Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Volume 1: Book 4 - Chapter 16

Characters Present:

Nicholas Rostóv
Count Ilya Rostóv
Countess Natalya Rostova
Natasha Rostova
Vaska Denísov


Location:

The Rostov House

Count Ilya Rostóv arrives home, and Nicholas at first haughtily asks for the 43,000 rubles to pay back to Dólokhov, and then starts to beg and sob as his father starts to leave the room.  

In the meantime, Denísov accidentally proposes to Natasha, who runs off to ask advice from her mother, Countess Natalya Rostova.  The countess does not take it seriously at all, since Natasha is still so young and tells Denísov so, after both she and Natasha reject him.

Count Rostóv eventually raises the funds to pay his son's gambling debts to Dólokhov and Nicholas leaves to rejoin his regiment in Poland.


End of book 4

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