Anna Mikháylovna struggles with the Princess and prevents her from removing a portfolio believed to contain the Count’s latest will.
Anna Mikháylovna struggles with the Princess and prevents her from removing a portfolio believed to contain the Count’s latest will.
Book 1, Chapter 24
Anna Mikháylovna struggles with the Princess and prevents her from removing a portfolio believed to contain the Count’s latest will.
Summary:
Everyone in Count Bezúkhov’s house is waiting outside his bedroom. He is expected to die very soon. His niece Catherine has gone into the Count’s bedroom and removed the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow. This portfolio is believed to contain a will the Count made last Winter leaving his entire fortune to Pierre. When Anna Mikháylovna sees her leaving with the portfolio, she rushes up and tries to take it away from the Princess. Anna Mikháylovna and Catherine struggle over the portfolio, each refusing to let go. Count Vasíli manages to get them both to let go of the portfolio, and he takes it. They all go back into the sick room. Soon after this, the Count dies. Although the will has not yet been opened, Anna believes that thanks to her Pierre will inherit his fathers fortune. Now that Pierre is rich, Anna hopes he will help her son Borís.
quote from the chapter:
“I don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasili and pointing to an inlaid portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten….”
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Here also I’d change daughter to niece.
Thank you very much for the correction! I changed to previous text “His daughter Catherine” to now read “His niece Catherine”