Andrew   and at Anna Pavlovna s they listen to me  And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist  and those women    If you only knew what those society women are  and women in general  My father is right  Selfish  vain  stupid  trivial in everything  that s what women are when you see them in their true colors  When you meet them in society it seems as if there were something in them  but there s nothing  nothing  nothing  No  don t marry  my dear fellow  don t marry   concluded Prince  It seems funny to me   said Pierre   that you  you should consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life  You have everything before you  everything  And you     He did not finish his sentence  but his tone showed how highly he thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future   How can he talk like that   thought Pierre  He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked  and which might be best described as strength of will  Pierre was always astonished at Prince Andrew s calm manner of treating everybody  his extraordinary memory  his extensive reading  he had read everything  knew everything  and had an opinion about everything   but above all at his capacity for work and study  And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew s lack of capacity for zfJYPr