The countess had fallen asleep , and the count put off their departure till morning and went to bed.
The countess, with a deep sob, hid her face on her daughter's bosom, while Nikolay got up, clutched at his head, and went out of the room.
The countess sailed in while they were talking.
"The countess sent to inquire if your excellency were at home," said the valet.
This dog actually received his inheritance from his father, Gunther III, a German Shepherd who received an inheritance from Karlotta Liebenstein, a German countess.
For the countess only a bed had been made up on a bedstead.
"Go, then, and monsieur and I will strive our best to forget your absence," replied the countess, with the same tone of deep feeling.
But one day the countess called her son into her room, told him that she had a promissory note from Anna Mihalovna for two thousand roubles, and asked Nikolay what he thought it best to do about it.
The countess was left in the country, and towards the end of January the count took Sonya and Natasha with him to Moscow.
Before the countess burst upon her, she had seen little of Paris.
"What manners! Staying on and on!" said the countess, when she had seen her guests out.
Yes, old chap, I was going to marry the countess. It's true, but it's all off now.
The countess glanced at her daughter, saw her face full of shame for her mother, saw her emotion, felt why her husband would not look at her now, and looked about her with a distracted air.
They did not entertain so many guests as before, but they still lived in that manner, apart from which the count and countess could not have conceived of life at all.
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