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1 Natasha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately and heard suggestions of selling the fine ancestral Rostov house and estate near Moscow.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
2 Natasha's illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVI
3 This match was with Julie Karagina, the daughter of excellent and virtuous parents, a girl the Rostovs had known from childhood, and who had now become a wealthy heiress through the death of the last of her brothers.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
4 Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
5 On receiving this letter, Nicholas did not even make any attempt to get leave of absence or to retire from the army, but wrote to his parents that he was sorry Natasha was ill and her engagement broken off, and that he would do all he could to meet their wishes.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
6 Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.
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7 And having put him on his honor not to repeat anything she told him, Marya Dmitrievna informed him that Natasha had refused Prince Andrew without her parents' knowledge and that the cause of this was Anatole Kuragin into whose society Pierre's wife had thrown her and with whom Natasha had tried to elope during her father's absence, in order to be married secretly.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX