The complete works of Count Tolstoy . (??????? ? A Circassiafi Photogravure from Ihotograph. A MOSCOW ACQUAINTANCE AT THE FRONT 31 soldier Andreev, who was doing sentry duty on thebattery, moved up toward me. I declare they have stolen up on us ! A fire could beseen down there, he said. The captain ought to be wakened, I said, looking atGviskov. He stood bent almost to the ground, and stammered,wishing to say something, This — is — disagree— very— funny. He said nothing more, and I did not see howand where he momentarily disappeared. In the captains tent a candle was hghted; there washeard the
The complete works of Count Tolstoy . (??????? ? A Circassiafi Photogravure from Ihotograph. A MOSCOW ACQUAINTANCE AT THE FRONT 31 soldier Andreev, who was doing sentry duty on thebattery, moved up toward me. I declare they have stolen up on us ! A fire could beseen down there, he said. The captain ought to be wakened, I said, looking atGviskov. He stood bent almost to the ground, and stammered,wishing to say something, This — is — disagree— very— funny. He said nothing more, and I did not see howand where he momentarily disappeared. In the captains tent a candle was hghted; there washeard the usual waking cough, and he soon came out,asking for a linstock to light his pipe by. Why is it, he said, smiling, that they will not go to sleep to-day ? At first it is you with your re-duced soldier, and then it is Shamyl. What shall we do ?Shall we return the fire, or not ? Was there nothing saidabout it in the order ? Nothing. There it is again, I said, and this timefrom two. In reahty, toward the right and ahead of us,two fires flashed in the darkness, like two eyes,
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