War and Peace: Original Version. Лев Толстой

laws to Austria from Schönbrunn, he should be relieved of his u. I hereby declare an innovation, to call him simply Bonaparte. Wouldn’t you like some more coffee? Franz!”

      “No, joking apart,” said Prince Andrei, “you are in a position to know. What do you think, how will all this end?”

      “This is what I think. Austria has been left looking foolish, and she is not used to that, and she will repay the favour. And she has been left looking foolish because, in the first place, her provinces are ruined (they say the Army of Orthodoxy is terrible when it comes to plunder), her army is shattered, her capital is captured, and all this for his Sardinian Majesty’s beautiful eyes.”