Berg had been betrothed more than a month , and it was only a week before the date fixed for the wedding , but the count was still unable to come to a decision on the subject of the dowry , and had not spoken of it to his wife 贝格已经当了一个多月的未婚夫，离举行婚礼只有一个星期，伯爵还没有解决备办嫁妆的问题，也没有亲自和妻子提及这件事。
Nikolay did not go to moscow , the countess did not renew her conversations with him about matrimony , and with grief , and sometimes with exasperation , saw symptoms of a growing attachment between her son and the portionless sonya 尼古拉没有到莫斯科去，伯爵夫人不再跟他谈到结婚的事情，她很忧愁地有时愤恨地看见她儿子和没有嫁妆的索尼娅越来越接近的迹象。
In all difficulties with his son , the old count could never lose his sense of guiltiness to him for having wasted their fortunes , and so he could not feel angry with his son for refusing to marry an heiress and choosing the portionless sonya . he only felt more keenly that if their fortune had not been squandered , no better wife could have been desired for nikolay than sonya ; and that he , with his mitenka and his invincible bad habits , was alone to blame for their fortune having been squandered 虽然他和儿子争吵，但是他常常意识到，他的事业受到挫折，因而在男儿面前犯有过错，儿子拒绝娶那个有钱的未婚女子，而挑选没有嫁妆的索尼娅，他不能因为此事而对他儿子表示忿懑，只有这时他才更加鲜明地想到，如果不是事业受到挫折，对尼古拉来说，决不能指望找到一个比索尼娅更好的妻子，事业受到挫折只能归罪于他和他的米坚卡，还有他那不可克服的习惯势力。
