She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.

As to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved better during those awful moments--the father who so remembered everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his dying father.
"It is painful, but it does one good.

It uplifts the soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son," said she.

Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasili she spoke disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret..