. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. were closed. The streetsand alleys were deserted. The air reeked with fumes andsmoke. Now and then he met Eussians with restlessand timid faces and Frenchmen with an uncityhke, camplook, walking in the middle of the streets. Both lookedin surprise at Pierre. In addition to his great size andfatness, and the strange, gloomHy concentrated and suffer-ing expression of his face and whole figure, the Eussianslooked at Pierre because they could not make out to whatcondition that man might belong. The Frenchmen, onthe contrary, followed him with their eyes, beca
. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. were closed. The streetsand alleys were deserted. The air reeked with fumes andsmoke. Now and then he met Eussians with restlessand timid faces and Frenchmen with an uncityhke, camplook, walking in the middle of the streets. Both lookedin surprise at Pierre. In addition to his great size andfatness, and the strange, gloomHy concentrated and suffer-ing expression of his face and whole figure, the Eussianslooked at Pierre because they could not make out to whatcondition that man might belong. The Frenchmen, onthe contrary, followed him with their eyes, because Pierre,unhke all the other Eussians, who looked at the French-men with fear or curiosity, paid not the least attention tothem. At the gate of one of the houses three Frenchmen,who were talking to some Eussians without being under-stood by them, stopped Pierre, asking him whether heknew French. ^idt. M(jit6iM6l1noO эг1Т .nilrnai^l arlt n\ In the Kremlin. The Conflagration Photograv lire from Paintiiit:; by Iasilt Vcrcshchdgin. WAR AND PEACE 551 Pierre gave a negative shake of his head and walkedon. In another alley a sentry, standing near a green cais-son, called out to him, and only after his repeated threateningcall and the sound of his gun which he took up, did Pierreunderstand that he had to walk around the caisson on theother side of the street. He neither heard nor saw any-thing about him. He carried his intention within him inhaste and dread, as something terrible and foreign to him,fearing, from his experience of the night before, that hemight lose it. But Pierre was not destined to carry hisframe of mind intact to the place toward which he wastending. Besides, even if he had not been delayed byany one on his way, his intention could not have beencarried out for the simple reason that Napoleon had fourhours before gone from the Dorogomilov Suburb over theArbdt to the Kremlin, and now was sitting, in the gloom-iest of moods, in the Tsars cabinet in the Kremlin p
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