IN THE MIDDLE of the summer Princess Marya, to her surprise, received a

letter from Prince Andrey, who was in Switzerland. In it he told her strange and

surprising news. He informed his sister of his engagement to the younger Rostov.

His whole letter was full of loving enthusiasm for…

THE wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the

easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet. Only, as

we had no power to anchor, and dared not beach her till the tide had…

ON THE 25TH of August, on the eve of the battle of Borodino, the prefect of

the French Emperor's palace, M. de Beausset, and Colonel Fabvier, arrived, the

former from Paris, and the latter from Madrid, at Napoleon's encampment at

Valuev.

After changing into a court uniform M. de Beausset ordered…

AT FOUR O'CLOCK in the afternoon, Murat's troops entered Moscow. In front

rode a detachment of Würtemberg hussars, behind, with an immense suite, rode the

King of Naples himself.

Near the middle of Arbaty, close to Nikola Yavlenny, Murat halted to await

information from the detachment in advance as to the…