1 He has been to the house, you know, and danced with the children.
2 Next day Prince Vasili had arrived and settled in the count's house.
3 She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other.
4 He had now been for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father's house.
5 Pierre had never been in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of these rooms.
6 Around the table all who were at Count Bezukhov's house that night had gathered to fortify themselves.
7 But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.
8 Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides.
9 Dmitri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count's house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room.
10 Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, and went in at the open door.
11 Outside the house, beyond the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral.
12 Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostova's big house on the Povarskaya, so well known to all Moscow.
13 After a mute confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle and thrill of suspense usual at such moments.
14 After sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess.
15 "My dear Boris," said Princess Anna Mikhaylovna to her son as Countess Rostova's carriage in which they were seated drove over the straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov's house.
16 During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times.
17 It was an anecdote, then current, to the effect that the Duc d'Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the famous actress' favors, and that in his presence Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was subject, and was thus at the duc's mercy.
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