We meet Véra Rostóv; Princess Anna talks with the Countess Rostóv.
Summary:
After receiving her last visitors, the Countess Rostóv talks with her old friend, Princess Anna Mikháylovna. The Countess asks her eldest daughter, Véra, to leave the drawing room. In the sitting room Véra notices two couples sitting, one pair at each window. Véra exchanges some mild barbs with the young people. Meanwhile, in the drawing room, the Countess congratulates Anna for successfully securing a place as an officer in the Guards for her son Borís, while her son Nicholas is only going as a cadet. Anna credits Prince Vasíli’s assistance for this. Anna then leaves to visit Bezúkhov, hoping to receive the money Borís needs for his army equipment.
quote from the chapter:
If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone, she replied as she rose to go to her own room.
But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at Véra with guilty, happy faces.
It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra.
Book 1, Chapter 14
We meet Véra Rostóv; Princess Anna talks with the Countess Rostóv.
Summary:
After receiving her last visitors, the Countess Rostóv talks with her old friend, Princess Anna Mikháylovna. The Countess asks her eldest daughter, Véra, to leave the drawing room. In the sitting room Véra notices two couples sitting, one pair at each window. Véra exchanges some mild barbs with the young people. Meanwhile, in the drawing room, the Countess congratulates Anna for successfully securing a place as an officer in the Guards for her son Borís, while her son Nicholas is only going as a cadet. Anna credits Prince Vasíli’s assistance for this. Anna then leaves to visit Bezúkhov, hoping to receive the money Borís needs for his army equipment.
quote from the chapter:
If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone, she replied as she rose to go to her own room.
But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at Véra with guilty, happy faces.
It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra.
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