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Visit the site to download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 United States License.   \nBOOK ONE: 1805  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 3  \nChapter I  \n‘Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates ofthe 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 AntichristI really believe he is AntichristI 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 yousit down and tell me all the news.’  \nIt was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.  \nAll her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows:  \n‘If you have nothing better to do, Count [or Prince], and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid isnot too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10Annette Scherer.’  \n‘Heavens! what a virulent attack!’ replied the prince, 4 War and Peace  \nnot in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa.  \n‘First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s mind at rest,’ said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.  \n‘Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one becalm in times like these if one has any feeling?’ said Anna Pavlovna. ‘You are staying the whole evening, I hope?’  \n‘And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I must put in an appearance there,’ said the prince. ‘My daughter is coming for me to take me there.’  \n‘I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.’  \n‘If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off,’ said the prince, who, like a woundup clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed.  \n‘Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.’  \n‘What can one say about it?’ replied the prince in a cold,  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 5  \nlistless tone.‘What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that weare ready to burn ours.’  \nPrince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her. 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