*[2] Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this way," he added in Russian--but pronouncing the word with a French accent--having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him.

*"Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!" *[2] "It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for you.

" He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.

The Pavlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau.

The squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the German village of Salzeneck.