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"Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically:

infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were

abandoned in the center?" he inquired, searching with his eyes

for someone. (Prince Bagration did not ask about the guns on the

left flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at

the very beginning of the action.) "I think I sent you?" he

added, turning to the staff officer on duty.

"One was damaged," answered the staff officer, "and the other I

can't understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had

only just left.... It is true that it was hot there," he added,

modestly.

Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to

the village and had already been sent for.

"Oh, but you were there?" said Prince Bagration, addressing

Prince Andrew.

"Of course, we only just missed one another," said the staff

officer, with a smile to Bolkonski.

"I had not the pleasure of seeing you," said Prince Andrew,

coldly and abruptly.