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"What is the commander in chief doing here?" he asked.

"I can't make out at all," said Nesvitski.

"Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable,

abominable, quite abominable!" said Prince Andrew, and he went

off to the house where the commander in chief was.

Passing by Kutuzov's carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of

his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together,

Prince Andrew entered the passage. Kutuzov himself, he was told,

was in the house with Prince Bagration and Weyrother. Weyrother

was the Austrian general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the

passage little Kozlovski was squatting on his heels in front of a

clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned up, was hastily writing at a

tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlovski's face looked worn-he too

had evidently not slept all night. He glanced at Prince Andrew

and did not even nod to him.

"Second line... have you written it?" he continued dictating to

the clerk. "The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian..."