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The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult

dispositions. The tall, fair-haired General Buxhowden stood,

leaning his back against the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning

candle, and seemed not to listen or even to wish to be thought to

listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open

eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the

ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned

outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. He

remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, and only

turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished

reading. Then Miloradovich looked round significantly at the

other generals. But one could not tell from that significant look

whether he agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the

arrangements.