1 Life as it is leaves one no peace.
2 The conversation naturally turned on the peace.
3 But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace.
4 In Moscow he felt at peace, at home, warm and dirty as in an old dressing gown.
5 With her, he said, he could not have a moment's peace and could not die quietly.
6 But however much they left her in peace she could not now be at peace, and immediately felt this.
7 The officers, his comrades, like most of the army, were dissatisfied with the peace concluded after the battle of Friedland.
8 Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.
9 Murat declared that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
10 They talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement.
11 Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte.
12 When dispatching Balashev, the Emperor repeated to him the words that he would not make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and told him to transmit those words to Napoleon.
13 I wished to meditate, but instead my imagination pictured an occurrence of four years ago, when Dolokhov, meeting me in Moscow after our duel, said he hoped I was enjoying perfect peace of mind in spite of my wife's absence.
14 He was already enjoying that happiness when that little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments had followed, and only the heavens promised peace.
15 To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by a real desire for peace.
16 On returning home at two o'clock that night he sent for his secretary, Shishkov, and told him to write an order to the troops and a rescript to Field Marshal Prince Saltykov, in which he insisted on the words being inserted that he would not make peace so long as a single armed Frenchman remained on Russian soil.
17 "Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace," said she in a voice trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold setting, on a finely wrought silver chain.
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