ANTIQUE POTTERY: and motionless, gazing at the moonlight through the frosty windowpanes. CHAPTER XIII Soon antique pottery the Christmas holidays Nicholas told his mother of his love for Sonya and of his firm resolve to marry her. The countess, who had long noticed what was going on between them and was expecting this declaration, listened to him in silence and then told her son that he might antique pottery whom he pleased, but that neither she nor his father would give their blessing to such a marriage. Nicholas, for the first time, felt that his mother was displeased with him and that, despite herANTIQUE POTTERY: love for him, she would not give antique pottery Coldly, without looking at her son, she sent for her husband and, when he came, tried briefly and coldly to inform him of the facts, in her son's presence, but unable to restrain herself she burst into tears of vexation and left the room. The old count began irresolutely to admonish Nicholas and beg him to abandon his purpose. Nicholas replied that he could not go back on his word, and his father, sighing and evidently disconcerted, very soon became antique pottery and went in to the countess. In all his encounters with
ANTIQUE POTTERY: his son, the count was always conscious of his own guilt toward him for having wasted the family fortune, and so he could not be angry with him for refusing to marry an heiress and choosing the dowerless Sonya. On this occasion, he was only more vividly conscious of the fact that if his affairs had not been in disorder, no better wife for Nicholas than Sonya could have been wished for, and that no one but himself with his Mitenka antique pottery his uncomfortable habits was to blame for the condition of the family finances. The father and mother did
ANTIQUE POTTERY: not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty antique pottery of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude. Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess' cruel words, without understanding what was required of her. She was ready to sacrifice everything for her antique pottery Self-sacrifice was her most cherished idea but in this case she could not see what she ought to sacrifice, or for whom. She could not help loving the countess and the whole Rostov family, but
ANTIQUE POTTERY: neither could she help loving Nicholas and knowing that his happiness depended on that love. She was silent and sad and did not reply. Nicholas felt the situation to be intolerable and went to have an explanation with his mother. He first implored her to forgive him and Sonya and consent to their marriage, then he threatened that if she molested antique pottery he would at once marry her secretly. The countess, with a coldness her son had never seen in her antique pottery replied that he was of age, that Prince Andrew was marrying without his father's consent, and he could
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