War and Peace Bibliomancy Reading

This oracle points to a randomly selected line from War and Peace. The surrounding passages are provided for context.

 

Your passage is from BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812-13 - CHAPTER I.

 

For Context: BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812-13 - CHAPTER I

And now it will never, never be possible to put it right.” And now he again seemed to be saying the same words to her, only in her imagination Natásha this time gave him a different answer.

She stopped him and said: “Terrible for you, but not for me!

You know that for me there is nothing in life but you, and to suffer with you is the greatest happiness for me,” and he took her hand and pressed it as he had pressed it that terrible evening four days before his death.

And in her imagination she said other tender and loving words which she might have said then but only spoke now: “I love thee!...

thee!

I love, love...” she said, convulsively pressing her hands and setting her teeth with a desperate effort....

She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this.

Again everything was shrouded in hard, dry perplexity, and again with a strained frown she peered toward the world where he was.

And now, now it seemed to her she was penetrating the mystery....

But at the instant when it seemed that the incomprehensible was revealing itself to her a loud rattle of the door handle struck painfully on her ears.

Dunyásha, her maid, entered the room quickly and abruptly with a frightened look on her face and showing no concern for her mistress.