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There are three thousand souls of them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic.

　　Neither judge nor bailiff is known there.

　　The mayor does everything.

　　He allots the imposts, taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras:

　　"Do you know how they manage?" he said.

　　"Since a little country of a dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have school-masters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and instruct them.

　　These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there.

　　They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord of their hat.

　　Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, and Latin have three pens.

　　But what a disgrace to be ignorant!

　　Do like the people of Queyras!"

　　Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.

　　And being convinced himself, he was persuasive.

BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN

CHAPTER IV

　　WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS

　　 His conversation was gay and affable.

　　He put himself on a level with the two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, it was the laugh of a schoolboy.

　　Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Grace [Votre Grandeur]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper shelves.

　　As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it.

　　"Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair.

　　My greatness [grandeur] does not reach as far as that shelf."

　　One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lo, rarely allowed an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons were the natural heirs.

　　The youngest of the three was to receive from a grand-aunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to succeed to the peerage of his grandfather.

　　The Bishop was accustomed to listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts.

　　On one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, while Madame de Lo was relating once again the details of all these inheritances and all these "expectations."

　　She interrupted herself impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin!

Some of the citizens were laughing around him.

BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN

CHAPTER III

　　A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP

　　 The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.

　　The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred and eighty-five auxiliary chapels.

　　To visit all these is quite a task.

　　The Bishop managed to do it.

　　He went on foot when it was in the neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on a donkey in the mountains.

　　The two old women accompanied him. When the trip was too hard for them, he went alone.

　　One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was mounted on an ass.

　　His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not permit him any other equipage.

　　The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, with scandalized eyes.

　　Some of the citizens were laughing around him.

　　"Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I perceive that I shock you.

　　You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ.

　　I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity."

　　In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached.

　　He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples.

　　He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district.

　　In the cantons where they were harsh to the poor, he said:

　　"Look at the people of Briancon! They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which is blessed by God.

　　For a whole century, there has not been a single murderer among them."

　　In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at the people of Embrun!

　　If, at the harvest season, the father of a family has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the cure recommends him to the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years.

　　Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said:

　　"Look at those good peasants in the valley of Queyras!

Then he stripped himself.

This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. Bigot de Preameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic lines:--

　　 "Expenses of carriage?

　　What can be done with it in a town of less than four thousand inhabitants?

　　Expenses of journeys?

　　What is the use of these trips, in the first place?

　　Next, how can the posting be accomplished in these mountainous parts?

　　There are no roads. No one travels otherwise than on horseback.

　　Even the bridge between Durance and Chateau-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, greedy and avaricious.

　　This man played the good priest when he first came.

　　Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden days.

　　Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals.

　　Down with the Pope!

　　[Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, I am for Caesar alone." Etc., etc.

　　 On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after all. He has regulated all his charities.

　　Now here are three thousand francs for us!

　　At last!"

　　That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a memorandum conceived in the following terms:--

　　EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT.

For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres

For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 "

For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 "

For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 "

For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 "

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 "

　　 Such was M. Myriel's budget.

　　As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy.

　　After a time, offerings of money flowed in.

　　Those who had and those who lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms which the former came to deposit.

　　In less than a year the Bishop had become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those in distress.

　　Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities.

　　Far from it.

　　As there is always more wretchedness below than there is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was received.

　　It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he received, he never had any.

　　Then he stripped himself.

　　The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus when we have occasion to name him.

　　Moreover, this appellation pleased him.

　　"I like that name," said he.

　　"Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur."

　　We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original.

"I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire.

For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres

Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 "

For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 "

Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 "

Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 "

Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 "

Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 "

Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 "

Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 "

Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 "

To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 "

Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of thediocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 "

Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 "

Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 "

For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 "

My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 "

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 "

　　 M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it regulating his household expenses.

　　This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle Baptistine.

　　This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and venerated him.

　　When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her adherence.

　　Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little.

　　It will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year.

　　On these fifteen hundred francs these two old women and the old man subsisted.

　　And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine.

　　One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop said:--

　　"And still I am quite cramped with it all!"

　　"I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire.

　　"Monseigneur has not even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese.

　　It was customary for bishops in former days."

　　"Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire."

　　And he made his demand.

　　Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, under this heading:

　　Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits.

“My God!” he said, with tears in his eyes, “how could you do it?”

“Well, young man?” he said with a sign, and from under his lifted eyebrows he glanced into Rostov’s eyes. A kind of gleam passed with the swiftness of an electric flash from Telyanin’s eyes to the eyes of Rostov, and back again and back again and again, all in one instant.

“Come here,” said Rostov, taking Telyanin by the arm. He almost dragged him to the window. “That’s Denisov’s money; you took it …” he whispered in his ear.

“What? … what? … How dare you? What?” … said Telyanin. But the words sounded like a plaintive, despairing cry and prayer for forgiveness. As soon as Rostov heard the sound of his voice, a great weight of suspense, like a stone, rolled off his heart. He felt glad, and at the same instant he pitied the luckless creature standing before him, but he had to carry the thing through to the end.

“God knows what the people here may think,” muttered Telyanin, snatching up his forage-cap and turning towards a small empty room. “You must explain …”

“I know that, and I’ll prove it,” said Rostov.

“I …”

The terrified, white face of Telyanin began twitching in every muscle; his eyes still moved uneasily, but on the ground, never rising to the level of Rostov’s face, and tearful sobs could be heard.

“Count! … don’t ruin a young man … here is the wretched money, take it.” … He threw it on the table. “I’ve an old father and mother!”

Rostov took the money, avoiding Telyanin’s eyes, and without uttering a word, he went out of the room. But in the doorway he stopped and turned back.

“My God!” he said, with tears in his eyes, “how could you do it?”

“Count,” said Telyanin, coming nearer to the ensign.

“Don’t touch me,” said Rostov, drawing back. “If you’re in need take the money.”

He thrust a purse on him and ran out of the restaurant.

Chapter 5

IN THE EVENING of the same day a lively discussion was taking place in Denisov’s quarters between some officers of the squadron.

“But I tell you, Rostov, that you must apologise to the colonel,” the tall staff-captain was saying, addressing Rostov, who was crimson with excitement. The staff-captain, Kirsten, a man with grizzled hair, immense whiskers, thick features and a wrinkled face, had been twice degraded to the ranks for affairs of honour, and had twice risen again to holding a commission.

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　　M. Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.

　　On the very day when he took up his abode in the hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own hand:--

　　 NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.

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`I wish it, that I may the better deserve your confidence, and have no secret from you.

`Stop!'

For an instant, the Doctor even had his two hands at his ears; for another instant, even had his two hands laid on Darnay's lips.

`Tell me when I ask you, not now. If your suit should prosper, if Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage morning. Do you promise?'

`Willingly.'

`Give me your hand. She will be home directly, and it is better she should not see us together to-night. Go! God bless you!'

It was dark when Charles Darnay left him, and it was an hour later and darker when Lucie came home; she hurried into the room alone--for Miss Pross had gone straight upstairs--and was surprised to find his reading-chair empty.

`My father!' she called to him. `Father dear!'

Nothing was said in answer, but she heard a low hammering sound in his bedroom. Passing lightly across the intermediate room, she looked in at his door and came running back frightened, crying to herself, with her blood all chilled, `What shall I do! What shall I do!'

Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him. The noise ceased at the sound of her voice, and he presently came out to her, and they walked up and down together for a long time.

She came down from her bed, to look at him in his sleep that night. He slept heavily, and his tray of shoemaking tools, and his old unfinished work, were all as usual.

CHAPTER XI

`Stop!' said the Doctor of Beauvais.

I well understand that, without you, I could have no hope. I well understand that, even if Miss Manette held me at this moment in her innocent heart--do not think I have the presumption to assume so much--I could retain no place in it against her love for her father.'

If that be so, do you sec what, on the other hand, is involved in it?'

`I understand equally well, that a word from her father in any suitor's favour, would outweigh herself and all the world. For which reason, Doctor Manette,' said Darnay, modestly but firmly, `I would not ask that word, to save my life.'

`I am sure of it. Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division; in the former case, they are subtle and delicate, and difficult to penetrate. My daughter Lucie is, in this one respect, such a mystery to me; I can make no guess at the state of her heart.'

`May I ask, sir, if you think she is---' As he hesitated, her father supplied the rest.

`Is sought by any other suitor?'

`It is what I meant to say.'

Her father considered a little before he answered:

`You have seen Mr. Carton here, yourself. Mr. Stryver is here too, occasionally. If it be at all, it can only be by one of these.'

`Or both,' said Darnay.

`I had not thought of both; I should not think either, likely. You want a promise from me. Tell me what it is.

`It is, that if Miss Manette should bring to you at any time, on her own part, such a confidence as I have ventured to lay before you, you will bear testimony to what I have said, and to your belief in it. I hope you may be able to think so well of me, as to urge no influence against me. I say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what I ask. The condition on which I ask it, and which you have an undoubted right to require, I will observe immediately.'

`I give the promise,' said the Doctor, `without any condition. I believe your object to be, purely and truthfully, as you have stated it. I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. If she should ever tell me that you are essential to her perfect happiness, I will give her to you. If there were--Charles Darnay, if there were---'

The young man had taken his hand gratefully; their hands were joined as the Doctor spoke:

`--any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved--the direct responsibility thereof not lying on his head--they should all be obliterated for her sake. She is everything to me; more to me than suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me---Well! This is idle talk.'

So strange was the way in which he faded into silence, and so strange his fixed look when he had ceased to speak, that Darnay felt his own hand turn cold in the hand that slowly released and dropped it.

`You said something to me,' said Doctor Manette, breaking into a smile. `What was it you said to me?'

He was at a loss how to answer, until he remembered having spoken of a condition. Relieved as his mind reverted to that, he answered:

`Your confidence in me ought to be returned with full confidence on my part. My present name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my Own. I wish to tell you what that is, and why I am in England.'

`Stop!' said the Doctor of Beauvais.

He laid his own upon it as he spoke.

He laid his own upon it as he spoke.

`No, dear Doctor Manette. Like you, a voluntary exile from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and miseries; like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death. Not to divide with Lucie her privilege as your child, companion, and friend; but to come in aid of it, and bind her closer to you, if such a thing can be.'

His touch still lingered on her father's hand. Answering the touch for a moment, but not coldly, her father rested his hands upon the arms of his chair, and looked up for the first time since the beginning of the conference. A struggle was evidently in his face; a struggle with that occasional look which had a tendency in it to dark doubt and dread.

`You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay, that I thank you with all my heart, and will open all my heart--or nearly so. Have you any reason to believe that Lucie loves you?'

`None. As yet, none.

`Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge?'

`Not even so. I might not have the hopefulness to do it for weeks; I might (mistaken or not mistaken) have that hopefulness to-morrow.

`Do you seek any guidance from me?'

`I ask none, sir. But I have thought it possible that you might have it in your power, if you should deem it right, to give me some.'

`Do you seek any promise from me?'

`I do seek that.

`What is it?'

`Nor written?'

Not that, sir! Let that be! I adjure you, do not recall that!'

His cry was so like a cry of actual pain, that it rang in Charles Darnay's ears long after he had ceased. He motioned with the hand he had extended, and it seemed to be an appeal to Darnay to pause. The latter so received it, and remained silent.

`I ask your pardon,' said the Doctor, in a subdued tone, after some moments. `I do not doubt your loving Lucie; you may be satisfied of it.'

He turned towards him in his chair, but did not look at him, or raise his eyes. His chin dropped upon his hand, and his white hair overshadowed his face:

`Have you spoken to Lucie?'

`No.'

`Nor written?'

`Never.'

`It would be ungenerous to affect not to know that your self-denial is to be referred to your consideration for her father. Her father thanks you.

He offered his hand; but his eyes did not go with it.

`I know,' said Darnay, respectfully, `how can I fail to know, Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to day, that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it can have few parallels, even in the tenderness between a father and child. I know, Dr. Manette--how can I fail to know--that, mingled with the affection and duty of a daughter who has become a woman, there is, in her heart, towards you, all the love and reliance of infancy itself. I know that, as in her childhood she had no parent, so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you were lost to her. I know perfectly well that if you had been restored to her from the world beyond this life, you could hardly be invested, in her sight, with a more sacred character than that in which you are always with her. I know that when she is clinging to you, the hands of baby, girl, and woman, all in one, are round your neck. I know that in loving you she sees and loves her mother at her own age, sees and loves you at my age, loves her mother broken+hearted, loves you through your dreadful trial and in your blessed restoration. I have known this, night and day, since I have known you in your home.'

Her father sat silent, with his face bent down. His breathing was a little quickened; but he repressed all other signs of agitation.

`Dear Doctor manette always knowing this, always seeing her and you with this hallowed light about you, I have forborne, and forborne, as long as it was in the nature of man to do it. I have felt, and do even now feel, that to bring my love--even mine--between you, is to touch your history with something not quite so good as itself. But I love her. Heaven is my witness that I love her!'

`I believe it,' answered her father, mournfully. `I have thought so before now. I believe it.'

`But, do not believe,' said Darnay, upon whose ear the mournful voice struck with a reproachful sound, `that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say. Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. If I had any such possibility, even at a remote distance of years, harboured in my thoughts, and `hidden in my heart--if it ever had been there--if it ever could be there--I could not now touch this honoured hand.'

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`Is Lucie the topic?'

Yes?' said the Doctor, with evident constraint. `Bring your chair here, and speak on.'

He complied as to the chair, but appeared to find the speaking on less easy.

`I have had the happiness, Doctor Manette, of being so intimate here,' so he at length began, `for some year and a half, that I hope the topic on which I am about to touch may not---'

He was stayed by the Doctor's putting out his hand to stop him. When he had kept it so a little while, he said, drawing it back:

`Is Lucie the topic?'

`She is.'

`It is hard for me to speak of her at any time. It is very hard for me to hear her spoken of in that tone of yours, Charles Darnay.'

`It is a tone of fervent admiration, true homage, and deep love, Doctor Manette!' he said deferentially.

There was another blank silence before her father rejoined: `I believe it. I do you justice; I believe it.'

His constraint was so manifest, and it was so manifest, too, that it originated in an unwillingness to approach the subject, that Charles Darnay hesitated.

`Shall I go on, sir?'

Another blank.

`Yes, go on.'

`You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me!'

The Doctor sat with his face turned away, and his eyes bent on the ground. At the last words, he stretched out his hand again, hurriedly, and cried:

“I recognized the princess at once,”

“I recognized the princess at once,” put in Mademoiselle Bourienne.

“And I had no idea!” … cried Princess Marya. “Ah, Andrey, I did not see you.”

Prince Andrey and his sister kissed each other’s hands, and he told her she was just as great a cry-baby as she always had been. Princess Marya turned to her brother, and through her tears, her great, luminous eyes, that were beautiful at that instant, rested with a loving, warm and gentle gaze on Prince Andrey’s face. The little princess talked incessantly. The short, downy upper lip was continually flying down to meet the rosy, lower lip when necessary, and parting again in a smile of gleaming teeth and eyes. The little princess described an incident that had occurred to them on Spasskoe hill, and might have been serious for her in her condition. And immediately after that she communicated the intelligence that she had left all her clothes in Petersburg, and God knew what she would have to go about in here, and that Andrey was quite changed, and that Kitty Odintsov had married an old man, and that a suitor had turned up for Princess Marya, “who was a suitor worth having,” but that they would talk about that later. Princess Marya was still gazing mutely at her brother, and her beautiful eyes were full of love and melancholy. It was clear that her thoughts were following a train of their own, apart from the chatter of her sister-in-law. In the middle of the latter’s description of the last fête-day at Petersburg, she addressed her brother.

“And is it quite settled that you are going to the war, Andrey?” she said, sighing. Liza sighed too.

“Yes, and to-morrow too,” answered her brother.

“He is deserting me here, and Heaven knows why, when he might have had promotion …” Princess Marya did not listen to the end, but following her own train of thought, she turned to her sister-in-law, letting her affectionate eyes rest on her waist.

“Is it really true?” she said.

The face of her sister-in-law changed. She sighed.

“Yes, it’s true,” she said. “Oh! It’s very dreadful …”

Liza’s lip drooped. She put her face close to her sister-in-law’s face, and again she unexpectedly began to cry.

“She needs rest,” said Prince Andrey, frowning. “Don’t you, Liza? Take her to your room, while I go to father. How is he—just the same?”

“The same, just the same; I don’t know what you will think,” Princess Marya answered joyfully.

“And the same hours, and the walks about the avenues, and the lathe?” asked Prince Andrey with a scarcely perceptible smile, showing that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he recognised his weaknesses.

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

THE GREY-HAIRED VALET was sitting in the waiting-room dozing and listening to the prince’s snoring in his immense study. From a far-off part of the house there came through closed doors the sound of difficult passages of a sonata of Dusseck’s repeated twenty times over.

At that moment a carriage and a little cart drove up to the steps, and Prince Andrey got out of the carriage, helped his little wife out and let her pass into the house before him. Grey Tihon in his wig, popping out at the door of the waiting-room, informed him in a whisper that the prince was taking a nap and made haste to close the door. Tihon knew that no extraordinary event, not even the arrival of his son, would be permitted to break through the routine of the day. Prince Andrey was apparently as well aware of the fact as Tihon. He looked at his watch as though to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed during the time he had not seen him, and satisfying himself that they were unchanged, he turned to his wife.

“He will get up in twenty minutes. Let’s go to Marie,” he said.

The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her short upper lip, with a smile and the faint moustache on it, rose as gaily and charmingly as ever when she spoke.

“Why, it is a palace,” she said to her husband, looking round her with exactly the expression with which people pay compliments to the host at a ball. “Come, quick, quick!” As she looked about her, she smiled at Tihon and at her husband, and at the footman who was showing them in.

“It is Marie practising? Let us go quietly, we must surprise her.” Prince Andrey followed her with a courteous and depressed expression.

“You’re looking older, Tihon,” he said as he passed to the old man, who was kissing his hand.

Before they had reached the room, from which the sounds of the clavichord were coming, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman emerged from a side-door. Mademoiselle Bourienne seemed overwhelmed with delight.

“Ah, what a pleasure for the princess!” she exclaimed. “At last! I must tell her.”

“No, no, please not” … said the little princess, kissing her. “You are Mademoiselle Bourienne; I know you already through my sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She does not expect us!”

They went up to the door of the divan-room, from which came the sound of the same passage repeated over and over again. Prince Andrey stood still frowning as though in expectation of something unpleasant.

The little princess went in. The passage broke off in the middle; he heard an exclamation, the heavy tread of Princess Marya, and the sound of kissing. When Prince Andrey went in, the two ladies, who had only seen each other once for a short time at Prince Andrey’s wedding, were clasped in each other’s arms, warmly pressing their lips to the first place each had chanced upon. Mademoiselle Bourienne was standing near them, her hands pressed to her heart; she was smiling devoutly, apparently equally ready to weep and to laugh. Prince Andrey shrugged his shoulders, and scowled as lovers of music scowl when they hear a false note. The two ladies let each other go; then hastened again, as though each afraid of being remiss, to hug each other, began kissing each other’s hands and pulling them away, and then fell to kissing each other on the face again. Then they quite astonished Prince Andrey by both suddenly bursting into tears and beginning the kissing over again. Mademoiselle Bourienne cried too. Prince Andrey was unmistakably ill at ease. But to the two women it seemed such a natural thing that they should weep; it seemed never to have occurred to them that their meeting could have taken place without tears.

“Ah, ma chère!… Ah, Marie!” … both the ladies began talking at once, and they laughed. “I had a dream last night. Then you did not expect us? O Marie, you have got thinner.”

“And you are looking better …”

Alluring More Traffic To Your Site_70049

On the topic of search engine optimization, a lot of website owners have trouble competing. Building a long term succesful internet business offers many challenges, one of which is search engine optimazation. That bring said, many people try to make search engine optimization seem harder than it has to be. It can be quite a challenge, but the outcome will be worth it if you succeed. When done correctly, rising to the top of search engine results can be easy, which will cause your website traffic to increase and give you all the business you need to succeed.
"Search engine optimization" can be defined as building a website in a manner that will allow search engines to understand the content and include the site in their top 10 results because they will be able to correctly interpret the keywords chosen by the website designer. So what makes SEO vital for you or anyone else who is selling products and/or services online? The first thing to remember is that your site will never earn money if it doesn't have any traffic. Also, it isn't the main idea to get hits on your site, the intent is to get hits that will generate sales.
When your site receives traffic from the search engines it is far more likely that these visitors will convert to sales. One of the biggest reasons for this is credibility. If your company comes up on the first pages of Google it suggests that your site is a trusted source relevant to what that individual is searching for.
In addition to this, when people take advantage of search engines, they utilize key words to help recognize their needs. You will be deemed a resource that will give them an answer if your website shows up on the first page. Conversely, when advertising you are letting the customer know that you have something that they need. In this situation you are letting them know and it is known that people tend to receive this info with an amount of disbelief.
No one likes to be told to do something, and that's exactly what your advertising is doing. This is the reason that advertised traffic is not as easily convertible as search engine traffic. This is the reason that search engine optimization is important, because netting a profit on the internet is about turning traffic into sales and this should be your number one focus.
It is true that search engine optimization can take up a lot of time and can be very time sensitive due to constant changes. On a positive note, these tasks can be outsourced to companies whose expertise is arranging websites placement on the first page of a search engines results. With that said, you should exercise caution.
There are many companies out there who will gladly take your money while promising you the moon and the stars. They then will tell you how they are going to submit your site to all sorts of directories and use various different software tools to accomplish this objective. This sounds great in theory but it may actually do more harm than good. The search engines may think you are spamming them and as a result de-list your site.
On the topic of search engine optimization, many businesses are very careful. Have them tell you how they will accomplish it, and be sure they give you all the information needed to comprehend and meet your goals. In conclusion, search engine optimization is based on using your head when working and if you are not able to optimize your site, your site's capability of netting a profit over the long run will be slashed.  

All You Need To Know About Webhosting_67844

Web servers offer space for the users to host their websites. Websites need web hosting to be a part of the World Wide Web. They store all the information in the websites. Traditional business companies have decided to start online business which will give a wider platform to gain more profits. A strong web presence will alleviate their business opportunities and hence deciding the web hosting companies and plans are very important.

There are various forms of webhosting available and users can specify according to the individual needs. There are some plans which are costly and some servers offer free web hosting. This might turn out to be a good starter pack for the beginners and non-professionals. But the restrictions in bandwidth usage, advertisement, server uptime pose great amount of danger which will avoid the users from viewing the site.

Shared hosting servers impose little amount of restrictions and as the name indicates, the website will be placed along with several other websites. Multiple users can store the information and each will be allocated a specific space to use. Reseller hosting allows the user to buy a large amount of bandwidth and disk storage space and divide the spaces to the future users and run the business.

Dedicated and Virtual Private Server hosting provide similar results but both are expensive. They have less number of restrictions and each will allow the user to have a separate server for their own use. Large enterprises and companies will prefer this.

Virtual Private Server will allow one server to host multiple virtual environments which have the features of individual stand alone servers. This is less expensive than a dedicated hosting. Collocated hosting allows the user to install a self purchased server at the data center. The kind of hosting and costs associated must be decided by the companies according to the purpose and usage.  

All You Need To Know About Broadband_63163

Over 99% of UK homes and businesses now depend on broadband technology, with fixed-line broadband the most common way to connect to the Internet. However, the recent growth in high-powered mobile devices, and the growing use of laptop computers in preference to desktop PCs, has made mobile broadband a viable alternative.

There are two payment options to mobile broadband: pay as you go or contract. Both have their benefits and drawbacks, and which one you choose will largely depend on what you need broadband for.

If you frequently need to access the Internet away from the home or office, live in an area with low Wi-Fi connectivity, or want an all-in-one payment plan that covers both home and mobile use, then a contract is best. If you mainly use fixed-line broadband and/or Wi-Fi, and just need a mobile connection occasionally, then mobile broadband pay as you go may be best for you.

If you choose contract mobile broadband from a new provider, you can usually expect a free dongle. Most contracts are for 12 months, though many are longer. It�s important that the connectivity and speed you get matches what you pay for, so a mobile broadband pay as you go or short-term rolling contract option might be best to start with.

If you�re satisfied with the speed and signal (remember, your mobile broadband access will only work where you can get a clear mobile phone signal for that network) then you can switch to a long-term contract at a later date.  

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Money Making Opportunities_64987

Individuals are always within the pursuit to find new cash making opportunities. While the assembly of the money making opportunities is high, the results desired from them are scattered and never guaranteed. When creating the choice to follow one in all the various money making opportunities there are a number of ways in which someone will go. Opening a business utilizing the traditional business technique related to a physical store and physical customers are the primary of these opportunities. Going outside the norm and utilizing the cash creating opportunities of the web is the second business chance as you use the virtual atmosphere to cater to the net consumer. Both of these cash making opportunities supply an individual the chance to profit if their set up of business and selling is implemented effectively.

It is very important to perceive the advantages and drawbacks of each of the money creating opportunities so that a person can evaluate the best course of action obtainable to them. The money creating opportunities found within the physical setting represents the first of those opportunities and most people are acquainted with this opportunity. The institution of a business in this environment sets out clear expectations and demands that almost all people would remember of. A bonus of this style of business and marketing is that it promotes a sense of security since several of the obstacles a private can face are predictable and often expected.

The disadvantage of this style of money making opportunities is that the physical establishment of a store usually places a limit on your development based on regional restrictions. Without the inclusion into a national chain or the development of your own chain of stores you're restricted to serving shoppers typically inside a twenty mile radius. Another disadvantage is that the creation of a physical store typically demands the event of a workers to cover your store therefore that you're not working seven days a week, taking funds from your profits for a salary expense and leaving your sales in the hands of relative strangers.

The next of the cash creating opportunities that are out there to individuals is thru the utilization of the internet. The net represents a brand new virtual marketplace that has created huge success with shoppers and nice profits for businesses. The self operating ability of an on-line store offers business homeowners the opportunity to manage their business on their own while not the necessity for a staff. This self operation suggests that owner no longer have to speculate in staffing and will manage their stores on their own. The ability to currently compete within a world market is another advantage which will be obtained in the online environment. Regional restrictions not apply when you'll be able to sell your merchandise or services to any shopper across the globe.

The size of the internet for a corporation will represent a possible disadvantage. Another disadvantage is found with a personal�s ability to market since marketing varies greatly between online marketing and therefore the traditional marketing. Finding a niche on-line that your company can market from represents another potential disadvantage.  

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Facebook_61499

As I mentioned in my previous articles, Facebook has certainly opened the doors to more potential customers apart from just making friends and exchanging ideas.

The interactive features like fan pages, games, groups and even videos enable marketers to reach out to a worldwide audience. Therefore, ordinary people like you and me can branch out and brand ourselves into Facebook celebrities like those movie and TV idols whom we got so accustomed to over the years before internet.

This in turn provides great opportunities to receive immediate feedback from prospects and customers without having to spend excessively on media advertising, research and surveys. If you do it properly by addressing their concerns with relevant and applicable solutions, it will greatly increase your brand loyality and clientele.

If many people know you there, it is very likely that your brand presence has already been felt. So long as you continue providing good quality information and service, gaining their trust in you on a long term basis will no longer be a how to but a platform to achieving greater success.

However apart from having advantages, brand have their disadvantages too.

Traditional marketers are used to message broadcasts like what you hear on radio and seen on TVs. These are extreme formal ways of mass communication. Upon using Facebook for the first time, they will find it hard to copy with the informal language and word tones which Facebook prefers.

Past cases have shown that some business owners�?attempts in enforcing rules and guidelines on Facebook. As in either you buy or get out of my shop tones that many retail shops are still using. Many members are unhappy with them. They want to know more about the products first before buying and certainly have the rights to.

There are also people who will only be your friends if you buy something from them as a condition. Or people whom you want to be friends with but do not want to be friends with you simply because they have never met and perceived you as another internet scammer.

While there is nothing we can do about what people think, there is everything we can do to make a better impression of ourselves to others.

Here are 2 golden rules you should follow if you want to achieve results in the long run.

Do Not Be Bossy Or Authority Figure Type

Though this worked fine in traditional business, it can literally backfired in online business. Any display of you claiming to know more than anyone with little or no regards to their feelings not only kills off your potential sales but can result in your account banned permanently if people complain to Facebook admin.

Do Not Send Promotion Messages To Others Right Away.

Doing this without developing any friendship, rapport and trust is a sure recipe for failure. The last message you will want to receive is from someone telling you to stop advertising or he will complain to Facebook Management. Having this message wil certainly defer others from making friends with you let alone becoming your customers.

Through there are many ethnics on Facebook to comply with, they can be easily grasped through active participation. Like all business owners do, companies must ensure its marketing representatives to be fully trained in creating Facebook presence.

Having mentioned those, these are the advantages and disadvantages in using Facebook. But so long as you do it properly, those advantages can be minimized.  

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Email_75825

With the growing popularity of the Internet more and more people are communicating via email. This fast and efficient method of communication is perhaps the preferred method of online communication at the present with thousands upon thousands of emails being sent each day. The many uses of email are what make it so appealing and so versatile. Whether you are sending a greeting to a grandparent or sending files to a coworker, you can easily utilize email to do so.

Email has come quite a long way since its introduction, yet it is still used for many of the same reasons. Basic electronic communication has essentially evolved into a more resourceful tool as one has the ability to do much more now then they once could. Along with the usual sending of files and text messages through email, one can send greeting cards, manage their emails by assigning them to folders or classifying them as junk and even organize and manage their daily tasks on some email servers.

This wonderful tool is not without its downside however. Some people choose to send worms and viruses via email and in the process infect and damage quite a lot of computers. A virus email can often be very difficult to detect, especially to someone with very little knowledge of computer viruses and how they work. If you notice that you have an anonymous email or an email with a name foreign to you then you may not want to open this email as may likely be a viruses and the mere act of opening the email makes your computer susceptible to infection.

Along with the abovementioned problems privacy has also become an issue with email activity. Virtually every email that you send has to go through a number of computers before it reaches the inbox of the intended receiver and along the way there exists a distinct possibility that an individual could hack into your email and read it. Thus it is imperative that you have a bullet proof password.  

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Direct Marketing_67882

The term marketing implies the single goal of profit. It is categorized into two, direct marketing and indirect marketing and there is a significant line of difference between the two. Direct marketing is basically business from manufacturer to consumer without the involvement of middlemen, whoever it is. This is generally done by mailing the consumer or contacting him directly, so he can know about the products. The use of media advertisements is very limited and whatever little use is made includes only the demonstration of their products with call back numbers. Direct marketing is a boon and a bane, both in some respects:

Advantages:
- Direct marketing involves direct business. So it is cost beneficial for consumers, as there is no price hike due to wholesalers or retailers.
- Marketing executives can state certainly of the exact response to their products.
- The profit or loss can be more accurately judged.

Disadvantages:
- Sometimes, direct mailing offends the customers and many do not endorse it as they say it inhibits their private lives.

But most marketing managers are in support of this kind of business. The various forms in which direct business is made are:

- Direct mailing: Here, paper mails are sent to the selected groups of people, who likely to give positive response e.g. the paper mails of latest food processor is sent to all homes where house wives are resident so that immediate response is seen. Also CDs can be used as demonstrating media.

- Email Marketing: Here, emails are sent to all the selected customer categories with repeated intervals of time. But most of these are put into trash and spams. So the effectiveness of this form cannot be predicted.

- Telemarketing: In telemarketing, calls are made directly to the consumers and the concerned product is advertised. People sit at call centers to sell products on behalf of their clients. But this form of direct business is quite unpopular and most people oppose the uninvited calls. It was initially made illegal but later on new laws were re-enforced and calls are now made only to those who don't mind them.

- Voicemail: Telemarketing created a lot of consumer opposition and consumers would abuse the ones advertising on the phones. In order to avoid this, voicemail marketing was introduced, wherein; the entire advertisement is digitally recorded and presented.

- Use of coupons: Coupons are attached to direct mails and sent to the consumers. These generally advertise and give cost benefit to the consumers. So they avail these coupons and respond fast.

- Television marketing: Advertisements are given on the television and demos are with toll-free call back numbers or certain websites for the consumer to get in touch with the manufacturers.

- Broadcast faxing: This is the least popular form of direct marketing. The ads are directly faxed to the consumers.

Direct marketing can thus become successful only if the entanglements with the consumer are good. It can be B2B or B2C. It measures exact consumer response.  

Advantageous Smo Services India_62501

SMO or social media optimization is nothing but an integral part of search engine optimization process. In SMO, a website is optimized by using social networking sites, blogs, online communities etc. Those website owners, who want to enhance their web presence can take advantage of the SMO services India. The concept of SMO services is drive traffic without spending money. For this job, links are created on websites like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger. People visiting these websites follow the link and come to the optimized website.

Social media companies India undertake two ways for doing SMO. The first method is related to RSS or really simple syndication feeds, sharing social news and introducing videos or images. The second method is all about promotional activities such as group discussions, blogging and status updating on social networks. Covered under SMO services India, these methods are implemented free of cost for search engine marketing.

SMO is basically related to search engine advertising but in reality it goes beyond core SEO. In SMO, traffic is driven from other sites rather than search engines. This process of driving traffic is helpful in increasing the search ranking. You can term it viral marketing. Social networks spread message spreads by videos, image sharing sites and bookmarking websites. Blogging using RSS feeds fulfill the same objective. A well designed website can get immense traffic with the help of SMO services India.

Popularity of a website is measured by the links - both inbound and outbound. Inbound links helps augment the search engine ranking and in this way online presence. Websites and blogs with back links to a website should be created. Bookmarking and tagging are also essential. An informative and entertaining content feature should be added to bookmark popular social sites that link back to your website. SMO services India cover all these aspects. You can take advantage of these SMO techniques by hiring a SMM India.

Numerous companies offer SMO services India but it is quite difficult to track down a trustworthy SMO India out of many. Since SMO consultants in India offer cost effective services, everyone is heading towards India for maximum gain. On the other hand, many pseudo firms have come up to earn more money. Therefore it is prudent to go with the company that has vast experience and a long list of satisfied clients. You can ask your consultant to provide you some websites, which he has optimized.