"What's it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat is now rushing along the road to Brunn and will be here in a day or two.

" "What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was mined?" "That is what I ask you.

No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.

" Bolkonski shrugged his shoulders.