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All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorukov's saying: "If you go on

modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay," suggesting

consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and

the words of Rostopchin, that French soldiers have to be incited

to battle by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments

to show them that it is more dangerous to run away than to

advance, but that Russian soldiers only need to be restrained and

held back! On all sides, new and fresh anecdotes were heard of

individual examples of heroism shown by our officers and men at

Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another had killed five

Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. Berg was

mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when wounded

in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone forward.

Of Bolkonski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him

intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a

pregnant wife with his eccentric father.