1 Our family life goes on in the old way except for my brother Andrew's absence.
2 She and all the Rostov family welcomed him as an old friend, simply and cordially.
3 That charm was not expressed so much in his relations with him as with all his family and with the household.
4 As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties.
5 About ten o'clock Rostov went to the English Hotel straight from the theater, where he had been with his family and Denisov.
6 Talking of my family affairs he said to me, "the chief duty of a true Mason, as I have told you, lies in perfecting himself."
7 The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people.
8 Countess, I have done w'ong," Denisov went on in an unsteady voice, "but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family that I would give my life twice over.
9 The guest of honor was an aide-de-camp of Napoleon's, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a page of Napoleon's, a young lad of an old aristocratic French family.
10 On one of his foraging expeditions, in a deserted and ruined village to which he had come in search of provisions, Rostov found a family consisting of an old Pole and his daughter with an infant in arms.
11 Denisov never spoke of Rostov's family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostov felt that the elder hussar's luckless love for Natasha played a part in strengthening their friendship.
12 In the family's feeling toward this wedding a certain awkwardness and constraint was evident, as if they were ashamed of not having loved Vera sufficiently and of being so ready to get her off their hands.
13 After the first feeling of perplexity aroused in the parents by Berg's proposal, the holiday tone of joyousness usual at such times took possession of the family, but the rejoicing was external and insincere.
14 There had been many discussions and preparations for this ball in the Rostov family, many fears that the invitation would not arrive, that the dresses would not be ready, or that something would not be arranged as it should be.
15 For the Rostov family the whole interest of these preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denisov's furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment.
16 At first the family felt some constraint in intercourse with Prince Andrew; he seemed a man from another world, and for a long time Natasha trained the family to get used to him, proudly assuring them all that he only appeared to be different, but was really just like all of them, and that she was not afraid of him and no one else ought to be.