" Rostov considered, and then went in the direction where they said he would be killed.

"It's all the same now.

If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to save myself?" he thought.

He rode on to the region where the greatest number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen.

The French had not yet occupied that region, and the Russians--the uninjured and slightly wounded--had left it long ago.