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But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter

the thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for

help or a chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment

comes and he is alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had

attained what he had longed for more than anything else in the

world, did not know how to approach the Emperor, and a thousand

reasons occurred to him why it would be inconvenient, unseemly,

and impossible to do so.