Briggs: Pierre has to go briefly to Petersburg, but the marriage is on.
Translation:
XX.
From the first evening, when Natasha, after the departure of Pierre, with a happy-mocking smile told Princess Marya that he was exactly, well exactly from the bathhouses, and shorn in a frock coat, from this minute something hidden and mostly to her unknown, but irresistible, woke up in the soul of Natasha.
All: her face, gait, look, and voice, — all suddenly changed in her. Unexpected for her the most, — the power of life, hopes in happiness surfaced out and required satisfaction. From the first evening Natasha as if forgot all that was with her. She with that since not once complained in her position, not in one word told about the past and was not afraid now to make funny plans for the future. She said little about Pierre, but when Princess Marya mentioned about him, a long time faded shine ignited in her eyes, and her lips winced in a strange smile.
The turn, occurring in Natasha, first amazed Princess Marya; but when she understood its matters, then this turn upset her. "Is it really she so little loved my brother that she so soon could forget him," thought Princess Marya, when she alone considered the occurred change. Yet when she was with Natasha, then she was not angry at her and did not reproach her. The awakened power of life, embracing Natasha, was obviously so irrepressible, so unexpected for her most that Princess Marya in the presence of Natasha felt that she did not have the right to reproach her even in her soul.
Natasha with such completeness and sincerity all gave back the new feeling that she did not try to hide that she was now not sad, but happy and funny.
When, after the night of explanations with Pierre, Princess Marya returned to her room, Natasha met her at the doorstep.
—He said it? Yes? He said it? — she repeated. And a joyful, together with misery, asking for forgiveness for her joy, expression stopped on the face of Natasha.
— I wanted to listen at the door: but I knew that you would tell me.
How understanding, or how touching was for Princess Marya that look which watched on her of Natasha; as it was pitiful to her to see her excitement; but the words of Natasha in the first moment insulted Princess Marya. She remembered about her brother, about his love.
"Yet what again to do! She may not be otherwise," thought Princess Marya; and with a sad and a somewhat strict face delivered to Natasha all that Pierre said to her. Upon hearing that he was going to Petersburg, Natasha was amazed.
— To Petersburg! — she repeated, as would not understanding. Yet peering at the sad expression on the face of Princess Marya, she guessed about her reason for sadness and suddenly cried. — Marie, — she said, — teach me what to do: I am afraid to be bad. What you say, that I will do; teach me...
— You love him?
— Yes, — whispered Natasha.
— About what again do you cry? I am happy for you, — said Princess Marya, for these tears she forgave now the complete joy of Natasha.
— This will not be soon, sometime. You think, what happiness, when I will be his wife, but you come for Nicolas.
— Natasha, I requested you not to speak about that. I will speak about you.
They kept silent.
— Only for what again to Petersburg! — suddenly said Natasha, and she again hastily answered herself: — No, no, this is so needed... Yes, Marie? It is so needed...
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Locations: see previous chapter
Mentioned: St. Petersburg
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: We go to Natasha, who has had happiness and life injected into her. Marya and Natasha discuss Pierre's leaving for Petersburg and the future that the four of them (with Nikolai being the fourth) will have.
End of Volume 4.
Characters (characters who do not appear, but are mentioned are placed in italics. First appearances are in Bold. First mentions are underlined. Final appearance denoted by *):
Natasha
Pierre
Princess Mariya (also "Marie")
Prince Andrei ("brother")
Nikolai ("Nicolas")
End of Part Four in Dunnigan, Briggs, Edmonds, and Mandelker (of course it is the end of the respective books and volumes in these translations as well.)
End of Part Fourth in Dole.
End of Part Fifteen in Garnett.
End of Book Fifteen in Maude.
End of Part the Fifteenth in Wiener.
It is hard to define what it is the end of in Bell, as it is not the end of the volume, but one could probably say that it is the end of the Borodino-French portion of the novel, with, like the other translations, the epilogue starting in the next chapter.
Gibian: End of Book Fifteen.
Fuller: Chapter is preserved and followed by a line break.
Komroff: Entire chapter is cut.
Kropotkin: Chapter 11: End of Part Fifteenth.
Bromfield: Chapter 23: Andrei meets up with Nikolai and "realised that this was more than friendship." Nikolai is going to marry Marya and they meet up with Petya and Denisov. "Unfortunately, however, that particular conquest of a city in which Petya had so greatly rejoined had not pleased the German general who had also desired to conquer it, and since Denisov was under the German's command, the German had reprimanded Denisov and dismissed him from his heroic detachment. Petya only learned about that later, however, and for now he was utterly thrilled and talked unceasingly of the way they had driven out Napoleon, what fine people we Russians are and especially how we all are heroes." They meet with Kutuzov, who tells them to go to the parade. He gives a short speech and Petya says he is dying of ecstasy. A line break is followed by two weddings and the novel ends with "While they were away Pierre, Natasha (now a countess in her own right), Marya and her nephew Coco, the old Count Rostov and his wife and Sonya also stayed on at Otradnoe for the whole summer and the winter of 1813 until Nikolai and Andrei could finally return."
Simmons: Mary's reaction to Natasha's change is shortened. End of Book Fifteen.
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