Sunday, 22 January 2012

Book 1 - Chapter 9

Characters Present:

Prince Andrew Bolkónski
An Englishman
Prince Anatole Kurágin
Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov
Pierre Bezukhov

Location: 

The stately home of Anatole and Dólokhov

It is 1am, and Pierre takes his leave of Andrew. 

He goes to a society party, though he promised not to, and finds his friends drunkenly playing with a bear cub on a chain. They are also making bets as to who can sit on the third floor window ledge and drink a bottle of rum in a single swill. Though the Englishman was going to do it initially, Fedor takes up the challenge and succeeds. 

Pierre gets rather excited, demands that someone brings him a bottle of rum so that he might do the same, and proceeds to dance around the room with the bear.

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