ah anatole where are you off too pierre good man tonight i go away on an adventure youll not be seeing me for some time ive found a new pleasure and im taking her away ill send you a letter from poland ha an elopement fool you are married already dont talk to me of that i will not deprive myself of this one tonight i take her tonight lend me fifty rubles ah that s a true sage living in the moment what i wouldnt give to be like him the plan for natalie rostovas abduction had all been arranged and the preparations made on the day that sonya decided to save her that was the day that the game was to be played natasha was to be on her back porch at ten anatole and his troika would scoop her up and then theyd ride forty miles to the village of kamenka where an unfrocked priest was to make em get wed then back into the troika off theyd go take the poland highroad to the wedding bed  passports horses ten thousand rubles i have taken from my sister and another ten thousand raised with dolokhovs help we were gathered in my study drinking up some tea just anatole the two wedding witnesses and me an abacus and paper money strewn on the desk persian rugs and bearskins hanging grotesque anatole was walking with his uniform unbuttoned walking to and fro to and fro to and fro to and fro to and fro to and fro to and fro now wait you better just give it up now why dontcha while theres still time youd really better drop it all give it up now while theres still time do you know what teasing again fool dont talk nonsense go to the devil eh really this is no time for your stupid jokes i am not joking i am talking sense this is serious business a dangerous business come here come here come here anatole why would i joke about it me of all people who found the priest raised the money got the passports got the horses and well i thank you for it do you think i am not grateful and now youll carry her away but will they let it stop there you havent thought this through or do you just dont care now listen to me tell it to you one last time they will take you to the court and convict you for your crime already married and youre playing with a little girl dont you know dont you think dont you know nonsense nonsense im scowling and grimacing didnt i explain it to you didnt i what and here anatole with the stubborn attachment small minded people have for conclusions theyve worked out for themselves repeated his argument to me for the hundredth time if this marriage isnt valid then im off the hook but if it is valid it really doesnt matter no one abroad is gonna know a thing about it isnt that so now dont you know dont talk to me dont dont what what ah go to hell now im clutching my hair its the very devil here feel how it beats ah ma chere ma chere quel pied quel regard what a foot she has what a glance a goddess and my handsome lips mutter something tender to myself its time its time now then nearly ready youre dawdling the driver is here the driver is here balaga is here 2