1 A husband was given her and he gave her a family.
2 She seemed to be fond not so much of individuals as of the family as a whole.
3 Count Ilya Rostov died that same year and, as always happens, after the father's death the family group broke up.
4 To make up for this, at home Pierre had the right to regulate his life and that of the whole family exactly as he chose.
5 All the grown-up members of the family were assembled near the round tea table at which Sonya presided beside the samovar.
6 and to all your family that I thought you would not consider my sympathy misplaced, but I was mistaken, and suddenly her voice trembled.
7 He kept the peasant families together in the largest groups possible, not allowing the family groups to divide into separate households.
8 Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.
9 Besides the Bezukhov family, Nicholas' old friend the retired General Vasili Dmitrich Denisov was staying with the Rostovs this fifth of December.
10 Remembering her friendly relations with all the Rostovs which had made her almost a member of the family, she thought it her duty to go to see them.
11 The grown-up members of the family, not to mention his wife, were pleased to have back a friend whose presence made life run more smoothly and peacefully.
12 If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family.
13 In winter, except for business excursions, he spent most of his time at home making himself one with his family and entering into all the details of his children's relations with their mother.
14 These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.
15 And she not only saw no need of any other or better husband, but as all the powers of her soul were intent on serving that husband and family, she could not imagine and saw no interest in imagining how it would be if things were different.
16 The subject which wholly engrossed Natasha's attention was her family: that is, her husband whom she had to keep so that he should belong entirely to her and to the home, and the children whom she had to bear, bring into the world, nurse, and bring up.
17 Discussions and questions of that kind, which are like the question of how to get the greatest gratification from one's dinner, did not then and do not now exist for those for whom the purpose of a dinner is the nourishment it affords; and the purpose of marriage is the family.
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