1 I had a dream from which I awoke with a throbbing heart.
2 "Only our holy brotherhood has the real meaning of life, all the rest is a dream," said Pierre.
3 I dreamed that I was walking in the dark and was suddenly surrounded by dogs, but I went on undismayed.
4 And in my dream I knew that these drawings represented the love adventures of the soul with its beloved.
5 I dreamed that Joseph Alexeevich was sitting in my house, and that I was very glad and wished to entertain him.
6 And looking at those drawings I dreamed I felt that I was doing wrong, but could not tear myself away from them.
7 The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince Andrew's presence.
8 Well, you will be coming, he was going to say, to dine, but changed his mind and said to take tea with us, and quickly doubling up his tongue he blew a small round ring of tobacco smoke, perfectly embodying his dream of happiness.
9 The bandage was taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at his breast.
10 He felt curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph Alexeevich.
11 Little Nicholas and his education, her brother Andrew, and religion were Princess Mary's joys and consolations; but besides that, since everyone must have personal hopes, Princess Mary in the profoundest depths of her heart had a hidden dream and hope that supplied the chief consolation of her life.
12 She hummed a scrap from her favorite opera by Cherubini, threw herself on her bed, laughed at the pleasant thought that she would immediately fall asleep, called Dunyasha the maid to put out the candle, and before Dunyasha had left the room had already passed into yet another happier world of dreams, where everything was as light and beautiful as in reality, and even more so because it was different.