The Complete Works of Lyof N Tolsto?

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To what committee has my Memorandum been given ? inquired Prince Andrei. To the Committee on the Revision j)f the Military Code7and 1 TTavje added your nobility to the list, but without salary. ' Prince Andrei smiled. I should wish no salary. An honorary member, without salary, reiterated Arakcheyef. I...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To what committee has my Memorandum been given ? inquired Prince Andrei. To the Committee on the Revision j)f the Military Code7and 1 TTavje added your nobility to the list, but without salary. ' Prince Andrei smiled. I should wish no salary. An honorary member, without salary, reiterated Arakcheyef. I have the honor of .... Hey there, come in Who's next? he shouted, bowing to Prince Andrei. CHAPTER V While waiting for the formal notification of his appointment as a member of the committee, Prince Andrei took pains to renew former acquaintances, especially with persons who, as he knew, were in power, and might be of assistance to him. He now experienced in Petersburg a feeling analogous to that which he had experienced on the eve of a battle, when a restlessness and sense of curiosity had invincibly attracted him toward those lofty spheres where the future is prepared, on which depends the fate of millions. By the angry criticisms of the older men, by the curiosity of the uninitiated, by the reserve of those who knew, by the eagerness and activity of all, by the portentous increase in committees and commissions, ? new ones being, as he. knew, appointed every day, ?he felt certain that there and then, in the year 1809, in Petersburg, some mighty civil conflict was inpreparation, and that thp'fesio Thgge'niu's' of itJ as yet unknown to him, endowed in his fancy with mysterious qualities, with genius, -? Mikhail Speransky. And this vaguely understood fact of reform, and Speransky, its leader, began to interest him so intensely that the matter of the military code was very soon relegated to a secondary place in his mind. Prince Andrei found himself in the most advantageous position for being well received in the most varied and lofty cir...