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ANTIQUE UMBRELLA STANDS: to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with antique umbrella stands jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over antique umbrella stands heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms. In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become antique umbrella stands instead of black. antique umbrella stands regimental commander walked with his jerky steps to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. "Whatever is this? This!" he shouted and stood still. "Commander of the third company!" "Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to the general... third company to the commander." The words passed along the lines and an adjutant ran antique umbrella stands look for the missing officer. When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in a cry of: "The general to the third company," the missing officerANTIQUE UMBRELLA STANDS: appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his toes toward the general. The captain's face showed the uneasiness of a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson antique umbrella stands has not learned. Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched antique umbrella stands The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he antique umbrella stands "You will soon be dressing your antique umbrella stands in petticoats! What is antique umbrella stands shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish cloth, which contrasted with the others. "What have you been after? The commander in chief is expected
ANTIQUE UMBRELLA STANDS: and you leave your place? Eh? I'll teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?" The antique umbrella stands of antique umbrella stands company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this pressure lay his only hope of salvation. "Well, why don't you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a Hungarian?" said the commander with an austere gibe. "Your excellency..." "Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your excellency?... nobody knows." "Your excellency, it's the officer Dolokhov, who has been antique umbrella stands to the ranks," said the captain softly. "Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or antique umbrella stands a soldier? If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the others." "Your excellency, you antique umbrella stands him leave yourself,
ANTIQUE UMBRELLA STANDS: on the march." "Gave him leave? Leave? That's just like you young men," said the regimental commander cooling down a little. "Leave indeed.... One says a word to you and you... What?" he added with renewed antique umbrella stands "I beg you to dress your men decently." And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse antique umbrella stands wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished antique umbrella stands at another because his line was not straight, he reached the third antique umbrella stands "H-o-o-w are you standing? Where's your leg? Your leg?" shouted the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were antique umbrella stands five men between him and Dolokhov with his bluish-gray
ANTIQUE UMBRELLA STANDS: uniform. antique umbrella stands slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his clear, insolent eyes in the general's face. "Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... the ras..." he did not finish. "General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure..." Dolokhov hurriedly interrupted. "No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!" "Not bound to endure insults," Dolokhov concluded in loud, ringing tones. The antique umbrella stands of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, angrily pulling down his tight scarf. "I request you to have the goodness to change your coat," he said as he turned away. CHAPTER II "He's antique umbrella stands shouted the signaler at that moment. The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup with trembling hands, threw his body across the antique umbrella stands righted himself, drew
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