He will come at about one in the morning to administer the communion to our more afflicted sufferers, those who cannot move and who have to eat at daybreak.

You will be able to assist him." Pierre thereupon followed Madame de Jonquiere, who installed him at the head of Marie's bed.

"My dear child," she said to the girl, "I have brought you somebody who is very fond of you.

You will be able to chat with him, and you will be reasonable now, won't you ?" Marie, however, on recognising Pierre, gazed at him with an air of exasperated suffering, a black, stern expression of revolt.
"Would you like him to read something to you," resumed Madame de Jonquiere, "something that would ease and console you as he did in the train?
No?
It wouldn't interest you, you don't care for it?
Well, we will see by-and-by.

I will leave him with you, and I am sure you will be quite reasonable again in a few minutes." Pierre then began speaking to her in a low voice, saying all the kind consoling things that his heart could think of, and entreating her not to allow herself to sink into such despair.