When he thought of Sonya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, "Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom I do not yet know.

There will be time enough to think about love when I want to, but now I have no time.

" Besides, it seemed to him that the society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood.

He went to balls and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his will.

The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a dashing young hussar! At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club.