Book: War and peace. Page 2

The movement of humanity, arising from countless human proizvoly, is performed continuously.

"Less fear, less news, - was stated in the poster, but I life answer is that the villain in Moscow will not." These words the first time made it clear to Pierre that the French are in Moscow.

In the mechanism of the state organism needs these people as wolves in the organism of nature, and they are always there, are always kept, no matter how incongruous it seems their presence and proximity to the head of the government. Only this necessity can explain how could a brutal, personally Federasi grenadiers mustache and not refused by the weakness of the nerve-transference, uneducated, nepridumannye Arakcheev to stay in power when chivalrous, noble, and gentle nature of Alexander.

In historic events the so-called great men and women are labels giving the name of the event, which, like labels, have the least connection with the event. Every action of their, apparent arbitrary for themselves, in the historical sense involuntary and is related with all the course of history and determined eternally.

Her face, from the time Rostov entered, was suddenly transformed. Suddenly with unexpected beauty is on the walls painted and carved lantern the complex and skilled work of art that had seemed before rough, dark and meaningless, when the light comes on inside: so suddenly changed the face of Princess Marya. For the first time all that pure, spiritual inner work, where she has lived until now, spoke out. All her internal, dissatisfied with a job, her suffering, kindness, obedience, love, sacrifice - all this now shone in those radiant eyes, subtle smile, in every trait of her gentle face.

She didn't know it, would not have believed, but under her seemingly impermeable layer of silt, zaslavsk her soul, has already broken through the thin, tender young needles of grass that had rooted and so to make their life shoots asking her sorrow that it will soon be not visible and not noticeable. The wound healed from the inside out.

He looked at her, serious and strange expression on her face startled him. Her face said: "Why ask? Why doubt what it's impossible not to know? Why speak, when words cannot do Express what I'm feeling?"

The exhibition still stand by, like a fly on the face of a dear dead man, sat the old man and knocked the Shoe of bast, and two girls with plums in skirts, which they picked from the hothouse trees, ran out and stumbled upon Prince Andrew. Seeing the young master, the elder girl, expressed in a face with fright, grabbed his smaller friend and with her hid behind a birch tree, not having to pick up scattered green plums.

Gathered the clouds and began to rain on the dead, the wounded, on the frightened, and exhausted, and doubting people. Like he said, "enough, enough, people. Come On... Come To Your Senses. What are you doing?"

If anyone from the awkward silence, so to speak, and I do not want.

Oh, don't talk to me about Austria! I don't understand, maybe, but Austria has never wanted and does not want war. She betrayed us. Russia alone must be the Savior of Europe. Our benefactor knows his high vocation and will be true to him. Here is one that I believe in. Our good and miraculous Emperor will have the greatest role in the world, and he is so virtuous and good that God will not forsake him, and he will fulfill his vocation to crush the Hydra of revolution, which is now even worse in the person of this murderer and villain. We alone must atone for the blood of the righteous. In whom we hope, I ask you?.. England with her commercial spirit will not understand and can not understand the soul of the Emperor Alexander. She refused to clean up Malta. She wants to see, looking back the thought of our actions. What they said Novoseltseva? Nothing. They did not understand they could not understand self-sacrifice of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, and all he wants for the good of the world. And what they promised? Nothing. And what is promised, and not to be! Prussia has already declared that Bonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe can do nothing against him...

I do not understand, really do not understand why men can't live without war?

"No," he said, more and more obsesses, Napoleon is great because he is above the revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserving all that is good and the equality of citizens and freedom of speech and press, and only because I got the power.

But influence in the world is capital, which should be protected, that he has not disappeared. Prince Vasili knew this, and, once realizing that if he was to ask for everyone who asks him, soon he would not ask for himself, he rarely used his influence.