their souls understand it as I do, and only try not to see it. So it appears that it must be so! But I—what is to become of me?", "pos": 1398705}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It doesn’t matter. I’ll get it unraveled. I have a solution ready, but have no time now—I’ll think it all out later on!", "pos": 1403570}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it’s all the same—only to save oneself from it as best one can. Only not to see it, that dreadful it!", "pos": 1404356}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "It’s horrible, vile, inhuman, to take advantage of the weakness... Leave my room,", "pos": 1411053}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "He doesn’t obey... I said it twice... and he doesn’t obey! She is the first person in this house; she’s my best friend. And if you allow yourself, to forget yourself again before her as you dared to do yesterday, I will show you who is master in this house. Go! Don’t let me set eyes on you; beg her pardon!", "pos": 1411565}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "He is old and feeble, and I dare to condemn him!", "pos": 1412641}
{"speaker": "Métivier", "text": "To force the guard.", "pos": 1414403}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "You don’t understand? but I do! French spy, slave of Buonaparte, spy, get out of my house! Be off, I tell you...", "pos": 1414785}
{"speaker": "Métivier", "text": "The prince is not very well: bile and rush of blood to the head. Keep calm, I will call again tomorrow,", "pos": 1415080}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Spies, traitors, traitors everywhere! Not a moment’s peace in my own house! No, ma’am! We must part, we must part! Understand that, understand it! I cannot endure any more. And don’t imagine I have said this in a moment of anger. I am calm. I have thought it over, and it will be carried out—we must part; so find some place for yourself.... If only some fool would marry her!", "pos": 1415324}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "On that day I always go to pay my devotions to the relics of Prince Nicholas Bolkónski.", "pos": 1417447}
{"speaker": "the commander in chief", "text": "Oh, yes, yes! How is he?...", "pos": 1417537}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel. One only wonders at the long-suffering or blindness of the crowned heads. Now the Pope’s turn has come and Bonaparte doesn’t scruple to depose the head of the Catholic Church—yet all keep silent! Our sovereign alone has protested against the seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg’s territory, and even...", "pos": 1418976}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Other territories have been offered in exchange for the Duchy of Oldenburg. He shifts the Dukes about as I might move my serfs from Bald Hills to Boguchárovo or my Ryazán estates.", "pos": 1419519}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "The Duke of Oldenburg bears his misfortunes with admirable strength of character and resignation,", "pos": 1419726}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "I have read our protests about the Oldenburg affair and was surprised how badly the Note was worded,", "pos": 1420112}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Does it matter, Count, how the Note is worded, so long as its substance is forcible?", "pos": 1420449}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "My dear fellow, with our five hundred thousand troops it should be easy to have a good style,", "pos": 1420548}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "One would have thought quill drivers enough had sprung up. There in Petersburg they are always writing—not notes only but even new laws. My Andrew there has written a whole volume of laws for Russia. Nowadays they are always writing!", "pos": 1420751}
{"speaker": "General Chatróv", "text": "Did you hear of the last event at the review in Petersburg? The figure cut by the new French ambassador. Eh? Yes, I heard something: he said something awkward in His Majesty’s presence.", "pos": 1421145}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "His Majesty drew attention to the Grenadier division and to the march past, and it seems the ambassador took no notice and allowed himself to reply that: ‘We in France pay no attention to such trifles!’ The Emperor did not condescend to reply. At the next review, they say, the Emperor did not once deign to address him.", "pos": 1421335}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Impudent fellows! You know Métivier? I turned him out of my house this morning. He was here; they admitted him in spite of my request that they should let no one in,", "pos": 1421789}
{"speaker": "Prince Nicholas", "text": "We ought not to fight either for or against Austria. Our political interests are all in the East, and in regard to Bonaparte the only thing is to have an armed frontier and a firm policy, and he will never dare to cross the Russian frontier, as was the case in 1807!", "pos": 1423013}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "How can we fight the French, Prince? Can we arm ourselves against our teachers and divinities? Look at our youths, look at our ladies! The French are our Gods: Paris is our Kingdom of Heaven. French dresses, French ideas, French feelings! There now, you turned Métivier out by the scruff of his neck because he is a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies crawl after him on their knees. I went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope’s indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays. And they themselves sit there nearly naked, like the signboards at our Public Baths if I may say so. Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great’s old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them. Well, good-by, your excellency, keep well!", "pos": 1423282}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Good-by, my dear fellow.... His words are music, I never tire of hearing him!", "pos": 1424447}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "May I stay a little longer?", "pos": 1425278}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh yes. You noticed nothing?", "pos": 1425374}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Have you known that young man long, Princess?", "pos": 1425533}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Who?", "pos": 1425591}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Drubetskóy.", "pos": 1425598}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, not long....", "pos": 1425612}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Do you like him?", "pos": 1425631}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, he is an agreeable young man.... Why do you ask me that?", "pos": 1425650}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Because I have noticed that when a young man comes on leave from Petersburg to Moscow it is usually with the object of marrying an heiress.", "pos": 1425797}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You have observed that?", "pos": 1425939}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, and this young man now manages matters so that where there is a wealthy heiress there he is too. I can read him like a book. At present he is hesitating whom to lay siege to—you or Mademoiselle Julie Karágina. He is very attentive to her.", "pos": 1425985}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "He visits them?", "pos": 1426263}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, very often. And do you know the new way of courting?", "pos": 1426281}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No,", "pos": 1426487}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "To please Moscow girls nowadays one has to be melancholy. He is very melancholy with Mademoiselle Karágina,", "pos": 1426516}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Really? It would be a relief, if I ventured to confide what I am feeling to someone. I should like to tell everything to Pierre. He is kind and generous. It would be a relief. He would give me advice.", "pos": 1426639}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Would you marry him?", "pos": 1426952}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, my God, Count, there are moments when I would marry anybody! Ah, how bitter it is to love someone near to you and to feel that... that you can do nothing for him but grieve him, and to know that you cannot alter this. Then there is only one thing left—to go away, but where could I go?", "pos": 1426975}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What is wrong? What is it, Princess?", "pos": 1427373}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I don’t know what is the matter with me today. Don’t take any notice—forget what I have said! Have you any news of the Rostóvs? I was told they are coming soon. I am also expecting Andrew any day. I should like them to meet here.", "pos": 1427487}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And how does he now regard the matter?", "pos": 1428145}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What is to be done? In a few months the year will be up. The thing is impossible. I only wish I could spare my brother the first moments. I wish they would come sooner. I hope to be friends with her. You have known them a long time. Tell me honestly the whole truth: what sort of girl is she, and what do you think of her?—The real truth, because you know Andrew is risking so much doing this against his father’s will that I should like to know....", "pos": 1428259}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I don’t know how to answer your question. I really don’t know what sort of girl she is; I can’t analyze her at all. She is enchanting, but what makes her so I don’t know. That is all one can say about her.", "pos": 1429034}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, that’s what I expected and feared. Is she clever?", "pos": 1429342}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I think not, and yet—yes. She does not deign to be clever.... Oh no, she is simply enchanting, and that is all.", "pos": 1429431}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Ah, I so long to like her! Tell her so if you see her before I do.", "pos": 1429607}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I hear they are expected very soon,", "pos": 1429676}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy. It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.", "pos": 1433450}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "You are always charming and melancholy, my dear Julie. Borís says his soul finds repose at your house. He has suffered so many disappointments and is so sensitive. Ah, my dear, I can’t tell you how fond I have grown of Julie latterly. But who could help loving her? She is an angelic being! Ah, Borís, Borís! And how I pity her mother, today she showed me her accounts and letters from Pénza (they have enormous estates there), and she, poor thing, has no one to help her, and they do cheat her so!", "pos": 1434918}
{"speaker": "Anna Mikháylovna", "text": "My dear. I know from a reliable source that Prince Vasíli has sent his son to Moscow to get him married to Julie. I am so fond of Julie that I should be sorry for her. What do you think of it, my dear?", "pos": 1437219}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Then I should advise you... I did not come here at all to quarrel with you. On the contrary... You know my feelings for you!", "pos": 1438389}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "The count’s things? Bring them here. The young ladies’? There to the left. Now what are you dawdling for? Get the samovar ready!... You’ve grown plumper and prettier. Foo! You are cold! Now take off your things, quick! You’re half frozen, I’m sure! Bring some rum for tea!... Bonjour, Sónya dear! I’m heartily glad you have come and are staying with me. It was high time. The old man is here and his son’s expected any day. You’ll have to make his acquaintance. But we’ll speak of that later on. Now listen. What do you want tomorrow? Whom will you send for? Shinshín? The sniveling Anna Mikháylovna? That’s two. She’s here with her son. The son is getting married! Then Bezúkhov, eh? He is here too, with his wife. He ran away from her and she came galloping after him. He dined with me on Wednesday. As for them tomorrow I’ll take them first to the Iberian shrine of the Mother of God, and then we’ll drive to the Super-Rogue’s. I suppose you’ll have everything new. Don’t judge by me: sleeves nowadays are this size! The other day young Princess Irína Vasílevna came to see me; she was an awful sight—looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. You know not a day passes now without some new fashion.... And what have you to do yourself?", "pos": 1442181}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "One thing has come on top of another: her rags to buy, and now a purchaser has turned up for the Moscow estate and for the house. If you will be so kind, I’ll fix a time and go down to the estate just for a day, and leave my lassies with you.", "pos": 1444238}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "All right. All right. They’ll be safe with me, as safe as in Chancery! I’ll take them where they must go, scold them a bit, and pet them a bit,", "pos": 1444483}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Well, now we’ll talk. I congratulate you on your betrothed. You’ve hooked a fine fellow! I am glad for your sake and I’ve known him since he was so high. I like him and all his family. Now listen! You know that old Prince Nicholas much dislikes his son’s marrying. The old fellow’s crotchety! Of course Prince Andrew is not a child and can shift without him, but it’s not nice to enter a family against a father’s will. One wants to do it peacefully and lovingly. You’re a clever girl and you’ll know how to manage. Be kind, and use your wits. Then all will be well. You see I have known him a long time and am also fond of Mary, your future sister-in-law. ‘Husbands’ sisters bring up blisters,’ but this one wouldn’t hurt a fly. She has asked me to bring you two together. Tomorrow you’ll go with your father to see her. Be very nice and affectionate to her: you’re younger than she. When he comes, he’ll find you already know his sister and father and are liked by them. Am I right or not? Won’t that be best?", "pos": 1445137}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, it will,", "pos": 1446602}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "They can’t help liking me. Everybody always has liked me, and I am so willing to do anything they wish, so ready to be fond of him—for being his father—and of her—for being his sister—that there is no reason for them not to like me....", "pos": 1447156}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, the Lord have mercy on us!", "pos": 1447494}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "There, my dear princess, I’ve brought you my songstress. I am so glad you should get to know one another... very sorry the prince is still ailing. If you’ll allow me to leave my Natásha in your hands for a quarter of an hour, Princess, I’ll drive round to see Anna Semënovna, it’s quite near in the Dogs’ Square, and then I’ll come back for her.", "pos": 1449276}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Ah, madam! Madam, Countess... Countess Rostóva, if I am not mistaken... I beg you to excuse me, to excuse me... I did not know, madam. God is my witness, I did not know you had honored us with a visit, and I came in such a costume only to see my daughter. I beg you to excuse me... God is my witness, I didn’t know—", "pos": 1451329}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "I beg you to excuse me, excuse me! God is my witness, I did not know,", "pos": 1451942}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I couldn’t begin talking about him in the presence of that Frenchwoman,", "pos": 1452669}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Wait, I must... Dear Natalie. I want you to know that I am glad my brother has found happiness....", "pos": 1453172}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I think, Princess, it is not convenient to speak of that now. What have I said and what have I done?", "pos": 1453453}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha, what is it about? What do they matter to you? It will all pass, Natásha.", "pos": 1453868}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But if you only knew how offensive it was... as if I...", "pos": 1453965}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Don’t talk about it, Natásha. It wasn’t your fault so why should you mind? Kiss me,", "pos": 1454023}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I can’t tell you, I don’t know. No one’s to blame. It’s my fault. But it all hurts terribly. Oh, why doesn’t he come?...", "pos": 1454216}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "O God, if he were here now I would not behave as I did then, but differently. I would not be silly and afraid of things, I would simply embrace him, cling to him, and make him look at me with those searching inquiring eyes with which he has so often looked at me, and then I would make him laugh as he used to laugh. And his eyes—how I see those eyes! And what do his father and sister matter to me? I love him alone, him, him, with that face and those eyes, with his smile, manly and yet childlike.... No, I had better not think of him; not think of him but forget him, quite forget him for the present. I can’t bear this waiting and I shall cry in a minute! And how can Sónya love Nicholas so calmly and quietly and wait so long and so patiently? No, she’s altogether different. I can’t!", "pos": 1455005}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha, your hair!...", "pos": 1456855}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Look, there’s Alénina, with her mother, isn’t it?", "pos": 1458581}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Dear me, Michael Kirílovich has grown still stouter! Look at our Anna Mikháylovna—what a headdress she has on! The Karágins, Julie—and Borís with them. One can see at once that they’re engaged.... Drubetskóy has proposed?", "pos": 1458647}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "Oh yes, I heard it today,", "pos": 1458897}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "They are talking about us, about me and him! And he no doubt is calming her jealousy of me. They needn’t trouble themselves! If only they knew how little I am concerned about any of them. What right has he not to wish to receive me into his family? Oh, better not think of it—not till he comes back!", "pos": 1459415}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Do you recognize him? And where has he sprung from? Didn’t he vanish somewhere?", "pos": 1460641}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "He did. He was in the Caucasus and ran away from there. They say he has been acting as minister to some ruling prince in Persia, where he killed the Shah’s brother. Now all the Moscow ladies are mad about him! It’s ‘Dólokhov the Persian’ that does it! We never hear a word but Dólokhov is mentioned. They swear by him, they offer him to you as they would a dish of choice sterlet. Dólokhov and Anatole Kurágin have turned all our ladies’ heads.", "pos": 1460767}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Have you been here long, Countess? I’ll call, I’ll call to kiss your hand. I’m here on business and have brought my girls with me. They say Semënova acts marvelously. Count Pierre never used to forget us. Is he here?", "pos": 1461893}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Yes, he meant to look in,", "pos": 1462127}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Handsome, isn’t she?", "pos": 1462239}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Wonderful! She’s a woman one could easily fall in love with.", "pos": 1462287}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I suppose it has to be like this!", "pos": 1464563}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "There’s Kurágin!", "pos": 1465676}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Mais charmante!", "pos": 1466633}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "How like the brother is to the sister. And how handsome they both are!", "pos": 1467045}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Do make me acquainted with your charming daughters. The whole town is singing their praises and I don’t even know them! I want to become a Moscovite too, now. How is it you’re not ashamed to bury such pearls in the country? Dear count, you must let me look after your daughters! Though I am not staying here long this time—nor are you—I will try to amuse them. I have already heard much of you in Petersburg and wanted to get to know you. I had heard about you from my page, Drubetskóy. Have you heard he is getting married? And also from my husband’s friend Bolkónski, Prince Andrew Bolkónski,", "pos": 1470653}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Isn’t Duport delightful?", "pos": 1473830}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 1473875}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Let me introduce my brother to you,", "pos": 1474065}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I had long wished to have this happiness—ever since the Narýshkins’ ball in fact, at which he had had the well-remembered pleasure of seeing her. And do you know, Countess, we are getting up a costume tournament; you ought to take part in it! It will be great fun. We shall all meet at the Karágins’! Please come! No! Really, eh?", "pos": 1474379}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "At first I did not like it much, because what makes a town pleasant ce sont les jolies femmes, * isn’t that so? But now I like it very much indeed. You’ll come to the costume tournament, Countess? Do come! You will be the prettiest there. Do come, dear countess, and give me this flower as a pledge!", "pos": 1476724}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How is he now? Confused? Angry? Ought I to put it right?", "pos": 1477488}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "O God! I am lost! How could I let him?", "pos": 1479143}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What is it? What was that terror I felt of him? What is this gnawing of conscience I am feeling now? Am I spoiled for Andrew’s love or not? What a fool I am to ask that! What did happen to me? Nothing! I have done nothing, I didn’t lead him on at all. Nobody will know and I shall never see him again. So it is plain that nothing has happened and there is nothing to repent of, and Andrew can love me still. But why ‘still?’ O God, why isn’t he here?", "pos": 1479813}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.", "pos": 1484565}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "She’s first-rate, my dear fellow, but not for us,", "pos": 1485744}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I will tell my sister to ask her to dinner. Eh?", "pos": 1485814}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You’d better wait till she’s married....", "pos": 1485880}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "You know, I adore little girls, they lose their heads at once,", "pos": 1485923}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You have been caught once already by a ‘little girl,’ Take care!", "pos": 1486005}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Well, that can’t happen twice! Eh?", "pos": 1486120}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "I don’t like those fashionable churches. God is the same everywhere. We have an excellent priest, he conducts the service decently and with dignity, and the deacon is the same. What holiness is there in giving concerts in the choir? I don’t like it, it’s just self-indulgence!", "pos": 1487888}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Oh, my enchantress! Charming! No, this is really beyond anything, my dear count. How can you live in Moscow and go nowhere? No, I won’t let you off! Mademoiselle George will recite at my house tonight and there’ll be some people, and if you don’t bring your lovely girls—who are prettier than Mademoiselle George—I won’t know you! My husband is away in Tver or I would send him to fetch you. You must come. You positively must! Between eight and nine. But anything suits you, my charmer!", "pos": 1489803}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "My brother dined with me yesterday—we nearly died of laughter—he ate nothing and kept sighing for you, my charmer! He is madly, quite madly, in love with you, my dear. How she blushes, how she blushes, my pretty! You must certainly come. If you love somebody, my charmer, that is not a reason to shut yourself up. Even if you are engaged, I am sure your fiancé would wish you to go into society rather than be bored to death.", "pos": 1491710}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "So she knows I am engaged, and she and her husband Pierre—that good Pierre—have talked and laughed about this. So it’s all right. And she is such a grande dame, so kind, and evidently likes me so much. And why not enjoy myself?", "pos": 1492200}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "I don’t care to have anything to do with Bezúkhova and don’t advise you to; however, if you’ve promised—go. It will divert your thoughts,", "pos": 1493013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Adorable! divine! delicious!", "pos": 1495090}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How beautiful she is!", "pos": 1495683}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I don’t think so when I look at you! You are enchanting... from the moment I saw you I have never ceased...", "pos": 1495810}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Come, come, Natásha! How beautiful she is!", "pos": 1496011}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t say such things to me. I am betrothed and love another,", "pos": 1496938}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Don’t speak to me of that! What can I do? I tell you I am madly, madly, in love with you! Is it my fault that you are enchanting?... It’s our turn to begin.", "pos": 1497097}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I cannot come to visit you but is it possible that I shall never see you? I love you madly. Can I never...? Natalie? Natalie?", "pos": 1497967}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I don’t understand. I have nothing to say,", "pos": 1498324}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "One word, just one, for God’s sake! Natalie, just a word, only one!", "pos": 1498679}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Else how could all this have happened? If, after that, I could return his smile when saying good-by, if I was able to let it come to that, it means that I loved him from the first. It means that he is kind, noble, and splendid, and I could not help loving him. What am I to do if I love him and the other one too?", "pos": 1499365}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Well, friends, I have now thought the whole matter over and this is my advice. Yesterday, as you know, I went to see Prince Bolkónski. Well, I had a talk with him.... He took it into his head to begin shouting, but I am not one to be shouted down. I said what I had to say!", "pos": 1500246}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, and he?", "pos": 1500535}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "He? He’s crazy... he did not want to listen. But what’s the use of talking? As it is we have worn the poor girl out. My advice to you is finish your business and go back home to Otrádnoe... and wait there.", "pos": 1500568}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, no!", "pos": 1500801}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Yes, go back, and wait there. If your betrothed comes here now—there will be no avoiding a quarrel; but alone with the old man he will talk things over and then come on to you.", "pos": 1500830}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "That is perfectly true. And I am sorry I went to see him and took her,", "pos": 1501293}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "No, why be sorry? Being here, you had to pay your respects. But if he won’t—that’s his affair. Besides, the trousseau is ready, so there is nothing to wait for; and what is not ready I’ll send after you. Though I don’t like letting you go, it is the best way. So go, with God’s blessing! She has written to you. How she torments herself, poor thing! She’s afraid you might think that she does not like you.", "pos": 1501386}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But she doesn’t like me,", "pos": 1501976}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Don’t talk nonsense!", "pos": 1502017}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I shan’t believe anyone, I know she doesn’t like me,", "pos": 1502064}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Don’t answer like that, my good girl! What I say is true! Write an answer!", "pos": 1502289}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Do not think, however, that my father is ill-disposed toward you. He is an invalid and an old man who must be forgiven; but he is good and magnanimous and will love her who makes his son happy.", "pos": 1502756}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Dear Princess. Yes, yes! All that has happened, and now all is changed. Must I break off with him? Must I really? That’s awful... Can it be that it is all over? Can it be that all this has happened so quickly and has destroyed all that went before? Why could that not be as well? Only so could I be completely happy; but now I have to choose, and I can’t be happy without either of them. Only, to tell Prince Andrew what has happened or to hide it from him are both equally impossible. But with that one nothing is spoiled. But am I really to abandon forever the joy of Prince Andrew’s love, in which I have lived so long?", "pos": 1503123}
{"speaker": "a maid", "text": "Please, Miss! A man told me to give you this—", "pos": 1504583}
{"speaker": "the girl", "text": "Only, for Christ’s sake...", "pos": 1504724}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Since yesterday evening my fate has been sealed; to be loved by you or to die. There is no other way for me,", "pos": 1505308}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes! I love him!", "pos": 1505769}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha!", "pos": 1507237}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, you’re back? Sónya, you’ve read that letter?", "pos": 1507301}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1507566}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, Sónya, I can’t any longer! I can’t hide it from you any longer. You know, we love one another! Sónya, darling, he writes... Sónya...", "pos": 1507624}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "And Bolkónski?", "pos": 1507838}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, Sónya, if you only knew how happy I am! You don’t know what love is....", "pos": 1507866}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But, Natásha, can that be all over? Well, then, are you refusing Prince Andrew?", "pos": 1507961}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, you don’t understand anything! Don’t talk nonsense, just listen!", "pos": 1508141}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But I can’t believe it. I don’t understand. How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! Natásha, I don’t believe you, you’re joking! In three days to forget everything and so...", "pos": 1508251}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Three days? It seems to me I’ve loved him a hundred years. It seems to me that I have never loved anyone before. You can’t understand it.... Sónya, wait a bit, sit here. I had heard that it happens like this, and you must have heard it too, but it’s only now that I feel such love. It’s not the same as before. As soon as I saw him I felt he was my master and I his slave, and that I could not help loving him. Yes, his slave! Whatever he orders I shall do. You don’t understand that. What can I do? What can I do, Sónya?", "pos": 1508510}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But think what you are doing. I can’t leave it like this. This secret correspondence... How could you let him go so far?", "pos": 1509143}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I told you that I have no will. Why can’t you understand? I love him!", "pos": 1509346}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Then I won’t let it come to that... I shall tell!", "pos": 1509437}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What do you mean? For God’s sake... If you tell, you are my enemy! You want me to be miserable, you want us to be separated....", "pos": 1509523}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha, I don’t understand you. And what are you saying! Think of your father and of Nicholas.", "pos": 1511275}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I don’t want anyone, I don’t love anyone but him. How dare you say he is dishonorable? Don’t you know that I love him? Go away, Sónya! I don’t want to quarrel with you, but go, for God’s sake go! You see how I am suffering!", "pos": 1511373}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "There, Sónya, you were talking all sorts of nonsense about him. We have had an explanation today.", "pos": 1512812}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Well, what happened? What did he say? Natásha, how glad I am you’re not angry with me! Tell me everything—the whole truth. What did he say?", "pos": 1512995}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, Sónya, if you knew him as I do! He said... He asked me what I had promised Bolkónski. He was glad I was free to refuse him.", "pos": 1513164}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But you haven’t refused Bolkónski?", "pos": 1513320}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Perhaps I have. Perhaps all is over between me and Bolkónski. Why do you think so badly of me?", "pos": 1513367}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha, I am afraid for you!", "pos": 1514099}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Afraid of what?", "pos": 1514131}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I am afraid you’re going to your ruin,", "pos": 1514149}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And I’ll go to my ruin, I will, as soon as possible! It’s not your business! It won’t be you, but I, who’ll suffer. Leave me alone, leave me alone! I hate you!", "pos": 1514299}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha!", "pos": 1514461}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I hate you, I hate you! You’re my enemy forever!", "pos": 1514494}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "She will run away with him! She is capable of anything. There was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face today. She cried as she said good-by to Uncle. Yes, that’s it, she means to elope with him, but what am I to do? The count is away. What am I to do? Write to Kurágin demanding an explanation? But what is there to oblige him to reply? Write to Pierre, as Prince Andrew asked me to in case of some misfortune?... But perhaps she really has already refused Bolkónski—she sent a letter to Princess Mary yesterday. And Uncle is away.... Well, anyway, now or never I must prove that I remember the family’s goodness to me and that I love Nicholas. Yes! If I don’t sleep for three nights I’ll not leave this passage and will hold her back by force and will and not let the family be disgraced,", "pos": 1515683}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well. Khvóstikov must have two thousand.", "pos": 1518428}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Give it to him, then,", "pos": 1518482}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Makárka will go through fire and water for you for nothing. So here are our accounts all settled. Is that right?", "pos": 1518520}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Yes, of course,", "pos": 1518707}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Do you know? You’d really better drop it all. There’s still time!", "pos": 1518938}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Fool. Don’t talk nonsense! If you only knew... it’s the devil knows what!", "pos": 1519006}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "No, really, give it up! I am speaking seriously. It’s no joke, this plot you’ve hatched.", "pos": 1519102}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "What, teasing again? Go to the devil! Eh? Really it’s no time for your stupid jokes,", "pos": 1519210}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "You wait a bit. I’m not joking, I’m talking sense. Come here, come here! Now listen to me. I’m telling you this for the last time. Why should I joke about it? Did I hinder you? Who arranged everything for you? Who found the priest and got the passport? Who raised the money? I did it all.", "pos": 1519431}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Well, thank you for it. Do you think I am not grateful?", "pos": 1519867}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I helped you, but all the same I must tell you the truth; it is a dangerous business, and if you think about it—a stupid business. Well, you’ll carry her off—all right! Will they let it stop at that? It will come out that you’re already married. Why, they’ll have you in the criminal court....", "pos": 1519967}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Oh, nonsense, nonsense! Didn’t I explain to you? What? Didn’t I explain to you that I have come to this conclusion: if this marriage is invalid, then I have nothing to answer for; but if it is valid, no matter! Abroad no one will know anything about it. Isn’t that so? And don’t talk to me, don’t, don’t.", "pos": 1520263}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Seriously, you’d better drop it! You’ll only get yourself into a mess!", "pos": 1520842}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Go to the devil! It’s the very devil! What? Feel how it beats! What a foot, my dear fellow! What a glance! A goddess! What?", "pos": 1520915}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Well and when the money’s gone, what then?", "pos": 1521413}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "What then? Eh? What then?... Then, I don’t know.... But why talk nonsense! It’s time!", "pos": 1521458}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I don’t want to,", "pos": 1522158}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "Theodore Iványch!", "pos": 1525218}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "do you care for me or not? Eh? Now, do me a service.... What horses have you come with? Eh?", "pos": 1525468}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "As your messenger ordered, your special beasts,", "pos": 1525562}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Well, listen, Balagá! Drive all three to death but get me there in three hours. Eh?", "pos": 1525628}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "When they are dead, what shall I drive?", "pos": 1525714}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Mind, I’ll smash your face in! Don’t make jokes!", "pos": 1525781}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "Why joke? As if I’d grudge my gentlemen anything! As fast as ever the horses can gallop, so fast we’ll go!", "pos": 1525903}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Ah! Well, sit down.", "pos": 1526012}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Yes, sit down!", "pos": 1526050}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I’ll stand, Theodore Iványch. And when are we to start, your excellency? Well... We’ll start at once. Mind, Balagá! You’ll get there in time? Eh?", "pos": 1526082}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "That depends on our luck in starting, else why shouldn’t we be there in time? Didn’t we get you to Tver in seven hours? I think you remember that, your excellency?", "pos": 1526535}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Do you know, one Christmas I drove from Tver. Will you believe it, Makárka, it took one’s breath away, the rate we flew. We came across a train of loaded sleighs and drove right over two of them. Eh?", "pos": 1526719}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "Those were horses! That time I’d harnessed two young side horses with the bay in the shafts. Will you believe it, Theodore Iványch, those animals flew forty miles? I couldn’t hold them in, my hands grew numb in the sharp frost so that I threw down the reins—‘Catch hold yourself, your excellency!’ says I, and I just tumbled on the bottom of the sleigh and sprawled there. It wasn’t a case of urging them on, there was no holding them in till we reached the place. The devils took us there in three hours! Only the near one died of it.", "pos": 1527040}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Well, good-by, Theodore. Thank you for everything and farewell! Well, comrades and friends... ... of my youth, farewell!", "pos": 1527968}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Let’s go. Let’s go!", "pos": 1528901}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Where’s the fur cloak? Hey, Ignátka! Go to Matrëna Matrévna and ask her for the sable cloak. I have heard what elopements are like. Why, she’ll rush out more dead than alive just in the things she is wearing; if you delay at all there’ll be tears and ‘Papa’ and ‘Mamma,’ and she’s frozen in a minute and must go back—but you wrap the fur cloak round her first thing and carry her to the sleigh.", "pos": 1529247}
{"speaker": "Matrëna", "text": "Here, I don’t grudge it—take it!", "pos": 1530016}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "That’s the way, and then so! And then so, do you see?", "pos": 1530218}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Well, good-by, Matrëna. Ah, my revels here are over. Remember me to Stëshka. There, good-by! Good-by, Matrëna, wish me luck!", "pos": 1530505}
{"speaker": "Matrëna", "text": "Well, Prince, may God give you great luck!", "pos": 1530661}
{"speaker": "Balagá", "text": "Well, are you ready? Go! Tproo! Get out of the way! Hi!... Tproo!...", "pos": 1531039}
{"speaker": "maidservant", "text": "Come into the courtyard or you’ll be seen; she’ll come out directly,", "pos": 1531821}
{"speaker": "Gabriel", "text": "Come to the mistress, please,", "pos": 1532083}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "To what Mistress? Who are you?", "pos": 1532176}
{"speaker": "Gabriel", "text": "Kindly step in, my orders are to bring you in.", "pos": 1532248}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Kurágin! Come back! Betrayed! Back!", "pos": 1532297}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "You shameless good-for-nothing! I won’t hear a word.", "pos": 1532871}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Márya Dmítrievna, for God’s sake let me in to her!", "pos": 1533594}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Disgusting, abominable... In my house... horrid girl, hussy! I’m only sorry for her father! Hard as it may be, I’ll tell them all to hold their tongues and will hide it from the count. A nice girl! Very nice! Arranging meetings with lovers in my house! It’s no use pretending: you listen when I speak to you! Listen when I speak! You’ve disgraced yourself like the lowest of hussies. I’d treat you differently, but I’m sorry for your father, so I will conceal it.", "pos": 1533744}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Let me be!... What is it to me?... I shall die!", "pos": 1535078}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Natalie! I wish for your good. Lie still, stay like that then, I won’t touch you. But listen. I won’t tell you how guilty you are. You know that yourself. But when your father comes back tomorrow what am I to tell him? Eh? Suppose he finds out, and your brother, and your betrothed?", "pos": 1535261}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I have no betrothed: I have refused him!", "pos": 1535611}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "That’s all the same. If they hear of this, will they let it pass? He, your father, I know him... if he challenges him to a duel will that be all right? Eh?", "pos": 1535669}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, let me be! Why have you interfered at all? Why? Why? Who asked you to?", "pos": 1535857}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "But what did you want? Were you kept under lock and key? Who hindered his coming to the house? Why carry you off as if you were some gypsy singing girl?... Well, if he had carried you off... do you think they wouldn’t have found him? Your father, or brother, or your betrothed? And he’s a scoundrel, a wretch—that’s a fact!", "pos": 1536024}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "He is better than any of you! If you hadn’t interfered... Oh, my God! What is it all? What is it? Sónya, why?... Go away! Go away! Go away! You all hate and despise me!", "pos": 1536397}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Well, let her sleep,", "pos": 1537367}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "What is the matter with you, my angel? Are you ill?", "pos": 1538619}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, ill.", "pos": 1538733}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What can have happened? And what can they want with me? If only Prince Andrew would hurry up and come and marry her!", "pos": 1540302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Pierre! Been back long?", "pos": 1540571}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, indeed, that’s a true sage. He sees nothing beyond the pleasure of the moment, nothing troubles him and so he is always cheerful, satisfied, and serene. What wouldn’t I give to be like him! What has happened?", "pos": 1541080}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Fine doings! For fifty-eight years have I lived in this world and never known anything so disgraceful!", "pos": 1541725}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They are all alike!", "pos": 1542849}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But how get married? He could not marry—he is married!", "pos": 1543452}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Things get worse from hour to hour! A nice youth! What a scoundrel! And she’s expecting him—expecting him since yesterday. She must be told! Then at least she won’t go on expecting him.", "pos": 1543555}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "Mind, the count knows nothing. Behave as if you know nothing either. And I will go and tell her it is no use expecting him! And stay to dinner if you care to!", "pos": 1544467}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Troubles, troubles, my dear fellow! What troubles one has with these girls without their mother! I do so regret having come here.... I will be frank with you. Have you heard she has broken off her engagement without consulting anybody? It’s true this engagement never was much to my liking. Of course he is an excellent man, but still, with his father’s disapproval they wouldn’t have been happy, and Natásha won’t lack suitors. Still, it has been going on so long, and to take such a step without father’s or mother’s consent! And now she’s ill, and God knows what! It’s hard, Count, hard to manage daughters in their mother’s absence....", "pos": 1544788}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha is not quite well; she’s in her room and would like to see you. Márya Dmítrievna is with her and she too asks you to come.", "pos": 1545611}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, you are a great friend of Bolkónski’s, no doubt she wants to send him a message. Oh dear! Oh dear! How happy it all was!", "pos": 1545744}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "He knows all about it. Let him tell you whether I have told the truth.", "pos": 1546559}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Natálya Ilyníchna, whether it is true or not should make no difference to you, because...", "pos": 1546812}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Then it is not true that he’s married!", "pos": 1547010}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, it is true.", "pos": 1547051}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Has he been married long? On your honor?... Is he still here?", "pos": 1547070}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I have just seen him.", "pos": 1547200}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Ah, Pierre. You don’t know what a plight our Anatole...", "pos": 1549288}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Where you are, there is vice and evil! Anatole, come with me! I must speak to you,", "pos": 1549623}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "If you allow yourself in my drawing room...", "pos": 1549930}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You promised Countess Rostóva to marry her and were about to elope with her, is that so?", "pos": 1550218}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Mon cher. I don’t consider myself bound to answer questions put to me in that tone.", "pos": 1550309}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "When I tell you that I must talk to you!...", "pos": 1550666}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "Come now, this is stupid. What?", "pos": 1550729}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You’re a scoundrel and a blackguard, and I don’t know what deprives me from the pleasure of smashing your head with this! Did you promise to marry her?", "pos": 1550864}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I... I didn’t think of it. I never promised, because...", "pos": 1551194}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Have you any letters of hers? Any letters? I shan’t be violent, don’t be afraid! First, the letters. Secondly, tomorrow you must get out of Moscow.", "pos": 1551276}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "But how can I?...", "pos": 1551865}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Thirdly, you must never breathe a word of what has passed between you and Countess Rostóva. I know I can’t prevent your doing so, but if you have a spark of conscience... After all, you must understand that besides your pleasure there is such a thing as other people’s happiness and peace, and that you are ruining a whole life for the sake of amusing yourself! Amuse yourself with women like my wife—with them you are within your rights, for they know what you want of them. They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her... to deceive, to kidnap.... Don’t you understand that it is as mean as beating an old man or a child?...", "pos": 1551885}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "I don’t know about that, eh? I don’t know that and don’t want to, but you have used such words to me—‘mean’ and so on—which as a man of honor I can’t allow anyone to use. Though it was tête-à-tête, still I can’t...", "pos": 1552806}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Is it satisfaction you want?", "pos": 1553266}
{"speaker": "Anatole", "text": "You could at least take back your words. What? If you want me to do as you wish, eh?", "pos": 1553321}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I take them back, I take them back! and I ask you to forgive me. And if you require money for your journey... Oh, vile and heartless brood!", "pos": 1553408}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "He says he expected it. I know his pride will not let him express his feelings, but still he has taken it better, far better, than I expected. Evidently it had to be....", "pos": 1556469}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But is it possible that all is really ended?", "pos": 1556657}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Now he is censured and accused by all who were enthusiastic about him a month ago, and by those who were unable to understand his aims. To judge a man who is in disfavor and to throw on him all the blame of other men’s mistakes is very easy, but I maintain that if anything good has been accomplished in this reign it was done by him, by him alone. Posterity will do him justice. Well, how are you? Still getting stouter? Yes, I am well. I am well, but my health is now of no use to anyone. If there were treason, or proofs of secret relations with Napoleon, they would have been made public. I do not, and never did, like Speránski personally, but I like justice!", "pos": 1557194}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forgive me for troubling you.... I have received a refusal from Countess Rostóva and have heard reports of your brother-in-law having sought her hand, or something of that kind. Is that true?", "pos": 1559193}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Both true and untrue,", "pos": 1559603}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Here are her letters and her portrait. Give this to the countess... if you see her.", "pos": 1559676}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "She is very ill,", "pos": 1559832}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Then she is here still? And Prince Kurágin?", "pos": 1559864}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "He left long ago. She has been at death’s door.", "pos": 1559950}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I much regret her illness. So Monsieur Kurágin has not honored Countess Rostóva with his hand?", "pos": 1560000}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "He could not marry, for he was married already,", "pos": 1560239}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And where is your brother-in-law now, if I may ask?", "pos": 1560373}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "He has gone to Peters... But I don’t know,", "pos": 1560436}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, it doesn’t matter. Tell Countess Rostóva that she was and is perfectly free and that I wish her all that is good.", "pos": 1560494}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I say, do you remember our discussion in Petersburg? about...", "pos": 1560811}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes. I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn’t say I could forgive her. I can’t.", "pos": 1560891}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But can this be compared...?", "pos": 1561026}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, ask her hand again, be magnanimous, and so on?... Yes, that would be very noble, but I am unable to follow in that gentleman’s footsteps. If you wish to be my friend never speak to me of that... of all that! Well, good-by. So you’ll give her the packet?", "pos": 1561119}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha insists on seeing Count Peter Kirílovich,", "pos": 1562453}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "But how? Are we to take him up to her? The room there has not been tidied up.", "pos": 1562515}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "No, she has dressed and gone into the drawing room,", "pos": 1562595}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna", "text": "When will her mother come? She has worried me to death! Now mind, don’t tell her everything! One hasn’t the heart to scold her, she is so much to be pitied, so much to be pitied.", "pos": 1562707}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Peter Kirílovich. Prince Bolkónski was your friend—is your friend. He told me once to apply to you... He is here now: tell him... to for... forgive me!", "pos": 1563475}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes... I will tell him, but...", "pos": 1564031}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I know all is over. No, that can never be. I’m only tormented by the wrong I have done him. Tell him only that I beg him to forgive, forgive, forgive me for everything....", "pos": 1564196}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I will tell him, I will tell him everything once more. But... I should like to know one thing....", "pos": 1564512}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Know what?", "pos": 1564627}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I should like to know, did you love... did you love that bad man?", "pos": 1564662}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t call him bad! But I don’t know, don’t know at all....", "pos": 1564810}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "We won’t speak of it any more, my dear. We won’t speak of it, my dear—I’ll tell him everything; but one thing I beg of you, consider me your friend and if you want help, advice, or simply to open your heart to someone—not now, but when your mind is clearer--think of me! I shall be happy if it’s in my power...", "pos": 1565066}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t speak to me like that. I am not worth it!", "pos": 1565520}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Stop, stop! You have your whole life before you,", "pos": 1565741}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Before me? No! All is over for me,", "pos": 1565808}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "All over? If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!", "pos": 1565888}
{"speaker": "coachman", "text": "Where to now, your excellency?", "pos": 1566407}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Where to? Where can I go now? Surely not to the Club or to pay calls? Home!", "pos": 1566460}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "My respected Brother, I consent to restore the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg", "pos": 1569668}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The king’s heart is in the hands of the Lord.", "pos": 1575578}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Vive l’Empereur! Now we’ll go into action. Oh, when he takes it in hand himself, things get hot... by heaven!... There he is!... Vive l’Empereur! So these are the steppes of Asia! It’s a nasty country all the same. Au revoir, Beauché; I’ll keep the best palace in Moscow for you! Au revoir. Good luck!... Did you see the Emperor? Vive l’Empereur!... preur!—If they make me Governor of India, Gérard, I’ll make you Minister of Kashmir—that’s settled. Vive l’Empereur! Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! The Cossacks—those rascals—see how they run! Vive l’Empereur! There he is, do you see him? I’ve seen him twice, as I see you now. The little corporal... I saw him give the cross to one of the veterans.... Vive l’Empereur!", "pos": 1581205}
{"speaker": "Poles", "text": "Vivat!", "pos": 1583275}
{"speaker": "Polish Uhlans", "text": "What? What did he say?", "pos": 1583795}
{"speaker": "Colonel of the Polish Uhlans", "text": "Vivat!", "pos": 1584572}
{"speaker": "Colonel and men", "text": "Vivat!", "pos": 1586408}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "that he meant to choose Countess Potocka who, he thought, had gone out onto the veranda,", "pos": 1591982}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "To enter Russia without declaring war! I will not make peace as long as a single armed enemy remains in my country! Let no one know of it!", "pos": 1592474}
{"speaker": "Murat", "text": "Poor fellows, they don’t know that I am leaving them tomorrow!", "pos": 1600140}
{"speaker": "Murat", "text": "De Bal-machève! Charmed to make your acquaintance, General! Well, General, it all looks like war,", "pos": 1601203}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "Your Majesty, my master, the Emperor, does not desire war and as Your Majesty sees...", "pos": 1601760}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "nothing offensive in the demand, because...", "pos": 1602715}
{"speaker": "Murat", "text": "Then you don’t consider the Emperor Alexander the aggressor? Oh, my dear general! with all my heart I wish the Emperors may arrange the affair between them, and that the war begun by no wish of mine may finish as quickly as possible! I won’t detain you longer, General. I wish success to your mission,", "pos": 1602788}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "Where is your dispatch? Give it to me. I will send it to the Emperor. Your Emperor’s orders are obeyed in your army, but here, you must do as you’re told.", "pos": 1606486}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "You are perfectly at liberty to treat me with respect or not, but permit me to observe that I have the honor to be adjutant general to His Majesty....", "pos": 1607116}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "You will be treated as is fitting,", "pos": 1607428}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Good day, General! I have received the letter you brought from the Emperor Alexander and am very glad to see you. I do not, and did not, desire war, but it has been forced on me. Even now Even now I am ready to receive any explanations you can give me.", "pos": 1611242}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "Sire! The Emperor, my master...", "pos": 1612324}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "You are flurried—compose yourself! Not yet!", "pos": 1612420}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "On condition that the French army retires beyond the Niemen.", "pos": 1613623}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I desire peace, no less than the Emperor Alexander. Have I not for eighteen months been doing everything to obtain it? I have waited eighteen months for explanations. But in order to begin negotiations, what is demanded of me?", "pos": 1614130}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "The withdrawal of your army beyond the Niemen, sire,", "pos": 1614465}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "The Niemen? So now you want me to retire beyond the Niemen—only the Niemen? You say the demand now is that I am to withdraw beyond the Niemen before commencing negotiations, but in just the same way two months ago the demand was that I should withdraw beyond the Vistula and the Oder, and yet you are willing to negotiate. Such demands as to retreat beyond the Vistula and Oder may be made to a Prince of Baden, but not to me! If you gave me Petersburg and Moscow I could not accept such conditions. You say I have begun this war! But who first joined his army? The Emperor Alexander, not I! And you offer me negotiations when I have expended millions, when you are in alliance with England, and when your position is a bad one. You offer me negotiations! But what is the aim of your alliance with England? What has she given you?", "pos": 1614538}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I hear you have made peace with Turkey?", "pos": 1616719}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "Peace has been concluded...", "pos": 1616800}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Yes, I know you have made peace with the Turks without obtaining Moldavia and Wallachia; I would have given your sovereign those provinces as I gave him Finland. Yes. Yes. I promised and would have given the Emperor Alexander Moldavia and Wallachia, and now he won’t have those splendid provinces. Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube. Catherine the Great could not have done more. All that, he would have owed to my friendship. Oh, what a splendid reign! What a splendid reign the Emperor Alexander’s might have been! What could he wish or look for that he would not have obtained through my friendship? But no, he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom? With Steins, Armfeldts, Bennigsens, and Wintzingerodes! Stein, a traitor expelled from his own country; Armfeldt, a rake and an intriguer; Wintzingerode, a fugitive French subject; Bennigsen, rather more of a soldier than the others, but all the same an incompetent who was unable to do anything in 1807 and who should awaken terrible memories in the Emperor Alexander’s mind.... Granted that were they competent they might be made use of, but they are not even that! They are neither fit for war nor peace! Barclay is said to be the most capable of them all, but I cannot say so, judging by his first movements. And what are they doing, all these courtiers? Pfuel proposes, Armfeldt disputes, Bennigsen considers, and Barclay, called on to act, does not know what to decide on, and time passes bringing no result. Bagratión alone is a military man. He’s stupid, but he has experience, a quick eye, and resolution.... And what role is your young monarch playing in that monstrous crowd? They compromise him and throw on him the responsibility for all that happens. A sovereign should not be with the army unless he is a general! The campaign began only a week ago, and you haven’t even been able to defend Vílna. You are cut in two and have been driven out of the Polish provinces. Your army is grumbling.", "pos": 1617044}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "On the contrary, Your Majesty, the troops are burning with eagerness...", "pos": 1619972}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I know everything! I know everything. I know the number of your battalions as exactly as I know my own. You have not two hundred thousand men, and I have three times that number. I give you my word of honor. I give you my word of honor that I have five hundred and thirty thousand men this side of the Vistula. The Turks will be of no use to you; they are worth nothing and have shown it by making peace with you. As for the Swedes—it is their fate to be governed by mad kings. Their king was insane and they changed him for another—Bernadotte, who promptly went mad—for no Swede would ally himself with Russia unless he were mad.", "pos": 1620167}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "But what do I care about your allies? I have allies—the Poles. There are eighty thousand of them and they fight like lions. And there will be two hundred thousand of them. Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I’ll wipe it off the map of Europe! Yes, I will throw you back beyond the Dvína and beyond the Dnieper, and will re-erect against you that barrier which it was criminal and blind of Europe to allow to be destroyed. Yes, that is what will happen to you. That is what you have gained by alienating me! And yet what a splendid reign your master might have had!", "pos": 1621982}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light. in Russia the best results were expected from the war.", "pos": 1623399}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I know it’s your duty to say that, but you don’t believe it yourself. I have convinced you. Assure the Emperor Alexander from me, that I am as devoted to him as before: I know him thoroughly and very highly esteem his lofty qualities. I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter to the Emperor. I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter,", "pos": 1623676}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "How many inhabitants are there in Moscow? How many houses? Is it true that Moscow is called ‘Holy Moscow’? How many churches are there in Moscow? Why such a quantity of churches?", "pos": 1626229}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "The Russians are very devout,", "pos": 1626507}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "But a large number of monasteries and churches is always a sign of the backwardness of a people,", "pos": 1626557}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "Every country has its own character,", "pos": 1626796}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "But nowhere in Europe is there anything like that,", "pos": 1626844}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "I beg your Majesty’s pardon, besides Russia there is Spain, where there are also many churches and monasteries.", "pos": 1626912}
{"speaker": "Balashëv", "text": "all roads lead to Rome, among them the road through Poltáva, which Charles XII chose.", "pos": 1627741}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "They tell me this is the room the Emperor Alexander occupied? Strange, isn’t it, General? Yes. Four days ago in this room, Wintzingerode and Stein were deliberating. What I can’t understand, is that the Emperor Alexander has surrounded himself with my personal enemies. That I do not... understand. Has he not thought that I may do the same? And let him know that I will do so! I’ll drive all his Württemberg, Baden, and Weimar relations out of Germany.... Yes. I’ll drive them out. Let him prepare an asylum for them in Russia! And why has the Emperor Alexander taken command of the armies? What is the good of that? War is my profession, but his business is to reign and not to command armies! Why has he taken on himself such a responsibility?", "pos": 1628748}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Well, adorer and courtier of the Emperor Alexander, why don’t you say anything? Are the horses ready for the general? Let him have mine, he has a long way to go!", "pos": 1630899}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If you ask me. I did not wish to speak about it, but as you ask me I will give you my frank opinion. If there is any misunderstanding and discord between you and Mary, I can’t blame her for it at all. I know how she loves and respects you. Since you ask me. I can only say that if there are any misunderstandings they are caused by that worthless woman, who is not fit to be my sister’s companion.", "pos": 1639086}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "What companion, my dear boy? Eh? You’ve already been talking it over! Eh?", "pos": 1639835}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Father, I did not want to judge, but you challenged me, and I have said, and always shall say, that Mary is not to blame, but those to blame—the one to blame—is that Frenchwoman.", "pos": 1639911}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Ah, he has passed judgment... passed judgement! Be off, be off! Let not a trace of you remain here!...", "pos": 1640141}
{"speaker": "his son", "text": "Well, go on!", "pos": 1641363}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "So you’ve decided to go, Andrew?", "pos": 1641774}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Thank God that I can. I am very sorry you can’t.", "pos": 1641827}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Why do you say that? Why do you say that, when you are going to this terrible war, and he is so old? Mademoiselle Bourienne says he has been asking about you....", "pos": 1641903}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ah, my God! my God! When one thinks who and what—what trash—can cause people misery!", "pos": 1642231}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Andrew! One thing I beg, I entreat of you! I understand you Don’t imagine that sorrow is the work of men. Men are His tools. Sorrow is sent by Him, not by men. Men are His instruments, they are not to blame. If you think someone has wronged you, forget it and forgive! We have no right to punish. And then you will know the happiness of forgiving.", "pos": 1642543}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "If I were a woman I would do so, Mary. That is a woman’s virtue. But a man should not and cannot forgive and forget,", "pos": 1643156}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Good-by, Andrew! Remember that misfortunes come from God, and men are never to blame,", "pos": 1644021}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Then it must be so!", "pos": 1644181}
{"speaker": "Men of the fourth party", "text": "Nothing but sorrow, shame, and ruin will come of all this! We have abandoned Vílna and Vítebsk and shall abandon Drissa. The only reasonable thing left to do is to conclude peace as soon as possible, before we are turned out of Petersburg.", "pos": 1653958}
{"speaker": "Men of the fifth party", "text": "Be he what he may he is an honest, practical man and we have nobody better. Give him real power, for war cannot be conducted successfully without unity of command, and he will show what he can do, as he did in Finland. If our army is well organized and strong and has withdrawn to Drissa without suffering any defeats, we owe this entirely to Barclay. If Barclay is now to be superseded by Bennigsen all will be lost, for Bennigsen showed his incapacity already in 1807.", "pos": 1654526}
{"speaker": "The Bennigsenites", "text": "and twist about as you may, you will have to come to Bennigsen eventually. Let the others make mistakes now! The more mistakes that are made the better. It will at any rate be understood all the sooner that things cannot go on like this. What is wanted is not some Barclay or other, but a man like Bennigsen, who made his mark in 1807, and to whom Napoleon himself did justice—a man whose authority would be willingly recognized, and Bennigsen is the only such man.", "pos": 1655169}
{"speaker": "Pfuel", "text": "That must have been a fine tactical war", "pos": 1665948}
{"speaker": "Pfuel", "text": "There, I said the whole affair would go to the devil!", "pos": 1668310}
{"speaker": "Paulucci", "text": "And as for the man who advised forming this camp—the Drissa camp, as to that person, sire... the man who advised the Drissa camp—I see no alternative but the lunatic asylum or the gallows!", "pos": 1669929}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "I am very glad to see you! Go in there where they are meeting, and wait for me.", "pos": 1670444}
{"speaker": "Pfuel", "text": "Why ask me? General Armfeldt has proposed a splendid position with an exposed rear, or why not this Italian gentleman’s attack—very fine, or a retreat, also good! Why ask me? Why, you yourselves know everything better than I do. Everything has been spoiled, everything muddled, everybody thought they knew better than I did, and now you come to me! How mend matters? There is nothing to mend! The principles laid down by me must be strictly adhered to. What is the difficulty? Nonsense, childishness!", "pos": 1672950}
{"speaker": "Wolzogen", "text": "Is it not so, your excellency?", "pos": 1674723}
{"speaker": "Pfuel", "text": "Well, of course, what more is there to explain?", "pos": 1674879}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Adored friend of my soul! Nothing but honor could keep me from returning to the country. But now, at the commencement of the campaign, I should feel dishonored, not only in my comrades’ eyes but in my own, if I preferred my own happiness to my love and duty to the Fatherland. But this shall be our last separation. Believe me, directly the war is over, if I am still alive and still loved by you, I will throw up everything and fly to you, to press you forever to my ardent breast.", "pos": 1681135}
{"speaker": "Zdrzhinski", "text": "I have come from the staff, Count. Have you heard of Raévski’s exploit?", "pos": 1685792}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "I can’t stand this any more. My stockings and shirt... and the water is running on my seat! I’ll go and look for shelter. The rain seems less heavy. Hurrah! Rostóv, come quick! I’ve found it! About two hundred yards away there’s a tavern where ours have already gathered. We can at least get dry there, and Mary Hendríkhovna’s there.", "pos": 1688606}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Rostóv, where are you?", "pos": 1689777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here. What lightning!", "pos": 1689802}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Dear me, how jolly we are!", "pos": 1690235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why do you stand there gaping?", "pos": 1690286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What swells they are! Why, the water streams from them! Don’t make our drawing room so wet.", "pos": 1690323}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t mess Mary Hendríkhovna’s dress!", "pos": 1690417}
{"speaker": "Mary Hendríkhovna", "text": "Leave him alone. He is sleeping well as it is, after a sleepless night.", "pos": 1691616}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Oh, no, Mary Hendríkhovna, one must look after the doctor. Perhaps he’ll take pity on me someday, when it comes to cutting off a leg or an arm for me.", "pos": 1691745}
{"speaker": "Mary Hendríkhovna", "text": "But you take it without sugar?", "pos": 1693005}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "It is not the sugar I want, but only that your little hand should stir my tea. Use your finger, Mary Hendríkhovna, it will be still nicer,", "pos": 1693170}
{"speaker": "Mary Hendríkhovna", "text": "Too hot!", "pos": 1693425}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "This is my cup. Only dip your finger in it and I’ll drink it all up. Well, but supposing Mary Hendríkhovna is ‘King’?", "pos": 1693603}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "As it is, she is Queen, and her word is law!", "pos": 1694154}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But I’ll send an orderly.... Two of them! What an idea, doctor!", "pos": 1695039}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "I’ll stand guard on it myself!", "pos": 1695120}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "No, gentlemen, you have had your sleep, but I have not slept for two nights,", "pos": 1695165}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "She really is a dear little thing,", "pos": 1696881}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "A charming woman!", "pos": 1696963}
{"speaker": "Regimental commander", "text": "Halt! Dress your ranks! Forward by the left. Walk, march!", "pos": 1700557}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Andrew Sevastyánych! You know, we could crush them....", "pos": 1703743}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "A fine thing too! and really...", "pos": 1703815}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "I surrender!", "pos": 1706805}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But what on earth is worrying me? Ilyín? No, he’s safe. Have I disgraced myself in any way? No, that’s not it. Yes, oh yes, that French officer with the dimple. And I remember how my arm paused when I raised it.", "pos": 1708195}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "So others are even more afraid than I am! So that’s all there is in what is called heroism! And did I do it for my country’s sake? And how was he to blame, with his dimple and blue eyes? And how frightened he was! He thought that I should kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand trembled. And they have given me a St. George’s Cross.... I can’t make it out at all.", "pos": 1709383}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You’ll never get well like that, if you won’t obey the doctor and take your medicine at the right time! You mustn’t trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia,", "pos": 1714333}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What next?", "pos": 1718335}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "She must certainly go on taking them morning and evening. Only, please be particular about it. Be quite easy. She will soon be singing and frolicking about. The last medicine has done her a very great deal of good. She has freshened up very much.", "pos": 1724018}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s Rostóva, the one who...", "pos": 1726421}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She’s much thinner, but all the same she’s pretty!", "pos": 1726454}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "It’s Sunday again—another week past, and always the same life that is no life, and the same surroundings in which it used to be so easy to live. I’m pretty, I’m young, and I know that now I am good. I used to be bad, but now I know I am good, but yet my best years are slipping by and are no good to anyone.", "pos": 1727188}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Teach me what I should do, how to live my life, how I may grow good forever, forever!", "pos": 1728507}
{"speaker": "Deacon", "text": "In peace let us pray unto the Lord.", "pos": 1728870}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "As one community, without distinction of class, without enmity, united by brotherly love—let us pray!", "pos": 1728908}
{"speaker": "Deacon", "text": "For the peace that is from above, and for the salvation of our souls.", "pos": 1729029}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "For the world of angels and all the spirits who dwell above us,", "pos": 1729101}
{"speaker": "Deacon", "text": "Let us commit ourselves and our whole lives to Christ the Lord!", "pos": 1730583}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Commit ourselves to God. Lord God, I submit myself to Thy will! I want nothing, wish for nothing; teach me what to do and how to use my will! Take me, take me!", "pos": 1730649}
{"speaker": "Priest", "text": "Lord God of might, God of our salvation! Lord God of might, God of our salvation! Look this day in mercy and blessing on Thy humble people, and graciously hear us, spare us, and have mercy upon us! This foe confounding Thy land, desiring to lay waste the whole world, rises against us; these lawless men are gathered together to overthrow Thy kingdom, to destroy Thy dear Jerusalem, Thy beloved Russia; to defile Thy temples, to overthrow Thine altars, and to desecrate our holy shrines. How long, O Lord, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they wield unlawful power? Lord God! Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pávlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel! Bless his counsels, his undertakings, and his work; strengthen his kingdom by Thine almighty hand, and give him victory over his enemy, even as Thou gavest Moses the victory over Amalek, Gideon over Midian, and David over Goliath. Preserve his army, put a bow of brass in the hands of those who have armed themselves in Thy Name, and gird their loins with strength for the fight. Take up the spear and shield and arise to help us; confound and put to shame those who have devised evil against us, may they be before the faces of Thy faithful warriors as dust before the wind, and may Thy mighty Angel confound them and put them to flight; may they be ensnared when they know it not, and may the plots they have laid in secret be turned against them; let them fall before Thy servants’ feet and be laid low by our hosts! Lord, Thou art able to save both great and small; Thou art God, and man cannot prevail against Thee! God of our fathers! Remember Thy bounteous mercy and loving-kindness which are from of old; turn not Thy face from us, but be gracious to our unworthiness, and in Thy great goodness and Thy many mercies regard not our transgressions and iniquities! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us, strengthen us all in Thy faith, fortify our hope, inspire us with true love one for another, arm us with unity of spirit in the righteous defense of the heritage Thou gavest to us and to our fathers, and let not the scepter of the wicked be exalted against the destiny of those Thou hast sanctified. O Lord our God, in whom we believe and in whom we put our trust, let us not be confounded in our hope of Thy mercy, and give us a token of Thy blessing, that those who hate us and our Orthodox faith may see it and be put to shame and perish, and may all the nations know that Thou art the Lord and we are Thy people. Show Thy mercy upon us this day, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation; make the hearts of Thy servants to rejoice in Thy mercy; smite down our enemies and destroy them swiftly beneath the feet of Thy faithful servants! For Thou art the defense, the succor, and the victory of them that put their trust in Thee, and to Thee be all glory, to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, now and forever, world without end. Amen.", "pos": 1731771}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, supposing N. N. has swindled the country and the Tsar, and the country and the Tsar confer honors upon him, what does that matter? She smiled at me yesterday and asked me to come again, and I love her, and no one will ever know it.", "pos": 1737427}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.", "pos": 1738663}
{"speaker": "courier", "text": "Do, please, for heaven’s sake, relieve me of something! I have a sackful of letters to parents.", "pos": 1741767}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I want to try to sing again, it is, at least, something to do.", "pos": 1745420}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "That’s capital!", "pos": 1745528}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "How glad I am you’ve come! I am so happy today. You know Nicholas has received a St. George’s Cross? I am so proud of him.", "pos": 1745546}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh yes, I sent that announcement. But I don’t want to interrupt you,", "pos": 1745750}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Count, is it wrong of me to sing?", "pos": 1745893}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No... Why should it be? On the contrary... But why do you ask me?", "pos": 1745988}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I don’t know myself, but I should not like to do anything you disapproved of. I believe in you completely. You don’t know how important you are to me, how much you’ve done for me.... I saw in that same army order that he, Bolkónski is in Russia, and in the army again. What do you think? Will he ever forgive me? Will he not always have a bitter feeling toward me? What do you think? What do you think?", "pos": 1746056}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I think... that he has nothing to forgive.... If I were in his place...", "pos": 1746672}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, you... you... that’s a different thing. I know no one kinder, more generous, or better than you; nobody could be! Had you not been there then, and now too, I don’t know what would have become of me, because...", "pos": 1747135}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, what about my plan? Peter Kirílych, for heaven’s sake! You are my only hope,", "pos": 1748101}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh yes, your plan. To join the hussars? I’ll mention it, I’ll bring it all up today.", "pos": 1748198}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, mon cher, have you got the manifesto? The countess has been to Mass at the Razumóvskis’ and heard the new prayer. She says it’s very fine.", "pos": 1748285}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I’ve got it. The Emperor is to be here tomorrow... there’s to be an Extraordinary Meeting of the nobility, and they are talking of a levy of ten men per thousand. Oh yes, let me congratulate you!", "pos": 1748455}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, yes, thank God! Well, and what news from the army?", "pos": 1748673}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "We are again retreating. They say we’re already near Smolénsk,", "pos": 1748731}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "O Lord, O Lord! Where is the manifesto?", "pos": 1748812}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "The Emperor’s appeal? Oh yes! On my word, I don’t know what I’ve done with it,", "pos": 1748877}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "There he is, always losing everything!", "pos": 1749257}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, really! I’ll drive home, I must have left them there. I’ll certainly...", "pos": 1749587}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "But you’ll be late for dinner.", "pos": 1749665}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh! And my coachman has gone.", "pos": 1749698}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "No, after dinner,", "pos": 1749914}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "spyer not a spire at all, but only an old German ruin.", "pos": 1750309}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "People are being arrested... I’ve told the countess she should not speak French so much. It’s not the time for it now.", "pos": 1750475}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "And have you heard? Prince Golítsyn has engaged a master to teach him Russian. It is becoming dangerous to speak French in the streets.", "pos": 1750614}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "And how about you, Count Peter Kirílych? If they call up the militia, you too will have to mount a horse,", "pos": 1750770}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh yes, the war. No! What sort of warrior should I make? And yet everything is so strange, so strange! I can’t make it out. I don’t know, I am very far from having military tastes, but in these times no one can answer for himself.", "pos": 1751040}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "To Moscow, our ancient Capital! The enemy has entered the borders of Russia with immense forces. He comes to despoil our beloved country.", "pos": 1751449}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "We ourselves will not delay to appear among our people in that Capital and in other parts of our realm for consultation, and for the direction of all our levies, both those now barring the enemy’s path and those freshly formed to defeat him wherever he may appear. May the ruin he hopes to bring upon us recoil on his own head, and may Europe delivered from bondage glorify the name of Russia!", "pos": 1752545}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, that’s it! Let the Emperor but say the word and we’ll sacrifice everything and begrudge nothing.", "pos": 1752941}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What a darling our Papa is!", "pos": 1753327}
{"speaker": "Shinshín", "text": "There! Here’s a patriot for you!", "pos": 1753492}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Not a patriot at all, but simply... Everything seems funny to you, but this isn’t at all a joke....", "pos": 1753542}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "A joke indeed! Let him but say the word and we’ll all go.... We’re not Germans!", "pos": 1753682}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But did you notice, it says, ‘for consultation’?", "pos": 1753784}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Never mind what it’s for....", "pos": 1753848}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, Papa, I tell you definitely, and Mamma too, it’s as you please, but I say definitely that you must let me enter the army, because I can’t... that’s all....", "pos": 1754055}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "That comes of your talking!", "pos": 1754319}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Come, come! Here’s a fine warrior! No! Nonsense! You must study.", "pos": 1754416}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "It’s not nonsense, Papa. Fédya Obolénski is younger than I, and he’s going too. Besides, all the same I can’t study now when... when our Fatherland is in danger.", "pos": 1754494}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "That’ll do, that’ll do—nonsense....", "pos": 1754737}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "But you said yourself that we would sacrifice everything.", "pos": 1754775}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Pétya! Be quiet, I tell you!", "pos": 1754835}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "And I tell you—Peter Kirílych here will also tell you...", "pos": 1754966}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Nonsense, I tell you. Your mother’s milk has hardly dried on your lips and you want to go into the army! There, there, I tell you. Well, Peter Kirílych, let’s go and have a smoke,", "pos": 1755025}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I think I’ll go home.", "pos": 1755504}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Home? Why, you meant to spend the evening with us.... You don’t often come nowadays as it is, and this girl of mine, only brightens up when you’re here.", "pos": 1755532}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I had forgotten... I really must go home... business...", "pos": 1755741}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, then, au revoir!", "pos": 1755827}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why are you going? Why are you upset? Because I love you!", "pos": 1755894}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Because it is better for me to come less often... because... No, simply I have business....", "pos": 1756130}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why? No, tell me!", "pos": 1756224}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "What are you shoving for, young lordling? Don’t you see we’re all standing still? Then why push?", "pos": 1758894}
{"speaker": "Footman", "text": "Anybody can shove,", "pos": 1758993}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!", "pos": 1760309}
{"speaker": "tradesman's wife", "text": "Father! Angel! Dear one!", "pos": 1760585}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 1760672}
{"speaker": "clerk", "text": "You’ve crushed the young gentleman! What are you up to? Gently!... They’ve crushed him, crushed him!", "pos": 1762050}
{"speaker": "various voices", "text": "One might easily get killed that way! What do they mean by it? Killing people! Poor dear, he’s as white as a sheet!", "pos": 1762615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 1765069}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Which is he? Which?", "pos": 1765112}
{"speaker": "Valúev", "text": "The people are still hoping to see Your Majesty again.", "pos": 1766153}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Angel! Dear one! Hurrah! Father!...", "pos": 1766373}
{"speaker": "various people", "text": "There! I said if only we waited—and so it was!", "pos": 1767565}
{"speaker": "retired naval officer", "text": "What if the Smolénsk people have offahd to waise militia for the Empewah? Ah we to take Smolénsk as our patte’n? If the noble awistocwacy of the pwovince of Moscow thinks fit, it can show its loyalty to our sov’weign the Empewah in other ways. Have we fo’gotten the waising of the militia in the yeah ‘seven? All that did was to enwich the pwiests’ sons and thieves and wobbahs.... And was our militia of any use to the Empia? Not at all! It only wuined our farming! Bettah have another conscwiption... o’ ou’ men will wetu’n neithah soldiers no’ peasants, and we’ll get only depwavity fwom them. The nobility don’t gwudge theah lives—evewy one of us will go and bwing in more wecwuits, and the sov’weign need only say the word and we’ll all die fo’ him!", "pos": 1772236}
{"speaker": "senator", "text": "I imagine, sir, that we have been summoned here not to discuss whether it’s best for the empire at the present moment to adopt conscription or to call out the militia. We have been summoned to reply to the appeal with which our sovereign the Emperor has honored us. But to judge what is best—conscription or the militia—we can leave to the supreme authority....", "pos": 1773615}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Excuse me, your excellency. Though I don’t agree with the gentleman... with the gentleman... whom I have not the honor of knowing, I suppose that the nobility have been summoned not merely to express their sympathy and enthusiasm but also to consider the means by which we can assist our Fatherland! I imagine, that the Emperor himself would not be satisfied to find in us merely owners of serfs whom we are willing to devote to his service, and chair à canon * we are ready to make of ourselves—and not to obtain from us any co-co-counsel. Food for cannon. I think that before discussing these questions, we should ask the Emperor—most respectfully ask His Majesty—to let us know the number of our troops and the position in which our army and our forces now are, and then...", "pos": 1774403}
{"speaker": "Stepán Stepánovich Adráksin", "text": "In the first place, I tell you we have no right to question the Emperor about that, and secondly, if the Russian nobility had that right, the Emperor could not answer such a question. The troops are moved according to the enemy’s movements and the number of men increases and decreases....", "pos": 1776195}
{"speaker": "a nobleman", "text": "Yes, and this is not a time for discussing, but for acting: there is war in Russia! The enemy is advancing to destroy Russia, to desecrate the tombs of our fathers, to carry off our wives and children. We will all arise, everyone of us will go, for our father the Tsar! We are Russians and will not grudge our blood in defense of our faith, the throne, and the Fatherland! We must cease raving if we are sons of our Fatherland! We will show Europe how Russia rises to the defense of Russia!", "pos": 1776726}
{"speaker": "Several persons", "text": "That’s right, quite right! Just so!", "pos": 1777685}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "author! author!", "pos": 1778775}
{"speaker": "Glínka", "text": "hell must be repulsed by hell, we will not be that child.", "pos": 1778829}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Yes, yes, at thunderclaps!", "pos": 1778971}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I only said that it would be more to the purpose to make sacrifices when we know what is needed!", "pos": 1780152}
{"speaker": "one man", "text": "Yes, Moscow will be surrendered! She will be our expiation!", "pos": 1780444}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "He is the enemy of mankind! Allow me to speak.... Gentlemen, you are crushing me!...", "pos": 1780523}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Our sovereign the Emperor will be here in a moment. I am straight from the palace. Seeing the position we are in, I think there is little need for discussion. The Emperor has deigned to summon us and the merchants. Millions will pour forth from there but our business is to supply men and not spare ourselves.... That is the least we can do!", "pos": 1780850}
{"speaker": "Magnates", "text": "I agree. I too am of that opinion,", "pos": 1781455}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "The Emperor! The Emperor!", "pos": 1781933}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "Gentlemen! I never doubted the devotion of the Russian nobles, but today it has surpassed my expectations. I thank you in the name of the Fatherland! Gentlemen, let us act! Time is most precious....", "pos": 1782484}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Yes, most precious... a royal word,", "pos": 1783002}
{"speaker": "fat otkupshchík", "text": "Our lives and property—take them, Your Majesty!", "pos": 1783849}
{"speaker": "People", "text": "I said then that it would be so,", "pos": 1788584}
{"speaker": "Bagratión", "text": "It must be as my sovereign pleases, but I cannot work with the Minister. For God’s sake send me somewhere else if only in command of a regiment. I cannot stand it here. Headquarters are so full of Germans that a Russian cannot exist and there is no sense in anything. I thought I was really serving my sovereign and the Fatherland, but it turns out that I am serving Barclay. I confess I do not want to.", "pos": 1795175}
{"speaker": "Prince Nicholas", "text": "Well? Are you satisfied now? You’ve made me quarrel with my son! Satisfied, are you? That’s all you wanted! Satisfied?... It hurts me, it hurts. I’m old and weak and this is what you wanted. Well then, gloat over it! Gloat over it!", "pos": 1797008}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "There, you see? You plotted against me, you lied to Prince Andrew about my relations with that Frenchwoman and made me quarrel with him, but you see I need neither her nor you!", "pos": 1797854}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I write you in Russian, my good friend, because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated by enthusiasm for our adored Emperor. “My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more. “You heard probably of the heroic exploit of Raévski, embracing his two sons and saying: ‘I will perish with them but we will not be shaken!’ And truly though the enemy was twice stronger than we, we were unshakable. We pass the time as we can, but in war as in war! The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows of live men, make beautiful conversations over our charpie, only you, my friend, are missing...", "pos": 1799075}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "There was a letter from Prince Andrew today. Haven’t you read it?", "pos": 1801776}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, Father,", "pos": 1801871}
{"speaker": "Dessalles", "text": "That must be very interesting. Prince Andrew is in a position to know...", "pos": 1802127}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Oh, very interesting!", "pos": 1802220}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Go and get it for me. You know—under the paperweight on the little table. No, don’t! You go, Michael Ivánovich. They can’t do anything... always make some muddle,", "pos": 1802273}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I? I?...", "pos": 1803422}
{"speaker": "Dessalles", "text": "Very possibly the theater of war will move so near to us that...", "pos": 1803533}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ha ha ha! The theater of war! I have said and still say that the theater of war is Poland and the enemy will never get beyond the Niemen. When the snow melts they’ll sink in the Polish swamps. Only they could fail to see it. Bennigsen should have advanced into Prussia sooner, then things would have taken a different turn...", "pos": 1803600}
{"speaker": "Dessalles", "text": "But, Prince, the letter mentions Vítebsk....", "pos": 1804289}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ah, the letter? Yes... Yes... yes... Yes, he writes that the French were beaten at... at... what river is it? Doesn’t he? But I didn’t invent it myself. Yes... yes... Well, Michael Ivánovich, tell me how you mean to alter it....", "pos": 1804363}
{"speaker": "Michael Ivánovich", "text": "Always busy. He’s worrying very much about the new building. He has been reading a little, but now now he’s at his desk, busy with his will, I expect.", "pos": 1805658}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "First, notepaper—do you hear? Eight quires, like this sample, gilt-edged... it must be exactly like the sample. Varnish, sealing wax, as in Michael Ivánovich’s list. Then hand to the governor in person a letter about the deed. Well, go, go! If anything more is wanted I’ll send after you.", "pos": 1807070}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That’s not right! That’s not right! Well, at last I’ve finished, now I’ll rest,", "pos": 1808706}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No peace, damn them! Ah yes, there was something else important, very important, that I was keeping till I should be in bed. The bolts? No, I told him about them. No, it was something, something in the drawing room. Princess Mary talked some nonsense. Dessalles, that fool, said something. Something in my pocket—can’t remember....", "pos": 1809685}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "About Prince Michael...", "pos": 1810107}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Be quiet, quiet! Yes, I know, Prince Andrew’s letter! Princess Mary read it. Dessalles said something about Vítebsk. Now I’ll read it. The French at Vítebsk, in four days’ march they may be at Smolénsk; perhaps are already there! Tíkhon! No, no, I don’t want anything!", "pos": 1810133}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh, quicker, quicker! To get back to that time and have done with all the present! Quicker, quicker—and that they should leave me in peace!", "pos": 1811526}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "There! There! Women’s fuss! Women, women!", "pos": 1813356}
{"speaker": "Alpátych's wife", "text": "If there is anything... come back, Yákov Alpátych! For Christ’s sake think of us!", "pos": 1813670}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Women, women! Women’s fuss!", "pos": 1813816}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "You’re welcome, Yákov Alpátych. Folks are leaving the town, but you have come to it,", "pos": 1815845}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Why are they leaving the town?", "pos": 1815941}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "That’s what I say. Folks are foolish! Always afraid of the French.", "pos": 1815990}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Women’s fuss, women’s fuss!", "pos": 1816059}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "Just what I think, Yákov Alpátych. What I say is: orders have been given not to let them in, so that must be right. And the peasants are asking three rubles for carting—it isn’t Christian!", "pos": 1816104}
{"speaker": "ex-captain of police", "text": "It’s no joke, you know! It’s all very well if you’re single. ‘One man though undone is but one,’ as the proverb says, but with thirteen in your family and all the property... They’ve brought us to utter ruin! What sort of governors are they to do that? They ought to be hanged—the brigands!...", "pos": 1817574}
{"speaker": "The other", "text": "Oh come, that’s enough!", "pos": 1817870}
{"speaker": "ex-captain of police", "text": "What do I care? Let him hear! We’re not dogs. Oh, Yákov Alpátych! What have you come for?", "pos": 1817912}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "To see the Governor by his excellency’s order. He has ordered me to inquire into the position of affairs,", "pos": 1818076}
{"speaker": "angry gentleman", "text": "Yes, go and find out! They’ve brought things to such a pass that there are no carts or anything!... There it is again, do you hear? They’ve brought us all to ruin... the brigands!", "pos": 1818340}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "To his Honor Baron Asch, from General-in-Chief Prince Bolkónski,", "pos": 1819256}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Inform the prince and princess that I knew nothing: I acted on the highest instructions—here... Still, as the prince is unwell my advice is that they should go to Moscow. I am just starting myself. Inform them... Go,", "pos": 1819505}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "He’s done her to death. Killed the mistress!... Beat her... dragged her about so!...", "pos": 1821874}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "What for?", "pos": 1821961}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "She kept begging to go away. She’s a woman! ‘Take me away,’ says she, ‘don’t let me perish with my little children! Folks,’ she says, ‘are all gone, so why,’ she says, ‘don’t we go?’ And he began beating and pulling her about so!", "pos": 1821989}
{"speaker": "thin, pale woman", "text": "You brute, you murderer!", "pos": 1822388}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "Going already? We’ll reckon up! Well, have you been to the Governor’s? What has been decided?", "pos": 1822732}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "The Governor had not told him anything definite.", "pos": 1822980}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "With our business, how can we get away? We’d have to pay seven rubles a cartload to Dorogobúzh and I tell them they’re not Christians to ask it! Selivánov, now, did a good stroke last Thursday—sold flour to the army at nine rubles a sack. Will you have some tea? Well, it seems to be getting quieter. Ours must have got the best of it. The orders were not to let them in. So we’re in force, it seems.... They say the other day Matthew Iványch Plátov drove them into the river Márina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day.", "pos": 1823030}
{"speaker": "one", "text": "What force! Knocked the roof and ceiling all to splinters!", "pos": 1825330}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "Routed up the earth like a pig,", "pos": 1825407}
{"speaker": "the first", "text": "That’s grand, it bucks one up! Lucky you jumped aside, or it would have wiped you out!", "pos": 1825455}
{"speaker": "innkeeper", "text": "What are you staring at?", "pos": 1825962}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "What marvels!", "pos": 1826145}
{"speaker": "innkeeper", "text": "Scoundrel, what are you doing?", "pos": 1826457}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "Oh-h-h! Dear souls, dear kind souls! Don’t let me die! My good souls!...", "pos": 1826753}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "The town is being abandoned. Get away, get away! I’ll teach you to run into the yards!", "pos": 1828437}
{"speaker": "Ferapóntov", "text": "Loot everything, lads! Don’t let those devils get it! Russia is done for! Alpátych, I’ll set the place on fire myself. We’re done for!...", "pos": 1829470}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Alpátych!", "pos": 1831504}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Mercy on us! Your excellency!", "pos": 1831562}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why are you here?", "pos": 1831781}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Your... your excellency. Are we really lost? Master!...", "pos": 1831811}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why are you here?", "pos": 1831911}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Are we really quite lost, your excellency?", "pos": 1832116}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Smolénsk is being abandoned. Bald Hills will be occupied by the enemy within a week. Set off immediately for Moscow. Let me know at once when you will start. Send by special messenger to Usvyázh.", "pos": 1832320}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "You are a colonel? Houses are set on fire in your presence and you stand by! What does this mean? You will answer for it! very agreeable and well en évidence.", "pos": 1832835}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "So tell them that I shall await a reply till the tenth, and if by the tenth I don’t receive news that they have all got away I shall have to throw up everything and come myself to Bald Hills.", "pos": 1833317}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Prince. I only spoke because I have to obey orders, because I always do obey exactly.... You must please excuse me,", "pos": 1833511}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Ou-rou-rou!", "pos": 1833879}
{"speaker": "man in the frieze coat", "text": "It’s fine, lads! Now it’s raging... It’s fine!", "pos": 1834183}
{"speaker": "several voices", "text": "That’s the owner himself,", "pos": 1834232}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well then, report to them as I have told you", "pos": 1834282}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "When did my father and sister leave?", "pos": 1840660}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Am I to let the troops have the oats, and to take a receipt for them? We have still six hundred quarters left,", "pos": 1840950}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, let them have it,", "pos": 1841335}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "If you noticed some disorder in the garden, it was impossible to prevent it. Three regiments have been here and spent the night, dragoons mostly. I took down the name and rank of their commanding officer, to hand in a complaint about it.", "pos": 1841383}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, and what are you going to do? Will you stay here if the enemy occupies the place?", "pos": 1841640}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "He is my refuge! His will be done!", "pos": 1841860}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, good-by! You must go away too, take away what you can and tell the serfs to go to the Ryazán estate or to the one near Moscow.", "pos": 1841995}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "It’s very nice, your excellency! Wouldn’t you like to?", "pos": 1845688}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "It’s dirty,", "pos": 1845754}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "We’ll clear it out for you in a minute. The prince wants to bathe.", "pos": 1845809}
{"speaker": "many voices", "text": "What prince? Ours?", "pos": 1845959}
{"speaker": "Prince Bagratión", "text": "Dear Count Aléxis Andréevich— I expect the Minister (Barclay de Tolly) has already reported the abandonment of Smolénsk to the enemy. It is pitiable and sad, and the whole army is in despair that this most important place has been wantonly abandoned. I, for my part, begged him personally most urgently and finally wrote him, but nothing would induce him to consent. I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolénsk. Our troops fought, and are fighting, as never before. With fifteen thousand men I held the enemy at bay for thirty-five hours and beat him; but he would not hold out even for fourteen hours. It is disgraceful, a stain on our army, and as for him, he ought, it seems to me, not to live. If he reports that our losses were great, it is not true; perhaps about four thousand, not more, and not even that; but even were they ten thousand, that’s war! But the enemy has lost masses....", "pos": 1846532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What would it have cost him to hold out for another two days?", "pos": 1847674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They would have had to retire of their own accord, for they had no water for men or horses.", "pos": 1847736}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He gave me his word he would not retreat, but suddenly sent instructions that he was retiring that night.", "pos": 1847828}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We cannot fight in this way, or we may soon bring the enemy to Moscow....", "pos": 1847934}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is a rumor that you are thinking of peace.", "pos": 1848008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "God forbid that you should make peace after all our sacrifices and such insane retreats!", "pos": 1848057}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You would set all Russia against you and everyone of us would feel ashamed to wear the uniform.", "pos": 1848146}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If it has come to this—we must fight as long as Russia can and as long as there are men able to stand....", "pos": 1848242}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One man ought to be in command, and not two.", "pos": 1848348}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your Minister may perhaps be good as a Minister, but as a general he is not merely bad but execrable, yet to him is entrusted the fate of our whole country....", "pos": 1848393}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am really frantic with vexation; forgive my writing boldly.", "pos": 1848553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all.", "pos": 1848615}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So I write you frankly: call out the militia.", "pos": 1848788}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For the Minister is leading these visitors after him to Moscow in a most masterly way.", "pos": 1848834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The whole army feels great suspicion of the Imperial aide-de-camp Wolzogen.", "pos": 1848921}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is said to be more Napoleon’s man than ours, and he is always advising the Minister.", "pos": 1848997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not merely civil to him but obey him like a corporal, though I am his senior.", "pos": 1849085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is painful, but, loving my benefactor and sovereign, I submit.", "pos": 1849168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only I am sorry for the Emperor that he entrusts our fine army to such as he.", "pos": 1849236}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Consider that on our retreat we have lost by fatigue and left in the hospital more than fifteen thousand men, and had we attacked this would not have happened.", "pos": 1849314}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tell me, for God’s sake, what will Russia, our mother Russia, say to our being so frightened, and why are we abandoning our good and gallant Fatherland to such rabble and implanting feelings of hatred and shame in all our subjects?", "pos": 1849474}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are we scared at and of whom are we afraid?", "pos": 1849706}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities.", "pos": 1849755}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The whole army bewails it and calls down curses upon him....", "pos": 1849861}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I have talked and talked at the Assembly of the Nobility, but they did not listen to me. I told them his election as chief of the militia would not please the Emperor. They did not listen to me. It’s all this mania for opposition. And who for? It is all because we want to ape the foolish enthusiasm of those Muscovites. Now, is it suitable that Count Kutúzov, the oldest general in Russia, should preside at that tribunal? He will get nothing for his pains! How could they make a man commander in chief who cannot mount a horse, who drops asleep at a council, and has the very worst morals! A good reputation he made for himself at Bucharest! I don’t speak of his capacity as a general, but at a time like this how they appoint a decrepit, blind old man, positively blind? A fine idea to have a blind general! He can’t see anything. To play blindman’s bulff? He can’t see at all!", "pos": 1853867}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Well, have you heard the great news? Prince Kutúzov is field marshal! All dissensions are at an end! I am so glad, so delighted! At last we have a man!", "pos": 1856238}
{"speaker": "man of great merit", "text": "But, Prince, they say he is blind!", "pos": 1856807}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Eh? Nonsense! He sees well enough. He sees well enough. And what I am so pleased about, is that our sovereign has given him full powers over all the armies and the whole region—powers no commander in chief ever had before. He is a second autocrat,", "pos": 1856895}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "God grant it! God grant it!", "pos": 1857354}
{"speaker": "man of great merit", "text": "It is said that the Emperor was reluctant to give Kutúzov those powers. They say he blushed like a girl to whom Joconde is read, when he said to Kutúzov: ‘Your Emperor and the Fatherland award you this honor.’", "pos": 1857565}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Perhaps the heart took no part in that speech,", "pos": 1857777}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Oh, no, no! No, that’s impossible, for our sovereign appreciated him so highly before.", "pos": 1857846}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "God grant only that Prince Kutúzov assumes real power and does not allow anyone to put a spoke in his wheel,", "pos": 1858106}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I know for a fact that Kutúzov made it an absolute condition that the Tsarévich should not be with the army. Do you know what he said to the Emperor?", "pos": 1858317}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I can neither punish him if he does wrong nor reward him if he does right.", "pos": 1858562}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Oh, a very wise man is Prince Kutúzov! I have known him a long time!", "pos": 1858639}
{"speaker": "man of great merit", "text": "They even say, that his excellency made it an express condition that the sovereign himself should not be with the army.", "pos": 1858710}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1861423}
{"speaker": "Berthier", "text": "One of Plátov’s Cossacks says that Plátov’s corps is joining up with the main army and that Kutúzov has been appointed commander in chief. He is a very shrewd and garrulous fellow.", "pos": 1861447}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "You are a Cossack?", "pos": 1862024}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "Yes, a Cossack, your Honor.", "pos": 1862045}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "It’s like this, if there’s a battle soon, yours will win. That’s right. But if three days pass, then after that, well, then that same battle will not soon be over.", "pos": 1863675}
{"speaker": "Lelorgne d’Ideville", "text": "If a battle takes place within the next three days the French will win, but if later, God knows what will happen.", "pos": 1863937}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "We know that you have Bonaparte and that he has beaten everybody in the world, but we are a different matter...", "pos": 1864265}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But what could have happened? What did I want? I want his death!", "pos": 1874754}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "He is a little better today. I was looking for you. One can make out something of what he is saying. His head is clearer. Come in, he is asking for you.... Come,", "pos": 1875249}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Mmm...ar...ate...ate...", "pos": 1877063}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Mary, are you afraid?", "pos": 1877234}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "My mind, my mind aches?", "pos": 1877317}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Always thoughts... about you... thoughts... I have been calling you all night...", "pos": 1877534}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "If only I had known... I was afraid to come in.", "pos": 1877853}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Weren’t you asleep?", "pos": 1877954}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, I did not sleep,", "pos": 1877976}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Dear one... Dearest... Why didn’t you come in? Thank you... daughter dear!... for all, for all... forgive!... thank you!... forgive!... thank you!... Call Andrew!", "pos": 1878198}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I have a letter from him,", "pos": 1878857}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 1878937}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "He’s with the army, Father, at Smolénsk.", "pos": 1878952}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Yes. Russia has perished. They’ve destroyed her.", "pos": 1879198}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Put on your white dress. I like it,", "pos": 1879934}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes... I... I... I wished for his death! Yes, I wanted it to end quicker.... I wished to be at peace.... And what will become of me? What use will peace be when he is no longer here?", "pos": 1880758}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "Go away, Princess! Go away... go away!", "pos": 1881695}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Please come, Princess... The Prince,", "pos": 1882116}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Immediately, I’m coming, I’m coming!", "pos": 1882190}
{"speaker": "The Marshal", "text": "Princess, it’s God’s will! You must be prepared for everything,", "pos": 1882379}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Let me alone; it’s not true!", "pos": 1882494}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Now just listen, Drónushka. Don’t talk nonsense to me. His excellency Prince Andrew himself gave me orders to move all the people away and not leave them with the enemy, and there is an order from the Tsar about it too. Anyone who stays is a traitor to the Tsar. Do you hear?", "pos": 1892654}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "I hear,", "pos": 1892943}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Eh, Dron, it will turn out badly!", "pos": 1893037}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "The power is in your hands,", "pos": 1893100}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Eh, Dron, drop it! I can see through you and three yards into the ground under you. You drop this nonsense and tell the people to get ready to leave their homes and go to Moscow and to get carts ready for tomorrow morning for the princess’ things. And don’t go to any meeting yourself, do you hear?", "pos": 1893151}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "Yákov Alpátych, discharge me! Take the keys from me and discharge me, for Christ’s sake!", "pos": 1893728}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Stop that! I see through you and three yards under you. What is it you have got into your heads, eh?... What are you thinking of, eh?", "pos": 1893819}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "What am I to do with the people? They’re quite beside themselves; I have already told them...", "pos": 1894394}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "'Told them,' I dare say! Are they drinking?", "pos": 1894504}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "Quite beside themselves, Yákov Alpátych; they’ve fetched another barrel.", "pos": 1894585}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Well, then, listen! I’ll go to the police officer, and you tell them so, and that they must stop this and the carts must be got ready.", "pos": 1894660}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "I understand.", "pos": 1894797}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, you can well enjoy the evening now! He is gone and no one will hinder you,", "pos": 1897005}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Besides, is it for me, for me who desired his death, to condemn anyone?", "pos": 1897729}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Your position is doubly terrible, dear princess. I understand that you could not, and cannot, think of yourself, but with my love for you I must do so.... Has Alpátych been to you? Has he spoken to you of going away?", "pos": 1898627}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is it possible to plan or think of anything now? Is it not all the same?", "pos": 1898982}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "You know, chère Marie, that we are in danger—are surrounded by the French. It would be dangerous to move now. If we go we are almost sure to be taken prisoners, and God knows...", "pos": 1899089}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, if anyone knew how little anything matters to me now. Of course I would on no account wish to go away from him.... Alpátych did say something about going.... Speak to him; I can do nothing, nothing, and don’t want to....", "pos": 1899388}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "I’ve spoken to him. He hopes we should be in time to get away tomorrow, but I think it would now be better to stay here. Because, you will agree, chère Marie, to fall into the hands of the soldiers or of riotous peasants would be terrible. I think it would be best to appeal to that general, and I am sure that all due respect would be shown you.", "pos": 1899627}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "From whom did you get this?", "pos": 1900368}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "They probably recognized that I am French, by my name,", "pos": 1900409}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Dunyásha, send Alpátych, or Drónushka, or somebody to me! and tell Mademoiselle Bourienne not to come to me. We must go at once, at once! If Prince Andrew heard that I was in the power of the French! That I, the daughter of Prince Nicholas Bolkónski, asked General Rameau for protection and accepted his favor! They, the French, would settle in this house: M. le Général Rameau would occupy Prince Andrew’s study and amuse himself by looking through and reading his letters and papers. Mademoiselle Bourienne would do the honors of Boguchárovo for him. I should be given a small room as a favor, the soldiers would violate my father’s newly dug grave to steal his crosses and stars, they would tell me of their victories over the Russians, and would pretend to sympathize with my sorrow...", "pos": 1900659}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Yes, Princess", "pos": 1903269}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Drónushka. Drónushka, now since our misfortune...", "pos": 1903565}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "We are all in God’s hands,", "pos": 1903837}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Drónushka, Alpátych has gone off somewhere and I have no one to turn to. Is it true, as they tell me, that I can’t even go away?", "pos": 1903918}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "Why shouldn’t you go away, your excellency? You can go,", "pos": 1904049}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I was told it would be dangerous because of the enemy. Dear friend, I can do nothing. I understand nothing. I have nobody! I want to go away tonight or early tomorrow morning.", "pos": 1904118}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "There are no horses; I told Yákov Alpátych so.", "pos": 1904354}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Why are there none?", "pos": 1904403}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "It’s all God’s scourge. What horses we had have been taken for the army or have died—this is such a year! It’s not a case of feeding horses—we may die of hunger ourselves! As it is, some go three days without eating. We’ve nothing, we’ve been ruined.", "pos": 1904445}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "The peasants are ruined? They have no bread?", "pos": 1904767}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "They’re dying of hunger. It’s not a case of carting.", "pos": 1904825}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But why didn’t you tell me, Drónushka? Isn’t it possible to help them? I’ll do all I can....", "pos": 1904893}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But we have grain belonging to my brother?", "pos": 1905697}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "The landlord’s grain is all safe. Our prince did not order it to be sold.", "pos": 1905752}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Give it to the peasants, let them have all they need; I give you leave in my brother’s name. Give them that corn if there is enough of it. Distribute it all. I give this order in my brother’s name; and tell them that what is ours is theirs. We do not grudge them anything. Tell them so.", "pos": 1905852}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "Discharge me, little mother, for God’s sake! Order the keys to be taken from me. I have served twenty-three years and have done no wrong. Discharge me, for God’s sake!", "pos": 1906253}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But I never told them to come. I only told Dron to let them have the grain.", "pos": 1906843}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Only, for God’s sake, Princess dear, have them sent away and don’t go out to them. It’s all a trick, and when Yákov Alpátych returns let us get away... and please don’t...", "pos": 1906943}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What is a trick?", "pos": 1907134}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "I know it is, only listen to me for God’s sake! Ask nurse too. They say they don’t agree to leave Boguchárovo as you ordered.", "pos": 1907186}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You’re making some mistake. I never ordered them to go away. Call Drónushka. But I never sent for them. You must have given my message wrong. I only said that you were to give them the grain.", "pos": 1907314}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "If you order it they will go away,", "pos": 1907672}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, no. I’ll go out to them,", "pos": 1907718}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I am very glad you have come. Drónushka tells me that the war has ruined you. That is our common misfortune, and I shall grudge nothing to help you. I am myself going away because it is dangerous here... the enemy is near... because... I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want! And if you have been told that I am giving you the grain to keep you here—that is not true. On the contrary, I ask you to go with all your belongings to our estate near Moscow, and I promise you I will see to it that there you shall want for nothing. You shall be given food and lodging. I am not doing this on my own account. I do it in the name of my dead father, who was a good master to you, and of my brother and his son. Ours is a common misfortune and we will share it together. All that is mine is yours,", "pos": 1908799}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are all very thankful for your bounty, but it won’t do for us to take the landlord’s grain,", "pos": 1910151}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But why not? But why don’t you want to take it? Why don’t you speak? If you think something more is wanted, tell me! I will do anything,", "pos": 1910287}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why should we agree? We don’t want the grain.", "pos": 1910867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why should we give up everything? We don’t agree. Don’t agree.... We are sorry for you, but we’re not willing. Go away yourself, alone...", "pos": 1910915}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But you can’t have understood me. Why don’t you want to go? I promise to house and feed you, while here the enemy would ruin you....", "pos": 1911256}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’re not willing. Let them ruin us! We won’t take your grain. We don’t agree.", "pos": 1911484}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh yes, an artful tale! Follow her into slavery! Pull down your houses and go into bondage! I dare say! ‘I’ll give you grain, indeed!’ she says,", "pos": 1911748}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Dunyásha Dunyásha!", "pos": 1916521}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You’re first!", "pos": 1917975}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "Yes, always first both on the grassland and here,", "pos": 1918013}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "And I’d have won on my Frenchy, your excellency, only I didn’t wish to mortify you.", "pos": 1918116}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Fine fellows! Is there any hay here?", "pos": 1918616}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "And how like one another,", "pos": 1918679}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "The French,", "pos": 1918896}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "This is Count Rostóv, squadron commander, and I am your humble servant.", "pos": 1919719}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "May I make bold to trouble your honor? My mistress, daughter of General in Chief Prince Nicholas Bolkónski who died on the fifteenth of this month, finding herself in difficulties owing to the boorishness of these people asks you to come up to the house.... Won’t you, please, ride on a little farther, as it is not convenient in the presence of...?", "pos": 1919997}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "Ah!... Alpátych... Ah, Yákov Alpátych... Grand! Forgive us for Christ’s sake, eh?", "pos": 1920630}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "Or perhaps they amuse your honor?", "pos": 1920806}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No, there’s not much to be amused at here. What’s the matter?", "pos": 1920927}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "I make bold to inform your honor that the rude peasants here don’t wish to let the mistress leave the estate, and threaten to unharness her horses, so that though everything has been packed up since morning, her excellency cannot get away.", "pos": 1921042}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 1921284}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "I have the honor to report to you the actual truth,", "pos": 1921316}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Father! Benefactor! God has sent you!", "pos": 1922683}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I cannot express, Princess, how glad I am that I happened to ride here and am able to show my readiness to serve you. Go when you please, and I give you my word of honor that no one shall dare to cause you annoyance if only you will allow me to act as your escort.", "pos": 1923966}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I am very, very grateful to you, but I hope it was all a misunderstanding and that no one is to blame for it. Excuse me!", "pos": 1924589}
{"speaker": "Ilyín", "text": "Well, is she pretty? Ah, friend—my pink one is delicious; her name is Dunyásha.... Ilyín? Ah, friend—my pink one is delicious; her name is Dunyásha....", "pos": 1924849}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I’ll show them; I’ll give it to them, the brigands!", "pos": 1925170}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "What decision have you been pleased to come to?", "pos": 1925337}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Decision? What decision? Old dotard!... What have you been about? Eh? The peasants are rioting, and you can’t manage them? You’re a traitor yourself! I know you. I’ll flay you all alive!...", "pos": 1925478}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "overresist", "pos": 1925982}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I’ll give them armed force... I’ll ‘overresist’ them!", "pos": 1926083}
{"speaker": "Karp", "text": "How many years have you been fattening on the commune? It’s all one to you! You’ll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not?", "pos": 1926938}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "We’ve been told to keep order, and that no one is to leave their homes or take away a single grain, and that’s all about it!", "pos": 1927165}
{"speaker": "a little old man", "text": "It was your son’s turn to be conscripted, but no fear! You begrudged your lump of a son, and so they took my Vánka to be shaved for a soldier! But we all have to die.", "pos": 1927307}
{"speaker": "Dron", "text": "To be sure, we all have to die. I’m not against the commune,", "pos": 1927525}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "That’s it—not against it! You’ve filled your belly....", "pos": 1927599}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Who is your Elder here? Hey?", "pos": 1927940}
{"speaker": "Karp", "text": "The Elder? What do you want with him?...", "pos": 1928028}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Caps off, traitors! Where’s the Elder?", "pos": 1928196}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "The Elder.... He wants the Elder!... Dron Zakhárych, you!", "pos": 1928295}
{"speaker": "Karp", "text": "We don’t riot, we’re following the orders,", "pos": 1928455}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "It’s as the old men have decided—there’s too many of you giving orders.", "pos": 1928574}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Arguing? Mutiny!... Brigands! Traitors! Bind him, bind him!", "pos": 1928648}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "Shall I call up our men from beyond the hill?", "pos": 1928941}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Where’s the Elder? Are you the Elder? Bind him, Lavrúshka! And you all listen to me! Be off to your houses at once, and don’t let one of your voices be heard!", "pos": 1929166}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "Why, we’ve not done any harm! We did it just out of foolishness. It’s all nonsense.... I said then that it was not in order,", "pos": 1929658}
{"speaker": "Alpátych", "text": "There! What did I say? It’s wrong, lads!", "pos": 1929831}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "All our stupidity, Yákov Alpátych,", "pos": 1929918}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Aye, when I look at you!...", "pos": 1930128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can one talk to the masters like that? What were you thinking of, you fool?", "pos": 1930184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A real fool!", "pos": 1930282}
{"speaker": "one of the peasants", "text": "Don’t put it in so carelessly. You know it has cost money! How can you chuck it in like that or shove it under the cord where it’ll get rubbed? I don’t like that way of doing things. Let it all be done properly, according to rule. Look here, put it under the bast matting and cover it with hay—that’s the way!", "pos": 1930607}
{"speaker": "another peasant", "text": "Eh, books, books! Don’t catch up against it! It’s heavy, lads—solid books.", "pos": 1931014}
{"speaker": "the tall, round-faced peasant", "text": "Yes, they worked all day and didn’t play!", "pos": 1931163}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How can you speak so! Any police officer would have done as much! If we had had only peasants to fight, we should not have let the enemy come so far. I am only happy to have had the opportunity of making your acquaintance. Good-by, Princess. I wish you happiness and consolation and hope to meet you again in happier circumstances. If you don’t want to make me blush, please don’t thank me!", "pos": 1931725}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Well, supposing I do love him?", "pos": 1933459}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Was it not fate that brought him to Boguchárovo, and at that very moment? And that caused his sister to refuse my brother?", "pos": 1934122}
{"speaker": "a smart orderly", "text": "What? His Serene Highness? I expect he’ll be here soon. What do you want?", "pos": 1936429}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You’re also waiting for the commander in chief?", "pos": 1936772}
{"speaker": "Lieutenant Colonel Denísov", "text": "they say he weceives evewyone, thank God!... It’s awful with those sausage eaters! Ermólov had weason to ask to be pwomoted to be a German! Now p’waps Wussians will get a look in. As it was, devil only knows what was happening. We kept wetweating and wetweating. Did you take part in the campaign?", "pos": 1936831}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I had the pleasure, not only of taking part in the retreat but of losing in that retreat all I held dear—not to mention the estate and home of my birth—my father, who died of grief. I belong to the province of Smolénsk.", "pos": 1937141}
{"speaker": "Lieutenant Colonel Denísov", "text": "Ah? You’re Pwince Bolkónski? Vewy glad to make your acquaintance! I’m Lieutenant Colonel Denísov, better known as ‘Váska,’ Yes, I heard. Yes, it’s Scythian warfare. It’s all vewy well—only not for those who get it in the neck. So you are Pwince Andwew Bolkónski? Vewy pleased, Pwince, to make your acquaintance!", "pos": 1937388}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "They can’t hold all that line. It’s impossible. I will undertake to bweak thwough. Give me five hundwed men and I will bweak the line, that’s certain! There’s only one way—guewilla warfare!", "pos": 1939394}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "He’s coming! He’s coming!", "pos": 1939906}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "And with such fine fellows to retreat and retreat! Well, good-by, General,", "pos": 1940951}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!", "pos": 1941093}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Whew... whew... whew!", "pos": 1941525}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Whew... whew... whew! Ah, how do you do, my dear prince? How do you do, my dear boy? Come along... And how’s your father?", "pos": 1942146}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I received news of his death, yesterday,", "pos": 1942657}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "May the kingdom of Heaven be his! God’s will be done to us all! I loved him and respected him, and sympathize with you with all my heart. Come! Come with me, we’ll have a talk,", "pos": 1942833}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "For our country’s welfare? Well, what is it? Speak!", "pos": 1943933}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "What? are you ready so soon?", "pos": 1944621}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "Ready, your Serene Highness,", "pos": 1944708}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "How is one man to deal with it all?", "pos": 1944804}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I give my word of honor as a Wussian officer, that I can bweak Napoleon’s line of communication!", "pos": 1944873}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "What relation are you to Intendant General Kiríl Andréevich Denísov?", "pos": 1944988}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "He is my uncle, your Sewene Highness.", "pos": 1945092}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah, we were friends. All right, all right, friend, stay here at the staff and tomorrow we’ll have a talk.", "pos": 1945132}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "Would not your Serene Highness like to come inside?", "pos": 1945369}
{"speaker": "General on duty", "text": "the plans must be examined and several papers have to be signed.", "pos": 1945473}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "No, tell them to bring a small table out here, my dear boy. I’ll look at them here. Don’t go away,", "pos": 1945716}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Her husband has welcomed his Serene Highness with the cross at the church, and she intends to welcome him in the house.... She’s very pretty,", "pos": 1946451}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Into the stove... into the fire with it! I tell you once for all, my dear fellow, into the fire with all such things! Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts’ content. I don’t order it or allow it, but I don’t exact compensation either. One can’t get on without it. ‘When wood is chopped the chips will fly.’ Oh, this German precision! Well, that’s all! Ah, what a beauty! Thank you, sweetheart! Well, my dear, and how are we getting on?", "pos": 1948541}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Well, sit down, sit down here. Let’s have a talk. It’s sad, very sad. But remember, my dear fellow, that I am a father to you, a second father.... What... what they have brought us to! But give me time, give me time! I sent for you to keep you with me.", "pos": 1950190}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I thank your Serene Highness, but I fear I am no longer fit for the staff. But above all. I have grown used to my regiment, am fond of the officers, and I fancy the men also like me. I should be sorry to leave the regiment. If I decline the honor of being with you, believe me...", "pos": 1950831}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I am sorry, for I need you. But you’re right, you’re right! It’s not here that men are needed. Advisers are always plentiful, but men are not. The regiments would not be what they are if the would-be advisers served there as you do. I remember you at Austerlitz.... I remember, yes, I remember you with the standard! Go your way and God be with you. I know your path is the path of honor! I missed you at Bucharest, but I needed someone to send. Yes, I have been much blamed, both for that war and the peace... but everything came at the right time. Tout vient à point à celui qui sait attendre. * And there were as many advisers there as here... Ah, those advisers! If we had listened to them all we should not have made peace with Turkey and should not have been through with that war. Everything in haste, but more haste, less speed. Kámenski would have been lost if he had not died. He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men. It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign. For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted. Kámenski sent soldiers to Rustchuk, but I only employed these two things and took more fortresses than Kámenski and made them Turks eat horseflesh! And the French shall too, believe me. I’ll make them eat horseflesh!", "pos": 1951334}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But shan’t we have to accept battle?", "pos": 1953508}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "We shall if everybody wants it; it can’t be helped.... But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all. But the advisers n’entendent pas de cette oreille, voilà le mal. Some want a thing—others don’t. What’s one to do? Well, what do you want us to do? I’ll tell you what to do. I will tell you what to do, and what I do. Dans le doute, mon cher, abstiens-toi Well, good-by, my dear fellow; remember that with all my heart I share your sorrow, and that for you I am not a Serene Highness, nor a prince, nor a commander in chief, but a father! If you want anything come straight to me. Good-by, my dear boy.", "pos": 1953571}
{"speaker": "Karpúshka Chigírin", "text": "They will swell up with Russian cabbage, burst with our buckwheat porridge, and choke themselves with cabbage soup. They are all dwarfs and one peasant woman will toss three of them with a hayfork.", "pos": 1958492}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Rentrez en vous-mêmes; entrez dans la barque, et n’en faites pas une barque de Charon.", "pos": 1959093}
{"speaker": "Julie Drubetskáya", "text": "You don’t spare anyone. Bezúkhov est ridicule, but he is so kind and good-natured. What pleasure is there to be so caustique?", "pos": 1959763}
{"speaker": "a young man in militia uniform", "text": "A forfeit!", "pos": 1960090}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "mon chevalier,", "pos": 1960158}
{"speaker": "a Russian writer", "text": "Another forfeit for a Gallicism, 'What pleasure is there to be' is not Russian!", "pos": 1960436}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "You spare no one. For caustique—I am guilty and will pay, and I am prepared to pay again for the pleasure of telling you the truth. For Gallicisms I won’t be responsible. I have neither the money nor the time, like Prince Galítsyn, to engage a master to teach me Russian! Ah, here he is! Quand on... No, no, you won’t catch me. Speak of the sun and you see its rays! We were just talking of you. We were saying that your regiment would be sure to be better than Mamónov’s.", "pos": 1960559}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, don’t talk to me of my regiment. I am so sick of it.", "pos": 1961297}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "You will, of course, command it yourself?", "pos": 1961430}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No. I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.", "pos": 1961810}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I hear that their affairs are in a very bad way. And he is so unreasonable, the count himself I mean. The Razumóvskis wanted to buy his house and his estate near Moscow, but it drags on and on. He asks too much.", "pos": 1962078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, I think the sale will come off in a few days,", "pos": 1962306}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Though it is madness to buy anything in Moscow now.", "pos": 1962372}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Why? You don’t think Moscow is in danger?", "pos": 1962426}
{"speaker": "Julie Drubetskáya", "text": "Then why are you leaving?", "pos": 1962485}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I? What a question! I am going because... well, because everyone is going: and besides—I am not Joan of Arc or an Amazon.", "pos": 1962513}
{"speaker": "Julie Drubetskáya", "text": "Well, of course, of course! Let me have some more strips of linen.", "pos": 1962637}
{"speaker": "the militia officer", "text": "If he manages the business properly he will be able to pay off all his debts,", "pos": 1962706}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "A kindly old man but not up to much. And why do they stay on so long in Moscow? They meant to leave for the country long ago. Natalie is quite well again now, isn’t she?", "pos": 1962832}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They are waiting for their younger son. He joined Obolénski’s Cossacks and went to Bélaya Tsérkov where the regiment is being formed. But now they have had him transferred to my regiment and are expecting him every day. The count wanted to leave long ago, but the countess won’t on any account leave Moscow till her son returns.", "pos": 1963045}
{"speaker": "Julie Drubetskáya", "text": "I met them the day before yesterday at the Arkhárovs’. Natalie has recovered her looks and is brighter. She sang a song. How easily some people get over everything!", "pos": 1963394}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Get over what?", "pos": 1963561}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "You know, Count, such knights as you are only found in Madame de Souza’s novels.", "pos": 1963629}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What knights? What do you mean?", "pos": 1963712}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Oh, come, my dear count! C’est la fable de tout Moscou. Je vous admire, ma parole d’honneur!", "pos": 1963773}
{"speaker": "the militia officer", "text": "Forfeit, forfeit!", "pos": 1963927}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "All right, one can’t talk—how tiresome!", "pos": 1963974}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What is ‘the talk of all Moscow’?", "pos": 1964016}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Come now, Count, you know!", "pos": 1964094}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I don’t know anything about it,", "pos": 1964123}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I know you were friendly with Natalie, and so... but I was always more friendly with Véra—that dear Véra.", "pos": 1964170}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, madame! I have not taken on myself the role of Natalie Rostóva’s knight at all, and have not been to their house for nearly a month. But I cannot understand the cruelty...", "pos": 1964278}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Qui s’excuse s’accuse. Do you know what I heard today? Poor Mary Bolkónskaya arrived in Moscow yesterday. Do you know that she has lost her father?", "pos": 1964501}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Really? Where is she? I should like very much to see her,", "pos": 1964811}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "I spent the evening with her yesterday. She is going to their estate near Moscow either today or tomorrow morning, with her nephew.", "pos": 1964884}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, and how is she?", "pos": 1965018}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "She is well, but sad. But do you know who rescued her? It is quite a romance. Nicholas Rostóv! She was surrounded, and they wanted to kill her and had wounded some of her people. He rushed in and saved her....", "pos": 1965056}
{"speaker": "the militia officer", "text": "Another romance. Really, this general flight has been arranged to get all the old maids married off. Catiche is one and Princess Bolkónskaya another.", "pos": 1965268}
{"speaker": "Julie", "text": "Do you know, I really believe she is un petit peu amoureuse du jeune homme.", "pos": 1965448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Forfeit, forfeit, forfeit!", "pos": 1965573}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But how could one say that in Russian?", "pos": 1965602}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "There will be less panic and less gossip, but I will stake my life on it that that scoundrel will not enter Moscow.", "pos": 1965951}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Shall I join the army and enter the service, or wait? If this patience comes out, if it comes out, it means... what does it mean? Then it will mean that I must go to the army. Come in, come in!", "pos": 1966740}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "Excuse my coming to you, cousin. You know some decision must be come to. What is going to happen? Everyone has left Moscow and the people are rioting. How is it that we are staying on?", "pos": 1967502}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine,", "pos": 1967737}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "Satisfactory, indeed! Very satisfactory! Barbara Ivánovna told me today how our troops are distinguishing themselves. It certainly does them credit! And the people too are quite mutinous—they no longer obey, even my maid has taken to being rude. At this rate they will soon begin beating us. One can’t walk in the streets. But, above all, the French will be here any day now, so what are we waiting for? I ask just one thing of you, cousin, arrange for me to be taken to Petersburg. Whatever I may be, I can’t live under Bonaparte’s rule.", "pos": 1967922}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, come, ma cousine! Where do you get your information from? On the contrary...", "pos": 1968478}
{"speaker": "the eldest princess", "text": "I won’t submit to your Napoleon! Others may if they please.... If you don’t want to do this...", "pos": 1968561}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But I will, I’ll give the order at once. But you have been misinformed. Everything is quiet in the city and there is not the slightest danger. See! I’ve just been reading... Count Rostopchín writes that he will stake his life on it that the enemy will not enter Moscow.", "pos": 1968658}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Oh, that count of yours! He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot. Didn’t he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, ‘whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair’? How silly! And honor and glory to whoever captures him, he says. This is what his cajolery has brought us to! Barbara Ivánovna told me the mob near killed her because she said something in French.", "pos": 1969099}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, but it’s so... You take everything so to heart,", "pos": 1969558}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well then, sell it. What’s to be done? I can’t draw back now!", "pos": 1970253}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutúzov to let him know. I have informed him of the matter. Please impress upon Leppich to be very careful where he descends for the first time, that he may not make a mistake and fall into the enemy’s hands. It is essential for him to combine his movements with those of the commander in chief.", "pos": 1971007}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What is it? Who is it? What is it for?", "pos": 1972047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He’s cook to some prince.", "pos": 1972678}
{"speaker": "a wrinkled clerk", "text": "Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a Frenchman... sets his teeth on edge!", "pos": 1972706}
{"speaker": "the coachman", "text": "What is your pleasure?", "pos": 1973321}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Where are you going?", "pos": 1973346}
{"speaker": "the coachman", "text": "To the Governor’s, as you ordered,", "pos": 1973432}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Fool! Idiot! Home, I told you! And drive faster, blockhead! I must get away this very day,", "pos": 1973492}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "I say, fellow countryman! Will they set us down here or take us on to Moscow?", "pos": 1989247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land...", "pos": 1990097}
{"speaker": "soldier with the swollen cheek", "text": "Oh, the coxcombs!", "pos": 1990633}
{"speaker": "soldier behind the cart", "text": "It’s not the soldiers only, but I’ve seen peasants today, too.... The peasants—even they have to go. No distinctions made nowadays.... They want the whole nation to fall on them—in a word, it’s Moscow! They want to make an end of it.", "pos": 1990680}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Count! Your excellency, how come you to be here?", "pos": 1991701}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, you know, I wanted to see...", "pos": 1991770}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Yes, yes, there will be something to see.... Why should you be God knows where out of sight, during the battle? Anyhow his Serene Highness knows you and will receive you graciously. That’s what you must do.", "pos": 1991807}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You think so?... Ah, I also wanted to ask you where our position is exactly?", "pos": 1992258}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "The position? Well, that’s not my line. Drive past Tatárinova, a lot of digging is going on there. Go up the hillock and you’ll see.", "pos": 1992350}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Can one see from there?... If you would...", "pos": 1992508}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "I would go with you but on my honor I’m up to here I’m galloping to the commander of the corps. How do matters stand?... You know, Count, there’ll be a battle tomorrow. Out of an army of a hundred thousand we must expect at least twenty thousand wounded, and we haven’t stretchers, or bunks, or dressers, or doctors enough for six thousand. We have ten thousand carts, but we need other things as well—we must manage as best we can!", "pos": 1992610}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They may die tomorrow; why are they thinking of anything but death? The cavalry ride to battle and meet the wounded and do not for a moment think of what awaits them, but pass by, winking at the wounded. Yet from among these men twenty thousand are doomed to die, and they wonder at my hat! Strange!", "pos": 1993301}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "They want the whole nation to fall on them.", "pos": 1994883}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I must ask someone who knows. May I ask you, what village that is in front?", "pos": 1997226}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Búrdino, isn’t it?", "pos": 1997420}
{"speaker": "other", "text": "Borodinó,", "pos": 1997485}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Are those our men there?", "pos": 1997600}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Yes, and there, further on, are the French. There they are, there... you can see them.", "pos": 1997644}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Where? Where?", "pos": 1997753}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "One can see them with the naked eye... Why, there!", "pos": 1997783}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ah, those are the French! And over there?...", "pos": 1998039}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Those are ours.", "pos": 1998163}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ah, ours! And there?...", "pos": 1998181}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "That’s his again. It was ours yesterday, but now it is his.", "pos": 1998386}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Then how about our position?", "pos": 1998501}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Our position? I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments. There, you see? There’s our center, at Borodinó, just there. That’s where one crosses the Kolochá. You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there’s the bridge. That’s our center. Our right flank is over there That’s where the Moskvá River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones. The left flank... Well, you see, that’s difficult to explain.... Yesterday our left flank was there at Shevárdino, you see, where the oak is, but now we have withdrawn our left wing—now it is over there, do you see that village and the smoke? That’s Semënovsk, yes, there. But the battle will hardly be there. His having moved his troops there is only a ruse; he will probably pass round to the right of the Moskvá. But wherever it may be, many a man will be missing tomorrow!", "pos": 1998532}
{"speaker": "sergeant", "text": "Gabions must be sent for,", "pos": 1999918}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Well, send number three company again. And you, are you one of the doctors?", "pos": 2000110}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I’ve come on my own,", "pos": 2000221}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Oh, those damned fellows!", "pos": 2000322}
{"speaker": "militiaman", "text": "There they are... bringing her, coming... There they are... They’ll be here in a minute... They are bringing her, our Protectress!... The Iberian Mother of God! The Smolénsk Mother of God,", "pos": 2000438}
{"speaker": "chanting priest", "text": "Save from calamity Thy servants, O Mother of God,", "pos": 2003079}
{"speaker": "priest and deacon", "text": "For to Thee under God we all flee as to an inviolable bulwark and protection,", "pos": 2003168}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Count Peter Kirílovich! How did you get here?", "pos": 2005299}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "This is what you must do. I will do the honors of the camp to you. You will see everything best from where Count Bennigsen will be. I am in attendance on him, you know; I’ll mention it to him. But if you want to ride round the position, come along with us. We are just going to the left flank. Then when we get back, do spend the night with me and we’ll arrange a game of cards. Of course you know Dmítri Sergéevich? Those are his quarters,", "pos": 2006119}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But I should like to see the right flank. They say it’s very strong. I should like to start from the Moskvá River and ride round the whole position.", "pos": 2006635}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Well, you can do that later, but the chief thing is the left flank.", "pos": 2006801}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes. But where is Prince Bolkónski’s regiment? Can you point it out to me?", "pos": 2006871}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Prince Andrew’s? We shall pass it and I’ll take you to him.", "pos": 2006953}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What about the left flank?", "pos": 2007015}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "To tell you the truth, between ourselves, God only knows what state our left flank is in. It is not at all what Count Bennigsen intended. He meant to fortify that knoll quite differently, but... his Serene Highness would not have it, or someone persuaded him. You see... Ah, Kaysárov! I was just trying to explain our position to the count. It is amazing how his Serene Highness could so foresee the intentions of the French!", "pos": 2007057}
{"speaker": "Kaysárov", "text": "You mean the left flank?", "pos": 2007719}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Yes, exactly; the left flank is now extremely strong.", "pos": 2007762}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Call him to me,", "pos": 2009396}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How did that fellow get here?", "pos": 2009578}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He’s a creature that wriggles in anywhere!", "pos": 2009624}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He has been degraded, you know. Now he wants to bob up again. He’s been proposing some scheme or other and has crawled into the enemy’s picket line at night.... He’s a brave fellow.", "pos": 2009685}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I concluded that if I reported to your Serene Highness you might send me away or say that you knew what I was reporting, but then I shouldn’t lose anything...", "pos": 2009928}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Yes, yes.", "pos": 2010110}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "But if I were right, I should be rendering a service to my Fatherland for which I am ready to die.", "pos": 2010122}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Yes, yes.", "pos": 2010223}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "And should your Serene Highness require a man who will not spare his skin, please think of me.... Perhaps I may prove useful to your Serene Highness.", "pos": 2010235}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Yes... Yes...", "pos": 2010387}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "The militia have put on clean white shirts to be ready to die. What heroism, Count!", "pos": 2010700}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "What are you saying about the militia?", "pos": 2010946}
{"speaker": "Borís", "text": "Preparing for tomorrow, your Serene Highness—for death—they have put on clean shirts.", "pos": 2011003}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ah... a wonderful, a matchless people! A matchless people! So you want to smell gunpowder? Yes, it’s a pleasant smell. I have the honor to be one of your wife’s adorers. Is she well? My quarters are at your service. Those verses... those verses of Márin’s... how do they go, eh? Those he wrote about Gerákov: ‘Lectures for the corps inditing’... Recite them, recite them!", "pos": 2011091}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "I am very glad to meet you here, Count. On the eve of a day when God alone knows who of us is fated to survive, I am glad of this opportunity to tell you that I regret the misunderstandings that occurred between us and should wish you not to have any ill feeling for me. I beg you to forgive me.", "pos": 2011998}
{"speaker": "Bennigsen", "text": "It will interest you,", "pos": 2012671}
{"speaker": "Bennigsen", "text": "I don’t think this interests you?", "pos": 2014825}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "On the contrary it’s very interesting!", "pos": 2014861}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, yes! There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me. There they are, those rudely painted figures that once seemed splendid and mysterious. Glory, the good of society, love of a woman, the Fatherland itself—how important these pictures appeared to me, with what profound meaning they seemed to be filled! And it is all so simple, pale, and crude in the cold white light of this morning which I feel is dawning for me. Love... that little girl who seemed to me brimming over with mystic forces! Yes, indeed, I loved her. I made romantic plans of love and happiness with her! Oh, what a boy I was! Ah me! I believed in some ideal love which was to keep her faithful to me for the whole year of my absence! Like the gentle dove in the fable she was to pine apart from me.... But it was much simpler really.... It was all very simple and horrible. When my father built Bald Hills he thought the place was his: his land, his air, his peasants. But Napoleon came and swept him aside, unconscious of his existence, as he might brush a chip from his path, and his Bald Hills and his whole life fell to pieces. Princess Mary says it is a trial sent from above. What is the trial for, when he is not here and will never return? He is not here! For whom then is the trial intended? The Fatherland, the destruction of Moscow! And tomorrow I shall be killed, perhaps not even by a Frenchman but by one of our own men, by a soldier discharging a musket close to my ear as one of them did yesterday, and the French will come and take me by head and heels and fling me into a hole that I may not stink under their noses, and new conditions of life will arise, which will seem quite ordinary to others and about which I shall know nothing. I shall not exist.... To die... to be killed tomorrow... That I should not exist... That all this should still be, but no me.... Who’s that? Devil take it! You? What a surprise! What brings you here? This is unexpected!", "pos": 2018546}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I have come... simply... you know... come... it interests me. I wish to see the battle.", "pos": 2022365}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh yes, and what do the Masonic brothers say about war? How would they stop it? Well, and how’s Moscow? And my people? Have they reached Moscow at last?", "pos": 2022542}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, they have. Julie Drubetskáya told me so. I went to see them, but missed them. They have gone to your estate near Moscow.", "pos": 2022753}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "So you understand the whole position of our troops?", "pos": 2023387}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes—that is, how do you mean? Not being a military man I can’t say I have understood it fully, but I understand the general position.", "pos": 2023472}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Well, then, you know more than anyone else, be it who it may,", "pos": 2023623}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh! Well, and what do you think of Kutúzov’s appointment?", "pos": 2023707}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I was very glad of his appointment, that’s all I know,", "pos": 2023852}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And tell me your opinion of Barclay de Tolly. In Moscow they are saying heaven knows what about him.... What do you think of him?", "pos": 2023932}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ask them,", "pos": 2024064}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "We see light again, since his Serenity has been appointed, your excellency,", "pos": 2024254}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 2024405}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "Well, to mention only firewood and fodder, let me inform you. Why, when we were retreating from Sventsyáni we dare not touch a stick or a wisp of hay or anything. You see, we were going away, so he would get it all; wasn’t it so, your excellency? But we daren’t. In our regiment two officers were court-martialed for that kind of thing. But when his Serenity took command everything became straightforward. Now we see light....", "pos": 2024429}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Then why was it forbidden?", "pos": 2024902}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why, so as not to lay waste the country we were abandoning to the enemy. It is very sound: one can’t permit the land to be pillaged and accustom the troops to marauding. At Smolénsk too he judged correctly that the French might outflank us, as they had larger forces. But he could not understand this, he could not understand that there, for the first time, we were fighting for Russian soil, and that there was a spirit in the men such as I had never seen before, that we had held the French for two days, and that that success had increased our strength tenfold. He ordered us to retreat, and all our efforts and losses went for nothing. He had no thought of betraying us, he tried to do the best he could, he thought out everything, and that is why he is unsuitable. He is unsuitable now, just because he plans out everything very thoroughly and accurately as every German has to. How can I explain?... Well, say your father has a German valet, and he is a splendid valet and satisfies your father’s requirements better than you could, then it’s all right to let him serve. But if your father is mortally sick you’ll send the valet away and attend to your father with your own unpracticed, awkward hands, and will soothe him better than a skilled man who is a stranger could. So it has been with Barclay. While Russia was well, a foreigner could serve her and be a splendid minister; but as soon as she is in danger she needs one of her own kin. But in your Club they have been making him out a traitor! They slander him as a traitor, and the only result will be that afterwards, ashamed of their false accusations, they will make him out a hero or a genius instead of a traitor, and that will be still more unjust. He is an honest and very punctilious German.", "pos": 2025065}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And they say he’s a skillful commander,", "pos": 2026954}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t understand what is meant by ‘a skillful commander,’", "pos": 2027013}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "A skillful commander? Why, one who foresees all contingencies... and foresees the adversary’s intentions.", "pos": 2027109}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone. Believe me, if things depended on arrangements made by the staff, I should be there making arrangements, but instead of that I have the honor to serve here in the regiment with these gentlemen, and I consider that on us tomorrow’s battle will depend and not on those others.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.", "pos": 2027450}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But on what then?", "pos": 2028287}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "On the feeling that is in me and in him, and in each soldier.", "pos": 2028307}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it! Why did we lose the battle at Austerlitz? The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. And we said so because we had nothing to fight for there, we wanted to get away from the battlefield as soon as we could. ‘We’ve lost, so let us run,’ and we ran. If we had not said that till the evening, heaven knows what might not have happened. But tomorrow we shan’t say it! You talk about our position, the left flank weak and the right flank too extended,", "pos": 2028663}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s all nonsense, there’s nothing of the kind. But what awaits us tomorrow? A hundred million most diverse chances which will be decided on the instant by the fact that our men or theirs run or do not run, and that this man or that man is killed, but all that is being done at present is only play. The fact is that those men with whom you have ridden round the position not only do not help matters, but hinder. They are only concerned with their own petty interests.", "pos": 2029269}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "At such a moment?", "pos": 2029743}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "At such a moment! To them it is only a moment affording opportunities to undermine a rival and obtain an extra cross or ribbon. For me tomorrow means this: a Russian army of a hundred thousand and a French army of a hundred thousand have met to fight, and the thing is that these two hundred thousand men will fight and the side that fights more fiercely and spares itself least will win. And if you like I will tell you that whatever happens and whatever muddles those at the top may make, we shall win tomorrow’s battle. Tomorrow, happen what may, we shall win!", "pos": 2029790}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "There now, your excellency! That’s the truth, the real truth. Who would spare himself now? The soldiers in my battalion, believe me, wouldn’t drink their vodka! ‘It’s not the day for that!’ they say.", "pos": 2030382}
{"speaker": "one of them", "text": "Der Krieg muss in Raum verlegt werden. Der Ansicht kann ich nicht genug Preis geben,", "pos": 2031095}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The war must be extended widely. I cannot sufficiently commend that view.", "pos": 2031204}
{"speaker": "The other", "text": "Oh, ja, der Zweck ist nur den Feind zu schwächen, so kann man gewiss nicht den Verlust der Privat-Personen in Achtung nehmen.", "pos": 2031280}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes, the only aim is to weaken the enemy, so of course one cannot take into account the loss of private individuals.", "pos": 2031430}
{"speaker": "The other", "text": "Oh, no,", "pos": 2031553}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Extend widely! In that ‘extend’ were my father, son, and sister, at Bald Hills. That’s all the same to him! That’s what I was saying to you—those German gentlemen won’t win the battle tomorrow but will only make all the mess they can, because they have nothing in their German heads but theories not worth an empty eggshell and haven’t in their hearts the one thing needed tomorrow—that which Timókhin has. They have yielded up all Europe to him, and have now come to teach us. Fine teachers!", "pos": 2031581}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "So you think we shall win tomorrow’s battle?", "pos": 2032178}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, yes. One thing I would do if I had the power. I would not take prisoners. Why take prisoners? It’s chivalry! The French have destroyed my home and are on their way to destroy Moscow, they have outraged and are outraging me every moment. They are my enemies. In my opinion they are all criminals. And so thinks Timókhin and the whole army. They should be executed! Since they are my foes they cannot be my friends, whatever may have been said at Tilsit.", "pos": 2032239}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes. I quite agree with you!", "pos": 2032752}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Not take prisoners. That by itself would quite change the whole war and make it less cruel. As it is we have played at war—that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that stuff. Such magnanimity and sensibility are like the magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can’t look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce. They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. It’s all rubbish! I saw chivalry and flags of truce in 1805; they humbugged us and we humbugged them. They plunder other people’s houses, issue false paper money, and worst of all they kill my children and my father, and then talk of rules of war and magnanimity to foes! Take no prisoners, but kill and be killed! He who has come to this as I have through the same sufferings... If there was none of this magnanimity in war, we should go to war only when it was worth while going to certain death, as now. Then there would not be war because Paul Ivánovich had offended Michael Ivánovich. And when there was a war, like this one, it would be war! And then the determination of the troops would be quite different. Then all these Westphalians and Hessians whom Napoleon is leading would not follow him into Russia, and we should not go to fight in Austria and Prussia without knowing why. War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. The military calling is the most highly honored. But what is war? What is needed for success in warfare? What are the habits of the military? The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country’s inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. And in spite of all this it is the highest class, respected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the highest rewards. They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, and then have thanksgiving services for having killed so many people (they even exaggerate the number), and they announce a victory, supposing that the more people they have killed the greater their achievement. How does God above look at them and hear them? Ah, my friend, it has of late become hard for me to live. I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn’t do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.... Ah, well, it’s not for long! However, you’re sleepy, and it’s time for me to sleep. Go back to Górki!", "pos": 2033429}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh no!", "pos": 2036948}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Go, go! Before a battle one must have one’s sleep out. Good-by, be off! Whether we meet again or not...", "pos": 2037035}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, he does not want it! And I know that this is our last meeting!", "pos": 2037493}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, I can’t! I’m not telling it right; no, you don’t understand. He was such a delightful old man, and it was so dark in the forest... and he had such kind... No, I can’t describe it,", "pos": 2038166}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I understood her. I not only understood her, but it was just that inner, spiritual force, that sincerity, that frankness of soul—that very soul of hers which seemed to be fettered by her body—it was that soul I loved in her... loved so strongly and happily... He did not need anything of that kind. He neither saw nor understood anything of the sort. He only saw in her a pretty and fresh young girl, with whom he did not deign to unite his fate. And I?... and he is still alive and gay!", "pos": 2038755}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Go on, harder, go on! No prisoners! They are forcing us to exterminate them. So much the worse for the Russian army.... Go on... harder, harder! All right. Let Monsieur de Beausset enter, and Fabvier too,", "pos": 2040609}
{"speaker": "Aide-de-camp", "text": "Yes, sire,", "pos": 2041316}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I must make up for that in Moscow. I’ll see you later. You have hurried here. I am very glad. Well, what is Paris saying?", "pos": 2042456}
{"speaker": "M. de Beausset", "text": "Sire, all Paris regrets your absence,", "pos": 2043035}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "I am very sorry to have made you travel so far,", "pos": 2043320}
{"speaker": "M. de Beausset", "text": "Sire, I expected nothing less than to find you at the gates of Moscow,", "pos": 2043379}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Yes, it has happened luckily for you. You are fond of travel, and in three days you will see Moscow. You surely did not expect to see that Asiatic capital. You will have a pleasant journey. Ha, what’s this?", "pos": 2043644}
{"speaker": "M. de Beausset", "text": "A present to Your Majesty from the Empress.", "pos": 2044280}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "The King of Rome! Admirable!", "pos": 2044976}
{"speaker": "Old Guard", "text": "Vive l’Empereur! Vive le roi de Rome! Vive l’Empereur!", "pos": 2046358}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Short and energetic! He was in the great battle before Moscow! Before Moscow!", "pos": 2046535}
{"speaker": "de Beausset", "text": "Your Majesty is too kind!", "pos": 2047256}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Take him away! It is too soon for him to see a field of battle.", "pos": 2047613}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "The chessmen are set up, the game will begin tomorrow!", "pos": 2061424}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "The matter is in my hands and is clear and definite in my head. When the time comes to set to work I shall do it as no one else could, but now I can jest, and the more I jest and the calmer I am the more tranquil and confident you ought to be, and the more amazed at my genius.", "pos": 2061979}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Well, Rapp, do you think we shall do good business today?", "pos": 2062830}
{"speaker": "Rapp", "text": "Without doubt, sire. Do you remember, sire, what you did me the honor to say at Smolénsk? The wine is drawn and must be drunk.", "pos": 2062910}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "This poor army! It has diminished greatly since Smolénsk. Fortune is frankly a courtesan, Rapp. I have always said so and I am beginning to experience it. But the Guards, Rapp, the Guards are intact?", "pos": 2063175}
{"speaker": "Rapp", "text": "Yes, sire,", "pos": 2063430}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Have the biscuits and rice been served out to the regiments of the Guards?", "pos": 2063718}
{"speaker": "Rapp", "text": "Yes, sire.", "pos": 2063819}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "The rice too? I have neither taste nor smell. This cold is tiresome. They talk about medicine—what is the good of medicine when it can’t cure a cold! Corvisart gave me these lozenges but they don’t help at all. What can doctors cure? One can’t cure anything. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. Our body is like a perfect watch that should go for a certain time; the watchmaker cannot open it, he can only adjust it by fumbling, and that blindfold.... Yes, our body is just a machine for living, that is all. Do you know, Rapp, what military art is? It is the art of being stronger than the enemy at a given moment. That’s all. Tomorrow we shall have to deal with Kutúzov! We shall see! Do you remember at Braunau he commanded an army for three weeks and did not once mount a horse to inspect his entrenchments.... We shall see!", "pos": 2063832}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "What year did you enter the service? Ah! One of the old ones! Has your regiment had its rice?", "pos": 2066223}
{"speaker": "guardsman", "text": "It has, Your Majesty.", "pos": 2066464}
{"speaker": "groom", "text": "Your excellency! Your excellency! Your excellency!", "pos": 2067609}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What? Has it begun? Is it time?", "pos": 2067812}
{"speaker": "groom", "text": "Hear the firing. All the gentlemen have gone out, and his Serene Highness himself rode past long ago.", "pos": 2067871}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "It’s time, Count; it’s time!", "pos": 2068538}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Go, my dear fellow, go... and Christ be with you!", "pos": 2073117}
{"speaker": "general", "text": "To the crossing!", "pos": 2073347}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I’ll go there too, I too!", "pos": 2073461}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Why ride into the middle of the battalion?", "pos": 2074563}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Why’s that fellow in front of the line?", "pos": 2075772}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "To the left!... Keep to the right!", "pos": 2075845}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "How have you got here?", "pos": 2076114}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What’s happening here? May I come with you?", "pos": 2076298}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "One moment, one moment! Why have you come here, Count? Still inquisitive?", "pos": 2076354}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes,", "pos": 2076596}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Here it’s tolerable, but with Bagratión on the left flank they’re getting it frightfully hot.", "pos": 2076678}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Really? Where is that?", "pos": 2076785}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Come along with me to our knoll. We can get a view from there and in our battery it is still bearable. Will you come?", "pos": 2076825}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I’ll come with you. Why haven’t they carried him away?", "pos": 2076966}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "You don’t seem to be used to riding, Count?", "pos": 2077620}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No it’s not that, but her action seems so jerky,", "pos": 2077689}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Why... she’s wounded! In the off foreleg above the knee. A bullet, no doubt. I congratulate you, Count, on your baptism of fire! Is the general here?", "pos": 2077771}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "He was here a minute ago but has just gone that way,", "pos": 2078294}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Don’t trouble about me. I’ll go up onto the knoll if I may?", "pos": 2078459}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Yes, do. You’ll see everything from there and it’s less dangerous, and I’ll come for you.", "pos": 2078536}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "Sir, permit me to ask you to stand aside. You must not be here.", "pos": 2080996}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "And how’s it you’re not afraid, sir, really now?", "pos": 2081921}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Are you afraid, then?", "pos": 2082080}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "What else do you expect? She has no mercy, you know! When she comes spluttering down, out go your innards. One can’t help being afraid. It’s the business of us soldiers. But in a gentleman it’s wonderful! There’s a gentleman for you!", "pos": 2082117}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "To your places!", "pos": 2082579}
{"speaker": "A man", "text": "A live one!", "pos": 2083810}
{"speaker": "another", "text": "Not this way! To the infantry! Are you bowing to a friend, eh?", "pos": 2083871}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "They’ve withdrawn the front line, it has retired,", "pos": 2084220}
{"speaker": "An old sergeant", "text": "Mind your own business. If they’ve retired it’s because there’s work for them to do farther back.", "pos": 2084312}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To the fifth gun, wheel it up!", "pos": 2084579}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now then, all together, like bargees!", "pos": 2084639}
{"speaker": "The red-faced humorist", "text": "Oh, she nearly knocked our gentleman’s hat off! Awkward baggage!", "pos": 2084735}
{"speaker": "another soldier", "text": "Now then, you foxes!", "pos": 2084953}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "So this gruel isn’t to your taste? Oh, you crows! You’re scared! There, lads... oh, oh! they don’t like it at all!", "pos": 2085088}
{"speaker": "The young officer", "text": "I have the honor to report, sir, that only eight rounds are left. Are we to continue firing?", "pos": 2087876}
{"speaker": "The senior officer", "text": "Grapeshot!", "pos": 2087981}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "All with grapeshot! The scoundrels! What are they doing? Run to the reserves and bring up the ammunition boxes!", "pos": 2088804}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I’ll go,", "pos": 2089344}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Don’t fire.... Wait!", "pos": 2089440}
{"speaker": "The man ordered for ammunition", "text": "Eh, sir, this is no place for you,", "pos": 2089550}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where am I going?", "pos": 2089819}
{"speaker": "a soldier", "text": "Brothers!", "pos": 2091083}
{"speaker": "Russian soldiers", "text": "Hurrah!", "pos": 2093299}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Reinforcements? Reinforcements! Tell the King of Naples, that it is not noon yet, and I don’t yet see my chessboard clearly. Go!...", "pos": 2102583}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "You are very fiery, Belliard. In the heat of a battle it is easy to make a mistake. Go and have another look and then come back to me. Now then, what do you want?", "pos": 2103965}
{"speaker": "the adjutant", "text": "Sire, the prince...", "pos": 2104361}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Asks for reinforcements? We must give reserves. Who do you think should be sent there?", "pos": 2104403}
{"speaker": "Berthier", "text": "Send Claparède’s division, sire,", "pos": 2104822}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "No! I can’t send Claparède. Send Friant’s division.", "pos": 2105135}
{"speaker": "M. de Beausset", "text": "I hope I may now congratulate Your Majesty on a victory?", "pos": 2106158}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Go away...", "pos": 2106472}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "What? What do you say? Yes, tell them to bring me my horse.", "pos": 2110417}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "At eight hundred leagues from France, I will not have my Guard destroyed!", "pos": 2111983}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Yes, yes, do that. Yes, yes: go, dear boy, and have a look. No, don’t, we’d better wait!", "pos": 2112335}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Ride over to Prince Peter Ivánovich and find out about it exactly. Will Your Highness please take command of the first army? Wait a little, gentlemen. The battle is won, and there is nothing extraordinary in the capture of Murat. Still, it is better to wait before we rejoice. Go, my dear fellow, and see whether something can’t be done.", "pos": 2113708}
{"speaker": "Wolzogen", "text": "All the points of our position are in the enemy’s hands and we cannot dislodge them for lack of troops, the men are running away and it is impossible to stop them. I have not considered it right to conceal from your Serene Highness what I have seen. The troops are in complete disorder....", "pos": 2117111}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "You have seen? You have seen?... How... how dare you!... How dare you, sir, say that to me? You know nothing about it. Tell General Barclay from me that his information is incorrect and that the real course of the battle is better known to me, the commander in chief, than to him. The enemy has been repulsed on the left and defeated on the right flank. If you have seen amiss, sir, do not allow yourself to say what you don’t know! Be so good as to ride to General Barclay and inform him of my firm intention to attack the enemy tomorrow. They are repulsed everywhere, for which I thank God and our brave army! The enemy is beaten, and tomorrow we shall drive him from the sacred soil of Russia. Ah, here he is, my hero! Then you do not think, like some others, that we must retreat?", "pos": 2117600}
{"speaker": "Raévski", "text": "On the contrary, your Highness, in indecisive actions it is always the most stubborn who remain victors, and in my opinion...", "pos": 2119303}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Kaysárov! Sit down and write out the order of the day for tomorrow. And you, ride along the line and announce that tomorrow we attack.", "pos": 2119450}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Hey, look at the trace horse!... Get her leg out! She’ll fall.... Ah, they don’t see it!", "pos": 2123711}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Adjutant! Order them not to crowd together.", "pos": 2126569}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Look out!", "pos": 2126752}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Lie down!", "pos": 2127161}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Can this be death? I cannot, I do not wish to die. I love life—I love this grass, this earth, this air.... It’s shameful, sir! What...", "pos": 2127385}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "What are you waiting for? Come along! Pick him up, lift him, it’s all the same!", "pos": 2128344}
{"speaker": "Officers", "text": "Ah, God! My God! What is it? The stomach? That means death! My God!", "pos": 2128644}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "It flew a hair’s breadth past my ear,", "pos": 2128759}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Keep in step! Ah... those peasants!", "pos": 2128957}
{"speaker": "Foremost peasant", "text": "Get into step, Fëdor... I say, Fëdor!", "pos": 2129122}
{"speaker": "Peasant", "text": "Now that’s right!", "pos": 2129189}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "Your excellency! Eh, Prince!", "pos": 2129266}
{"speaker": "Noncommissioned officer", "text": "We kicked him out from there so that he chucked everything, we grabbed the King himself! If only reserves had come up just then, lads, there wouldn’t have been nothing left of him! I tell you surely....", "pos": 2131478}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "All right, immediately,", "pos": 2132478}
{"speaker": "Wounded man", "text": "It seems that even in the next world only the gentry are to have a chance!", "pos": 2132661}
{"speaker": "Tartar", "text": "Ooh, ooh, ooh!", "pos": 2133842}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "Undress him! What are you waiting for?", "pos": 2134792}
{"speaker": "Wounded man", "text": "Show it to me.... Oh, ooh... Oh! Oh, ooh!", "pos": 2136165}
{"speaker": "Wounded man", "text": "Oh! Oh, ooh!", "pos": 2136756}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "My God! What is this? Why is he here? Yes, it is he! Yes, that man is somehow closely and painfully connected with me. What is the connection of that man with my childhood and life?", "pos": 2136900}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Compassion, love of our brothers, for those who love us and for those who hate us, love of our enemies; yes, that love which God preached on earth and which Princess Mary taught me and I did not understand—that is what made me sorry to part with life, that is what remained for me had I lived. But now it is too late. I know it!", "pos": 2138245}
{"speaker": "the adjutant", "text": "Our fire is mowing them down by rows, but still they hold on,", "pos": 2140536}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "They want more!...", "pos": 2140619}
{"speaker": "the adjutant", "text": "Sire?", "pos": 2140673}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "They want more! Let them have it!", "pos": 2140730}
{"speaker": "history", "text": "But every time there have been conquests there have been conquerors; every time there has been a revolution in any state there have been great men,", "pos": 2157179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "every time conquerors appear there have been wars, but this does not prove that the conquerors caused the wars and that it is possible to find the laws of a war in the personal activity of a single man.", "pos": 2157377}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whenever I look at my watch and its hands point to ten, I hear the bells of the neighboring church; but because the bells begin to ring when the hands of the clock reach ten, I have no right to assume that the movement of the bells is caused by the position of the hands of the watch.", "pos": 2157580}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whenever I see the movement of a locomotive I hear the whistle and see the valves opening and wheels turning; but I have no right to conclude that the whistling and the turning of wheels are the cause of the movement of the engine.", "pos": 2157865}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Give me your hand. You are not well, my dear fellow. Think what you are saying!", "pos": 2167510}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Have I really allowed Napoleon to reach Moscow, and when did I do so? When was it decided? Can it have been yesterday when I ordered Plátov to retreat, or was it the evening before, when I had a nap and told Bennigsen to issue orders? Or was it earlier still?... When, when was this terrible affair decided? Moscow must be abandoned. The army must retreat and the order to do so must be given.", "pos": 2171991}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "My head, be it good or bad, must depend on itself,", "pos": 2173233}
{"speaker": "Bennigsen", "text": "Are we to abandon Russia’s ancient and sacred capital without a struggle, or are we to defend it?", "pos": 2176342}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Russia’s ancient and sacred capital! Allow me to tell you, your excellency, that that question has no meaning for a Russian. Such a question cannot be put; it is senseless! The question I have asked these gentlemen to meet to discuss is a military one. The question is that of saving Russia. Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle, or by accepting battle to risk losing the army as well as Moscow? That is the question on which I want your opinion,", "pos": 2176757}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Gentlemen. I cannot approve of the count’s plan. Moving troops in close proximity to an enemy is always dangerous, and military history supports that view. For instance... Oh yes; take the battle of Friedland, which I think the count well remembers, and which was... not fully successful, only because our troops were rearranged too near the enemy.... Well, gentlemen, I see that it is I who will have to pay for the broken crockery. Gentlemen, I have heard your views. Some of you will not agree with me. But I, by the authority entrusted to me by my Sovereign and country, order a retreat.", "pos": 2179118}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "When, when did the abandonment of Moscow become inevitable? When was that done which settled the matter? And who was to blame for it? I did not expect this. I did not expect this! I did not think this would happen.", "pos": 2180841}
{"speaker": "Schneider", "text": "You should take some rest, your Serene Highness,", "pos": 2181137}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "But no! They shall eat horseflesh yet, like the Turks! They shall too, if only...", "pos": 2181207}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is disgraceful to run away from danger; only cowards are running away from Moscow,", "pos": 2183177}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "That’s just like a man—selfish and cruel! I expected nothing else. A woman sacrifices herself for you, she suffers, and this is her reward! What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships? He is a man who has been more than a father to me! Well, yes, it may be that he has other sentiments for me than those of a father, but that is not a reason for me to shut my door on him. I am not a man, that I should repay kindness with ingratitude! Know, monseigneur, that in all that relates to my intimate feelings I render account only to God and to my conscience,", "pos": 2188510}
{"speaker": "The young foreign prince", "text": "But for heaven’s sake listen to me! Marry me, and I will be your slave! But that’s impossible.", "pos": 2189289}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "You won’t deign to demean yourself by marrying me, you...", "pos": 2189390}
{"speaker": "The young foreign prince", "text": "But the law, religion...", "pos": 2189827}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "The law, religion... The law, religion... What have they been invented for if they can’t arrange that?", "pos": 2189889}
{"speaker": "Father Confessor", "text": "Ignorant of the import of what you were undertaking, you made a vow of conjugal fidelity to a man who on his part, by entering the married state without faith in the religious significance of marriage, committed an act of sacrilege. That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had. Yet in spite of this your vow was binding. You swerved from it. What did you commit by so acting? A venial, or a mortal, sin? A venial sin, for you acted without evil intention. If now you married again with the object of bearing children, your sin might be forgiven. But the question is again a twofold one: firstly...", "pos": 2193729}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "But I think that having espoused the true religion I cannot be bound by what a false religion laid upon me.", "pos": 2194430}
{"speaker": "The director of her conscience", "text": "Let us understand one another, Countess,", "pos": 2194811}
{"speaker": "Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova", "text": "So wives of living men have started marrying again! Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty? You have been forestalled, my dear! It was thought of long ago. It is done in all the brothels,", "pos": 2197490}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Hélène, I have a word to say to you. I have heard of certain projects concerning... you know. Well my dear child, you know how your father’s heart rejoices to know that you... You have suffered so much.... But, my dear child, consult only your own heart. That is all I have to say,", "pos": 2198272}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Listen, Bilíbin. Tell me, as you would a sister, what I ought to do. Which of the two?", "pos": 2198989}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "You are not taking me unawares, you know. As a true friend, I have thought and thought again about your affair. You see, if you marry the prince you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides. (You know there is some kind of connection.) But if you marry the old count you will make his last days happy, and as widow of the Grand... the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you,", "pos": 2199305}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "That’s a true friend! But I love them, you know, and don’t want to distress either of them. I would give my life for the happiness of them both.", "pos": 2199857}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Une maîtresse-femme! * That’s what is called putting things squarely. She would like to be married to all three at the same time. But tell me, how will your husband look at the matter? Will he agree?", "pos": 2200162}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Oh, he loves me so! He will do anything for me.", "pos": 2200505}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "Even divorce you?", "pos": 2200688}
{"speaker": "The old princess", "text": "But it says plainly: ‘Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced...’", "pos": 2201527}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Ah, Maman, ne dites pas de bêtises. Vous ne comprenez rien. Dans ma position j’ai des devoirs,", "pos": 2201621}
{"speaker": "The old princess", "text": "But, my dear....", "pos": 2201968}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "Oh, Mamma, how is it you don’t understand that the Holy Father, who has the right to grant dispensations... Non, dites-lui que je ne veux pas le voir, que je suis furieuse contre lui, parce qu’il m’a manqué parole.", "pos": 2201987}
{"speaker": "A fair-haired young man", "text": "Comtesse, à tout péché miséricorde,", "pos": 2202436}
{"speaker": "Hélène", "text": "And so I pray God to have you, my friend, in His holy and powerful keeping—Your friend Hélène.", "pos": 2203394}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "And who may you be?", "pos": 2205599}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I, I... By rights I am a militia officer, but my men are not here. I came to the battle and have lost them.", "pos": 2205810}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "There now!", "pos": 2206074}
{"speaker": "The first soldier", "text": "Would you like a little mash?", "pos": 2206137}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "Where have you to go to? Tell us!", "pos": 2206591}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "To Mozháysk.", "pos": 2206645}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "You’re a gentleman, aren’t you?", "pos": 2206660}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 2206694}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "And what’s your name?", "pos": 2206701}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Peter Kirílych.", "pos": 2206725}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "Well then, Peter Kirílych, come along with us, we’ll take you there.", "pos": 2206743}
{"speaker": "the groom", "text": "Your excellency! Why, we were beginning to despair! How is it you are on foot? And where are you going, please?", "pos": 2207393}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, yes!", "pos": 2207518}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "So you’ve found your folk? Well, good-by, Peter Kirílych—isn’t it?", "pos": 2207564}
{"speaker": "The soldiers", "text": "Good-by, Peter Kirílych!", "pos": 2207653}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Good-by!", "pos": 2207718}
{"speaker": "the voice", "text": "To endure war is the most difficult subordination of man’s freedom to the law of God. Simplicity is submission to the will of God; you cannot escape from Him. And they are simple. They do not talk, but act. The spoken word is silver but the unspoken is golden. Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing (Pierre went on thinking, or hearing, in his dream) is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all?", "pos": 2212216}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!", "pos": 2212841}
{"speaker": "the groom", "text": "Yes, one must harness, it is time to harness. Time to harness, time to harness, your excellency! Your excellency! We must harness, it is time to harness....", "pos": 2213155}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have been looking for you everywhere,", "pos": 2214958}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count wants to see you particularly. He asks you to come to him at once on a very important matter.", "pos": 2215020}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If they’re sent out and brought back again later on it will do no harm, but as things are now one can’t answer for anything.", "pos": 2216453}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you see what he writes...", "pos": 2216580}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s another matter. That’s necessary for the people,", "pos": 2216675}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 2216749}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, it’s a fresh broadsheet.", "pos": 2216777}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But military men have told me that it is impossible to fight in the town, and that the position...", "pos": 2217916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, of course! That’s what we were saying,", "pos": 2218032}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And what does he mean by ‘One of my eyes was sore but now I am on the lookout with both’?", "pos": 2218106}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count had a sty,", "pos": 2218212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and was very much upset when I told him people had come to ask what was the matter with him. By the by, Count,", "pos": 2218265}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we heard that you have family troubles and that the countess, your wife...", "pos": 2218429}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I have heard nothing. But what have you heard?", "pos": 2218506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, well, you know people often invent things. I only say what I heard.", "pos": 2218587}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what did you hear?", "pos": 2218661}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, they say,", "pos": 2218686}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that the countess, your wife, is preparing to go abroad. I expect it’s nonsense....", "pos": 2218748}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Possibly. And who is that?", "pos": 2218834}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He? That’s a tradesman, that is to say, he’s the restaurant keeper, Vereshchágin. Perhaps you have heard of that affair with the proclamation.", "pos": 2219047}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, so that is Vereshchágin!", "pos": 2219192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That’s not he himself, that’s the father of the fellow who wrote the proclamation,", "pos": 2219333}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The young man is in prison and I expect it will go hard with him.", "pos": 2219437}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s a complicated story, you know,", "pos": 2219624}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That proclamation appeared about two months ago. The count was informed of it. He gave orders to investigate the matter. Gabriel Ivánovich here made the inquiries. The proclamation had passed through exactly sixty-three hands. He asked one, ‘From whom did you get it?’ ‘From so-and-so.’ He went to the next one. ‘From whom did you get it?’ and so on till he reached Vereshchágin, a half educated tradesman, you know, ‘a pet of a trader,’", "pos": 2219681}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They asked him, ‘Who gave it you?’ And the point is that we knew whom he had it from. He could only have had it from the Postmaster. But evidently they had come to some understanding. He replied: ‘From no one; I made it up myself.’ They threatened and questioned him, but he stuck to that: ‘I made it up myself.’ And so it was reported to the count, who sent for the man. ‘From whom did you get the proclamation?’ ‘I wrote it myself.’ Well, you know the count,", "pos": 2220148}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "he flared up dreadfully—and just think of the fellow’s audacity, lying, and obstinacy!", "pos": 2220664}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And the count wanted him to say it was from Klyucharëv? I understand!", "pos": 2220753}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 2220838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Klyucharëv had his own sins to answer for without that and that is why he has been banished. But the point is that the count was much annoyed. ‘How could you have written it yourself?’ said he, and he took up the Hamburg Gazette that was lying on the table. ‘Here it is! You did not write it yourself but translated it, and translated it abominably, because you don’t even know French, you fool.’ And what do you think? ‘No,’ said he, ‘I have not read any papers, I made it up myself.’ ‘If that’s so, you’re a traitor and I’ll have you tried, and you’ll be hanged! Say from whom you had it.’ ‘I have seen no papers, I made it up myself.’ And that was the end of it. The count had the father fetched, but the fellow stuck to it. He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe. Now the father has come to intercede for him. But he’s a good-for-nothing lad! You know that sort of tradesman’s son, a dandy and lady-killer. He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him. That’s the sort of fellow he is. His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. Well, he took that icon home with him for a few days and what did he do? He found some scoundrel of a painter...", "pos": 2220885}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, how do you do, great warrior?", "pos": 2222520}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We have heard of your prowess. But that’s not the point. Between ourselves, mon cher, do you belong to the Masons?", "pos": 2222616}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am well informed, my friend, but I am aware that there are Masons and I hope that you are not one of those who on pretense of saving mankind wish to ruin Russia.", "pos": 2222866}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I am a Mason,", "pos": 2223032}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There, you see, mon cher! I expect you know that Messrs. Speránski and Magnítski have been deported to their proper place. Mr. Klyucharëv has been treated in the same way, and so have others who on the plea of building up the temple of Solomon have tried to destroy the temple of their fatherland. You can understand that there are reasons for this and that I could not have exiled the Postmaster had he not been a harmful person. It has now come to my knowledge that you lent him your carriage for his removal from town, and that you have even accepted papers from him for safe custody. I like you and don’t wish you any harm and—as you are only half my age—I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men of that stamp and to leave here as soon as possible.", "pos": 2223069}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what did Klyucharëv do wrong, Count?", "pos": 2223852}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That is for me to know, but not for you to ask,", "pos": 2223909}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "If he is accused of circulating Napoleon’s proclamation it is not proved that he did so, and Vereshchágin...", "pos": 2223979}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There we are!", "pos": 2224135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Vereshchágin is a renegade and a traitor who will be punished as he deserves,", "pos": 2224219}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I did not summon you to discuss my actions, but to give you advice—or an order if you prefer it. I beg you to leave the town and break off all communication with such men as Klyucharëv. And I will knock the nonsense out of anybody", "pos": 2224382}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are on the eve of a public disaster and I haven’t time to be polite to everybody who has business with me. My head is sometimes in a whirl. Well, mon cher, what are you doing personally?", "pos": 2224767}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why, nothing,", "pos": 2224959}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A word of friendly advice, mon cher. Be off as soon as you can, that’s all I have to tell you. Happy he who has ears to hear. Good-by, my dear fellow. Oh, by the by!", "pos": 2225086}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "is it true that the countess has fallen into the clutches of the holy fathers of the Society of Jesus?", "pos": 2225299}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They, the soldiers at the battery, Prince Andrew killed... that old man... Simplicity is submission to God. Suffering is necessary... the meaning of all... one must harness... my wife is getting married... One must forget and understand...", "pos": 2225992}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I was never pleased at Bolkónski’s engagement to Natásha, but I always wanted Nicholas to marry the princess, and had a presentiment that it would happen. What a good thing it would be!", "pos": 2233580}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Dunyásha, you pack! You will, won’t you, dear?", "pos": 2237562}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Then you have nobody in Moscow? You would be more comfortable somewhere in a house... in ours, for instance... the family are leaving.", "pos": 2238700}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "I don’t know if it would be allowed. Here is our commanding officer... ask him,", "pos": 2238855}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "May the wounded men stay in our house?", "pos": 2239177}
{"speaker": "major", "text": "Which one do you want, Ma’am’selle? Oh yes, why not? They may,", "pos": 2239280}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "They may. He says they may!", "pos": 2239820}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Your Papa must be told, though,", "pos": 2240300}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Never mind, never mind, what does it matter? For one day we can move into the drawing room. They can have all our half of the house.", "pos": 2240358}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "There now, young lady, you do take things into your head! Even if we put them into the wing, the men’s room, or the nurse’s room, we must ask permission.", "pos": 2240493}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, I’ll ask. Are you asleep, Mamma?", "pos": 2240649}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Oh, what sleep—?", "pos": 2240844}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma darling! I am sorry, forgive me, I’ll never do it again; I woke you up! Mávra Kuzmínichna has sent me: they have brought some wounded here—officers. Will you let them come? They have nowhere to go. I knew you’d let them come!", "pos": 2240930}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What officers? Whom have they brought? I don’t understand anything about it,", "pos": 2241284}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I knew you’d give permission... so I’ll tell them,", "pos": 2241437}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "We’ve stayed too long! The Club is closed and the police are leaving.", "pos": 2241622}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Papa, is it all right—I’ve invited some of the wounded into the house?", "pos": 2241738}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Of course it is. That’s not the point. I beg you not to indulge in trifles now, but to help to pack, and tomorrow we must go, go, go!...", "pos": 2241825}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "At dinner Pétya having returned home told them the news he had heard. He said the people had been getting arms in the Krémlin, and that though Rostopchín’s broadsheet had said that he would sound a call two or three days in advance, the order had certainly already been given for everyone to go armed to the Three Hills tomorrow, and that there would be a big battle there.", "pos": 2242058}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya, wait a bit—we’ll pack everything into these,", "pos": 2245169}
{"speaker": "butler’s assistant", "text": "You can’t, Miss, we have tried to,", "pos": 2245237}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, wait a minute, please. The dishes must go in here among the carpets,", "pos": 2245303}
{"speaker": "butler’s assistant", "text": "Why, it’s a mercy if we can get the carpets alone into three cases,", "pos": 2245475}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, wait, please! These aren’t needed. These—yes, these must go among the carpets,", "pos": 2245574}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Don’t, Natásha! Leave it alone! We’ll get it all packed,", "pos": 2245822}
{"speaker": "major-domo", "text": "What a young lady she is!", "pos": 2245908}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "That’s enough, Natásha. I see you were right, but just take out the top one.", "pos": 2246697}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I won’t! Now press, Pétya! Press, Vasílich, press hard!", "pos": 2246790}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Please come in here. The masters are going away and the whole house will be empty,", "pos": 2248275}
{"speaker": "the old attendant", "text": "Well, perhaps. We don’t expect to get him home alive! We have a house of our own in Moscow, but it’s a long way from here, and there’s nobody living in it.", "pos": 2248401}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Do us the honor to come in, there’s plenty of everything in the master’s house. Come in. Is he very ill?", "pos": 2248582}
{"speaker": "the attendant", "text": "We don’t expect to get him home! We must ask the doctor.", "pos": 2248765}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "All right!", "pos": 2248891}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "O, Lord Jesus Christ! The masters won’t object...", "pos": 2249086}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, Vasílich, is everything ready?", "pos": 2252437}
{"speaker": "Vasílich", "text": "We can harness at once, your excellency.", "pos": 2252625}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, that’s right. As soon as the countess wakes we’ll be off, God willing! What is it, gentlemen? Are you staying in my house?", "pos": 2252668}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Count, be so good as to allow me... for God’s sake, to get into some corner of one of your carts! I have nothing here with me.... I shall be all right on a loaded cart....", "pos": 2252898}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Oh, yes, yes, yes! I shall be very pleased, very pleased. Vasílich, you’ll see to it. Just unload one or two carts. Well, what of it... do what’s necessary...", "pos": 2253172}
{"speaker": "the major-domo", "text": "Please step into the gallery, your excellency. What are your orders about the pictures?", "pos": 2253717}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Well, never mind, some of the things can be unloaded,", "pos": 2253938}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What is this, my dear? I hear that the luggage is being unloaded.", "pos": 2254703}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "You know, love, I wanted to tell you... Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded. After all, ours are things that can be bought but think what being left behind means to them!... Really now, in our own yard—we asked them in ourselves and there are officers among them.... You know, I think, my dear... let them be taken... where’s the hurry?", "pos": 2254771}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Listen to me, Count, you have managed matters so that we are getting nothing for the house, and now you wish to throw away all our—all the children’s property! You said yourself that we have a hundred thousand rubles’ worth of things in the house. I don’t consent, my dear, I don’t! Do as you please! It’s the government’s business to look after the wounded; they know that. Look at the Lopukhíns opposite, they cleared out everything two days ago. That’s what other people do. It’s only we who are such fools. If you have no pity on me, have some for the children.", "pos": 2255633}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Papa, what are you doing that for?", "pos": 2256275}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Nothing! What business is it of yours?", "pos": 2256372}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But I heard. Why does Mamma object?", "pos": 2256441}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "What business is it of yours?", "pos": 2256495}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Papa! Here’s Berg coming to see us,", "pos": 2256591}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Health, at a time like this? Come, tell us the news! Is the army retreating or will there be another battle?", "pos": 2257704}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "God Almighty alone can decide the fate of our fatherland, Papa. The army is burning with a spirit of heroism and the leaders, so to say, have now assembled in council. No one knows what is coming. But in general I can tell you, Papa, that such a heroic spirit, the truly antique valor of the Russian army, which they—which it has shown or displayed in the battle of the twenty-sixth—there are no words worthy to do it justice! I tell you, Papa I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor. General Barclay de Tolly risked his life everywhere at the head of the troops, I can assure you. Our corps was stationed on a hillside. You can imagine! Altogether such heroism as was displayed by the Russian warriors cannot be imagined or adequately praised! Russia is not in Moscow, she lives in the hearts of her sons! Isn’t it so, Papa? Yes, Mamma, I tell you sincerely that these are hard and sad times for every Russian. But why are you so anxious? You have still time to get away....", "pos": 2257833}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I can’t think what the servants are about. I have just been told that nothing is ready yet. Somebody after all must see to things. One misses Mítenka at such times. There won’t be any end to it.", "pos": 2259792}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "And I have a great favor to ask of you, Papa,", "pos": 2260302}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Hm...", "pos": 2260359}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "I was driving past Yusúpov’s house just now, when the steward, a man I know, ran out and asked me whether I wouldn’t buy something. I went in out of curiosity, you know, and there is a small chiffonier and a dressing table. You know how dear Véra wanted a chiffonier like that and how we had a dispute about it. And it’s such a beauty! It pulls out and has a secret English drawer, you know! And dear Véra has long wanted one. I wish to give her a surprise, you see. I saw so many of those peasant carts in your yard. Please let me have one, I will pay the man well, and...", "pos": 2260396}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Ask the countess, I don’t give orders.", "pos": 2261180}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "If it’s inconvenient, please don’t. Only I so wanted it, for dear Véra’s sake.", "pos": 2261221}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Oh, go to the devil, all of you! To the devil, the devil, the devil... My head’s in a whirl!", "pos": 2261315}
{"speaker": "Berg", "text": "Yes, Mamma! Yes, these are very hard times!", "pos": 2261482}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Do you know what it’s about? It’s because Papa wanted to give up all the carts to the wounded. I consider...", "pos": 2261927}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I consider it so horrid, so abominable, so... I don’t know what. Are we despicable Germans? It’s horrid! It’s abominable! You can’t possibly have ordered it! Mamma, it’s impossible: see what is going on in the yard! They will be left!... Why, the wounded! It’s impossible, Mamma. It’s monstrous!... No, Mamma darling, it’s not the thing. Please forgive me, darling.... Mamma, what does it matter what we take away? Only look what is going on in the yard... Mamma!... It’s impossible!", "pos": 2262264}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Oh, do as you like! Am I hindering anyone?", "pos": 2263719}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma, darling, forgive me!", "pos": 2263800}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "My dear, you order what is right.... You know I don’t understand about it,", "pos": 2263900}
{"speaker": "Count Ilyá Rostóv", "text": "The eggs... the eggs are teaching the hen,", "pos": 2264019}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Papa! Mamma! May I see to it? May I?... We will still take all the most necessary things.", "pos": 2264184}
{"speaker": "steward", "text": "We can take four more men. They can have my trap, or else what is to become of them?", "pos": 2265984}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Let them have my wardrobe cart. Dunyásha can go with me in the carriage.", "pos": 2266091}
{"speaker": "servants", "text": "What could we fasten this onto? We must keep at least one cart.", "pos": 2266434}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What’s in it?", "pos": 2266587}
{"speaker": "servants", "text": "The count’s books.", "pos": 2266618}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Leave it, Vasílich will put it away. It’s not wanted. On the box. You’ll sit on the box, won’t you, Pétya?", "pos": 2266639}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Whose calèche is that?", "pos": 2267559}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "Why, didn’t you know, Miss? The wounded prince: he spent the night in our house and is going with us.", "pos": 2267634}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But who is it? What’s his name?", "pos": 2267758}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "It’s our intended that was—Prince Bolkónski himself! They say he is dying,", "pos": 2267792}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Mamma. Prince Andrew is here, mortally wounded. He is going with us.", "pos": 2268206}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha?", "pos": 2268372}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha does not know yet, but he is going with us,", "pos": 2268598}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You say he is dying? The ways of God are past finding out!", "pos": 2268664}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, Mamma? Everything is ready. What’s the matter?", "pos": 2268916}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Nothing. If everything is ready let us start.", "pos": 2269031}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What is it? What has happened?", "pos": 2269245}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Nothing... No...", "pos": 2269278}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Is it something very bad for me? What is it?", "pos": 2269297}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "They always will forget everything! Don’t you know I can’t sit like that?", "pos": 2270781}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "Oh, those servants!", "pos": 2271020}
{"speaker": "Efím", "text": "Off, in God’s name! Start!", "pos": 2272202}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Dear me! Mamma, Sónya, look, it’s he! Who? Who? Look! Yes, on my word, it’s Bezúkhov! Yes, it really is Bezúkhov in a coachman’s coat, with a queer-looking old boy. Really, look, look!", "pos": 2273759}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, it’s not he. How can you talk such nonsense?", "pos": 2274291}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma. I’ll stake my head it’s he! I assure you! Stop, stop!", "pos": 2274342}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Peter Kirílovich, come here! We have recognized you! This is wonderful! What are you doing? Why are you like this?", "pos": 2275466}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What is the matter, Count?", "pos": 2275745}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What? What? Why? Don’t ask me,", "pos": 2275832}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you remaining in Moscow, then?", "pos": 2276016}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "In Moscow? Yes, in Moscow. Good-by!", "pos": 2276071}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, if only I were a man! I’d certainly stay with you. How splendid! Mamma, if you’ll let me, I’ll stay!", "pos": 2276142}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You were at the battle, we heard.", "pos": 2276366}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I was. There will be another battle tomorrow...", "pos": 2276402}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But what is the matter with you, Count? You are not like yourself....", "pos": 2276515}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, don’t ask me, don’t ask me! I don’t know myself. Tomorrow... But no! Good-by, good-by! It’s an awful time!", "pos": 2276587}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, yes, in a minute; wait... or no! No, of course... go and say I will come directly,", "pos": 2278235}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "At home?", "pos": 2280255}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Owing to the present state of things Sophia Danílovna has gone to the Torzhók estate with the children, your excellency.", "pos": 2280280}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I will come in all the same, I have to look through the books,", "pos": 2280403}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Be so good as to step in. Makár Alexéevich, the brother of my late master—may the kingdom of heaven be his—has remained here, but he is in a weak state as you know,", "pos": 2280481}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, I know. Let us go in...", "pos": 2280765}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "He was a very clever man but has now grown quite feeble, as your honor sees. Will you step into the study? As it was sealed up so it has remained, but Sophia Danílovna gave orders that if anyone should come from you they were to have the books.", "pos": 2281044}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Is the cabman to be discharged, your honor?", "pos": 2282289}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh yes! Look here. I say, do you know that there is going to be a battle tomorrow?", "pos": 2282335}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "We heard so,", "pos": 2282596}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I beg you not to tell anyone who I am, and to do what I ask you.", "pos": 2282628}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Yes, your excellency. Will you have something to eat?", "pos": 2282695}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, but I want something else. I want peasant clothes and a pistol,", "pos": 2282770}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Yes, your excellency,", "pos": 2282876}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Cette ville asiatique aux innombrables églises, Moscou la sainte. La voilà donc enfin, cette fameuse ville! Il était temps,", "pos": 2286787}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Qu’on m’amène les boyars,", "pos": 2289621}
{"speaker": "some gentlemen of the suite", "text": "He will have to be told, all the same. But, gentlemen...", "pos": 2292074}
{"speaker": "the gentlemen of the suite", "text": "But it’s impossible...", "pos": 2292427}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "My carriage! Moscow deserted!", "pos": 2298350}
{"speaker": "third officer", "text": "The general orders them all to be driven out at once, without fail. This is outrageous! Half the men have dispersed.", "pos": 2300597}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Where are you off to?... Where?... Stop, you rascals!", "pos": 2300716}
{"speaker": "another officer", "text": "But how are you going to stop them? There is no getting them together. The army should push on before the rest bolt, that’s all!", "pos": 2300917}
{"speaker": "senior officer", "text": "How can one push on? They are stuck there, wedged on the bridge, and don’t move. Shouldn’t we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away? Come, go in there and drive them out!", "pos": 2301075}
{"speaker": "shopkeeper", "text": "Your honor! Be so good as to protect us! We won’t grudge trifles, you are welcome to anything—we shall be delighted! Pray!... I’ll fetch a piece of cloth at once for such an honorable gentleman, or even two pieces with pleasure. For we feel how it is; but what’s all this—sheer robbery! If you please, could not guards be placed if only to let us close the shop....", "pos": 2301634}
{"speaker": "Thin man", "text": "Eh, what twaddle! When one’s head is gone one doesn’t weep for one’s hair! Take what any of you like!", "pos": 2302059}
{"speaker": "First tradesman", "text": "It’s all very well for you, Iván Sidórych, to talk. Please step inside, your honor!", "pos": 2302283}
{"speaker": "Thin man", "text": "Talk indeed! In my three shops here I have a hundred thousand rubles’ worth of goods. Can they be saved when the army has gone? Eh, what people! ‘Against God’s might our hands can’t fight.’", "pos": 2302405}
{"speaker": "First tradesman", "text": "Come inside, your honor!", "pos": 2302619}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "It’s not my business! What is it? What is it?", "pos": 2302738}
{"speaker": "Míshka", "text": "Isn’t it fine, eh, Uncle Ignát?", "pos": 2305262}
{"speaker": "Ignát", "text": "Only fancy!", "pos": 2305369}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Impudence! Impudence! How he’s grinning, the fat mug! Is that what you’re here for? Nothing’s cleared away down there and Vasílich is worn out. Just you wait a bit!", "pos": 2305459}
{"speaker": "Míshka", "text": "Aunt, I did it gently,", "pos": 2305803}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "I’ll give you something gently, you monkey you! Go and get the samovar to boil for your grandfather. Who do you want?", "pos": 2305842}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "The count—Count Ilyá Andréevich Rostóv.", "pos": 2306514}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "And who are you?", "pos": 2306556}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "An officer, I have to see him,", "pos": 2306575}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "They have gone away, sir. Went away yesterday at vespertime,", "pos": 2306776}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "Ah, how annoying! I should have come yesterday.... Ah, what a pity.", "pos": 2306978}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "What did you want to see the count for?", "pos": 2307234}
{"speaker": "Young Officer", "text": "Oh well... it can’t be helped! You see. I am a kinsman of the count’s and he has been very kind to me. As you see my things are worn out and I have no money, so I was going to ask the count...", "pos": 2307287}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "Just wait a minute, sir. One little moment,", "pos": 2307734}
{"speaker": "Mávra Kuzmínichna", "text": "If his excellency had been at home, as a kinsman he would of course... but as it is... If the count had been at home... Christ be with you, sir! May God preserve you!", "pos": 2308624}
{"speaker": "Tall Lad", "text": "Stop it! There’s a fight, lads!", "pos": 2310628}
{"speaker": "Tall Lad", "text": "They’re fighting us, lads!", "pos": 2311529}
{"speaker": "First Smith", "text": "Police! Murder!... They’ve killed a man, lads!", "pos": 2311675}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Oh, gracious me, a man beaten to death—killed!...", "pos": 2311724}
{"speaker": "a voice", "text": "Haven’t you robbed people enough—taking their last shirts? What have you killed a man for, you thief?", "pos": 2311871}
{"speaker": "Tall Lad", "text": "Murderer! Bind him, lads!", "pos": 2312168}
{"speaker": "Publican", "text": "I daresay you would like to bind me! I know the law very well, mates! I’ll take the matter to the captain of police. You think I won’t get to him? Robbery is not permitted to anybody nowadays! Come along then!", "pos": 2312235}
{"speaker": "Thin Workingman", "text": "He should pay folks off properly. But he’s sucked our blood and now he thinks he’s quit of us. He’s been misleading us all the week and now that he’s brought us to this pass he’s made off.", "pos": 2313188}
{"speaker": "voices in the crowd", "text": "Where are all the folks going? Why, to the police, of course! I say, is it true that we have been beaten? And what did you think? Look what folks are saying.", "pos": 2313597}
{"speaker": "Tall Lad", "text": "He must keep order, keep the law, that’s what the government is there for. Am I not right, good Christians? He thinks there’s no government! How can one do without government? Or else there would be plenty who’d rob us.", "pos": 2314173}
{"speaker": "voices in the crowd", "text": "Why talk nonsense? Will they give up Moscow like this? They told you that for fun, and you believed it! Aren’t there plenty of troops on the march? Let him in, indeed! That’s what the government is for. You’d better listen to what people are saying,", "pos": 2314453}
{"speaker": "Voices", "text": "An ukáse, they are reading an ukáse! Reading an ukáse!", "pos": 2314911}
{"speaker": "the man in the frieze coat", "text": "Early tomorrow I shall go to his Serene Highness,", "pos": 2315302}
{"speaker": "the tall fellow", "text": "Sirin Highness,", "pos": 2315363}
{"speaker": "the man in the frieze coat", "text": "to consult with him to act, and to aid the army to exterminate these scoundrels. We too will take part...", "pos": 2315464}
{"speaker": "the tall fellow", "text": "Do you see, he’s going to clear up the whole affair for you....", "pos": 2315643}
{"speaker": "the man in the frieze coat", "text": "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil. I will come back to dinner, and we’ll set to work. We will do, completely do, and undo these scoundrels.", "pos": 2315711}
{"speaker": "voices in the rear of the crowd", "text": "We should ask him... that’s he himself? Yes, ask him indeed!... Why not? He’ll explain", "pos": 2316467}
{"speaker": "the superintendent of police", "text": "What people are these? What people are these?", "pos": 2317035}
{"speaker": "the shopman in the frieze coat", "text": "your honor, in accord with the proclamation of his highest excellency the count, they desire to serve, not sparing their lives, and it is not any kind of riot, but as his highest excellence said...", "pos": 2317268}
{"speaker": "the superintendent of police", "text": "The count has not left, he is here, and an order will be issued concerning you. Go on!", "pos": 2317468}
{"speaker": "the tall youth", "text": "It’s a fraud, lads! Lead the way to him, himself! Don’t let him go, lads! Let him answer us! Keep him!", "pos": 2317889}
{"speaker": "voices in the crowd", "text": "There now, the gentry and merchants have gone away and left us to perish. Do they think we’re dogs?", "pos": 2318205}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Why were the holy relics, the arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and stores of corn not removed? Why were thousands of inhabitants deceived into believing that Moscow would not be given up—and thereby ruined? To preserve the tranquillity of the city. Why were bundles of useless papers from the government offices, and Leppich’s balloon and other articles removed? To leave the town empty,", "pos": 2320256}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Who is to blame for it? Who has let things come to such a pass? Not I, of course. I had everything ready. I had Moscow firmly in hand. And this is what they have let it come to! Villains! Traitors! Your excellency, the Director of the Registrar’s Department has sent for instructions.... From the Consistory, from the Senate, from the University, from the Foundling Hospital, the Suffragan has sent... asking for information.... What are your orders about the Fire Brigade? From the governor of the prison... from the superintendent of the lunatic asylum... Oh, tell that blockhead, that he should remain to guard his documents. Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade? They have horses, let them be off to Vladímir, and not leave them to the French.", "pos": 2324731}
{"speaker": "Unknown Official", "text": "Your excellency, the superintendent of the lunatic asylum has come: what are your commands?", "pos": 2326353}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "My commands? Let them go away, that’s all.... And let the lunatics out into the town. When lunatics command our armies God evidently means these other madmen to be free. Do you expect me to give you two battalions—which we have not got—for a convoy? Release them, that’s all about it!", "pos": 2326447}
{"speaker": "Governor", "text": "Your excellency, there are some political prisoners, Meshkóv, Vereshchágin...", "pos": 2326843}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Vereshchágin! Hasn’t he been hanged yet? Bring him to me!", "pos": 2326923}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Is my carriage ready?", "pos": 2329175}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "It is, your excellency,", "pos": 2329248}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "But what do they want?", "pos": 2329339}
{"speaker": "Superintendent of Police", "text": "Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery. But it is a turbulent crowd, your excellency—I hardly managed to get away from it. Your excellency, I venture to suggest...", "pos": 2329403}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "You may go. I don’t need you to tell me what to do! This is what they have done with Russia! This is what they have done with me! Here is that mob, the dregs of the people, this rabble they have roused by their folly! They want a victim. Is the carriage ready?", "pos": 2329672}
{"speaker": "adjutant", "text": "Yes, your excellency. What are your orders about Vereshchágin? He is waiting at the porch,", "pos": 2330505}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Ah! Good morning, lads! Thank you for coming. I’ll come out to you in a moment, but we must first settle with the villain. We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow. Wait for me!", "pos": 2330617}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "He’ll settle with all the villains, you’ll see! And you said the French... He’ll show you what law is!", "pos": 2331237}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Where is he? Ah! Put him there.", "pos": 2331697}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Lads! This man, Vereshchágin, is the scoundrel by whose doing Moscow is perishing.", "pos": 2332987}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "He has betrayed his Tsar and his country, he has gone over to Bonaparte. He alone of all the Russians has disgraced the Russian name, he has caused Moscow to perish. Deal with him as you think fit! I hand him over to you. Beat him!... Let the traitor perish and not disgrace the Russian name! Cut him down. I command it.", "pos": 2333813}
{"speaker": "Vereshchágin", "text": "Count! Count! One God is above us both....", "pos": 2334984}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Cut him down! I command it...", "pos": 2335308}
{"speaker": "Dragoon Officer", "text": "Draw sabers! Saber him!", "pos": 2335401}
{"speaker": "Vereshchágin", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 2335879}
{"speaker": "Unknown Voice", "text": "O Lord!", "pos": 2336072}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Hit him with an ax, eh!... Crushed?... Traitor, he sold Christ.... Still alive... tenacious... serves him right! Torture serves a thief right. Use the hatchet!... What—still alive? O Lord! The people are like wild beasts! How could he be alive? Quite a young fellow too... must have been a merchant’s son. What men!... and they say he’s not the right one.... How not the right one?... O Lord! And there’s another has been beaten too—they say he’s nearly done for.... Oh, the people... Aren’t they afraid of sinning?...", "pos": 2337617}
{"speaker": "A frightened voice", "text": "This way, your excellency... Where are you going?... This way, please...", "pos": 2339408}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "The mob is terrible—disgusting. They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.", "pos": 2340036}
{"speaker": "Vereshchágin", "text": "Count! One God is above us both!", "pos": 2340159}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "I had other duties. The people had to be appeased. Many other victims have perished and are perishing for the public good Had I been simply Theodore Vasílyevich my course of action would have been quite different, but it was my duty to safeguard my life and dignity as commander in chief.", "pos": 2340377}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Vereshchágin was tried and condemned to death, he was a traitor and a spy. I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant.", "pos": 2341989}
{"speaker": "The lunatic", "text": "Stop! Pull up, I tell you! Thrice have they slain me, thrice have I risen from the dead. They stoned me, crucified me... I shall rise... shall rise... shall rise. They have torn my body. The kingdom of God will be overthrown... Thrice will I overthrow it and thrice re-establish it!", "pos": 2344012}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Go fas... faster!", "pos": 2344614}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Cut him down! I command it....", "pos": 2345364}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Why did I utter those words? It was by some accident I said them.... I need not have said them. And then nothing would have happened. But I did not do it for my own sake. I was bound to act that way.... The mob, the traitor... the public welfare. Things would have been different if your Serene Highness had not told me that you would not abandon Moscow without another battle; all this would not have happened,", "pos": 2345397}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "No! I shall not give up Moscow without a battle!", "pos": 2346761}
{"speaker": "Crowd", "text": "Is that their Tsar himself? He’s not bad! Take off your cap... your caps!", "pos": 2347820}
{"speaker": "Murat", "text": "Good!", "pos": 2348679}
{"speaker": "An Officer", "text": "Fire!", "pos": 2350325}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "Fire! Clear that away! Clear that away!", "pos": 2351004}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Le patriotisme féroce de Rostopchíne", "pos": 2357929}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Are you remaining in Moscow?... How splendid!", "pos": 2361780}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, alone, for the sake of all, I must do it or perish! Yes, I will approach... and then suddenly... with pistol or dagger? It is not I but the hand of Providence that punishes thee. Well then, take me and execute me!", "pos": 2365528}
{"speaker": "Makár Alexéevich", "text": "They’re frightened. I say I won’t surrender, I say... Am I not right, sir? To arms! Board them! No, you shan’t get it,", "pos": 2366441}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "That will do, please, that will do. Have the goodness—please, sir, to let go! Please, sir...", "pos": 2367100}
{"speaker": "Makár Alexéevich", "text": "Who are you? Bonaparte!...", "pos": 2367287}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "That’s not right, sir. Come to your room, please, and rest. Allow me to have the pistol.", "pos": 2367342}
{"speaker": "Makár Alexéevich", "text": "Be off, thou base slave! Touch me not! See this? Board them!", "pos": 2367433}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Catch hold!", "pos": 2367548}
{"speaker": "cook", "text": "It’s them! Gracious heavens! O Lord, four of them, horsemen!", "pos": 2367887}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Bonjour, la compagnie! Vous êtes le bourgeois? Quartier, quartier, logement! Les français sont de bons enfants. Que diable! Voyons! Ne nous fâchons pas, mon vieux! Well, does no one speak French in this establishment?", "pos": 2369063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Quarters, quarters, lodgings! The French are good fellows. What the devil! There, don’t let us be cross, old fellow!", "pos": 2369775}
{"speaker": "Gerásim", "text": "Master, not here—don’t understand... me, you...", "pos": 2369980}
{"speaker": "Makár Alexéevich", "text": "Board them!", "pos": 2370549}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You are not wounded?", "pos": 2371124}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "I think not. But I have had a lucky escape this time. Who is that man?", "pos": 2371157}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, I am really in despair at what has occurred. He is an unfortunate madman who did not know what he was doing.", "pos": 2371371}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Brigand! You shall pay for this. We French are merciful after victory, but we do not pardon traitors. You have saved my life. You are French,", "pos": 2371744}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I am Russian,", "pos": 2372694}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Tut, tut, tut! Tell that to others. You shall tell me all about that presently. I am delighted to meet a compatriot. Well, and what are we to do with this man?", "pos": 2372727}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "You have saved my life! You are French. You ask his pardon? I grant it you. Lead that man away! You will be called in when you are wanted,", "pos": 2373507}
{"speaker": "orderly", "text": "Captain, there is soup and a leg of mutton in the kitchen. Shall I serve them up?", "pos": 2374118}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Yes, and some wine,", "pos": 2374213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When the French officer went into the room with Pierre the latter again thought it his duty to assure him that he was not French and wished to go away, but the officer would not hear of it. He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and genuinely grateful to Pierre for saving his life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the parlor—the first room they entered. To Pierre’s assurances that he was not a Frenchman, the captain, evidently not understanding how anyone could decline so flattering an appellation, shrugged his shoulders and said that if Pierre absolutely insisted on passing for a Russian let it be so, but for all that he would be forever bound to Pierre by gratitude for saving his life.", "pos": 2374269}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "A Frenchman or a Russian prince incognito. I owe my life to you and offer you my friendship. A Frenchman never forgets either an insult or a service. I offer you my friendship. That is all I can say. Captain Ramballe, of the 13th Light Regiment, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for the affair on the seventh of September. Will you now be so good as to tell me with whom I have the honor of conversing so pleasantly, instead of being in the ambulance with that maniac’s bullet in my body? Oh, please! I understand your reasons. You are an officer... a superior officer perhaps. You have borne arms against us. That’s not my business. I owe you my life. That is enough for me. I am quite at your service. You belong to the gentry? Your baptismal name, if you please. That is all I ask. Monsieur Pierre, you say.... That’s all I want to know. Excellent! Delicious!", "pos": 2375281}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Yes, my dear Monsieur Pierre, I owe you a fine votive candle for saving me from that maniac.... You see, I have bullets enough in my body already. Here is one I got at Wagram and a second at Smolénsk and this leg which as you see does not want to march, I got that on the seventh at the great battle of la Moskowa. Sacré Dieu! It was splendid! That deluge of fire was worth seeing. It was a tough job you set us there, my word! You may be proud of it! And on my honor, in spite of the cough I caught there, I should be ready to begin again. I pity those who did not see it.", "pos": 2378140}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I was there,", "pos": 2378772}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Bah, really? So much the better! You are certainly brave foes. The great redoubt held out well, by my pipe! And you made us pay dear for it. I was at it three times—sure as I sit here. Three times we reached the guns and three times we were thrown back like cardboard figures. Oh, it was beautiful, Monsieur Pierre! Your grenadiers were splendid, by heaven! I saw them close up their ranks six times in succession and march as if on parade. Fine fellows! Our King of Naples, who knows what’s what, cried ‘Bravo!’ Ha, ha! So you are one of us soldiers! So much the better, so much the better, Monsieur Pierre! Terrible in battle... gallant... with the fair that’s what the French are, Monsieur Pierre, aren’t they? Apropos, tell me please, is it true that the women have all left Moscow? What a queer idea! What had they to be afraid of?", "pos": 2378800}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Would not the French ladies leave Paris if the Russians entered it?", "pos": 2379970}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Ha, ha, ha! What a thing to say! Paris?... But Paris, Paris...", "pos": 2380054}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Paris—the capital of the world,", "pos": 2380218}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Well, if you hadn’t told me you were Russian, I should have wagered that you were Parisian! You have that... I don’t know what, that...", "pos": 2380429}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I have been in Paris. I spent years there,", "pos": 2380637}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Oh yes, one sees that plainly. Paris!... A man who doesn’t know Paris is a savage. You can tell a Parisian two leagues off. Paris is Talma, la Duchénois, Potier, the Sorbonne, the boulevards. There is only one Paris in the world. You have been to Paris and have remained Russian. Well, I don’t esteem you the less for it. To return to your ladies—I hear they are lovely. What a wretched idea to go and bury themselves in the steppes when the French army is in Moscow. What a chance those girls have missed! Your peasants, now—that’s another thing; but you civilized people, you ought to know us better than that. We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Warsaw, all the world’s capitals.... We are feared, but we are loved. We are nice to know. And then the Emperor...", "pos": 2380695}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "The Emperor, is the Emperor...?", "pos": 2381794}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "The Emperor? He is generosity, mercy, justice, order, genius—that’s what the Emperor is! It is I, Ramballe, who tell you so.... I assure you I was his enemy eight years ago. My father was an emigrant count.... But that man has vanquished me. He has taken hold of me. I could not resist the sight of the grandeur and glory with which he has covered France. When I understood what he wanted—when I saw that he was preparing a bed of laurels for us, you know, I said to myself: ‘That is a monarch,’ and I devoted myself to him! So there! Oh yes, mon cher, he is the greatest man of the ages past or future.", "pos": 2381897}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Is he in Moscow?", "pos": 2382503}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "No, he will make his entry tomorrow,", "pos": 2382611}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "The colonel of those Württembergers is delightful. He’s a German, but a nice fellow all the same.... But he’s a German. By the way, you know German, then? What is the German for ‘shelter’?", "pos": 2385943}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Shelter? The German for shelter is Unterkunft.", "pos": 2386218}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "How do you say it?", "pos": 2386286}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Unterkunft,", "pos": 2386349}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Onterkoff. These Germans are first-rate fools, don’t you think so, Monsieur Pierre? Well, let’s have another bottle of this Moscow Bordeaux, shall we? Morel will warm us up another little bottle. Morel! There now, we’re sad. Have I upset you? No, really, have you anything against me? Perhaps it’s the state of affairs?", "pos": 2386380}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 2387463}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Well, in that case, I drink to our friendship! Yes, my dear friend, such is fortune’s caprice. Who would have said that I should be a soldier and a captain of dragoons in the service of Bonaparte, as we used to call him? Yet here I am in Moscow with him. I must tell you, mon cher, that our name is one of the most ancient in France. But all that is only life’s setting, the real thing is love—love! Am I not right, Monsieur Pierre? Another glass? Oh, women, women!", "pos": 2387629}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "I have saved your life, and I save your honor!", "pos": 2391219}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Peter Kirílovich, come here! We have recognized you,", "pos": 2392289}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "He began to explain that he understood love for a woman somewhat differently. He said that in all his life he had loved and still loved only one woman, and that she could never be his.", "pos": 2392876}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Tiens!", "pos": 2393061}
{"speaker": "captain", "text": "Platónic love, clouds...", "pos": 2393678}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "There now, how good it is, what more does one need?", "pos": 2395310}
{"speaker": "an orderly", "text": "But look here, brothers, there’s another fire!", "pos": 2397337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But they told us Little Mytíshchi had been set on fire by Mamónov’s Cossacks.", "pos": 2397447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But that’s not Mytíshchi, it’s farther away.", "pos": 2397527}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look, it must be in Moscow!", "pos": 2397574}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s more to the left, why, Little Mytíshchi is over there, and this is right on the other side.", "pos": 2397691}
{"speaker": "one", "text": "See how it’s flaring. That’s a fire in Moscow: either in the Sushchévski or the Rogózhski quarter.", "pos": 2397824}
{"speaker": "Daniel Teréntich", "text": "What are you staring at, you good-for-nothing?... The count will be calling and there’s nobody there; go and gather the clothes together.", "pos": 2398173}
{"speaker": "Míshka", "text": "I only ran out to get some water,", "pos": 2398313}
{"speaker": "one of the footmen", "text": "But what do you think, Daniel Teréntich? Doesn’t it look as if that glow were in Moscow?", "pos": 2398362}
{"speaker": "another voice", "text": "God have mercy.... It’s windy and dry...", "pos": 2398626}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Just look! See what it’s doing now. O Lord! You can even see the crows flying. Lord have mercy on us sinners!", "pos": 2398689}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’ll put it out, no fear!", "pos": 2398801}
{"speaker": "Daniel Teréntich", "text": "Who’s to put it out? Moscow it is, brothers. Mother Moscow, the white...", "pos": 2398832}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Oh, how terrible. I believe the whole of Moscow will burn, there’s an awful glow! Natásha, do look! You can see it from the window,", "pos": 2399951}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Look, Natásha, how dreadfully it is burning!", "pos": 2400783}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What’s burning? Oh, yes, Moscow.", "pos": 2400840}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "But you didn’t see it!", "pos": 2401114}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, really I did,", "pos": 2401139}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You are cold. You are trembling all over. You’d better lie down,", "pos": 2401659}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Lie down? All right, I will. I’ll lie down at once,", "pos": 2401745}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, Mamma, I will lie down here on the floor,", "pos": 2402951}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Lie down, darling; lie down, my pet. Come, lie down.", "pos": 2403538}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, yes... I’ll lie down at once,", "pos": 2403651}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Natásha, you’d better lie in the middle,", "pos": 2404320}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I’ll stay here. Do lie down,", "pos": 2404375}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "I think she’s asleep, Mamma,", "pos": 2405240}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya, are you asleep? Mamma?", "pos": 2405786}
{"speaker": "the valet", "text": "What do you want? What’s the matter?", "pos": 2408070}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "And the tea?", "pos": 2409660}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I don’t want any more. Is Timókhin here?", "pos": 2410416}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "I am here, your excellency.", "pos": 2410508}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How’s your wound?", "pos": 2410538}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "Mine, sir? All right. But how about you?", "pos": 2410558}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Couldn’t one get a book?", "pos": 2410666}
{"speaker": "Timókhin", "text": "What book?", "pos": 2410703}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "The Gospels. I haven’t one.", "pos": 2410716}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "What trouble would it be to you? I have not got one. Please get it for me and put it under for a moment,", "pos": 2411432}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "You fellows have no conscience. For just one moment I didn’t look after you... It’s such pain, you know, that I wonder how he can bear it.", "pos": 2411633}
{"speaker": "valet", "text": "By the Lord Jesus Christ, I thought we had put something under him!", "pos": 2411835}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, a new happiness was revealed to me of which man cannot be deprived. A happiness lying beyond material forces, outside the material influences that act on man—a happiness of the soul alone, the happiness of loving. Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoin it was possible only for God. But how did God enjoin that law? And why was the Son...? piti-piti-piti ti-ti it stretches, stretches, spreading out and stretching,", "pos": 2414135}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "But perhaps that’s my shirt on the table, and that’s my legs, and that is the door, but why is it always stretching and drawing itself out, and ‘piti-piti-piti’ and ‘ti-ti’ and ‘piti-piti-piti’...? That’s enough, please leave off! piti-piti-piti Yes—love. But not love which loves for something, for some quality, for some purpose, or for some reason, but the love which I—while dying—first experienced when I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I experienced that feeling of love which is the very essence of the soul and does not require an object. Now again I feel that bliss. To love one’s neighbors, to love one’s enemies, to love everything, to love God in all His manifestations. It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love. That is why I experienced such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What has become of him? Is he alive?... When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change. No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it. It is the very essence of the soul. Yet how many people have I hated in my life? And of them all, I loved and hated none as I did her. If only it were possible for me to see her once more! Just once, looking into those eyes to say... Piti-piti-piti and ti-ti and piti-piti-piti boom!", "pos": 2416046}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Oh, how oppressive this continual delirium is,", "pos": 2418529}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "You? How fortunate!", "pos": 2419761}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Forgive me! Forgive me!", "pos": 2419984}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I love you,", "pos": 2420065}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Forgive...!", "pos": 2420099}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Forgive what?", "pos": 2420113}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Forgive me for what I ha-ve do-ne!", "pos": 2420139}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "I love you more, better than before,", "pos": 2420305}
{"speaker": "doctor", "text": "What’s this? Please go away, madam!", "pos": 2420990}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Am I not too late? No, probably he won’t make his entry into Moscow before noon. No matter, the dagger will do,", "pos": 2422750}
{"speaker": "Mary Nikoláevna", "text": "Dear people, good Christians, save me, help me, dear friends... help us, somebody. My girl... My daughter! My youngest daughter is left behind. She’s burned! Ooh! Was it for this I nursed you.... Ooh!", "pos": 2428951}
{"speaker": "Mary Nikoláevna's husband", "text": "Don’t, Mary Nikoláevna! Sister must have taken her, or else where can she be?", "pos": 2429187}
{"speaker": "Mary Nikoláevna", "text": "Monster! Villain! You have no heart, you don’t feel for your own child! Another man would have rescued her from the fire. But this is a monster and neither a man nor a father! You, honored sir, are a noble man. The fire broke out alongside, and blew our way, the maid called out ‘Fire!’ and we rushed to collect our things. We ran out just as we were.... This is what we have brought away.... The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost. We seized the children. But not Katie! Ooh! O Lord!... My child, my dear one! Burned, burned!", "pos": 2429374}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But where was she left?", "pos": 2430058}
{"speaker": "Mary Nikoláevna", "text": "Oh, dear sir! My benefactor, set my heart at ease.... Aníska, go, you horrid girl, show him the way!", "pos": 2430183}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Show me the way, show me, I... I’ll do it,", "pos": 2430416}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On ne passe pas!", "pos": 2431212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You can’t pass!", "pos": 2431250}
{"speaker": "Aníska", "text": "This way, uncle. We’ll pass through the side street, by the Nikúlins’! It’s here, close by,", "pos": 2431268}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Which is it? Which is your house?", "pos": 2431990}
{"speaker": "Aníska", "text": "Ooh! That’s it, that was our lodging. You’ve burned to death, our treasure, Katie, my precious little missy! Ooh!", "pos": 2432036}
{"speaker": "French soldier", "text": "What does this fellow want?", "pos": 2433970}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "There’s a child in that house. Haven’t you seen a child?", "pos": 2434041}
{"speaker": "French soldiers", "text": "What’s he talking about? Get along!", "pos": 2434114}
{"speaker": "Frenchman", "text": "A child? I did hear something squealing in the garden. Perhaps it’s his brat that the fellow is looking for. After all, one must be human, you know....", "pos": 2434343}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Where is it? Where?", "pos": 2434531}
{"speaker": "Frenchman", "text": "There! There! Wait a bit—I’m coming down. Hurry up, you others! It’s getting hot. There is your child! Oh, a girl, so much the better! Good-by, Fatty. We must be human, we are all mortal you know!", "pos": 2434566}
{"speaker": "Russians", "text": "Have you lost anyone, my dear fellow? You’re of the gentry yourself, aren’t you? Whose child is it?", "pos": 2438824}
{"speaker": "Old deacon", "text": "Why, that must be the Anférovs. Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy!", "pos": 2439113}
{"speaker": "Pockmarked peasant woman", "text": "The Anférovs? No. They left in the morning. That must be either Mary Nikoláevna’s or the Ivánovs’!", "pos": 2439274}
{"speaker": "House serf", "text": "He says ‘a woman,’ and Mary Nikoláevna is a lady,", "pos": 2439393}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Do you know her? She’s thin, with long teeth,", "pos": 2439468}
{"speaker": "Pockmarked peasant woman", "text": "That’s Mary Nikoláevna! They went inside the garden when these wolves swooped down,", "pos": 2439529}
{"speaker": "Old deacon", "text": "O Lord, have mercy!", "pos": 2439664}
{"speaker": "Pockmarked peasant woman", "text": "Go over that way, they’re there. It’s she! She kept on lamenting and crying. It’s she. Here, this way!", "pos": 2439704}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Here, take the child! Give her back to them, give her back!", "pos": 2440800}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Let that woman alone!", "pos": 2441964}
{"speaker": "French soldier", "text": "Voyons, pas de bêtises!", "pos": 2442240}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look here, no nonsense!", "pos": 2442280}
{"speaker": "French soldier", "text": "Lieutenant, he has a dagger,", "pos": 2443005}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Ah, a weapon? All right, you can tell all about it at the court-martial. Do you speak French? Do you speak French? Call the interpreter.", "pos": 2443076}
{"speaker": "Interpreter", "text": "He does not look like a common man,", "pos": 2443815}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Ah, he looks very much like an incendiary. And ask him who he is,", "pos": 2443909}
{"speaker": "Interpreter", "text": "Who are you? You must answer the chief.", "pos": 2444011}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I will not tell you who I am. I am your prisoner—take me!", "pos": 2444094}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Ah, ah! Well then, march!", "pos": 2444189}
{"speaker": "Pockmarked peasant woman", "text": "Where are they taking you to, you poor dear? And the little girl, the little girl, what am I to do with her if she’s not theirs?", "pos": 2444416}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "What does that woman want?", "pos": 2444575}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What does she want? She is bringing me my daughter whom I have just saved from the flames. Good-by!", "pos": 2444721}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They say the poor countess is very ill. The doctor says it is angina pectoris.", "pos": 2449078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Angina? Oh, that’s a terrible illness!", "pos": 2449159}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They say that the rivals are reconciled, thanks to the angina...", "pos": 2449200}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The count is pathetic, they say. He cried like a child when the doctor told him the case was dangerous.", "pos": 2449325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, it would be a terrible loss, she is an enchanting woman.", "pos": 2449431}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You are speaking of the poor countess? I sent to ask for news, and hear that she is a little better. Oh, she is certainly the most charming woman in the world. We belong to different camps, but that does not prevent my esteeming her as she deserves. She is very unfortunate! Your information may be better than mine, but I know on good authority that this doctor is a very learned and able man. He is private physician to the Queen of Spain.", "pos": 2449494}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "I think it is delightful,", "pos": 2450672}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "What? What’s that?", "pos": 2450898}
{"speaker": "Bilíbin", "text": "The Emperor returns these Austrian banners, friendly banners gone astray and found on a wrong path,", "pos": 2451095}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Charming, charming!", "pos": 2451247}
{"speaker": "Prince Hippolyte", "text": "The path to Warsaw, perhaps,", "pos": 2451293}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Most Gracious Sovereign and Emperor! Moscow, our ancient capital, the New Jerusalem, receives her Christ as a mother receives her zealous sons into her arms, and through the gathering mists, foreseeing the brilliant glory of thy rule, sings in exultation, ‘Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh!’", "pos": 2452173}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "Let the bold and insolent Goliath...", "pos": 2452970}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "Let the bold and insolent Goliath from the borders of France encompass the realms of Russia with death-bearing terrors; humble Faith, the sling of the Russian David, shall suddenly smite his head in his bloodthirsty pride. This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country’s weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty. I grieve that my waning strength prevents rejoicing in the sight of your most gracious presence. I raise fervent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty may exalt the race of the just, and mercifully fulfill the desires of Your Majesty.", "pos": 2453049}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What force! What a style!", "pos": 2453650}
{"speaker": "Anna Pávlovna", "text": "You will see, that tomorrow, on the Emperor’s birthday, we shall receive news. I have a favorable presentiment!", "pos": 2453925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What a wonderful coincidence! Just during the service. But what a loss Kutáysov is! How sorry I am!", "pos": 2455820}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "What did I tell about Kutúzov? I always said he was the only man capable of defeating Napoleon.", "pos": 2455922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fancy the Emperor’s position!", "pos": 2456231}
{"speaker": "Prince Vasíli", "text": "I only wonder that the fate of Russia could have been entrusted to such a man.", "pos": 2458206}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "Prince Kutúzov’s adjutant has brought me a letter in which he demands police officers to guide the army to the Ryazán road. He writes that he is regretfully abandoning Moscow. Sire! Kutúzov’s action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire! Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors! I shall follow the army. I have had everything removed, and it only remains for me to weep over the fate of my fatherland.", "pos": 2458437}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Prince Michael Ilariónovich! Since the twenty-ninth of August I have received no communication from you, yet on the first of September I received from the commander in chief of Moscow, via Yaroslávl, the sad news that you, with the army, have decided to abandon Moscow. You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment. I am sending this by Adjutant-General Prince Volkónski, to hear from you the situation of the army and the reasons that have induced you to take this melancholy decision.", "pos": 2459053}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Have you brought me sad news, Colonel?", "pos": 2460559}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Very sad, sire. The abandonment of Moscow.", "pos": 2460600}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Have they surrendered my ancient capital without a battle? Has the enemy entered the city?", "pos": 2460695}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Yes, sire, and Moscow is now in ashes. I left it all in flames,", "pos": 2461200}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "I see, Colonel, from all that is happening, that Providence requires great sacrifices of us... I am ready to submit myself in all things to His will; but tell me, Michaud, how did you leave the army when it saw my ancient capital abandoned without a battle? Did you not notice discouragement?...", "pos": 2461642}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Sire, will you allow me to speak frankly as befits a loyal soldier?", "pos": 2462137}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Colonel, I always require it. Conceal nothing from me, I wish to know absolutely how things are.", "pos": 2462230}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Sire! sire, I left the whole army, from its chiefs to the lowest soldier, without exception in desperate and agonized terror...", "pos": 2462352}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "How is that? Would misfortune make my Russians lose heart?... Never!", "pos": 2462594}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Sire, they are only afraid lest Your Majesty, in the goodness of your heart, should allow yourself to be persuaded to make peace. They are burning for the combat, and to prove to Your Majesty by the sacrifice of their lives how devoted they are....", "pos": 2462788}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "Ah! You set me at ease, Colonel. Well, then, go back to the army, and tell our brave men and all my good subjects wherever you go that when I have not a soldier left I shall put myself at the head of my beloved nobility and my good peasants and so use the last resources of my empire. It still offers me more than my enemies suppose, but should it ever be ordained by Divine Providence, that my dynasty should cease to reign on the throne of my ancestors, then after exhausting all the means at my command, I shall let my beard grow to here and go and eat potatoes with the meanest of my peasants, rather than sign the disgrace of my country and of my beloved people whose sacrifices I know how to appreciate. Colonel Michaud, do not forget what I say to you here, perhaps we may recall it with pleasure someday... Napoleon or I. We can no longer both reign together. I have learned to know him, and he will not deceive me any more....", "pos": 2463133}
{"speaker": "Michaud", "text": "Sire! Your Majesty is at this moment signing the glory of the nation and the salvation of Europe!", "pos": 2465364}
{"speaker": "the governor", "text": "You are Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son? My wife was a great friend of your mother’s. We are at home on Thursdays—today is Thursday, so please come and see us quite informally,", "pos": 2471280}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "better late than never", "pos": 2472701}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "better late than never", "pos": 2474223}
{"speaker": "the blonde lady", "text": "Which lady?", "pos": 2477146}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "A charming lady, a divine one. Her eyes are blue, her mouth coral and ivory; her figure like Diana’s.... Ah, Nikíta Iványch!", "pos": 2477160}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Anna Ignátyevna wants to see you, Nicholas. Come, Nicholas! You know you let me call you so?", "pos": 2477698}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, yes, Aunt. Who is she?", "pos": 2477912}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Anna Ignátyevna Malvíntseva. She has heard from her niece how you rescued her.... Can you guess?", "pos": 2477941}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I rescued such a lot of them!", "pos": 2478040}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Her niece, Princess Bolkónskaya. She is here in Vorónezh with her aunt. Oho! How you blush. Why, are...?", "pos": 2478087}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not a bit! Please don’t, Aunt!", "pos": 2478194}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Very well, very well!... Oh, what a fellow you are!", "pos": 2478227}
{"speaker": "Malvíntseva", "text": "Very pleased, mon cher. Pray come and see me.", "pos": 2478754}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Do you know, dear boy, that really would be the match for you: would you like me to arrange it?", "pos": 2479633}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Whom do you mean, Aunt?", "pos": 2479810}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "I will make a match for you with the princess. Catherine Petróvna speaks of Lily, but I say, no—the princess! Do you want me to do it? I am sure your mother will be grateful to me. What a charming girl she is, really! And she is not at all so plain, either.", "pos": 2479852}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not at all. As befits a soldier, Aunt, I don’t force myself on anyone or refuse anything,", "pos": 2480112}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Well then, remember, this is not a joke!", "pos": 2480310}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Of course not!", "pos": 2480353}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Yes, yes. But, my dear boy, among other things you are too attentive to the other, the blonde. One is sorry for the husband, really....", "pos": 2480370}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh no, we are good friends with him. But what nonsense I have been saying to the governor’s wife! She will really begin to arrange a match... and Sónya...?", "pos": 2480561}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Well then, remember!", "pos": 2480991}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But see here, to tell the truth, Aunt...", "pos": 2481033}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "What is it, my dear? Come, let’s sit down here,", "pos": 2481076}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You see, Aunt, Mamma has long wanted me to marry an heiress, but the very idea of marrying for money is repugnant to me.", "pos": 2481680}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "Oh yes, I understand,", "pos": 2481803}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But Princess Bolkónskaya—that’s another matter. I will tell you the truth. In the first place I like her very much, I feel drawn to her; and then, after I met her under such circumstances—so strangely, the idea often occurred to me: ‘This is fate.’ Especially if you remember that Mamma had long been thinking of it; but I had never happened to meet her before, somehow it had always happened that we did not meet. And as long as my sister Natásha was engaged to her brother it was of course out of the question for me to think of marrying her. And it must needs happen that I should meet her just when Natásha’s engagement had been broken off... and then everything... So you see... I never told this to anyone and never will, only to you. You know Sónya, my cousin? I love her, and promised to marry her, and will do so.... So you see there can be no question about—", "pos": 2481853}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "My dear boy, what a way to look at it! You know Sónya has nothing and you yourself say your Papa’s affairs are in a very bad way. And what about your mother? It would kill her, that’s one thing. And what sort of life would it be for Sónya—if she’s a girl with a heart? Your mother in despair, and you all ruined.... No, my dear, you and Sónya ought to understand that.", "pos": 2482817}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "All the same, Aunt, it is impossible. Besides, would the princess have me? And besides, she is now in mourning. How can one think of it!", "pos": 2483256}
{"speaker": "the governor's wife", "text": "But you don’t suppose I’m going to get you married at once? There is always a right way of doing things,", "pos": 2483443}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What a matchmaker you are, Aunt...", "pos": 2483579}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You have met him, Aunt?", "pos": 2486822}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Either black is particularly becoming to her or she really has greatly improved without my having noticed it. And above all, what tact and grace!", "pos": 2487600}
{"speaker": "governor’s wife", "text": "Have you seen the princess?", "pos": 2494256}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "There is one thing I wanted to tell you, Princess. It is that if your brother, Prince Andrew Nikoláevich, were not living, it would have been at once announced in the Gazette, as he is a colonel. And I have known so many cases of a splinter wound either proving fatal at once or being very slight. We must hope for the best, and I am sure...", "pos": 2495356}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, that would be so dread...", "pos": 2495932}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "She must be a wonderful woman. A real angel! Why am I not free? Why was I in such a hurry with Sónya?", "pos": 2497704}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "How she prayed! It was plain that her whole soul was in her prayer. Yes, that was the prayer that moves mountains, and I am sure her prayer will be answered. Why don’t I pray for what I want? What do I want? To be free, released from Sónya... She was right. She was right. Nothing but misfortune can come of marrying Sónya. Muddles, grief for Mamma... business difficulties... muddles, terrible muddles! Besides, I don’t love her—not as I should. O, God! release me from this dreadful, inextricable position! Yes, prayer can move mountains, but one must have faith and not pray as Natásha and I used to as children, that the snow might turn into sugar—and then run out into the yard to see whether it had done so. No, but I am not praying for trifles now. Blockhead! Why do you come in without being called?", "pos": 2498653}
{"speaker": "Lavrúshka", "text": "From the governor. A courier has arrived and there’s a letter for you.", "pos": 2499919}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, all right, thanks. You can go! No, it’s not possible!", "pos": 2500028}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "It would be too painful to me to think that I might be a cause of sorrow or discord in the family that has been so good to me and my love has no aim but the happiness of those I love; so, Nicholas, I beg you to consider yourself free, and to be assured that, in spite of everything, no one can love you more than does", "pos": 2501479}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "I shall not be at peace till you promise me this.", "pos": 2503454}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha, what are you about? Come here!", "pos": 2506906}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Sónya, will he live? Sónya, how happy I am, and how unhappy!... Sónya, dovey, everything is as it used to be. If only he lives! He cannot... because... because... of...", "pos": 2507181}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes! I knew it! Thank God! He will live.", "pos": 2507395}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "O, Natásha!", "pos": 2508016}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What? What is it?", "pos": 2508124}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "It’s that, that... You remember. You remember when I looked in the mirror for you... at Otrádnoe at Christmas? Do you remember what I saw?", "pos": 2508159}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes!", "pos": 2508527}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "You remember? I saw it then and told everybody, you and Dunyásha. I saw him lying on a bed, and that he had his eyes closed and was covered just with a pink quilt, and that his hands were folded,", "pos": 2508682}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes, it really was pink! But what does it mean?", "pos": 2509517}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Oh, I don’t know, it is all so strange,", "pos": 2509752}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Sónya! Sónya, won’t you write to Nicholas?", "pos": 2510125}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Yes, Mamma, I will write,", "pos": 2510606}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "was protecting a woman, to protect a woman who was being insulted was the duty of every man; that...", "pos": 2514500}
{"speaker": "the general", "text": "Put that down, that’s bad... very bad,", "pos": 2515046}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "Who are you?", "pos": 2520174}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "I know that man,", "pos": 2520858}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You cannot know me, General, I have never seen you...", "pos": 2521037}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "He is a Russian spy,", "pos": 2521093}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, monseigneur. No, monseigneur, you cannot have known me. I am a militia officer and have not quitted Moscow.", "pos": 2521301}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "Your name?", "pos": 2521471}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Bezúkhov.", "pos": 2521498}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "What proof have I that you are not lying?", "pos": 2521510}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Monseigneur!", "pos": 2521554}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "How can you show me that you are telling the truth? You are not what you say,", "pos": 2522317}
{"speaker": "Davout", "text": "Yes, of course!", "pos": 2523233}
{"speaker": "the officer in command", "text": "In couples,", "pos": 2525988}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sharpshooters of the 86th, forward!", "pos": 2528480}
{"speaker": "one of the Frenchmen", "text": "That will teach them to start fires,", "pos": 2532389}
{"speaker": "some voice", "text": "Well, then, mates... that very prince who...", "pos": 2535035}
{"speaker": "the little man", "text": "You’ve seen a lot of trouble, sir, eh? Eh, lad, don’t fret! Don’t fret, friend—‘suffer an hour, live for an age!’ that’s how it is, my dear fellow. And here we live, thank heaven, without offense. Among these folk, too, there are good men as well as bad. Eh, you rascal! So you’ve come, you rascal? She remembers... Now, now, that’ll do!", "pos": 2536921}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Here, eat a bit, sir. We had soup for dinner and the potatoes are grand! Well, are they all right? You should do like this. The potatoes are grand! Eat some like that!", "pos": 2538011}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, I’m all right, but why did they shoot those poor fellows? The last one was hardly twenty.", "pos": 2538710}
{"speaker": "little man", "text": "Tss, tt...! Ah, what a sin... what a sin! How was it, sir, that you stayed in Moscow?", "pos": 2538817}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I didn’t think they would come so soon. I stayed accidentally,", "pos": 2539046}
{"speaker": "little man", "text": "And how did they arrest you, dear lad? At your house?", "pos": 2539127}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I went to look at the fire, and they arrested me there, and tried me as an incendiary.", "pos": 2539183}
{"speaker": "little man", "text": "Where there’s law there’s injustice,", "pos": 2539276}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And have you been here long?", "pos": 2539338}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "I? It was last Sunday they took me, out of a hospital in Moscow.", "pos": 2539420}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why, are you a soldier then?", "pos": 2539487}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Yes, we are soldiers of the Ápsheron regiment. I was dying of fever. We weren’t told anything. There were some twenty of us lying there. We had no idea, never guessed at all.", "pos": 2539518}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And do you feel sad here?", "pos": 2539695}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "How can one help it, lad? My name is Platón, and the surname is Karatáev. They call me ‘little falcon’ in the regiment. How is one to help feeling sad? Moscow—she’s the mother of cities. How can one see all this and not feel sad? But ‘the maggot gnaws the cabbage, yet dies first’; that’s what the old folks used to tell us,", "pos": 2539740}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What? What did you say?", "pos": 2540160}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Who? I? I say things happen not as we plan but as God judges. Well, and you, have you a family estate, sir? And a house? So you have abundance, then? And a housewife? And your old parents, are they still living?", "pos": 2540200}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "A wife for counsel, a mother-in-law for welcome, but there’s none as dear as one’s own mother! Well, and have you little ones? Never mind! You’re young folks yet, and please God may still have some. The great thing is to live in harmony....", "pos": 2540765}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But it’s all the same now,", "pos": 2541119}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Ah, my dear fellow! never decline a prison or a beggar’s sack! Well, my dear fellow, I was still living at home. We had a well-to-do homestead, plenty of land, we peasants lived well and our house was one to thank God for. When Father and we went out mowing there were seven of us. We lived well. We were real peasants. It so happened... Well, lad, we thought it was a misfortune but it turned out a blessing! If it had not been for my sin, my brother would have had to go as a soldier. But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. We had a little girl, but God took her before I went as a soldier. I come home on leave and I’ll tell you how it was, I look and see that they are living better than before. The yard full of cattle, the women at home, two brothers away earning wages, and only Michael the youngest, at home. Father, he says, ‘All my children are the same to me: it hurts the same whichever finger gets bitten. But if Platón hadn’t been shaved for a soldier, Michael would have had to go.’ Michael,’ he says, ‘come here and bow down to his feet; and you, young woman, you bow down too; and you, grandchildren, also bow down before him! Do you understand?’ he says. That’s how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, ‘that’s not well—that’s not right!’ Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you’ve drawn it out it’s empty! That’s how it is. Well, I think you must be sleepy. Lord Jesus Christ, holy Saint Nicholas, Frola and Lavra! Lord Jesus Christ, holy Saint Nicholas, Frola and Lavra! Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and save us! That’s the way. Lay me down like a stone, O God, and raise me up like a loaf,", "pos": 2541178}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What prayer was that you were saying?", "pos": 2543655}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Eh? What was I saying? I was praying. Don’t you pray?", "pos": 2543709}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I do. But what was that you said: Frola and Lavra?", "pos": 2543814}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Well, of course, the horses’ saints. One must pity the animals too. Eh, the rascal! Now you’ve curled up and got warm, you daughter of a bitch!", "pos": 2543887}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Lord, lay me down as a stone and raise me up as a loaf! I lay down and curled up, I get up and shake myself.", "pos": 2546485}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "A soldier on leave—a shirt outside breeches,", "pos": 2547592}
{"speaker": "courier", "text": "I have found out everything, your excellency: the Rostóvs are staying at the merchant Brónnikov’s house, in the Square not far from here, right above the Vólga,", "pos": 2554979}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "How is the prince?", "pos": 2555359}
{"speaker": "courier", "text": "His excellency is staying in the same house with them.", "pos": 2555391}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Then he is alive. How is he?", "pos": 2555448}
{"speaker": "courier", "text": "The servants say he is still the same.", "pos": 2555530}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "This way, this way!", "pos": 2556242}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Mon enfant! je vous aime et vous connais depuis longtemps.", "pos": 2556515}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How is he?", "pos": 2556930}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "The doctor says that he is not in danger,", "pos": 2556943}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Where is he? Can I see him—can I?", "pos": 2557111}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "One moment, Princess, one moment, my dear! Is this his son? There will be room for everybody, this is a big house. Oh, what a lovely boy!", "pos": 2557167}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "This is my niece. You don’t know her, Princess?", "pos": 2558538}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 2558862}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "He is downstairs. Natásha is with him. We have sent to ask. I think you must be tired, Princess.", "pos": 2558915}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Come, come to him, Mary,", "pos": 2560381}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How...", "pos": 2560602}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But how is his wound? What is his general condition?", "pos": 2561286}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You, you... will see,", "pos": 2561341}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How has his whole illness gone? Is it long since he grew worse? When did this happen?", "pos": 2561515}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But two days ago this suddenly happened. I don’t know why, but you will see what he is like.", "pos": 2562097}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is he weaker? Thinner?", "pos": 2562234}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, it’s not that, but worse. You will see. O, Mary, he is too good, he cannot, cannot live, because...", "pos": 2562279}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How are you, Mary? How did you manage to get here? And have you brought little Nicholas?", "pos": 2564461}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How are you now?", "pos": 2564809}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "That, my dear, you must ask the doctor. Merci, chère amie, d’être venue.", "pos": 2564890}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "There, you see how strangely fate has brought us together. She looks after me all the time.", "pos": 2565807}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mary came by way of Ryazán,", "pos": 2566551}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Really?", "pos": 2566734}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "They told her that all Moscow has been burned down, and that...", "pos": 2566754}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, they say it’s burned. It’s a great pity. And so you have met Count Nicholas, Mary? He wrote here that he took a great liking to you. If you liked him too, it would be a good thing for you to get married,", "pos": 2566938}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Why talk of me? Andrew, would you like... would you like to see little Nicholas? He is always talking about you!", "pos": 2567672}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, I shall be very glad to see him. Is he quite well? Is it about Nicholas? Mary, you know the Gosp...", "pos": 2568267}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What did you say?", "pos": 2568849}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Nothing. You mustn’t cry here,", "pos": 2568869}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "This suddenly happened,", "pos": 2573323}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Ah, she has come!", "pos": 2573906}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Can it or can it not be? Can fate have brought me to her so strangely only for me to die?... Is it possible that the truth of life has been revealed to me only to show me that I have spent my life in falsity? I love her more than anything in the world! But what am I to do if I love her?", "pos": 2575187}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You are not asleep?", "pos": 2575816}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "No, I have been looking at you a long time. I felt you come in. No one else gives me that sense of soft tranquillity that you do... that light. I want to weep for joy. Natásha, I love you too much! More than anything in the world.", "pos": 2575838}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "And I! Why too much?", "pos": 2576136}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Why too much?... Well, what do you, what do you feel in your soul, your whole soul—shall I live? What do you think?", "pos": 2576204}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I am sure of it, sure!", "pos": 2576322}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "How good it would be!", "pos": 2576456}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But you have not slept. Try to sleep... please!", "pos": 2576622}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Love? What is love? Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.", "pos": 2577280}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "Yes, it was death! I died—and woke up. Yes, death is an awakening!", "pos": 2579537}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is it over?", "pos": 2582017}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Where has he gone? Where is he now?...", "pos": 2582304}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "This is the cause!", "pos": 2583384}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I should be cursed by posterity were I looked on as the initiator of a settlement of any sort. Such is the present spirit of my nation.", "pos": 2592972}
{"speaker": "Bennigsen", "text": "If I did not know you I should think you did not want what you are asking for. I need only advise anything and his Highness is sure to do the opposite,", "pos": 2600281}
{"speaker": "Ermólov", "text": "All right—all right. I haven’t time just now,", "pos": 2601511}
{"speaker": "Ermólov’s orderly", "text": "Gone away,", "pos": 2602384}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, and the general’s out too.", "pos": 2602512}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, he’s gone out.", "pos": 2602604}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "But where is it?", "pos": 2603253}
{"speaker": "a Cossack officer", "text": "Why, there, over at Échkino,", "pos": 2603272}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "What, outside our line?", "pos": 2603376}
{"speaker": "a Cossack officer", "text": "They’ve put two regiments as outposts, and they’re having such a spree there, it’s awful! Two bands and three sets of singers!", "pos": 2603402}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ha, ha, ha! Bravo, Nicholas Iványch! Ha, ha, ha!", "pos": 2604672}
{"speaker": "a comrade", "text": "You think he went off just by chance? It was a trick. It was done on purpose to get Konovnítsyn into trouble. You’ll see what a mess there’ll be tomorrow.", "pos": 2605076}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "How! Not rec...", "pos": 2606537}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "What sort of another blackguard are you? I’ll have you shot! Scoundrels!", "pos": 2607315}
{"speaker": "Count Orlóv-Denísov", "text": "Now, remember, if you have been lying I’ll have you hanged like a dog; but if it’s true you shall have a hundred gold pieces!", "pos": 2610376}
{"speaker": "Count Orlóv", "text": "Oh, it is really too late,", "pos": 2611312}
{"speaker": "Count Rostóv", "text": "I am sure that rascal was lying,", "pos": 2611774}
{"speaker": "one of his suite", "text": "They can still be called back,", "pos": 2611825}
{"speaker": "Count Orlóv", "text": "Eh? Really... what do you think? Should we let them go on or not? Will you have them fetched back? Fetch them back, fetch them back! It will be too late. It is quite light.", "pos": 2611972}
{"speaker": "Count Orlóv-Denísov", "text": "Mount! Forward, with God’s aid!", "pos": 2612531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hurrah-ah-ah!", "pos": 2612647}
{"speaker": "General Bagovút", "text": "I prefer not to take lessons from anyone, but I can die with my men as well as anybody,", "pos": 2615569}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "The word attack is always on your tongue, but you don’t see that we are unable to execute complicated maneuvers. We couldn’t take Murat prisoner this morning or get to the place in time, and nothing can be done now! You see! They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly.", "pos": 2616555}
{"speaker": "Ermólov", "text": "He’s having a little fun at my expense. It is not too late yet, your Highness—the enemy has not gone away—if you were to order an attack! If not, the Guards will not so much as see a little smoke.", "pos": 2617496}
{"speaker": "Russian officers and generals", "text": "That’s how everything is done with us, all topsy-turvy!", "pos": 2618432}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "INHABITANTS OF MOSCOW! Your misfortunes are cruel, but His Majesty the Emperor and King desires to arrest their course. Terrible examples have taught you how he punishes disobedience and crime. Strict measures have been taken to put an end to disorder and to re-establish public security. A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government. It will take care of you, of your needs, and of your welfare. Its members will be distinguished by a red ribbon worn across the shoulder, and the mayor of the city will wear a white belt as well. But when not on duty they will only wear a red ribbon round the left arm.", "pos": 2626777}
{"speaker": "French corporal", "text": "What sunshine, Monsieur Kiril! Eh? Just like spring! To be on the march in such weather...", "pos": 2644518}
{"speaker": "French corporal", "text": "Besides, Monsieur Kiril, you have only to say a word to the captain, you know. He is a man who never forgets anything. Speak to the captain when he makes his round, he will do anything for you. 'You see, St. Thomas,' he said to me the other day. 'Monsieur Kiril is a man of education, who speaks French. He is a Russian seigneur who has had misfortunes, but he is a man. He knows what’s what.... If he wants anything and asks me, he won’t get a refusal. When one has studied, you see, one likes education and well-bred people.' It is for your sake I mention it, Monsieur Kiril. The other day if it had not been for you that affair would have ended ill.", "pos": 2645332}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Ready, ready, dear fellow! A promise is own brother to performance! I said Friday and here it is, ready. See, it fits well! You see, dear man, this is not a sewing shop, and I had no proper tools; and, as they say, one needs a tool even to kill a louse,", "pos": 2646930}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "It’s good, quite good, thank you, but there must be some linen left over.", "pos": 2648211}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "It will fit better still when it sets to your body. You’ll be nice and comfortable....", "pos": 2648320}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "Thanks, thanks, old fellow.... But the bits left over? But give me the pieces that are over.", "pos": 2648456}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "What does he want the bits for? They’d make fine leg bands for us. Well, never mind. Oh dear!", "pos": 2648969}
{"speaker": "the Frenchman", "text": "Platoche! Eh, Platoche! Keep them yourself!", "pos": 2649477}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "There, look at that. People said they were not Christians, but they too have souls. It’s what the old folk used to say: ‘A sweating hand’s an open hand, a dry hand’s close.’ He’s naked, but yet he’s given it back. But they’ll make grand leg bands, dear friend,", "pos": 2649577}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "Russia and summer weather are not bound together,", "pos": 2651692}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You know, Sokolóv, they are not all going away! They have a hospital here. You may be better off than we others,", "pos": 2657295}
{"speaker": "Sokolóv", "text": "O Lord! Oh, it will be the death of me! O Lord!", "pos": 2657423}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I’ll go and ask them again directly. Corporal, what will they do with the sick man?... There it is!... It again!...", "pos": 2657507}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Pass on, pass on! What now? He’ll manage to walk, devil take him! Pass on, pass on!", "pos": 2659572}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But he is dying,", "pos": 2659982}
{"speaker": "the captain", "text": "Be so good...", "pos": 2660021}
{"speaker": "the major", "text": "What are you disputing about? What does it matter whether it is St. Nicholas or St. Blasius? You see it’s burned down, and there’s an end of it.... What are you pushing for? Isn’t the road wide enough?", "pos": 2661759}
{"speaker": "Prisoners", "text": "Oh, oh, oh! What have they done? All beyond the river, and Zúbova, and in the Krémlin.... Just look! There’s not half of it left. Yes, I told you—the whole quarter beyond the river, and so it is.", "pos": 2662058}
{"speaker": "the major", "text": "Well, you know it’s burned, so what’s the use of talking?", "pos": 2662350}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, the villains! What heathens! Yes; dead, dead, so he is... And smeared with something!", "pos": 2662626}
{"speaker": "the convoy guards", "text": "Go on! What the devil... Go on! Thirty thousand devils!...", "pos": 2663049}
{"speaker": "Officer Prisoners", "text": "What crowds! Just look at the crowds!... They’ve loaded goods even on the cannon! Look there, those are furs! Just see what the blackguards have looted.... There! See what that one has behind in the cart.... Why, those are settings taken from some icons, by heaven!... Oh, the rascals!... See how that fellow has loaded himself up, he can hardly walk! Good lord, they’ve even grabbed those chaises!... See that fellow there sitting on the trunks.... Heavens! They’re fighting. That’s right, hit him on the snout—on his snout! Like this, we shan’t get away before evening. Look, look there.... Why, that must be Napoleon’s own. See what horses! And the monograms with a crown! It’s like a portable house.... That fellow’s dropped his sack and doesn’t see it. Fighting again... A woman with a baby, and not bad-looking either! Yes, I dare say, that’s the way they’ll let you pass.... Just look, there’s no end to it. Russian wenches, by heaven, so they are! In carriages—see how comfortably they’ve settled themselves!", "pos": 2665300}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ha-ha-ha! The soldier did not let me pass. They took me and shut me up. They hold me captive. What, me? Me? My immortal soul? Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha!...", "pos": 2672050}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And all that is me, all that is within me, and it is all I! And they caught all that and put it into a shed boarded up with planks!", "pos": 2672992}
{"speaker": "Bolkhovítinov", "text": "The general on duty, quick! It’s very important!", "pos": 2678978}
{"speaker": "orderly", "text": "He has been very unwell since the evening and this is the third night he has not slept. You should wake the captain first.", "pos": 2679100}
{"speaker": "Bolkhovítinov", "text": "But this is very important, from General Dokhtúrov,", "pos": 2679269}
{"speaker": "orderly", "text": "Your honor, your honor! A courier.", "pos": 2679471}
{"speaker": "Konovnítsyn", "text": "What? What’s that? From whom?", "pos": 2679508}
{"speaker": "Bolkhovítinov", "text": "From Dokhtúrov and from Alexéy Petróvich. Napoleon is at Formínsk,", "pos": 2679561}
{"speaker": "Shcherbínin", "text": "I don’t like waking him. He is very ill. Perhaps this is only a rumor.", "pos": 2679802}
{"speaker": "Bolkhovítinov", "text": "Here is the dispatch. My orders are to give it at once to the general on duty.", "pos": 2679910}
{"speaker": "Shcherbínin", "text": "Wait a moment, I’ll light a candle. You damned rascal, where do you always hide it? I’ve found it, I’ve found it! Oh, the nasty beasts!", "pos": 2680013}
{"speaker": "Shcherbínin", "text": "Who gave the report?", "pos": 2680924}
{"speaker": "Bolkhovítinov", "text": "The news is reliable. Prisoners, Cossacks, and the scouts all say the same thing.", "pos": 2680990}
{"speaker": "Shcherbínin", "text": "There’s nothing to be done, we’ll have to wake him. Peter Petróvich! To the General Staff!", "pos": 2681096}
{"speaker": "Konovnítsyn", "text": "Well, what is it? From whom? Did you get here quickly? Let us go to his Highness.", "pos": 2681713}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "They must understand that we can only lose by taking the offensive. Patience and time are my warriors, my champions,", "pos": 2685040}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "They want to run to see how they have wounded it. Wait and we shall see! Continual maneuvers, continual advances! What for? Only to distinguish themselves! As if fighting were fun. They are like children from whom one can’t get any sensible account of what has happened because they all want to show how well they can fight. But that’s not what is needed now. And what ingenious maneuvers they all propose to me! It seems to them that when they have thought of two or three contingencies they have foreseen everything. But the contingencies are endless.", "pos": 2685792}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Eh, who’s there? Come in, come in! What news? Who brought it?", "pos": 2689169}
{"speaker": "Toll", "text": "There can be no doubt about it, your Highness.", "pos": 2689449}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Call him in, call him here. Tell me, tell me, friend, come nearer—nearer. What news have you brought me? Eh? That Napoleon has left Moscow? Are you sure? Eh? Speak quicker, quicker! Don’t torture me! O Lord, my Creator, Thou has heard our prayer... Russia is saved. I thank Thee, O Lord!", "pos": 2689498}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "No, bwother, I have gwown mustaches myself,", "pos": 2714855}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Oh, the devil!", "pos": 2720592}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "There’s someone coming,", "pos": 2721398}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "There are two, an officer and a Cossack. But it is not presupposable that it is the lieutenant colonel himself,", "pos": 2721486}
{"speaker": "the officer", "text": "From the general. Please excuse its not being quite dry. There, they kept telling us: ‘It’s dangerous, it’s dangerous,’ But Komaróv and I were prepared. We have each of us two pistols.... But what’s this? A prisoner? You’ve already been in action? May I speak to him?", "pos": 2722121}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Wostóv! Pétya! Why didn’t you say who you were?", "pos": 2722619}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, I am glad to see you. Michael Feoklítych, this is again fwom that German, you know. He is serving under him. If we don’t take it tomowwow, he’ll snatch it fwom under our noses,", "pos": 2723229}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Will there be any orders, your honor? or shall I remain with your honor?", "pos": 2724001}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Orders? But can you stay till tomowwow?", "pos": 2724208}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Oh, please... May I stay with you?", "pos": 2724283}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "But, just what did the genewal tell you? To weturn at once?", "pos": 2724333}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "He gave me no instructions. I think I could?", "pos": 2724425}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, all wight. Well, old fellow, lead us to Shámshevo.", "pos": 2724498}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Bwing the prisoner here,", "pos": 2726499}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Whether Dólokhov comes or not, we must seize it, eh?", "pos": 2727276}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "It is a very suitable spot,", "pos": 2727378}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "We’ll send the infantwy down by the swamps. They’ll cweep up to the garden; you’ll wide up fwom there with the Cossacks and I with my hussars fwom here. And at the signal shot...", "pos": 2727424}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "The hollow is impassable—there’s a swamp there. The horses would sink. We must ride round more to the left....", "pos": 2727682}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "Why, that’s our Tíkhon,", "pos": 2728366}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "So it is! It is! The wascal!", "pos": 2728408}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "He’ll get away! Smart, that!", "pos": 2728455}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "What a beast! What has he been doing all this time?", "pos": 2728801}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Who is he?", "pos": 2728904}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "He’s our plastún. I sent him to capture a ‘tongue.’", "pos": 2728930}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 2728984}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "We don’t do the French any harm. We only fooled about with the lads for fun, you know! We killed a score or so of ‘more-orderers,’ but we did no harm else....", "pos": 2730038}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It won’t hurt that devil—he’s as strong as a horse!", "pos": 2731711}
{"speaker": "the Cossacks", "text": "Hallo, mate! Never again? Gave you a twist?", "pos": 2732085}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Now, my lad, we’ll go and get dwy,", "pos": 2733169}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, where did you disappear to?", "pos": 2733843}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Where did I disappear to? I went to get Frenchmen,", "pos": 2733897}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Why did you push yourself in there by daylight? You ass! Well, why haven’t you taken one?", "pos": 2734025}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Oh, I took one all right,", "pos": 2734117}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Where is he?", "pos": 2734158}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "You see, I took him first thing at dawn. I took him into the forest. Then I see he’s no good and think I’ll go and fetch a likelier one.", "pos": 2734173}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "You see?... What a wogue—it’s just as I thought. Why didn’t you bwing that one?", "pos": 2734401}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "What was the good of bringing him? that one wouldn’t have done for you. As if I don’t know what sort you want!", "pos": 2734512}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "What a bwute you are!... Well?", "pos": 2734666}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "I went for another one, and I crept like this through the wood and lay down.", "pos": 2734699}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon Shcherbáty", "text": "One turned up and I grabbed him, like this.", "pos": 2734887}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Come along to the colonel. What are you up to? Christ be with you!", "pos": 2734970}
{"speaker": "the esaul", "text": "Yes, we saw from the hill how you took to your heels through the puddles!", "pos": 2735282}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Don’t play the fool! Why didn’t you bwing the first one?", "pos": 2735601}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "Oh, but he was a regular good-for-nothing. The clothes on him—poor stuff! How could I bring him? And so rude, your honor! Why, he says: ‘I’m a general’s son myself, I won’t go!’ he says.", "pos": 2736025}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "You are a bwute! I wanted to question...", "pos": 2736229}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "But I questioned him. He said he didn’t know much. There are a lot of us,’ he says, ‘but all poor stuff—only soldiers in name,’ he says. ‘Shout loud at them,’ he says, ‘and you’ll take them all,", "pos": 2736288}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I’ll give you a hundwed sharp lashes—that’ll teach you to play the fool!", "pos": 2736575}
{"speaker": "Tíkhon", "text": "But why are you angry? just as if I’d never seen your Frenchmen! Only wait till it gets dark and I’ll fetch you any of them you want—three if you like.", "pos": 2736673}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, let’s go,", "pos": 2736850}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, tell me about yourself.", "pos": 2737791}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "So then what do you think, Vasíli Dmítrich? It’s all right my staying a day with you? You see I was told to find out—well, I am finding out.... Only do let me into the very... into the chief... I don’t want a reward.... But I want...", "pos": 2740732}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Into the vewy chief...", "pos": 2741143}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Only, please let me command something, so that I may really command... What would it be to you?... Oh, you want a knife? Please keep it. I have several like it. Heavens! I was quite forgetting! I have some raisins, fine ones; you know, seedless ones. We have a new sutler and he has such capital things. I bought ten pounds. I am used to something sweet. Would you like some?... Have some, gentlemen, have some! You want a coffeepot, don’t you? I bought a capital one from our sutler! He has splendid things. And he’s very honest, that’s the chief thing. I’ll be sure to send it to you. Or perhaps your flints are giving out, or are worn out—that happens sometimes, you know. I have brought some with me, here they are a hundred flints. I bought them very cheap. Please take as many as you want, or all if you like.... It’s capital for us here, but what of him? Where have they put him? Have they fed him? Haven’t they hurt his feelings? I might ask,", "pos": 2741199}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He’s a boy himself and so he pities the boy.", "pos": 2742892}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I’ll show them tomorrow whether I’m a boy. Will it seem odd if I ask? Well, never mind! May I call in that boy who was taken prisoner and give him something to eat?... Perhaps...", "pos": 2742938}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Yes, he’s a poor little fellow. Call him in. His name is Vincent Bosse. Have him fetched.", "pos": 2743245}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I’ll call him,", "pos": 2743406}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Yes, yes, call him. A poor little fellow,", "pos": 2743435}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Let me kiss you, dear old fellow! Oh, how fine, how splendid! Bosse! Vincent!", "pos": 2743621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who do you want, sir?", "pos": 2743792}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "Ah, Vesénny?", "pos": 2743923}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is warming himself there by the bonfire. Ho, Vesénya! Vesénya!—Vesénny!", "pos": 2744193}
{"speaker": "Hussar", "text": "He’s a smart lad. We gave him something to eat a while ago. He was awfully hungry!", "pos": 2744337}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Ah, c’est vous! Voulez-vous manger? N’ayez pas peur, on ne vous fera pas de mal. Entrez, entrez.", "pos": 2744574}
{"speaker": "Drummer boy", "text": "Merci, monsieur,", "pos": 2744868}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Come in, come in! Oh, what can I do for him?", "pos": 2745216}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "That’s so. But we must know what troops they are and their numbers. It will be necessary to go there. We can’t start the affair without knowing for certain how many there are. I like to work accurately. Here now—wouldn’t one of these gentlemen like to ride over to the French camp with me? I have brought a spare uniform.", "pos": 2747041}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I, I... I’ll go with you!", "pos": 2747382}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "There’s no need for you to go at all, and as for him, I won’t let him go on any account.", "pos": 2747423}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I like that! Why shouldn’t I go?", "pos": 2747551}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Because it’s useless.", "pos": 2747605}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, you must excuse me, because... because... I shall go, and that’s all. You’ll take me, won’t you?", "pos": 2747629}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Why not? Have you had that youngster with you long?", "pos": 2747764}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "He was taken today but he knows nothing. I’m keeping him with me.", "pos": 2747915}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Yes, and where do you put the others?", "pos": 2747983}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Where? I send them away and take a weceipt for them. And I say boldly that I have not a single man’s life on my conscience. Would it be difficult for you to send thirty or thwee hundwed men to town under escort, instead of staining—I speak bluntly—staining the honor of a soldier?", "pos": 2748042}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "That kind of amiable talk would be suitable from this young count of sixteen, but it’s time for you to drop it.", "pos": 2748363}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Why, I’ve not said anything! I only say that I’ll certainly go with you,", "pos": 2748510}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "But for you and me, old fellow, it’s time to drop these amenities. Now, why have you kept this lad? Because you are sorry for him! Don’t we know those ‘receipts’ of yours? You send a hundred men away, and thirty get there. The rest either starve or get killed. So isn’t it all the same not to send them?", "pos": 2748603}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "That’s not the point. I’m not going to discuss the matter. I do not wish to take it on my conscience. You say they’ll die. All wight. Only not by my fault!", "pos": 2749118}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Who has told them not to capture me these twenty times over? But if they did catch me they’d string me up to an aspen tree, and with all your chivalry just the same. However, we must get to work. Tell the Cossack to fetch my kit. I have two French uniforms in it. Well, are you coming with me?", "pos": 2749301}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I? Yes, yes, certainly! If grown-up, distinguished men think so, it must be necessary and right. But above all Denísov must not dare to imagine that I’ll obey him and that he can order me about. I will certainly go to the French camp with Dólokhov. If he can, so can I! For you’ll admit that if we don’t know for sure how many of them there are... hundreds of lives may depend on it, while there are only two of us. Besides, I want to go very much and certainly will go, so don’t hinder me. It will only make things worse.... If we’re caught, I won’t be taken alive! I have a pistol,", "pos": 2749626}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Don’t talk Russian,", "pos": 2751128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Qui vive?", "pos": 2751257}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Lanciers du 6-me,", "pos": 2751378}
{"speaker": "Sentinel", "text": "Mot d’ordre.", "pos": 2751554}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Dites donc, le colonel Gérard est ici?", "pos": 2751638}
{"speaker": "Sentinel", "text": "Mot d’ordre,", "pos": 2751728}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Quand un officier fait sa ronde, les sentinelles ne demandent pas le mot d’ordre... Je vous demande si le colonel est ici.", "pos": 2751800}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Oh, he’s a hard nut to crack. He’ll make them get a move on, those fellows!", "pos": 2753145}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Bonjour, messieurs!", "pos": 2753482}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Is that you, Clément? Where the devil...? If you were counting on the evening soup, you have come too late,", "pos": 2753712}
{"speaker": "officer", "text": "Those brigands are everywhere,", "pos": 2754891}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "but probably they would not dare to attack large detachments?", "pos": 2755069}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, now he’ll come away,", "pos": 2755171}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! It would be better to shoot such rabble,", "pos": 2755535}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Will they bring our horses or not?", "pos": 2756041}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Good evening, gentlemen. Do you hear? Well now, good-by. Tell Denísov, ‘at the first shot at daybreak,’", "pos": 2756160}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Really! you are such a hero! Oh, how fine, how splendid! How I love you!", "pos": 2757166}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "All right, all right!", "pos": 2757253}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Thank God! Yes, thank God! But, devil take you, I haven’t slept because of you! Well, thank God. Now lie down. We can still get a nap before morning.", "pos": 2757688}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "But... no. I don’t want to sleep yet. Besides I know myself, if I fall asleep it’s finished. And then I am used to not sleeping before a battle.", "pos": 2757911}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, Karabákh! We’ll do some service tomorrow,", "pos": 2759110}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "Why aren’t you asleep, sir?", "pos": 2759207}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "No, ah... Likhachëv—isn’t that your name? Do you know I have only just come back! We’ve been into the French camp.", "pos": 2759283}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "Well, you should get some sleep now,", "pos": 2759567}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "No, I am used to this. I say, aren’t the flints in your pistols worn out? I brought some with me. Don’t you want any? You can have some. Because I am accustomed to doing everything accurately. Some fellows do things just anyhow, without preparation, and then they’re sorry for it afterwards. I don’t like that.", "pos": 2759624}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "Just so,", "pos": 2760044}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Oh yes, another thing! Please, my dear fellow, will you sharpen my saber for me? It’s got bl... Can you do it?", "pos": 2760073}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "Of course I can.", "pos": 2760258}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I say! Are the lads asleep?", "pos": 2760480}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "Some are, and some aren’t—like us.", "pos": 2760523}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Well, and that boy?", "pos": 2760560}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "Vesénny? Oh, he’s thrown himself down there in the passage. Fast asleep after his fright. He was that glad!", "pos": 2760582}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "What are you sharpening?", "pos": 2760831}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "Why, this gentleman’s saber.", "pos": 2760894}
{"speaker": "Hussar", "text": "That’s right. Was the cup left here?", "pos": 2760925}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "There, by the wheel!", "pos": 2761013}
{"speaker": "Hussar", "text": "It must be daylight soon,", "pos": 2761061}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Oh—why, that was in a dream! It’s in my ears. But perhaps it’s music of my own. Well, go on, my music! Now!... Oh, this is delightful! As much as I like and as I like! Now softly, softly die away! Now fuller, more joyful. Still more and more joyful! Now voices join in!", "pos": 2764231}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "It’s ready, your honor; you can split a Frenchman in half with it!", "pos": 2765509}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "It’s getting light, it’s really getting light!", "pos": 2765593}
{"speaker": "Likhachëv", "text": "And here’s the commander,", "pos": 2766021}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, is ev’wything weady? Bwing the horses.", "pos": 2766790}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Vasíli Dmítrich, entrust me with some commission! Please... for God’s sake...!", "pos": 2767228}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "I ask one thing of you, to obey me and not shove yourself forward anywhere.", "pos": 2767403}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "The signal!", "pos": 2768163}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Hurrah!... Lads!... ours!", "pos": 2769183}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Go round! Wait for the infantry!", "pos": 2770199}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "Wait?... Hurrah-ah-ah!", "pos": 2770272}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Done for!", "pos": 2771462}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Killed?", "pos": 2771560}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Done for! We won’t take them!", "pos": 2771702}
{"speaker": "Pétya", "text": "I am used to something sweet. Raisins, fine ones... take them all!", "pos": 2772103}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, how are you?", "pos": 2781780}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "How am I? If we grumble at sickness, God won’t grant us death. And so, brother, you see, brother...", "pos": 2781811}
{"speaker": "Platón Karatáev", "text": "And so, brother ten years or more passed by. The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong. Only he prayed to God for death. Well, one night the convicts were gathered just as we are, with the old man among them. And they began telling what each was suffering for, and how they had sinned against God. One told how he had taken a life, another had taken two, a third had set a house on fire, while another had simply been a vagrant and had done nothing. So they asked the old man: ‘What are you being punished for, Daddy?’—‘I, my dear brothers,’ said he, ‘am being punished for my own and other men’s sins. But I have not killed anyone or taken anything that was not mine, but have only helped my poorer brothers. I was a merchant, my dear brothers, and had much property. ‘And he went on to tell them all about it in due order. ‘I don’t grieve for myself,’ he says, ‘God, it seems, has chastened me. Only I am sorry for my old wife and the children,’ and the old man began to weep. Now it happened that in the group was the very man who had killed the other merchant. ‘Where did it happen, Daddy?’ he said. ‘When, and in what month?’ He asked all about it and his heart began to ache. So he comes up to the old man like this, and falls down at his feet! ‘You are perishing because of me, Daddy,’ he says. ‘It’s quite true, lads, that this man,’ he says, ‘is being tortured innocently and for nothing! I,’ he says, ‘did that deed, and I put the knife under your head while you were asleep. Forgive me, Daddy,’ he says, ‘for Christ’s sake!’ God will forgive you, we are all sinners in His sight. I suffer for my own sins. What do you think, dear friends? That murderer confessed to the authorities. ‘I have taken six lives,’ he says (he was a great sinner), ‘but what I am most sorry for is this old man. Don’t let him suffer because of me.’ So he confessed and it was all written down and the papers sent off in due form. The place was a long way off, and while they were judging, what with one thing and another, filling in the papers all in due form—the authorities I mean—time passed. The affair reached the Tsar. After a while the Tsar’s decree came: to set the merchant free and give him a compensation that had been awarded. The paper arrived and they began to look for the old man. ‘Where is the old man who has been suffering innocently and in vain? A paper has come from the Tsar!’ so they began looking for him, but God had already forgiven him—he was dead! That’s how it was, dear fellows!", "pos": 2782879}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "À vos places!", "pos": 2786167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To your places.", "pos": 2786211}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Emperor! The Emperor! The Marshal! The Duke!", "pos": 2786696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did he say? What did he say?", "pos": 2787412}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in innocent sufferings. Wait a bit,", "pos": 2789961}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How simple and clear it is. How is it I did not know it before? God is in the midst, and each drop tries to expand so as to reflect Him to the greatest extent. And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges. There now, Karatáev has spread out and disappeared. Do you understand, my child?", "pos": 2790932}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you understand, damn you?", "pos": 2791304}
{"speaker": "Frenchman", "text": "It’s all the same to him. Brigand! Get away!", "pos": 2791740}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Ah, he’s come? And Plat—", "pos": 2792178}
{"speaker": "French soldier", "text": "The Cossacks!", "pos": 2793188}
{"speaker": "old soldiers", "text": "Brothers! Dear fellows! Darlings!", "pos": 2793401}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "How many?", "pos": 2794219}
{"speaker": "Cossack", "text": "The second hundred,", "pos": 2794259}
{"speaker": "Dólokhov", "text": "Filez, filez!", "pos": 2794302}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "J’ai assez fait l’empereur; il est temps de faire le général,", "pos": 2803394}
{"speaker": "historians", "text": "C’est grand!", "pos": 2804696}
{"speaker": "Napoleon", "text": "Du sublime (he saw something sublime in himself) au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas,", "pos": 2805193}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I am not going anywhere. Do please just leave me alone!", "pos": 2819616}
{"speaker": "Prince Andrew", "text": "One thing would be terrible, to bind oneself forever to a suffering man. It would be continual torture.", "pos": 2822106}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "This can’t go on—it won’t. You will get well—quite well. I agreed, that it would be dreadful if he always continued to suffer. I said it then only because it would have been dreadful for him, but he understood it differently. He thought it would be dreadful for me. He then still wished to live and feared death. And I said it so awkwardly and stupidly! I did not say what I meant. I thought quite differently. Had I said what I thought, I should have said: even if he had to go on dying, to die continually before my eyes, I should have been happy compared with what I am now. Now there is nothing... nobody. Did he know that? No, he did not and never will know it. And now it will never, never be possible to put it right. Terrible for you, but not for me! You know that for me there is nothing in life but you, and to suffer with you is the greatest happiness for me. I love thee!... thee! I love, love...", "pos": 2822342}
{"speaker": "Dunyásha", "text": "Come to your Papa at once, please! A misfortune... about Peter Ilýnich... a letter,", "pos": 2824599}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "Pe... Pétya... Go, go, she... is calling...", "pos": 2825724}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha! Natásha!... It’s not true... it’s not true... He’s lying... Natásha! Go away, all of you; it’s not true! Killed!... ha, ha, ha!... It’s not true!", "pos": 2826922}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mummy!... darling!... I am here, my dearest Mummy. My dearest darling... Mummy, my precious!...", "pos": 2827316}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha, you love me? Natásha, you would not deceive me? You’ll tell me the whole truth?", "pos": 2828100}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "My darling Mummy!", "pos": 2828351}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "How glad I am you have come. You are tired. Won’t you have some tea? You have improved in looks and grown more manly,", "pos": 2829237}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mamma! What are you saying...", "pos": 2829435}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Natásha, he is no more, no more!", "pos": 2829467}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I don’t want to sleep, Mary, sit by me a little.", "pos": 2831407}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You are tired—try to sleep.", "pos": 2831458}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, no. Why did you bring me away? She will be asking for me.", "pos": 2831488}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "She is much better. She spoke so well today,", "pos": 2831552}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Is she like him? Yes, like and yet not like. But she is quite original, strange, new, and unknown. And she loves me. What is in her heart? All that is good. But how? What is her mind like? What does she think about me? Yes, she is splendid! Mary. Mary, you mustn’t think me wicked. No? Mary darling, how I love you! Let us be quite, quite friends.", "pos": 2831708}
{"speaker": "Milorádovich", "text": "I give you that column, lads,", "pos": 2840471}
{"speaker": "Count Rostopchín", "text": "How was it you promised not to abandon Moscow without a battle?", "pos": 2844945}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "And I shall not abandon Moscow without a battle. Yes, I was just saying so myself,", "pos": 2845028}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "a golden bridge", "pos": 2846865}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "What were you saying? Ah, the standards!", "pos": 2852090}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I thank you all! I thank you all for your hard and faithful service. The victory is complete and Russia will not forget you! Honor to you forever. Lower its head, lower it! Lower, lower, that’s it. Hurrah lads!", "pos": 2853017}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Hur-r-rah!", "pos": 2853585}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "You see, brothers... You see, brothers, I know it’s hard for you, but it can’t be helped! Bear up; it won’t be for long now! We’ll see our visitors off and then we’ll rest. The Tsar won’t forget your service. It is hard for you, but still you are at home while they—you see what they have come to. Worse off than our poorest beggars. While they were strong we didn’t spare ourselves, but now we may even pity them. They are human beings too. Isn’t it so, lads? But after all who asked them here? Serves them right, the bloody bastards!", "pos": 2853776}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Now then, all together—shove!", "pos": 2857720}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Now then, catch hold in twos! Hand up the lever! That’s it.... Where are you shoving to? Now, all together! But wait a moment, boys... With a song!", "pos": 2858052}
{"speaker": "Soldiers", "text": "Oo-oo-oo-oo! That’s it. All together! Heave away, boys!...", "pos": 2858364}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Here, you of the Sixth Company! Devils that you are! Lend a hand... will you? You may want us one of these days. Get along... Falling? What are you stopping for? There now....", "pos": 2858560}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major", "text": "What are you up to? There are gentry here; the general himself is in that hut, and you foul-mouthed devils, you brutes, I’ll give it to you! Can’t you make less noise?", "pos": 2859071}
{"speaker": "Struck Soldier", "text": "There, how that devil hits out! He’s made my face all bloody,", "pos": 2859595}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Don’t you like it?", "pos": 2859730}
{"speaker": "red-haired man", "text": "Eh, Makéev! What has become of you, you son of a bitch? Are you lost or have the wolves eaten you? Fetch some more wood! And you, Jackdaw, go and fetch some wood!", "pos": 2862178}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Bring it here—that’s fine!", "pos": 2862865}
{"speaker": "young soldier", "text": "Mother! The dew is cold but clear.... It’s well that I’m a musketeer...", "pos": 2863259}
{"speaker": "red-haired man", "text": "Look out, your soles will fly off! What a fellow you are for dancing!", "pos": 2863386}
{"speaker": "Dancer", "text": "Right enough, friend. It’s the steam that spoils them,", "pos": 2863636}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "They’ll soon be issuing us new ones. They say that when we’ve finished hammering them, we’re to receive double kits!", "pos": 2863863}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major 1", "text": "And that son of a bitch Petróv has lagged behind after all, it seems,", "pos": 2863982}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major 2", "text": "I’ve had an eye on him this long while,", "pos": 2864079}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Well, he’s a poor sort of soldier.... But in the Third Company they say nine men were missing yesterday. Yes, it’s all very well, but when a man’s feet are frozen how can he walk?", "pos": 2864137}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major", "text": "Eh? Don’t talk nonsense!", "pos": 2864323}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "Do you want to be doing the same?", "pos": 2864373}
{"speaker": "Jackdaw", "text": "Well, you know, a plump man gets thin, but for a thin one it’s death. Take me, now! I’ve got no strength left. Tell them to send me to hospital; I’m aching all over; anyway I shan’t be able to keep up.", "pos": 2864494}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major", "text": "That’ll do, that’ll do!", "pos": 2864891}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "What a lot of those Frenchies were taken today, and the fact is that not one of them had what you might call real boots on. They were no more than make-believes.", "pos": 2865000}
{"speaker": "Dancer", "text": "The Cossacks have taken their boots. They were clearing the hut for the colonel and carried them out. It was pitiful to see them, boys. As they turned them over one seemed still alive and, would you believe it, he jabbered something in their lingo.", "pos": 2865204}
{"speaker": "The first man", "text": "But they’re a clean folk, lads, he was white—as white as birchbark—and some of them are such fine fellows, you might think they were nobles.", "pos": 2865475}
{"speaker": "a soldier", "text": "Well, what do you think? They make soldiers of all classes there.", "pos": 2865643}
{"speaker": "The dancer", "text": "But they don’t understand our talk at all. I asked him whose subject he was, and he jabbered in his own way. A queer lot!", "pos": 2865711}
{"speaker": "The man who had wondered at their whiteness", "text": "But it’s strange, friends, the peasants at Mozháysk were saying that when they began burying the dead—where the battle was you know—well, those dead had been lying there for nearly a month, and says the peasant, ‘they lie as white as paper, clean, and not as much smell as a puff of powder smoke.’", "pos": 2865875}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Was it from the cold?", "pos": 2866232}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’re a clever fellow! From the cold indeed! Why, it was hot. If it had been from the cold, ours would not have rotted either. ‘But,’ he says, ‘go up to ours and they are all rotten and maggoty. So,’ he says, ‘we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it. But theirs,’ he says, ‘are white as paper and not so much smell as a whiff of gunpowder.’", "pos": 2866271}
{"speaker": "Sergeant Major", "text": "It must be from their food. They used to gobble the same food as the gentry.", "pos": 2866692}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "That was a real battle. It’s the only one worth remembering; but since that... it’s only been tormenting folk.", "pos": 2867043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And do you know, Daddy, the day before yesterday we ran at them and, my word, they didn’t let us get near before they just threw down their muskets and went on their knees. ‘Pardon!’ they say. That’s only one case. They say Plátov took ‘Poleon himself twice. But he didn’t know the right charm. He catches him and catches him—no good! He turns into a bird in his hands and flies away. And there’s no way of killing him either.", "pos": 2867179}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’re a first-class liar, Kiselëv, when I come to look at you!", "pos": 2867608}
{"speaker": "Kiselëv", "text": "Liar, indeed! It’s the real truth.", "pos": 2867674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If he fell into my hands, when I’d caught him I’d bury him in the ground with an aspen stake to fix him down. What a lot of men he’s ruined!", "pos": 2867711}
{"speaker": "old soldier", "text": "Well, anyhow we’re going to end it. He won’t come here again,", "pos": 2867854}
{"speaker": "one of the men", "text": "Look at the stars. It’s wonderful how they shine! You would think the women had spread out their linen. That’s a sign of a good harvest next year. We shall want some more wood. You warm your back and your belly gets frozen. That’s queer. O Lord! What are you pushing for? Is the fire only for you? Look how he’s sprawling!", "pos": 2868026}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "Hark at them roaring there in the Fifth Company! and what a lot of them there are!", "pos": 2868667}
{"speaker": "he", "text": "They’re having such fun. Two Frenchies have turned up. One’s quite frozen and the other’s an awful swaggerer. He’s singing songs....", "pos": 2868838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, I’ll go across and have a look....", "pos": 2868997}
{"speaker": "one of the men", "text": "A bear, lads,", "pos": 2869396}
{"speaker": "One of the soldiers", "text": "You won’t do it again, eh? Oh, you fool! Why talk rubbish, lout that you are—a real peasant!", "pos": 2871205}
{"speaker": "Ramballe", "text": "Oh, you fine fellows, my kind, kind friends! These are men! Oh, my brave, kind friends,", "pos": 2871630}
{"speaker": "Morel", "text": "Vive Henri Quatre! Vive ce roi valiant! Ce diable à quatre...", "pos": 2872360}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Vivarika! Vif-seruvaru! Sedyablyaka!", "pos": 2872518}
{"speaker": "Morel", "text": "Qui eut le triple talent, De boire, de battre, Et d’être un vert galant.", "pos": 2872765}
{"speaker": "Soldier", "text": "Ke... ke-e-e-e, le-trip-ta-la-de-bu-de-ba, e de-tra-va-ga-la", "pos": 2872977}
{"speaker": "one of them", "text": "Fine! Just like the Frenchie! Oh, ho ho! Do you want some more to eat? Give him some porridge: it takes a long time to get filled up after starving. They are men too. Even wormwood grows on its own root. O Lord, O Lord! How starry it is! Tremendous! That means a hard frost....", "pos": 2873130}
{"speaker": "Chichagóv", "text": "You mean to imply that I have nothing to eat out of.... On the contrary, I can supply you with everything even if you want to give dinner parties,", "pos": 2882339}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "I meant merely to say what I said.", "pos": 2882717}
{"speaker": "Kutúzov", "text": "Your Serene Highness!", "pos": 2885726}
{"speaker": "The Emperor", "text": "the old comedian. You have not only saved Russia, you have saved Europe!", "pos": 2886879}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, how good! How splendid! Oh, how good, how splendid! Well, and what then? What am I going to do? Well, I shall live. Ah, how splendid!", "pos": 2892946}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What for? Because there is a God, that God without whose will not one hair falls from a man’s head.", "pos": 2895827}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Yes, he is a very, very kind man when he is not under the influence of bad people but of people such as myself,", "pos": 2898552}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, tell me... now, how did you get food?", "pos": 2899095}
{"speaker": "The doctor", "text": "It’s a pleasure to talk to a man like that; he is not like our provincials,", "pos": 2899796}
{"speaker": "the Italian officer", "text": "If all Russians are in the least like you, it is sacrilege to fight such a nation. You, who have suffered so from the French, do not even feel animosity toward them.", "pos": 2900358}
{"speaker": "Willarski", "text": "You are letting yourself go, my dear fellow,", "pos": 2901491}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "To give or not to give? I have it and he needs it. But someone else needs it still more. Who needs it most? And perhaps they are both impostors?", "pos": 2903451}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, of course that’s true. I don’t need all that at all. By being ruined I have become much richer.", "pos": 2905728}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, perhaps. I think so,", "pos": 2913503}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Is it possible that he died in the bitter frame of mind he was then in? Is it possible that the meaning of life was not disclosed to him before he died?", "pos": 2914410}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Announce me. Perhaps she will see me,", "pos": 2915223}
{"speaker": "the man", "text": "Yes, sir. Please step into the portrait gallery.", "pos": 2915276}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "This must be one of her companions,", "pos": 2915790}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "Yes, so this is how we meet again. He spoke of you even at the very last. I was so glad to hear of your safety. It was the first piece of good news we had received for a long time.", "pos": 2915942}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Just imagine—I knew nothing about him! I thought he had been killed. All I know I heard at second hand from others. I only know that he fell in with the Rostóvs.... What a strange coincidence!", "pos": 2916456}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Do you really not recognize her?", "pos": 2917176}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But no, it can’t be! This stern, thin, pale face that looks so much older! It cannot be she. It merely reminds me of her.", "pos": 2917414}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Natásha!", "pos": 2917591}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, it’s only the unexpectedness of it,", "pos": 2918460}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "She has come to stay with me. The count and countess will be here in a few days. The countess is in a dreadful state; but it was necessary for Natásha herself to see a doctor. They insisted on her coming with me.", "pos": 2919533}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, is there a family free from sorrow now? You know it happened the very day we were rescued. I saw him. What a delightful boy he was! What can one say or think of as a consolation? Nothing! Why had such a splendid boy, so full of life, to die?", "pos": 2919770}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, in these days it would be hard to live without faith...", "pos": 2920157}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, that is really true,", "pos": 2920243}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Why is it true?", "pos": 2920308}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How can you ask why? The thought alone of what awaits...", "pos": 2920381}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And because, only one who believes that there is a God ruling us can bear a loss such as hers and... yours.", "pos": 2920550}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, yes, and so...? Yes, yes... so he grew tranquil and softened? With all his soul he had always sought one thing—to be perfectly good—so he could not be afraid of death. The faults he had—if he had any—were not of his making. So he did soften?... What a happy thing that he saw you again,", "pos": 2921605}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, that was happiness. For me it certainly was happiness. And he... he... he said he was wishing for it at the very moment I entered the room.... We knew nothing of it when we started from Moscow. I did not dare to ask about him. Then suddenly Sónya told me he was traveling with us. I had no idea and could not imagine what state he was in, all I wanted was to see him and be with him,", "pos": 2922207}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, that’s all—everything,", "pos": 2923877}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "No, Natásha and I sometimes don’t go to sleep till after two, so please don’t go. I will order supper. Go downstairs, we will come immediately. This is the first time she has talked of him like that.", "pos": 2924638}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Do you take vodka, Count? Now tell us about yourself. One hears such improbable wonders about you.", "pos": 2925766}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes. They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of! Mary Abrámovna invited me to her house and kept telling me what had happened, or ought to have happened, to me. Stepán Stepánych also instructed me how I ought to tell of my experiences. In general I have noticed that it is very easy to be an interesting man (I am an interesting man now); people invite me out and tell me all about myself.", "pos": 2925961}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "We have been told, that you lost two millions in Moscow. Is that true?", "pos": 2926478}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But I am three times as rich as before. What I have certainly gained is freedom. And are you building? Yes. Savélich says I must!", "pos": 2926584}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Tell me, you did not know of the countess’ death when you decided to remain in Moscow?", "pos": 2927002}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No. I heard of it in Orël and you cannot imagine how it shocked me. We were not an exemplary couple, but her death shocked me terribly. When two people quarrel they are always both in fault, and one’s own guilt suddenly becomes terribly serious when the other is no longer alive. And then such a death... without friends and without consolation! I am very, very sorry for her,", "pos": 2927259}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, and so you are once more an eligible bachelor. And did you really see and speak to Napoleon, as we have been told?", "pos": 2927937}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, not once! Everybody seems to imagine that being taken prisoner means being Napoleon’s guest. Not only did I never see him but I heard nothing about him—I was in much lower company!", "pos": 2928300}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But it’s true that you remained in Moscow to kill Napoleon? I guessed it then when we met at the Súkharev tower, do you remember?", "pos": 2928597}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It was an awful sight—children abandoned, some in the flames... One was snatched out before my eyes... and there were women who had their things snatched off and their earrings torn out... Then a patrol arrived and all the men—all those who were not looting, that is—were arrested, and I among them.", "pos": 2930005}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I am sure you’re not telling us everything; I am sure you did something... something fine?", "pos": 2930339}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, you can’t understand what I learned from that illiterate man—that simple fellow.", "pos": 2930782}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes, go on! Where is he?", "pos": 2930869}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "They killed him almost before my eyes.", "pos": 2930917}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "People speak of misfortunes and sufferings, but if at this moment I were asked: ‘Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through all this again?’ then for heaven’s sake let me again have captivity and horseflesh! We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. I say this to you,", "pos": 2932869}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, yes. I too should wish nothing but to relive it all from the beginning. Yes, and nothing more,", "pos": 2933379}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It’s not true, not true! I am not to blame for being alive and wishing to live—nor you either.", "pos": 2933577}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What is it, Natásha?", "pos": 2933773}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nothing, nothing. Good night! It is time for bed. Well, good night, Mary! Do you know, I am often afraid that by not speaking of him for fear of not doing justice to our feelings, we forget him.", "pos": 2933816}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Is it possible to forget?", "pos": 2934442}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "It did me so much good to tell all about it today. It was hard and painful, but good, very good! I am sure he really loved him. That is why I told him... Was it all right?", "pos": 2934480}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "To tell Pierre? Oh, yes. What a splendid man he is!", "pos": 2934700}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Do you know, Mary... he has somehow grown so clean, smooth, and fresh—as if he had just come out of a Russian bath; do you understand? Out of a moral bath. Isn’t it true?", "pos": 2934774}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes. He has greatly improved.", "pos": 2935060}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "With a short coat and his hair cropped; just as if, well, just as if he had come straight from the bath... Papa used to...", "pos": 2935117}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I understand why he liked no one so much as him,", "pos": 2935242}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, and yet he is quite different. They say men are friends when they are quite different. That must be true. Really he is quite unlike him—in everything.", "pos": 2935331}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, but he’s wonderful.", "pos": 2935489}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Well, good night,", "pos": 2935516}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, what’s to be done if it cannot be avoided? What’s to be done? Evidently it has to be so. Strange and impossible as such happiness seems, I must do everything that she and I may be man and wife. What, to Petersburg? What is Petersburg? Who is there in Petersburg? Oh, yes, long ago before this happened I did for some reason mean to go to Petersburg. Why? But perhaps I shall go. What a good fellow he is and how attentive, and how he remembers everything, and what a pleasant smile he has! Well, Savélich, do you still not wish to accept your freedom?", "pos": 2936116}
{"speaker": "Savélich", "text": "What’s the good of freedom to me, your excellency? We lived under the late count—the kingdom of heaven be his!—and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged.", "pos": 2937111}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And your children?", "pos": 2937285}
{"speaker": "Savélich", "text": "The children will live just the same. With such masters one can live.", "pos": 2937306}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what about my heirs? Supposing I suddenly marry... it might happen,", "pos": 2937378}
{"speaker": "Savélich", "text": "If I may take the liberty, your excellency, it would be a good thing.", "pos": 2937503}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How easy he thinks it. He doesn’t know how terrible it is and how dangerous. Too soon or too late... it is terrible!", "pos": 2937575}
{"speaker": "Savélich", "text": "So what are your orders? Are you starting tomorrow?", "pos": 2937712}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I’ll put it off for a bit. I’ll tell you later. You must forgive the trouble I have put you to. But how strange it is that he should not know that now there is no Petersburg for me, and that that must be settled first of all! But probably he knows it well enough and is only pretending. Shall I have a talk with him and see what he thinks? No, another time. Whom do you think? Natásha Rostóva! Do you know her?", "pos": 2937782}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I have seen the princess. I heard that they were arranging a match for her with young Rostóv. It would be a very good thing for the Rostóvs, they are said to be utterly ruined.", "pos": 2938510}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No; I mean do you know Natásha Rostóva?", "pos": 2938704}
{"speaker": "the princess", "text": "I heard about that affair of hers at the time. It was a great pity.", "pos": 2938746}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How kind they all are. And this man too. What a fine, good-looking officer and how kind. Fancy bothering about such trifles now! And they actually say he is not honest and takes bribes. What nonsense! Besides, why shouldn’t he take bribes? That’s the way he was brought up, and everybody does it. But what a kind, pleasant face and how he smiles as he looks at me.", "pos": 2938990}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah, there he is! Let’s see what will come of it!", "pos": 2940315}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mary,", "pos": 2941880}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "So you are going to Petersburg tomorrow?", "pos": 2941981}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, I am not going. Yes... no... to Petersburg? Tomorrow—but I won’t say good-by yet. I will call round in case you have any commissions for me,", "pos": 2942035}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes. Yes, I wanted to tell you,", "pos": 2942843}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Princess, help me! What am I to do? Can I hope? Princess, my dear friend, listen! I know it all. I know I am not worthy of her, I know it’s impossible to speak of it now. But I want to be a brother to her. No, not that, I don’t, I can’t... Well. I don’t know when I began to love her, but I have loved her and her alone all my life, and I love her so that I cannot imagine life without her. I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible. Tell me, can I hope? Tell me what I am to do, dear princess!", "pos": 2942922}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I am thinking of what you have told me. This is what I will say. You are right that to speak to her of love at present... To speak to her now wouldn’t do,", "pos": 2943740}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But what am I to do?", "pos": 2944236}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Leave it to me. I know...", "pos": 2944259}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well?... Well?...", "pos": 2944355}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I know that she loves... will love you,", "pos": 2944384}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What makes you think so? You think I may hope? You think...?", "pos": 2944569}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, I think so. Write to her parents, and leave it to me. I will tell her when I can. I wish it to happen and my heart tells me it will.", "pos": 2944632}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, it cannot be! How happy I am! But it can’t be.... How happy I am! No, it can’t be!", "pos": 2944807}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Go to Petersburg, that will be best. And I will write to you,", "pos": 2944951}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "To Petersburg? Go there? Very well, I’ll go. But I may come again tomorrow?", "pos": 2945025}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Good-by, Count. I shall look forward very much to your return,", "pos": 2945822}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Wasn’t it all a dream? Isn’t Princess Mary mistaken? Am I not too conceited and self-confident? I believe all this—and suddenly Princess Mary will tell her, and she will be sure to smile and say: ‘How strange! He must be deluding himself. Doesn’t he know that he is a man, just a man, while I...? I am something altogether different and higher.’", "pos": 2947019}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I may have appeared strange and queer then,", "pos": 2949867}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "He looks just, yes, just as if he had come out of a Russian bath—in a short coat and with his hair cropped,", "pos": 2950533}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "He has spoken? Yes? He has spoken? I wanted to listen at the door, but I knew you would tell me. To Petersburg! Mary, tell me what I should do! I am afraid of being bad. Whatever you tell me, I will do. Tell me....", "pos": 2952077}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You love him?", "pos": 2953031}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 2953047}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Then why are you crying? I am happy for your sake,", "pos": 2953073}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "It won’t be just yet—someday. Think what fun it will be when I am his wife and you marry Nicholas!", "pos": 2953202}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Natásha, I have asked you not to speak of that. Let us talk about you.", "pos": 2953303}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "But why go to Petersburg? But no, no, he must... Yes, Mary, He must....", "pos": 2953401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He ought to have acted in this way and in that way. In this case he did well and in that case badly. He behaved admirably at the beginning of his reign and during 1812, but acted badly by giving a constitution to Poland, forming the Holy Alliance, entrusting power to Arakchéev, favoring Golítsyn and mysticism, and afterwards Shishkóv and Photius. He also acted badly by concerning himself with the active army and disbanding the Semënov regiment.", "pos": 2955537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.", "pos": 2955986}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What do these reproaches mean?", "pos": 2956132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do not the very actions for which the historians praise Alexander I (the liberal attempts at the beginning of his reign, his struggle with Napoleon, the firmness he displayed in 1812 and the campaign of 1813) flow from the same sources—the circumstances of his birth, education, and life—that made his personality what it was and from which the actions for which they blame him (the Holy Alliance, the restoration of Poland, and the reaction of 1820 and later) also flowed?", "pos": 2956163}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In what does the substance of those reproaches lie?", "pos": 2956637}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It lies in the fact that an historic character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused upon him; a character exposed to those strongest of all influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power; a character who at every moment of his life felt a responsibility for all that was happening in Europe; and not a fictitious but a live character who like every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth—that this character—though not lacking in virtue (the historians do not accuse him of that)—had not the same conception of the welfare of humanity fifty years ago as a present-day professor who from his youth upwards has been occupied with learning: that is, with books and lectures and with taking notes from them.", "pos": 2956689}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But even if we assume that fifty years ago Alexander I was mistaken in his view of what was good for the people, we must inevitably assume that the historian who judges Alexander will also after the lapse of some time turn out to be mistaken in his view of what is good for humanity.", "pos": 2957554}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This assumption is all the more natural and inevitable because, watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.", "pos": 2957838}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what is more, we find at one and the same time quite contradictory views as to what is bad and what is good in history: some people regard giving a constitution to Poland and forming the Holy Alliance as praiseworthy in Alexander, while others regard it as blameworthy.", "pos": 2958107}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful, for it is impossible to say for what it was useful or harmful.", "pos": 2958381}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If that activity displeases somebody, this is only because it does not agree with his limited understanding of what is good.", "pos": 2958521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whether the preservation of my father’s house in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, or the freedom of Poland or the greatness of Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that besides these things the action of every historic character has other more general purposes inaccessible to me.", "pos": 2958646}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But let us assume that what is called science can harmonize all contradictions and possesses an unchanging standard of good and bad by which to try historic characters and events; let us say that Alexander could have done everything differently; let us say that with guidance from those who blame him and who profess to know the ultimate aim of the movement of humanity, he might have arranged matters according to the program his present accusers would have given him—of nationality, freedom, equality, and progress (these, I think, cover the ground).", "pos": 2959103}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let us assume that this program was possible and had then been formulated, and that Alexander had acted on it.", "pos": 2959656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What would then have become of the activity of all those who opposed the tendency that then prevailed in the government—an activity that in the opinion of the historians was good and beneficent?", "pos": 2959767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Their activity would not have existed: there would have been no life, there would have been nothing.", "pos": 2959962}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.", "pos": 2960063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If we assume as the historians do that great men lead humanity to the attainment of certain ends—the greatness of Russia or of France, the balance of power in Europe, the diffusion of the ideas of the Revolution, general progress, or anything else—then it is impossible to explain the facts of history without introducing the conceptions of chance and genius.", "pos": 2960164}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If the aim of the European wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century had been the aggrandizement of Russia, that aim might have been accomplished without all the preceding wars and without the invasion.", "pos": 2960524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If the aim was the aggrandizement of France, that might have been attained without the Revolution and without the Empire.", "pos": 2960733}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If the aim was the dissemination of ideas, the printing press could have accomplished that much better than warfare.", "pos": 2960855}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives.", "pos": 2960972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why did it happen in this and not in some other way?", "pos": 2961156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because it happened so!", "pos": 2961209}
{"speaker": "history", "text": "Chance created the situation; genius utilized it,", "pos": 2961234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But what is chance?", "pos": 2961299}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is genius?", "pos": 2961319}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined.", "pos": 2961335}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.", "pos": 2961436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance.", "pos": 2961507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius.", "pos": 2961632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To a herd of rams, the ram the herdsman drives each evening into a special enclosure to feed and that becomes twice as fat as the others must seem to be a genius.", "pos": 2961767}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And it must appear an astonishing conjunction of genius with a whole series of extraordinary chances that this ram, who instead of getting into the general fold every evening goes into a special enclosure where there are oats—that this very ram, swelling with fat, is killed for meat.", "pos": 2961930}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the rams need only cease to suppose that all that happens to them happens solely for the attainment of their sheepish aims; they need only admit that what happens to them may also have purposes beyond their ken, and they will at once perceive a unity and coherence in what happened to the ram that was fattened.", "pos": 2962215}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally, and will no longer need the conceptions of chance or genius.", "pos": 2962531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only by renouncing our claim to discern a purpose immediately intelligible to us, and admitting the ultimate purpose to be beyond our ken, may we discern the sequence of experiences in the lives of historic characters and perceive the cause of the effect they produce (incommensurable with ordinary human capabilities), and then the words chance and genius become superfluous.", "pos": 2962740}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We need only confess that we do not know the purpose of the European convulsions and that we know only the facts—that is, the murders, first in France, then in Italy, in Africa, in Prussia, in Austria, in Spain, and in Russia—and that the movements from the west to the east and from the east to the west form the essence and purpose of these events, and not only shall we have no need to see exceptional ability and genius in Napoleon and Alexander, but we shall be unable to consider them to be anything but like other men, and we shall not be obliged to have recourse to chance for an explanation of those small events which made these people what they were, but it will be clear that all those small events were inevitable.", "pos": 2963117}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "By discarding a claim to knowledge of the ultimate purpose, we shall clearly perceive that just as one cannot imagine a blossom or seed for any single plant better suited to it than those it produces, so it is impossible to imagine any two people more completely adapted down to the smallest detail for the purpose they had to fulfill, than Napoleon and Alexander with all their antecedents.", "pos": 2963845}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The fundamental and essential significance of the European events of the beginning of the nineteenth century lies in the movement of the mass of the European peoples from west to east and afterwards from east to west.", "pos": 2964249}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The commencement of that movement was the movement from west to east.", "pos": 2964467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For the peoples of the west to be able to make their warlike movement to Moscow it was necessary: (1) that they should form themselves into a military group of a size able to endure a collision with the warlike military group of the east, (2) that they should abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at their head a man who could justify to himself and to them the deceptions, robberies, and murders which would have to be committed during that movement.", "pos": 2964537}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And beginning with the French Revolution the old inadequately large group was destroyed, as well as the old habits and traditions, and step by step a group was formed of larger dimensions with new customs and traditions, and a man was produced who would stand at the head of the coming movement and bear the responsibility for all that had to be done.", "pos": 2965061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A man without convictions, without habits, without traditions, without a name, and not even a Frenchman, emerges—by what seem the strangest chances—from among all the seething French parties, and without joining any one of them is borne forward to a prominent position.", "pos": 2965413}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The ignorance of his colleagues, the weakness and insignificance of his opponents, the frankness of his falsehoods, and the dazzling and self-confident limitations of this man raise him to the head of the army.", "pos": 2965683}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The brilliant qualities of the soldiers of the army sent to Italy, his opponents’ reluctance to fight, and his own childish audacity and self-confidence secure him military fame.", "pos": 2965894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Innumerable so-called chances accompany him everywhere.", "pos": 2966073}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The disfavor into which he falls with the rulers of France turns to his advantage.", "pos": 2966129}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His attempts to avoid his predestined path are unsuccessful: he is not received into the Russian service, and the appointment he seeks in Turkey comes to nothing.", "pos": 2966212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "During the war in Italy he is several times on the verge of destruction and each time is saved in an unexpected manner.", "pos": 2966375}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Owing to various diplomatic considerations the Russian armies—just those which might have destroyed his prestige—do not appear upon the scene till he is no longer there.", "pos": 2966495}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On his return from Italy he finds the government in Paris in a process of dissolution in which all those who are in it are inevitably wiped out and destroyed.", "pos": 2966665}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And by chance an escape from this dangerous position presents itself in the form of an aimless and senseless expedition to Africa.", "pos": 2966824}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Again so-called chance accompanies him.", "pos": 2966955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Impregnable Malta surrenders without a shot; his most reckless schemes are crowned with success.", "pos": 2966995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The enemy’s fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it.", "pos": 2967092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In Africa a whole series of outrages are committed against the almost unarmed inhabitants.", "pos": 2967198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And the men who commit these crimes, especially their leader, assure themselves that this is admirable, this is glory—it resembles Caesar and Alexander the Great and is therefore good.", "pos": 2967289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This ideal of glory and grandeur—which consists not merely in considering nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime one commits, ascribing to it an incomprehensible supernatural significance—that ideal, destined to guide this man and his associates, had scope for its development in Africa.", "pos": 2967474}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whatever he does succeeds.", "pos": 2967789}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The plague does not touch him.", "pos": 2967816}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The cruelty of murdering prisoners is not imputed to him as a fault.", "pos": 2967847}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His childishly rash, uncalled-for, and ignoble departure from Africa, leaving his comrades in distress, is set down to his credit, and again the enemy’s fleet twice lets him slip past.", "pos": 2967916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When, intoxicated by the crimes he has committed so successfully, he reaches Paris, the dissolution of the republican government, which a year earlier might have ruined him, has reached its extreme limit, and his presence there now as a newcomer free from party entanglements can only serve to exalt him—and though he himself has no plan, he is quite ready for his new rôle.", "pos": 2968101}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He had no plan, he was afraid of everything, but the parties snatched at him and demanded his participation.", "pos": 2968476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He alone—with his ideal of glory and grandeur developed in Italy and Egypt, his insane self-adulation, his boldness in crime and frankness in lying—he alone could justify what had to be done.", "pos": 2968585}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is needed for the place that awaits him, and so almost apart from his will and despite his indecision, his lack of a plan, and all his mistakes, he is drawn into a conspiracy that aims at seizing power and the conspiracy is crowned with success.", "pos": 2968777}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is pushed into a meeting of the legislature.", "pos": 2969026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In alarm he wishes to flee, considering himself lost.", "pos": 2969074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He pretends to fall into a swoon and says senseless things that should have ruined him.", "pos": 2969128}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power.", "pos": 2969216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance, millions of chances, give him power, and all men as if by agreement co-operate to confirm that power.", "pos": 2969423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.", "pos": 2969533}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance puts the Duc d’Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him—thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might.", "pos": 2969776}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle.", "pos": 2969969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Chance and genius give him the victory at Austerlitz; and by chance all men, not only the French but all Europe—except England which does not take part in the events about to happen—despite their former horror and detestation of his crimes, now recognize his authority, the title he has given himself, and his ideal of grandeur and glory, which seems excellent and reasonable to them all.", "pos": 2970228}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing.", "pos": 2970617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In 1811 the group of people that had formed in France unites into one group with the peoples of Central Europe.", "pos": 2970798}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The strength of the justification of the man who stands at the head of the movement grows with the increased size of the group.", "pos": 2970910}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "During the ten-year preparatory period this man had formed relations with all the crowned heads of Europe.", "pos": 2971038}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur.", "pos": 2971145}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him.", "pos": 2971269}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The King of Prussia sends his wife to seek the great man’s mercy; the Emperor of Austria considers it a favor that this man receives a daughter of the Caesars into his bed; the Pope, the guardian of all that the nations hold sacred, utilizes religion for the aggrandizement of the great man.", "pos": 2971343}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is not Napoleon who prepares himself for the accomplishment of his role, so much as all those round him who prepare him to take on himself the whole responsibility for what is happening and has to happen.", "pos": 2971635}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.", "pos": 2971843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The most suitable fête the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstädt.", "pos": 2971981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not only is he great, but so are his ancestors, his brothers, his stepsons, and his brothers-in-law.", "pos": 2972075}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Everything is done to deprive him of the remains of his reason and to prepare him for his terrible part.", "pos": 2972176}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And when he is ready so too are the forces.", "pos": 2972281}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The invasion pushes eastward and reaches its final goal—Moscow.", "pos": 2972325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram.", "pos": 2972389}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But suddenly instead of those chances and that genius which hitherto had so consistently led him by an uninterrupted series of successes to the predestined goal, an innumerable sequence of inverse chances occur—from the cold in his head at Borodinó to the sparks which set Moscow on fire, and the frosts—and instead of genius, stupidity and immeasurable baseness become evident.", "pos": 2972532}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him.", "pos": 2972911}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east.", "pos": 2973022}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Attempted drives from east to west—similar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809—precede the great westward movement; there is the same coalescence into a group of enormous dimensions; the same adhesion of the people of Central Europe to the movement; the same hesitation midway, and the same increasing rapidity as the goal is approached.", "pos": 2973154}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached.", "pos": 2973506}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Napoleonic government and army are destroyed.", "pos": 2973544}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs.", "pos": 2973594}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The allies detest Napoleon whom they regard as the cause of their sufferings.", "pos": 2973729}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Deprived of power and authority, his crimes and his craft exposed, he should have appeared to them what he appeared ten years previously and one year later—an outlawed brigand.", "pos": 2973807}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But by some strange chance no one perceives this.", "pos": 2973984}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His part is not yet ended.", "pos": 2974034}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The man who ten years before and a year later was considered an outlawed brigand is sent to an island two days’ sail from France, which for some reason is presented to him as his dominion, and guards are given to him and millions of money are paid him.", "pos": 2974061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels.", "pos": 2974325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate.", "pos": 2974390}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "See what you believed in! This is he! Do you now see that it was not he but I who moved you?", "pos": 2976010}
{"speaker": "Alexander I", "text": "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy Name!... I too am a man like the rest of you. Let me live like a man and think of my soul and of God.", "pos": 2977993}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, whatever he may have been he was a most worthy man. You don’t meet such men nowadays.... And which of us has not weaknesses of his own?", "pos": 2981638}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I never expected anything else of him,", "pos": 2986986}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why does she come prowling here? What does she want? I can’t bear these ladies and all these civilities!", "pos": 2988078}
{"speaker": "Sonya", "text": "Oh, Nicholas, how can you talk like that? She is so kind and Mamma is so fond of her!", "pos": 2988308}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "She is a very admirable and excellent young woman, and you must go and call on her. You would at least be seeing somebody, and I think it must be dull for you only seeing us.", "pos": 2988861}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But I don’t in the least want to, Mamma.", "pos": 2989050}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "You used to want to, and now you don’t. Really I don’t understand you, my dear. One day you are dull, and the next you refuse to see anyone.", "pos": 2989093}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But I never said I was dull.", "pos": 2989236}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Why, you said yourself you don’t want even to see her. She is a very admirable young woman and you always liked her, but now suddenly you have got some notion or other in your head. You hide everything from me.", "pos": 2989267}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not at all, Mamma.", "pos": 2989480}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "If I were asking you to do something disagreeable now—but I only ask you to return a call. One would think mere politeness required it.... Well, I have asked you, and now I won’t interfere any more since you have secrets from your mother.", "pos": 2989501}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, then, I’ll go if you wish it.", "pos": 2989742}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "It doesn’t matter to me. I only wish it for your sake.", "pos": 2989780}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I expected nothing else. I have nothing to do with him and I only wanted to see the old lady, who was always kind to me and to whom I am under many obligations.", "pos": 2990237}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Good-by, Princess!", "pos": 2992539}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Oh, I beg your pardon. Are you going already, Count? Well then, good-by! Oh, but the cushion for the countess!", "pos": 2992610}
{"speaker": "Mademoiselle Bourienne", "text": "Wait a moment, I’ll fetch it,", "pos": 2992751}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, Princess, it doesn’t seem long ago since we first met at Boguchárovo, but how much water has flowed since then! In what distress we all seemed to be then, yet I would give much to bring back that time... but there’s no bringing it back.", "pos": 2992899}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, yes, but you have no reason to regret the past, Count. As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now...", "pos": 2993379}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I cannot accept your praise. On the contrary I continually reproach myself.... But this is not at all an interesting or cheerful subject.", "pos": 2993589}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I thought you would allow me to tell you this. I had come so near to you... and to all your family that I thought you would not consider my sympathy misplaced, but I was mistaken. I don’t know why, but you used to be different, and...", "pos": 2993934}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "There are a thousand reasons why. Thank you, Princess. Sometimes it is hard.", "pos": 2994255}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "So that’s why! That’s why! No, it was not only that gay, kind, and frank look, not only that handsome exterior, that I loved in him. I divined his noble, resolute, self-sacrificing spirit too. Yes, he is poor now and I am rich.... Yes, that’s the only reason.... Yes, were it not for that... But why, Count, why? Why? Tell me. You must tell me! I don’t understand your why, Count, but it’s hard for me... I confess it. For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. And that hurts me. I have had so little happiness in life that every loss is hard for me to bear.... Excuse me, good-by!", "pos": 2994391}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Princess, for God’s sake! Princess!", "pos": 2995404}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What can one do with our Russian peasants?", "pos": 2999676}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, one more day and my grain and the peasants’ will all be under cover.", "pos": 3001161}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Not in the least; it never entered my head and I wouldn’t do that for their good! That’s all poetry and old wives’ talk—all that doing good to one’s neighbor! What I want is that our children should not have to go begging. I must put our affairs in order while I am alive, that’s all. And to do that, order and strictness are essential.... That’s all about it! And fairness, of course, for if the peasant is naked and hungry and has only one miserable horse, he can do no good either for himself or for me.", "pos": 3001825}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He was a master... the peasants’ affairs first and then his own. Of course he was not to be trifled with either—in a word, he was a real master!", "pos": 3002718}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Such an insolent scoundrel! If he had told me he was drunk and did not see... But what is the matter with you, Mary? Why, whatever is the matter, my dearest?", "pos": 3003872}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Nicholas, I saw it... he was to blame, but why do you... Nicholas!", "pos": 3004522}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Mary, it will never happen again; I give you my word. Never,", "pos": 3005158}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Nicholas, when did you break your cameo?", "pos": 3005412}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Today—it was the same affair. Oh, Mary, don’t remind me of it! I give you my word of honor it shan’t occur again, and let this always be a reminder to me. Mary, you must despise me! I deserve it.", "pos": 3005566}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You should go, go away at once, if you don’t feel strong enough to control yourself,", "pos": 3006263}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You know, you have read the Gospels a great deal—there is a passage in them that just fits Sónya.", "pos": 3008284}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "What?", "pos": 3008400}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "'To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away.’ You remember? She is one that hath not; why, I don’t know. Perhaps she lacks egotism, I don’t know, but from her is taken away, and everything has been taken away. Sometimes I am dreadfully sorry for her. Formerly I very much wanted Nicholas to marry her, but I always had a sort of presentiment that it would not come off. She is a sterile flower, you know—like some strawberry blossoms. Sometimes I am sorry for her, and sometimes I think she doesn’t feel it as you or I would.", "pos": 3008441}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Then I’m not mistaken. Why is he cross with me?", "pos": 3013268}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "You always have such strange fancies! I didn’t even think of being angry,", "pos": 3013809}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, messieurs et mesdames. I have been on my feet since six this morning. Tomorrow I shall have to suffer, so today I’ll go and rest.", "pos": 3014444}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "That’s always the way. He talks to everyone except me. I see... I see that I am repulsive to him, especially when I am in this condition.", "pos": 3014795}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Perhaps he is not asleep; I’ll have an explanation with him,", "pos": 3015752}
{"speaker": "Sónya", "text": "Mary, dear, I think he is asleep—he was so tired. Andrew may wake him.", "pos": 3015937}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I can’t get a moment’s peace.... Mary, is that you? Why did you bring him here?", "pos": 3017211}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I only came in to look and did not notice... forgive me....", "pos": 3017293}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Natásha, Natásha! Papa wants to sleep.", "pos": 3018000}
{"speaker": "little Natásha", "text": "No, Mamma, he doesn’t want to sleep. He’s laughing.", "pos": 3018098}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Come in, Mary,", "pos": 3018259}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I did not notice him following me. I just looked in.", "pos": 3018338}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "May I kiss Mamma?", "pos": 3018565}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Again!", "pos": 3018629}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I don’t know why you think I am cross,", "pos": 3018736}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You have no idea how unhappy, how lonely, I feel when you are like that. It always seems to me...", "pos": 3018849}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Mary, don’t talk nonsense. You ought to be ashamed of yourself!", "pos": 3018949}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "It seems to be that you can’t love me, that I am so plain... always... and now... in this cond...", "pos": 3019030}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Oh, how absurd you are! It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty. It is only Malvínas and women of that kind who are loved for their beauty. But do I love my wife? I don’t love her, but... I don’t know how to put it. Without you, or when something comes between us like this, I seem lost and can’t do anything. Now do I love my finger? I don’t love it, but just try to cut it off!", "pos": 3019130}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I’m not like that myself, but I understand. So you’re not angry with me?", "pos": 3019538}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Awfully angry! Do you know, Mary, what I’ve been thinking?", "pos": 3019613}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "You can see the woman in her already. You reproach us women with being illogical. Here is our logic. I say: ‘Papa wants to sleep!’ but she says, ‘No, he’s laughing.’ And she was right,", "pos": 3020200}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, yes.", "pos": 3020476}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "But you know you may be unfair. You are too fond of this one,", "pos": 3020733}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, but what am I to do?... I try not to show...", "pos": 3020827}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Somebody has come. I am sure it is Pierre. I will go and see. It is he, it is he, Nicholas! Now our Natásha has come to life. You should have seen her ecstasy, and how he caught it for having stayed away so long. Well, come along now, quick, quick! It’s time you two were parted. I should never, never have believed that one could be so happy,", "pos": 3021001}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Only she lets her love of her husband and children overflow all bounds, so that it even becomes absurd.", "pos": 3024776}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "It’s all nonsense, all rubbish—those discussions which lead to nothing and all those idiotic societies!", "pos": 3034764}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Has he come?", "pos": 3035931}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "He’s come, ma’am,", "pos": 3036036}
{"speaker": "the nurse", "text": "Go, ma’am! Don’t worry, go!", "pos": 3036653}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "He’s come!", "pos": 3037031}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, it’s all very well for you. You are pleased, you’ve had a good time.... But what about me? You might at least have shown consideration for the children. I am nursing and my milk was spoiled.... Pétya was at death’s door. But you were enjoying yourself. Yes, enjoying...", "pos": 3037744}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I could not, on my honor. But how is Pétya?", "pos": 3038327}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "All right now. Come along! I wonder you’re not ashamed! If only you could see what I was like without you, how I suffered!", "pos": 3038373}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "You are well?", "pos": 3038498}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Come, come! And have you talked everything well over with Prince Theodore?", "pos": 3038514}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, capitally.", "pos": 3039052}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "You see, he holds it up. But how he did frighten me... You’ve seen the princess? Is it true she’s in love with that...", "pos": 3039070}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, just fancy...", "pos": 3039222}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "How sweet! Now, Nicholas. I can’t understand how it is you don’t see the charm of these delicious marvels.", "pos": 3039536}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I don’t and can’t. A lump of flesh. Come along, Pierre!", "pos": 3039742}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "And yet he’s such an affectionate father, but only after they are a year old or so...", "pos": 3039848}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Now, Pierre nurses them splendidly. He says his hand is just made for a baby’s seat. Just look!", "pos": 3039983}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Only not for this...", "pos": 3040097}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "What do you think of this?", "pos": 3045670}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "That’s for Belóva? Excellent! It was a ruble an arshin, I suppose? Too dear! How pleased the children will be and Mamma too! Only you need not have bought me this,", "pos": 3045909}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Adèle tempted me: she kept on telling me to buy it,", "pos": 3046299}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "When am I to wear it? When I take little Másha into society? Perhaps they will be fashionable again by then. Well, let’s go now.", "pos": 3046369}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "It seems a little warmer today, my dear,", "pos": 3048477}
{"speaker": "Belóva", "text": "Oh yes, they’ve come,", "pos": 3048563}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "O Lord! How stupid and deaf she is!", "pos": 3048613}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Memento mori,", "pos": 3050207}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "High time, my dear, high time! We were all weary of waiting for you. Well, thank God! It’s not the gift that’s precious, my dear, but that you give it to me, an old woman...", "pos": 3050673}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Thank you, my dear, you have cheered me up. But best of all you have brought yourself back—for I never saw anything like it, you ought to give your wife a scolding! What are we to do with her? She is like a mad woman when you are away. Doesn’t see anything, doesn’t remember anything. Look, Anna Timoféevna, see what a box for cards my son has brought us!", "pos": 3051550}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, and all this idiocy—Gossner and Tatáwinova? Is that weally still going on?", "pos": 3054824}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Going on? Why more than ever! The Bible Society is the whole government now!", "pos": 3054924}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "What is that, mon cher ami? What are you saying about the government? I don’t understand.", "pos": 3055023}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, you know, Maman. Prince Alexander Golítsyn has founded a society and in consequence has great influence, they say.", "pos": 3055225}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Arakchéev and Golítsyn, are now the whole government! And what a government! They see treason everywhere and are afraid of everything.", "pos": 3055431}
{"speaker": "Countess Rostóva", "text": "Well, and how is Prince Alexander to blame? He is a most estimable man. I used to meet him at Mary Antónovna’s. Nowadays everyone finds fault. A Gospel Society! Well, and what harm is there in that?", "pos": 3055600}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Finished, finished!", "pos": 3056198}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "That’s delightful music!", "pos": 3056381}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "It means that Anna Makárovna has finished her stocking,", "pos": 3056417}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Oh, I’ll go and see. You know, why I’m especially fond of that music? It is always the first thing that tells me all is well. When I was driving here today, the nearer I got to the house the more anxious I grew. As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrúsha’s peals of laughter and that meant that all was well.", "pos": 3056495}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I know! I know that feeling. But I mustn’t go there—those stockings are to be a surprise for me.", "pos": 3056867}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Come, Anna Makárovna, come here into the middle of the room and at the word of command, ‘One, two,’ and when I say ‘three’... You stand here, and you in my arms—well now! One, two!... three!", "pos": 3057061}
{"speaker": "Children", "text": "Two, two!", "pos": 3057399}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "No, Monsieur Dessalles, I will ask my aunt to let me stay. Ma tante, please let me stay,", "pos": 3057926}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "When you are here he can’t tear himself away,", "pos": 3058200}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I will bring him to you directly, Monsieur Dessalles. Good night! You and I haven’t seen anything of one another yet.... How like he is growing, Mary!", "pos": 3058258}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Like my father?", "pos": 3058544}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "One used to have to be a German—now one must dance with Tatáwinova and Madame Kwüdener, and wead Ecka’tshausen and the bwethwen. Oh, they should let that fine fellow Bonaparte loose—he’d knock all this nonsense out of them! Fancy giving the command of the Semënov wegiment to a fellow like that Schwa’tz!", "pos": 3059666}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What was it about?", "pos": 3060926}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Always the same thing. Everybody sees that things are going so badly that they cannot be allowed to go on so and that it is the duty of all decent men to counteract it as far as they can.", "pos": 3060963}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What can decent men do? What can be done?", "pos": 3061200}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why, this...", "pos": 3061284}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Come into my study,", "pos": 3061299}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "Well, what would you do?", "pos": 3061647}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Always some fantastic schemes,", "pos": 3061689}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why this, the position in Petersburg is this: the Emperor does not look into anything. He has abandoned himself altogether to this mysticism He seeks only for peace, and only these people sans foi ni loi * can give it him—people who recklessly hack at and strangle everything—Magnítski, Arakchéev, and tutti quanti.... You will agree that if you did not look after your estates yourself but only wanted a quiet life, the harsher your steward was the more readily your object might be attained,", "pos": 3061737}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, what does that lead up to?", "pos": 3062441}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Well, everything is going to ruin! Robbery in the law courts, in the army nothing but flogging, drilling, and Military Settlements; the people are tortured, enlightenment is suppressed. All that is young and honest is crushed! Everyone sees that this cannot go on. Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break. I told them just one thing in Petersburg. Told whom? Well, you know whom. Prince Theodore and all those. To encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent but in the present circumstances something else is needed.", "pos": 3062491}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Why are you here?", "pos": 3063356}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why? Let him be. That is not enough, I told them. Something else is needed. When you stand expecting the overstrained string to snap at any moment, when everyone is expecting the inevitable catastrophe, as many as possible must join hands as closely as they can to withstand the general calamity. Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved. One is lured by women, another by honors, a third by ambition or money, and they go over to that camp. No independent men, such as you or I, are left. What I say is widen the scope of our society, let the mot d’ordre be not virtue alone but independence and action as well!", "pos": 3063376}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "But action with what aim? And what position will you adopt toward the government?", "pos": 3064239}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why, the position of assistants. The society need not be secret if the government allows it. Not merely is it not hostile to government, but it is a society of true conservatives—a society of gentlemen in the full meaning of that word. It is only to prevent some Pugachëv or other from killing my children and yours, and Arakchéev from sending me off to some Military Settlement. We join hands only for the public welfare and the general safety.", "pos": 3064335}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, but it’s a secret society and therefore a hostile and harmful one which can only cause harm.", "pos": 3064782}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Why? Did the Tugendbund which saved Europe do any harm? The Tugendbund is an alliance of virtue: it is love, mutual help... it is what Christ preached on the Cross.", "pos": 3064882}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "It is not at all what you suppose; but that is what the German Tugendbund was, and what I am proposing.", "pos": 3065860}
{"speaker": "Denísov", "text": "No, my fwiend! The Tugendbund is all vewy well for the sausage eaters, but I don’t understand it and can’t even pwonounce it. I agwee that evewything here is wotten and howwible, but the Tugendbund I don’t understand. If we’re not satisfied, let us have a bunt of our own. That’s all wight. Je suis vot’e homme!", "pos": 3065966}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I will tell you this. I can’t prove it to you. You say that everything here is rotten and that an overthrow is coming: I don’t see it. But you also say that our oath of allegiance is a conditional matter, and to that I reply: ‘You are my best friend, as you know, but if you formed a secret society and began working against the government—be it what it may—I know it is my duty to obey the government. And if Arakchéev ordered me to lead a squadron against you and cut you down, I should not hesitate an instant, but should do it.’ And you may argue about that as you like!", "pos": 3066858}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Uncle Pierre, you... no... If Papa were alive... would he agree with you?", "pos": 3067974}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, I think so,", "pos": 3068354}
{"speaker": "Old Prince Bolkónski", "text": "Uncle, forgive me, I did that... unintentionally,", "pos": 3068559}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "All right, all right. You ought not to have been here at all,", "pos": 3068691}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What are you writing, Mary?", "pos": 3069388}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "A diary, Nicholas,", "pos": 3069705}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "A diary?", "pos": 3069808}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "What is a ‘ticket’?", "pos": 3070611}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "I have begun giving the elder ones marks every evening, showing how they have behaved.", "pos": 3070652}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "I quite, quite approve, my dearest! And I behaved badly today. You weren’t in the study. We began disputing—Pierre and I—and I lost my temper. But he is impossible: such a child! I don’t know what would become of him if Natásha didn’t keep him in hand.... Have you any idea why he went to Petersburg? They have formed...", "pos": 3072421}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, I know. Natásha told me.", "pos": 3072813}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, then, you know, he wanted to convince me that it is every honest man’s duty to go against the government, and that the oath of allegiance and duty... I am sorry you weren’t there. They all fell on me—Denísov and Natásha... Natásha is absurd. How she rules over him! And yet there need only be a discussion and she has no words of her own but only repeats his sayings...", "pos": 3072867}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Yes, I have noticed that,", "pos": 3073561}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "When I told him that duty and the oath were above everything, he started proving goodness knows what! A pity you were not there—what would you have said?", "pos": 3073609}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "As I see it you were quite right, and I told Natásha so. Pierre says everybody is suffering, tortured, and being corrupted, and that it is our duty to help our neighbor. Of course he is right there, but he forgets that we have other duties nearer to us, duties indicated to us by God Himself, and that though we might expose ourselves to risks we must not risk our children.", "pos": 3073765}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Yes, that’s it! That’s just what I said to him. But they insisted on their own view: love of one’s neighbor and Christianity—and all this in the presence of young Nicholas, who had gone into my study and broke all my things.", "pos": 3074164}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Ah, Nicholas, do you know I am often troubled about little Nicholas. He is such an exceptional boy. I am afraid I neglect him in favor of my own: we all have children and relations while he has no one. He is constantly alone with his thoughts.", "pos": 3074445}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well, I don’t think you need reproach yourself on his account. All that the fondest mother could do for her son you have done and are doing for him, and of course I am glad of it. He is a fine lad, a fine lad! This evening he listened to Pierre in a sort of trance, and fancy—as we were going in to supper I looked and he had broken everything on my table to bits, and he told me of it himself at once! I never knew him to tell an untruth. A fine lad, a fine lad!", "pos": 3074713}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "Still, I am not the same as his own mother. I feel I am not the same and it troubles me. A wonderful boy, but I am dreadfully afraid for him. It would be good for him to have companions.", "pos": 3075306}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "Well it won’t be for long. Next summer I’ll take him to Petersburg. Yes, Pierre always was a dreamer and always will be. Well, what business is it of mine what goes on there—whether Arakchéev is bad, and all that? What business was it of mine when I married and was so deep in debt that I was threatened with prison, and had a mother who could not see or understand it? And then there are you and the children and our affairs. Is it for my own pleasure that I am at the farm or in the office from morning to night? No, but I know I must work to comfort my mother, to repay you, and not to leave the children such beggars as I was. You know, Mary, today Elias Mitrofánych came back from the Tambóv estate and told me they are already offering eighty thousand rubles for the forest. Another ten years of life and I shall leave the children... in an excellent position.", "pos": 3075517}
{"speaker": "Princess Mary", "text": "O God! What will become of us if she dies, as I always fear when her face is like that?", "pos": 3078843}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Now you are all mine, mine! You won’t escape!", "pos": 3079839}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I have quite lost the knack of talking to ladies. It was simply dull. Besides, I was very busy.", "pos": 3081145}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Mary is so splendid. How she understands children! It is as if she saw straight into their souls. Yesterday, for instance, Mítya was naughty...", "pos": 3081298}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "How like his father he is,", "pos": 3081456}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Nicholas has the weakness of never agreeing with anything not generally accepted. But I understand that you value what opens up a fresh line,", "pos": 3081686}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, the chief point is that to Nicholas ideas and discussions are an amusement—almost a pastime. For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought—Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu. You know how much I...", "pos": 3081881}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "So you say ideas are an amusement to him....", "pos": 3082317}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes, and for me nothing else is serious. All the time in Petersburg I saw everyone as in a dream. When I am taken up by a thought, all else is mere amusement.", "pos": 3082364}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Ah, I’m so sorry I wasn’t there when you met the children. Which was most delighted? Lisa, I’m sure.", "pos": 3082524}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Yes. Nicholas says we ought not to think. But I can’t help it. Besides, when I was in Petersburg I felt (I can say this to you) that the whole affair would go to pieces without me—everyone was pulling his own way. But I succeeded in uniting them all; and then my idea is so clear and simple. You see, I don’t say that we ought to oppose this and that. We may be mistaken. What I say is: ‘Join hands, you who love the right, and let there be but one banner—that of active virtue.’ Prince Sergéy is a fine fellow and clever.", "pos": 3082643}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Can a man so important and necessary to society be also my husband? How did this happen? Now who could decide whether he is really cleverer than all the others? Do you know what I am thinking about? About Platón Karatáev. Would he have approved of you now, do you think?", "pos": 3083327}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Platón Karatáev? He would not have understood... yet perhaps he would.", "pos": 3083920}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I love you awfully! Awfully, awfully!", "pos": 3084095}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, he would not have approved. What he would have approved of is our family life. He was always so anxious to find seemliness, happiness, and peace in everything, and I should have been proud to let him see us. There now—you talk of my absence, but you wouldn’t believe what a special feeling I have for you after a separation....", "pos": 3084160}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes, I should think...", "pos": 3084527}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, it’s not that. I never leave off loving you. And one couldn’t love more, but this is something special.... Yes, of course—", "pos": 3084567}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "What nonsense it is, about honeymoons, and that the greatest happiness is at first! On the contrary, now is the best of all. If only you did not go away! Do you remember how we quarreled? And it was always my fault. Always mine. And what we quarreled about—I don’t even remember!", "pos": 3084756}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "Always about the same thing. Jealo...", "pos": 3085068}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Don’t say it! I can’t bear it! Did you see her?", "pos": 3085136}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No, and if I had I shouldn’t have recognized her.", "pos": 3085277}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh, do you know? While you were talking in the study I was looking at you. You are as like him as two peas—like the boy. Oh, it’s time to go to him.... The milk’s come.... But I’m sorry to leave you.", "pos": 3085359}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "No. What did you say? Go on, go on.", "pos": 3085952}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "No, you go on, I was talking nonsense,", "pos": 3085990}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "I only wished to say that ideas that have great results are always simple ones. My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same. Now that’s simple enough.", "pos": 3086289}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 3086507}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "And what were you going to say?", "pos": 3086514}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "I? Only nonsense.", "pos": 3086548}
{"speaker": "Pierre", "text": "But all the same?", "pos": 3086568}
{"speaker": "Natásha", "text": "Oh nothing, only a trifle. I only wanted to tell you about Pétya: today nurse was coming to take him from me, and he laughed, shut his eyes, and clung to me. I’m sure he thought he was hiding. Awfully sweet! There, now he’s crying. Well, good-by!", "pos": 3086588}
{"speaker": "Uncle Nicholas", "text": "Have you done this? I loved you, but I have orders from Arakchéev and will kill the first of you who moves forward.", "pos": 3087944}
{"speaker": "Dessalles", "text": "Are you ill?", "pos": 3089253}
{"speaker": "Nicholas", "text": "No,", "pos": 3089302}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Writers of universal history who deal with all the nations seem to recognize how erroneous is the specialist historians’ view of the force which produces events.", "pos": 3101369}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They do not recognize it as a power inherent in heroes and rulers, but as the resultant of a multiplicity of variously directed forces.", "pos": 3101531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In describing a war or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event.", "pos": 3101667}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age produced Napoleon’s power.", "pos": 3102756}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But Napoleon’s power suppressed the ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age.", "pos": 3102845}
{"speaker": "Peasants", "text": "The wind has blown the clouds away. The wind has brought up the clouds.", "pos": 3105233}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "What moves it?", "pos": 3109853}
{"speaker": "A peasant", "text": "The devil moves it.", "pos": 3109884}
{"speaker": "Another man", "text": "The locomotive moves because its wheels go round.", "pos": 3109921}
{"speaker": "A third", "text": "The cause of its movement lies in the smoke which the wind carries away.", "pos": 3109992}
{"speaker": "mass of readers", "text": "serious reading.", "pos": 3114797}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What is this power of one man over others?", "pos": 3115860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers.", "pos": 3117061}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If power be the collective will of the people transferred to their ruler, was Pugachëv a representative of the will of the people?", "pos": 3118019}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If not, then why was Napoleon I?", "pos": 3118150}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why was Napoleon III a criminal when he was taken prisoner at Boulogne, and why, later on, were those criminals whom he arrested?", "pos": 3118183}
{"speaker": "First Class Historians", "text": "The herd goes in that direction because the animal in front leads it and the collective will of all the other animals is vested in that leader.", "pos": 3130034}
{"speaker": "Second Class Historians", "text": "If the animals leading the herd change, this happens because the collective will of all the animals is transferred from one leader to another, according to whether the animal is or is not leading them in the direction selected by the whole herd.", "pos": 3130297}
{"speaker": "Third Class Historians", "text": "If the animals in front are continually changing and the direction of the whole herd is constantly altered, this is because in order to follow a given direction the animals transfer their will to the animals that have attracted our attention, and to study the movements of the herd we must watch the movements of all the prominent animals moving on all sides of the herd.", "pos": 3130945}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To understand in what this dependence consists it is necessary to reinstate another omitted condition of every command proceeding not from the Deity but from a man, which is, that the man who gives the command himself takes part in the event.", "pos": 3139254}
{"speaker": "man", "text": "I am free and am therefore not subject to the law.", "pos": 3150759}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall.", "pos": 3153227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They say and write and print that the soul and freedom do not exist, for the life of man is expressed by muscular movements and muscular movements are conditioned by the activity of the nerves; the soul and free will do not exist because at an unknown period of time we sprang from the apes.", "pos": 3157770}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "(1) However we may increase our knowledge of the conditions of space", "pos": 3176605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "(2) However we may prolong the period of time between the action we are examining and the judgment upon it,", "pos": 3176968}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "(3) However accessible may be the chain of causation of any action,", "pos": 3177198}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Reason says: (1) space with all the forms of matter that give it visibility is infinite, and cannot be imagined otherwise. (2) Time is infinite motion without a moment of rest and is unthinkable otherwise. (3) The connection between cause and effect has no beginning and can have no end.", "pos": 3178974}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Consciousness says: (1) I alone am, and all that exists is but me, consequently I include space. (2) I measure flowing time by the fixed moment of the present in which alone I am conscious of myself as living, consequently I am outside time. (3) I am beyond cause, for I feel myself to be the cause of every manifestation of my life.", "pos": 3179262}