" "Yes, that must be so," thought Pierre, when after these words the Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation.

" It must be so, but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only now gradually opening before me.

" But five of the other virtues which Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially obedience--which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy.