War And Peace: Book 3 - CHAPTER XVI

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KUTUZOV, accompanied by his adjutants, followed the carabineers at a walking

pace.

After going on for half a mile at the tail of the column, he stopped at a

solitary, deserted house (probably once an inn), near the branching of two

roads. Both roads led downhill, and troops were marching along both.

The fog was beginning to part, and a mile and a half away the enemy's troops

could be indistinctly seen on the opposite heights. On the left below, the

firing became more distinct. Kutuzov stood still in conversation with an

Austrian general. Prince Andrey standing a little behind watched them intently,

and turned to an adjutant, meaning to ask him for a field-glass.

“Look, look!” this adjutant said, looking not at the troops in the distance,

but down the hill before him. “It's the French!”

The two generals and the adjutant began snatching at the field-glass, pulling

it from one another. All their faces suddenly changed, and horror was apparent

in them all. They had supposed the French to be over a mile and a half away, and

here they were all of a sudden confronting us.

“Is it the enemy? … No. … But, look, it is … for certain.… What does it

mean?” voices were heard saying.

With the naked eye Prince Andrey saw to the right, below them, a dense column

of French soldiers coming up towards the Apsheron regiment, not over five

hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing.

“Here it is, it is coming, the decisive moment! My moment has come,” thought

Prince Andrey, and slashing his horse, he rode up to Kutuzov.

“We must stop the Apsheron regiment,” he shouted, “your most high

excellency.”

But at that instant everything was lost in a cloud of smoke, there was a

sound of firing close by, and a voice in na

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