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Field of battle, to a general standing beside him. The general, who received this order, ran by Pierre down the descent from the mound. To ride across! the general said coldly and severely, in answer to a question from one of the staff. And I too, I too, thought Pierre, and he went in the same direction. The general mounted a horse, led up to him by a Cossack. Pierre went up to the groom, who was holding his horses.

 

Asking him which was the quietest, Pierre got on it, clutched at the horse's mane, pressed his heels into the beast's stomach, and feeling that his spectacles were slipping off, and that he was incapable of letting go of the mane and the window handle reins, he galloped after the general, followed by smiles from the staff officers staring at him from the mound. THE GENERAL after whom Pierre galloped trotted downhill, turned off sharply to the left, and Pierre, losing sight of him, galloped into the middle of a battalion of infantry marching ahead of him.

 

He tried to get away from them, turning to left and to right; but there were soldiers everywhere, all with the same anxious faces, preoccupied with some unseen, but evidently serious, business. They all looked with the same expression of annoyed inquiry at the stout man in the white hat, who was, for some unknown reason, trampling them under his http://www.door-fitting.com/

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