War and Peace
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Chapter I
‘Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just familyestates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’ttell me that this means war, if you still try to defend theinfamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist - Ireally believe he is Antichrist - I will have nothing moreto do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longermy ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do youdo? I see I have frightened you - sit down and tell me allthe news.’It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor andfavorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With thesewords she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of highrank and importance, who was the first to arrive at herreception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days.She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippebeing then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by theelite.All her invitations without exception, written inFrench, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman thatmorning, ran as follows:
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