Saturday, 3 March 2012

Book 1 - Chapter 25

Characters Present:

Prince Nicholas Bolkónski -father of Prince Andrew Bolkónski
Princess Mary Bolkónskaya - daughter of Nicholas

A letter received from Julie Kuragina , who was at the Rostov´s dinner thing, upsetting one of the Rostóv daughters for flirting with the Rostóv cousin, Nicholas.

Location:

An estate called Bald Hill, to which Prince Nicholas Bolkónski was exiled by the Emperor.


Princess Mary, who seems to be quite timid, goes for her morning geography lesson with her father.

She doesn´t understand straight away, Nicholas gets cranky as she expected and she retires to her room to finish her lesson for the day and also read a letter that Julie sent.

Julie says that Nicholas Rostóv has gone to war now, and that there will possibly be an arranged marriage between herself and Pierre, who is the new Count Berzúkhov. 

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