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He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass

(and he himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through

fire and water, commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest

heroism, and so he could not but tremble and his heart stand

still at the imminence of that word.

"Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" thundered from all sides, one regiment

after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march,

and then "Hurrah!"... Then the general march, and again "Hurrah!

Hurrah!" growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a

deafening roar.