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"Hardly," said Bagration. "I saw them this evening on that knoll;

if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too....

Officer!" said Bagration to Rostov, "are the enemy's skirmishers

still there?"

"They were there this evening, but now I don't know, your

excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?" replied

Rostov.

Bagration stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostov's

face in the mist.

"Well, go and see," he said, after a pause.

"Yes, sir."