Briggs: He flirts. The governor's wife advises him against marrying Sonya.
Translation:
V.
Nikolay, with a diverging smile on his face, somewhat bending over at the armchair, sat, closely bending over above the blonde and saying to her mythological compliments.
Changing the smart position of his feet at his pulled leggings, spreading from himself the smell of perfume and admiring his lady and by himself and the beautiful forms of his feet under pulled trousers, Nikolay spoke to the blonde that he wanted to here, in Voronezh, abduct one lady.
— Which again?
— Pretty, divine. In her eyes (Nikolay looked at the interlocutor) is blue, her mouth — coral, white... — he saw her shoulders, — in the camp of Diana...
The husband came up to him and gloomily asked his wife, about what she spoke.
— Ah! Nikita Ivanych, — said Nikolay, courteously getting up. And as would wishing so that for Nikita Ivanych to accept participation in his jokes, he started to inform him of his intention to abduct one blonde.
The husband smiled sullenly, the wife funnily. The good governess with a disapproving look came up to him.
— Anna Ignatevna wants to see you, Nicolas, — she said, so the negligent voice of words: Anna Ignatevna, that Rostov now began to understand that Anna Ignatevna was a very important lady. — Go, Nicolas. Because you allowed so to call you?
— Oh yes, aunt921 who is this?
— Anna Ignatevna Malvintseva. She heard about you from her niece, how you saved her... Do you guess?..
— Whether there was little of her to be saved! — said Nikolay.
— Her niece, Princess Bolkonskaya. She is here in Voronezh with her aunt. Wow, how red! What, or?..
— And not thinking completely, ma tante (aunt).
— Well okay, okay. Oh! What are you!
The governess let him down to a high and very thick old woman in a blue toque, only now finishing their card party with the most important faces in the city. This was Malvintseva, the aunt of Princess Marya by her mother, a rich childless widow, living always in Voronezh. She stood to settle accounts for the cards when Rostov came up to her. She strictly and importantly squinted, looking at him and continued to scold a general, a winner at hers.
— Very happy, my sweet, — she said, stretching to him her hand. — I beg your mercy to me.
Talking about Princess Marya and her dead father, who apparently did not love Malvintseva, and asking about what Nikolay knew about Prince Andrey, who also apparently did not employ her graces, the important old woman let him go, repeating an invitation to be at hers.
Nikolay promised and was again red when bowing to Malvintseva. At the mentioning about Princess Marya, Rostov felt an incomprehensible for him sense of shyness, and even fear.
Walking away from Malvintseva, Rostov wanted to return to the dancing, but the small governess placed her plump hand on the sleeve of Nikolay and said that she needed to talk with him, led him to the sofa, from which arriving to her came out immediately same, so that to not interfere with the governor.
— You know, mon cher (my friend), — said the governess with a severe expression of a small, good face, — here is this the exact party you want to betroth?
— Whom, ma tante (aunt)? — asked Nikolay.
— To betroth the princess. Katerina Petrovna speaks that you are poured, but by me not, — the princess. You want? I am sure, your maman (mama) will thank you. Rightly, what a girl, a beauty! And she really was not so bad.
— Really no, — as would be hurt, said Nikolay. — I, ma tante (aunt), as a soldier should be, I’m nowhere asking from what may not be refused, — said Rostov before he had time to think about what he spoke.
— So remember again: this is not a joke.
— How to joke!
— Yes, yes, — as would with himself saying, said the governess. — But here is what, still, my friend. You also nurse for that blond.922 The husband is really rightly pathetic...
— Ah no, we are friends, — in simplicity and sincerity said Nikolay: now in his head it did not come so that such fun for him in the transmission of time could be for someone not funny.
"What for did I stupidity say however to the governess!" suddenly at dinner remembered Nikolay. "She exactly began to marry off, but Sonya?..." and saying goodbye with the governess, when she smilingly another time said to him: "Well, so remember again," — he took her somewhere to the side:
— But here is what, by truth you say, ma tante (aunt)...
— What, what my friend; go here and sit down.
Nikolay suddenly felt the wish and to miserably say all his sincere thoughts (such that he would not tell his mother, sister, or friends) to this almost foreign woman. Nikolay then, when he remembered about this impulse not caused by, in inexplicable frankness, which had however for him very important consequences, it seemed (as this is and always seems to people), that so, found in a daft mood; but between this rush of frankness, together with other petty events, were for him, and for throughout his family, huge consequences.
— Here is what, ma tante (aunt). Maman (mama) for a long time has wanted for me to marry rich; but to me this idea alone is disgusting, to marry for money.
— Oh yes, I understand, — said the governess.
— But Princess Bolkonskaya, this is another business; Firstly, I to you say the truth, I extremely like her, she is by my heart, and then, after how I met her in such a position, so weird, often in my head came: this is fate. I especially think: maman (mama) for a long time about this has thought, but before I happened to meet her, as all so happened: not met. And in that time, when my sister Natasha was the bride of her brother, because then it could not be to think to marry her. It was needed to the same for me to meet her then, when Natasha’s wedding was upset, well and then all... and here is what. I did not speak to anyone and have not said it but to you alone.
The governor shook him gratefully behind the elbow.
— Do you know Sophie, my cousin? I love her, I promised to betroth and marry her... Therefore you see that about this it may not be to speak, — awkwardly blushing spoke Nikolay.
— My friend, my friend923, how again do you judge? Yes because in Sophie is nothing, but you yourself spoke that the affairs of your papa are very bad. But your maman (mama)? This will kill her, at once. Then Sophie, should she be a girl with heart, how will life be for her? Mother in despair, affairs disturbed... No, mon cher (my friend), you and Sophie must understand this.
Nikolay kept silent. For him nicely was heard these findings.
— All the same, ma tante (aunt), this may not be, — with a sigh he said, keeping a little silent. — And whether you will go for me and the princess? And again she now is in mourning. Can I think about this!
— Yes, don't you think that I will now marry you. In everything there is a manner,924 — said the governess.
— How you are a matchmaker, ma tante (aunt)... — said Nicolas, kissing her chubby hand.
921 ma tante. (my aunt.)
922 mon cher, entre autre. Vous êtes trop assidu auprès de l’autre, la blonde. (My dear, among other things. You are too assiduous to the other, the blonde.)
923 Mon cher, mon cher (my dear, my dear)
924 Il y a manière et manière, (there is a way and a way,)
Locations: Voronezh
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: Marya Bolkonsky's aunt pulls Nikolai aside, which changes Nikolai's mood entirely. The governor's wife tries to arrange a match between Nikolai and Marya and tells Nikolai he is getting too close to the man's wife.
"it had never occurred to him that the pastime which he found so amusing might not be so for someone else."
Nikolai struggles whether or not to tell his heart to the governor's wife and ends up telling her about the predicament between Sonya and Marya he has. The governor's wife convinces him not to marry Sonya and that he will put together a match between him and Marya.
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 *):
Nikolai Rostof (also "Nicolas")
The wife of the Governmental official ("pretty blondinka". Also referred to as "Diana".)
Nikita Ivanuitch (the husband. "Nikita Ivanitch" in Bell and Garnett. "...Ivanovich" in Wiener. "....Ivanych" in Briggs, Maude, and Mandelker.)
The wife of the governor ("the governor's worthy wife" and "ma tante".)
Anna Ignatyevna Malvintseva (as in Dole, Mandelker, and Dunnigan. Edmonds and Garnett just remove the final e. "...Ignatevna Malvintsev" in Wiener. "Anna Ignatievna" and "Madame Malvintzew" in Bell. Princess Marya's aunt. Also "widow".)
Princess Mariya (Also "Princess Bolkonskaya" and "niece".)
Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky ("father")
Prince Andrei (also brother")
Katerina Petrovna
Countess Rostova ("maman" and "mother")
Sonya (also "Sophie")
Natasha (also "sister")
Count Rostof ("papa")
Abridged Versions: Line break instead of chapter break in Bell.
Gibian: line break instead of chapter break.
Fuller: We start with Nikolay being called by Anna Ignatyevna. Rest of chapter is preserved and followed by a line break.
Komroff: The section at the beginning with the wife is severely shortened. The section at the end where Nicholas confesses about Sonya is also removed.
Kropotkin: Chapter is preserved. End of Chapter 3.
Bromfield: No corresponding chapter.
Simmons: The conversation Nicholas has with Nikita's wife is removed. Line break instead of chapter break.
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