War And Peace: Book 11 - CHAPTER VII

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ELLEN perceived that the matter was very simple and easy from the

ecclesiastical point of view, but that her spiritual counsellors raised

difficulties simply because they were apprehensive of the way in which it might

be looked at by the temporal authorities.

And, consequently, Ellen decided in her own mind that the way must be paved

for society to look at the matter in the true light. She excited the jealousy of

the old dignitary, and said the same thing to him as she had to her other

suitor—that is, gave him to understand that the sole means of obtaining

exclusive rights over her was to marry her. The elderly dignitary was, like the

young foreign prince, for the first moment taken aback at this proposal of

marriage from a wife whose husband was living. But Ellen's unfaltering

confidence in asserting that it was a matter as simple and natural as the

marriage of an unmarried girl had its effect on him too. Had the slightest

traces of hesitation, shame, or reserve been perceptible in Ellen herself, her

case would have been undoubtedly lost. But far from it; with perfect directness

and simple-hearted na

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