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While these conversations were going on in the reception room and

the princess' room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been

sent for) and Anna Mikhaylovna (who found it necessary to

accompany him) was driving into the court of Count Bezukhov's

house. As the wheels rolled softly over the straw beneath the

windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, having turned with words of comfort to

her companion, realized that he was asleep in his corner and woke

him up. Rousing himself, Pierre followed Anna Mikhaylovna out of

the carriage, and only then began to think of the interview with

his dying father which awaited him. He noticed that they had not

come to the front entrance but to the back door. While he was

getting down from the carriage steps two men, who looked like

tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the

shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several

other men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on

both sides.