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1701-141759-0000 IT WAS LONG SINCE THE ROSTOVS HAD NEWS OF NICHOLAS |
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1701-141759-0001 NOT TILL MIDWINTER WAS THE COUNT AT LAST HANDED A LETTER ADDRESSED IN HIS SON'S HANDWRITING |
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1701-141759-0002 ON RECEIVING IT HE RAN ON TIPTOE TO HIS STUDY IN ALARM AND HASTE TRYING TO ESCAPE NOTICE CLOSED THE DOOR AND BEGAN TO READ THE LETTER |
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1701-141759-0003 EACH TIME THAT THESE HINTS BEGAN TO MAKE THE COUNTESS ANXIOUS AND SHE GLANCED UNEASILY AT THE COUNT AND AT ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA THE LATTER VERY ADROITLY TURNED THE CONVERSATION TO INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS |
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1701-141759-0004 BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE BE CAREFUL YOU KNOW HOW IT MAY AFFECT YOUR MAMMA |
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1701-141759-0005 NO ON MY TRUE WORD OF HONOR SAID NATASHA CROSSING HERSELF I WON'T TELL ANYONE |
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1701-141759-0006 AND SHE RAN OFF AT ONCE TO SONYA |
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1701-141759-0007 SHE RUSHED TO SONYA HUGGED HER AND BEGAN TO CRY |
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1701-141759-0008 IT'S TRUE THAT ALL YOU WOMEN ARE CRYBABIES REMARKED PETYA PACING THE ROOM WITH LARGE RESOLUTE STRIDES |
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1701-141759-0009 YOU ARE ALL BLUBBERERS AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING |
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1701-141759-0010 NATASHA SMILED THROUGH HER TEARS |
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1701-141759-0011 WHAT NASTY BRUTES THEY ARE |
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1701-141759-0012 HOLD YOUR TONGUE PETYA WHAT A GOOSE YOU ARE |
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1701-141759-0013 SONYA SMILED DO I REMEMBER NICHOLAS |
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1701-141759-0014 I REMEMBER NIKOLENKA TOO I REMEMBER HIM WELL SHE SAID |
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1701-141759-0015 NO SHE SHUT HER EYES |
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1701-141759-0016 SHE FELT THAT SONYA WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH THAT THERE WAS SUCH LOVE AS SONYA WAS SPEAKING OF |
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1701-141759-0017 SHE BELIEVED IT COULD BE BUT DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT |
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1701-141759-0018 SHALL YOU WRITE TO HIM SHE ASKED |
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1701-141759-0019 NOW THAT HE WAS ALREADY AN OFFICER AND A WOUNDED HERO WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO REMIND HIM OF HERSELF AND AS IT MIGHT SEEM OF THE OBLIGATIONS TO HER HE HAD TAKEN ON HIMSELF |
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1701-141759-0020 I DON'T KNOW |
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1701-141759-0021 SONYA SMILED NO |
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1701-141759-0022 IT'S BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH THAT FAT ONE IN SPECTACLES THAT WAS HOW PETYA DESCRIBED HIS NAMESAKE THE NEW COUNT BEZUKHOV AND NOW SHE'S IN LOVE WITH THAT SINGER HE MEANT NATASHA'S ITALIAN SINGING MASTER THAT'S WHY SHE'S ASHAMED |
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1701-141759-0023 PETYA YOU'RE A STUPID SAID NATASHA |
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1701-141759-0024 THE COUNTESS HAD BEEN PREPARED BY ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S HINTS AT DINNER |
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1701-141759-0025 ON RETIRING TO HER OWN ROOM SHE SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR HER EYES FIXED ON A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HER SON ON THE LID OF A SNUFFBOX WHILE THE TEARS KEPT COMING INTO HER EYES |
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1701-141759-0026 THE COUNT PUT HIS EAR TO THE KEYHOLE AND LISTENED |
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1701-141759-0027 AT FIRST HE HEARD THE SOUND OF INDIFFERENT VOICES THEN ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S VOICE ALONE IN A LONG SPEECH THEN A CRY THEN SILENCE THEN BOTH VOICES TOGETHER WITH GLAD INTONATIONS AND THEN FOOTSTEPS |
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1701-141759-0028 ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA OPENED THE DOOR |
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1701-141759-0029 WHEN SHE HEARD THIS SONYA BLUSHED SO THAT TEARS CAME INTO HER EYES AND UNABLE TO BEAR THE LOOKS TURNED UPON HER RAN AWAY INTO THE DANCING HALL WHIRLED ROUND IT AT FULL SPEED WITH HER DRESS PUFFED OUT LIKE A BALLOON AND FLUSHED AND SMILING PLUMPED DOWN ON THE FLOOR |
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1701-141759-0030 THE COUNTESS WAS CRYING |
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1701-141759-0031 FROM ALL HE SAYS ONE SHOULD BE GLAD AND NOT CRY |
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1701-141759-0032 HOW CHARMINGLY HE DESCRIBES SAID SHE READING THE DESCRIPTIVE PART OF THE LETTER AND WHAT A SOUL |
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1701-141759-0033 I ALWAYS SAID WHEN HE WAS ONLY SO HIGH I ALWAYS SAID |
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