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While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced

general, that gentleman-evidently not sharing Boris' conception

of the advantages of the unwritten code of subordination-looked

so fixedly at the presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his

finishing what he had to say to the adjutant that Boris felt

uncomfortable. He turned away and waited impatiently for Prince

Andrew's return from the commander in chief's room.