War and Peace Volume 2 Book 8 Chapter 8

In which the Rostóvs attend an opera in Moscow, and young Natásha, caught between tender sadness and longing, finds herself the centre of admiring glances amidst the glittering society assembled in the boxes. Surrounded by familiar faces and the subtle stirrings of intrigue, she is enwrapped in the radiant spectacle of music, beauty, and youthful emotion that the evening unfolds.