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"
What
is
it
you
wish
,
Colonel
?
I
am
at
your
service
.
"
"
I
have
now
quite
settled
in
my
new
rooms
,
Count
"
(
Berg
said
this
with
perfect
conviction
that
this
information
could
not
but
be
agreeable
)
,
"
and
so
I
wish
to
arrange
just
a
small
party
for
my
own
and
my
wife
's
friends
.
"
(
He
smiled
still
more
pleasantly
.
)
"
I
wished
to
ask
the
countess
and
you
to
do
me
the
honor
of
coming
to
tea
and
to
supper
.
"
Only
Countess
Hélène
,
considering
the
society
of
such
people
as
the
Bergs
beneath
her
,
could
be
cruel
enough
to
refuse
such
an
invitation
.
Berg
explained
so
clearly
why
he
wanted
to
collect
at
his
house
a
small
but
select
company
,
and
why
this
would
give
him
pleasure
,
and
why
though
he
grudged
spending
money
on
cards
or
anything
harmful
,
he
was
prepared
to
run
into
some
expense
for
the
sake
of
good
society
--
that
Pierre
could
not
refuse
,
and
promised
to
come
.
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"
But
do
n't
be
late
,
Count
,
if
I
may
venture
to
ask
;
about
ten
minutes
to
eight
,
please
.
We
shall
make
up
a
rubber
.
Our
general
is
coming
.
He
is
very
good
to
me
.
We
shall
have
supper
,
Count
.
So
you
will
do
me
the
favor
.
"
Contrary
to
his
habit
of
being
late
,
Pierre
on
that
day
arrived
at
the
Bergs
'
house
,
not
at
ten
but
at
fifteen
minutes
to
eight
.
Having
prepared
everything
necessary
for
the
party
,
the
Bergs
were
ready
for
their
guests
'
arrival
.
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In
their
new
,
clean
,
and
light
study
with
its
small
busts
and
pictures
and
new
furniture
sat
Berg
and
his
wife
.
Berg
,
closely
buttoned
up
in
his
new
uniform
,
sat
beside
his
wife
explaining
to
her
that
one
always
could
and
should
be
acquainted
with
people
above
one
,
because
only
then
does
one
get
satisfaction
from
acquaintances
.
"
You
can
get
to
know
something
,
you
can
ask
for
something
.
See
how
I
managed
from
my
first
promotion
.
"
(
Berg
measured
his
life
not
by
years
but
by
promotions
.
)
"
My
comrades
are
still
nobodies
,
while
I
am
only
waiting
for
a
vacancy
to
command
a
regiment
,
and
have
the
happiness
to
be
your
husband
.
"
(
He
rose
and
kissed
Véra
's
hand
,
and
on
the
way
to
her
straightened
out
a
turned-up
corner
of
the
carpet
.
)
"
And
how
have
I
obtained
all
this
?
Chiefly
by
knowing
how
to
choose
my
aquaintances
.
It
goes
without
saying
that
one
must
be
conscientious
and
methodical
.
"
Berg
smiled
with
a
sense
of
his
superiority
over
a
weak
woman
,
and
paused
,
reflecting
that
this
dear
wife
of
his
was
after
all
but
a
weak
woman
who
could
not
understand
all
that
constitutes
a
man
's
dignity
,
what
it
was
ein
Mann
zu
sein
.
*
Véra
at
the
same
time
smiling
with
a
sense
of
superiority
over
her
good
,
conscientious
husband
,
who
all
the
same
understood
life
wrongly
,
as
according
to
Véra
all
men
did
.
Berg
,
judging
by
his
wife
,
thought
all
women
weak
and
foolish
.