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"Do you remember me?" asked Boris quietly with a pleasant smile.

"I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is

not well."

"Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,"

answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was.

Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider

it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the

least embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face.

"Count Rostov asks you to come to dinner today," said he, after a

considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable.

"Ah, Count Rostov!" exclaimed Pierre joyfully. "Then you are his

son, Ilya? Only fancy, I didn't know you at first. Do you

remember how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?...

It's such an age..."