Breaking his promise, after leaving Andrew Pierre goes directly to the Kurágin’s.
Summary:
Pierre goes directly to the Kurágin’s, despite just having promised Andrew he would reform. As expected, when he gets there, he finds Dólokhov, Anatole Kurágin and other friends drinking. It’s a chaotic party. Pierre begins to drink quickly to catch up with his friends. Dólokhov has made a bet with an Englishman to drink a whole bottle of rum while sitting on the windowsill. They have a bear there in the room for some reason. Dólokhov wins his dangerous drinking bet, and then Pierre wants to try it. His friends think Pierre will fall out the window and kill himself if he tries to repeat Dólokhov’s dangerous stunt, so to distract him they all decide to leave to visit some actresses. They will take the bear along.
quote from the chapter:
Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of the third floor window with his legs hanging out.
Book 1, Chapter 9
Breaking his promise, after leaving Andrew Pierre goes directly to the Kurágin’s.
Summary:
Pierre goes directly to the Kurágin’s, despite just having promised Andrew he would reform. As expected, when he gets there, he finds Dólokhov, Anatole Kurágin and other friends drinking. It’s a chaotic party. Pierre begins to drink quickly to catch up with his friends. Dólokhov has made a bet with an Englishman to drink a whole bottle of rum while sitting on the windowsill. They have a bear there in the room for some reason. Dólokhov wins his dangerous drinking bet, and then Pierre wants to try it. His friends think Pierre will fall out the window and kill himself if he tries to repeat Dólokhov’s dangerous stunt, so to distract him they all decide to leave to visit some actresses. They will take the bear along.
quote from the chapter:
Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of the third floor window with his legs hanging out.
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