Footnotes and Tangents

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BOOK ONE

Book One, Part Three

Chapter 15

The overseer at Bald Hills is clearing the road of snow because “the minister”, Vasili Kuragin, is coming. Bolkonsky tells him that this road is not swept for his daughter, so it should not be swept for Kuragin. “Throw the snow back on the road!”

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