Otradnoe

He had been in Moscow several times, and had passed near Otradnoe, but had never been to see them.

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Though Nicholas Rostov had kept firmly to his resolution and was still serving modestly in an obscure regiment, spending comparatively little, the way of life at Otradnoe —

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In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe — that being his pet dream.

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The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the huntsmen were already nearing it.

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And with an eager face Nicholas began to speak of the possibility of repurchasing Otradnoe before long, and added:

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Yes, first I thought that we are driving along and imagining that we are going home, but that heaven knows where we are really going in the darkness, and that we shall arrive and suddenly find that we are not in Otradnoe, but in

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As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert.

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“You know that from the very day you first came to Otradnoe I have loved you,” she cried, quite convinced that she spoke the truth.

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He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otradnoe wood.

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“My advice to you is finish your business and go back home to Otradnoe ... and wait there.”

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