War And Peace: Book 11 - CHAPTER XXIX

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AS THE FRENCH OFFICER drew Pierre with him into the room, the latter thought

it his duty to assure the captain again that he was not a Frenchman, and would

have withdrawn, but the French officer would not hear of it. He was so

courteous, polite, good-humoured, and genuinely grateful to him for saving his

life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the

dining-room, the first room they entered. To Pierre's asseveration that he was

not a Frenchman, the captain, plainly unable to comprehend how any one could

refuse so flattering a title, shrugged his shoulders, and said that if he

insisted in passing for a Russian, so be it, but that in spite of that he should

yet feel bound to him for ever by sentiments of gratitude for the defence of his

life.

If this man had been endowed with even the slightest faculty of perceiving

the feelings of others, and had had the faintest inkling of Pierre's sentiments,

the latter would probably have left him. But his lively impenetrability to

everything not himself vanquished Pierre.

“Frenchman or Russian prince incognito,” said the Frenchman, looking at

Pierre's fine, though dirty linen, and the ring on his finger; “I owe my life to

you, and I offer you my friendship. A Frenchman never forgets an insult or a

service. I offer you my friendship. That's all I say.”

In the tones of the voice, the expression of the face, and the gestures of

the officer, there was so much na

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