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FUR COATS : her that summer for the first time with cruel clearness. She tried to get Nicholas back and wished to go herself to join Petya, or to get him an appointment somewhere in Petersburg, but neither of these proved possible. Petya could not fur coats unless his regiment did so or unless he was transferred to another regiment on active fur coats Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess fur coats The fur coats did not sleep at night, or when she did fall asleep dreamed that she saw her sons lying dead. After many consultations and conversations, the count at last devised means to tranquillize her. He got Petya transferred from Obolenski's regiment to Bezukhov's, which fur coats in training near Moscow. Though
FUR COATS : Petya would remain in the service, this transfer would give the countess the consolation fur coats seeing at least one fur coats her sons under her wing, fur coats she hoped to arrange matters for her Petya so as not to let him go again, but always get him appointed to places where he could not possibly take part in a battle. As long as Nicholas alone was in danger the countess imagined that she loved her first-born more than all her other children and even reproached herself for it; but when her youngest: the scapegrace who had been bad at lessons, was always breaking things in the house fur coats making himself a nuisance to everybody, that fur coats Petya with his merry black eyes and fresh rosy cheeks where soft down was just beginning to show- when he was thrown amid those big,
FUR COATS : dreadful, cruel men who were fighting somewhere about fur coats and apparently finding pleasure in it- then his mother thought she loved him more, much more, than all her other children. The nearer the time came for Petya to return, the more uneasy grew the countess. She began to think she would never live to see such happiness. The presence of Sonya, of her beloved Natasha, or even of her husband irritated her. fur coats do I want with them? I want no one but Petya," she thought. At the end of August the Rostovs received another letter from Nicholas. He wrote from the province of Voronezh where he fur coats been sent to procure remounts, fur coats that letter did not set the countess at ease. Knowing that one son was out of fur coats she became the more anxious about Petya. Though by
FUR COATS : the twentieth of fur coats nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not bear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. On the twenty-eighth of August he arrived. The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer. Though she concealed from him her intention of keeping fur coats under her wing, Petya guessed fur coats designs, and fur coats fearing that he might give way to emotion when with her- might "become womanish" as he termed it to himself- he treated her coldly, fur coats her, and during his stay in Moscow attached himself exclusively to Natasha for whom he had always had a particularly brotherly tenderness, almost lover-like. Owing to the count's customary carelessness nothing was ready for
FUR COATS : their departure by the twenty-eighth of August and the carts that were to come from their Ryazan and Moscow estates to remove their household belongings did not arrive till the thirtieth. From the twenty-eighth till the thirty-first all Moscow was in a bustle and commotion. Every fur coats thousands of fur coats wounded at Borodino were brought in by the Dorogomilov gate and taken fur coats various parts fur coats fur coats and thousands of carts conveyed the inhabitants and their possessions out by the other gates. In spite of Rostopchin's broadsheets, or because of them or independently of them, the strangest and most contradictory rumors were current in the town. Some said that no one was to be allowed to leave the city, others on the contrary said that all the icons had been taken out of the churches and everybody was to be
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