1 Give me the book, said the stranger.
2 Princess Mary took a book and began reading.
3 I opened the book, and on all the pages there were excellent drawings.
4 The traveler was Joseph Alexeevich Bazdeev, as Pierre saw from the postmaster's book.
5 Pierre went nearer and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book.
6 The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, and the traveler became absorbed in it.
7 The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a human skull with its cavities and teeth.
8 Now and then his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in imagination a new plan of life.
9 Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand.
10 The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall on the cot.
11 She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.
12 All at once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former position with his eyes shut.
13 On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas a Kempis, whose book had been sent him by someone unknown.
14 "He exists, but to understand Him is hard," the Mason began again, looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep still.
15 One thing he continually realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich had revealed to him.
16 The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third physical things, and the fourth a combination of these.
17 This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and so on.
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