War And Peace: Book 13 - CHAPTER XVII

作者: Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

LIKE ALL OLD PEOPLE, Kutuzov slept little at night. He often dropped into

sudden naps during the daytime, but at night he lay on his bed without

undressing, and generally not asleep but thinking.

He was lying like that now on his bedstead, his huge, heavy, misshapen head

leaning on his fat hand. He was thinking with his one eye wide open, gazing into

the darkness.

Since Bennigsen, who was in correspondence with the Tsar and had more weight

than all the rest of the staff, had avoided him, Kutuzov was more at ease so far

as not being compelled to lead his soldiers into useless offensive operations.

The lesson of Tarutino and the day before the battle, a memory that rankled in

Kutuzov's mind, must, he thought, have its effect on them too.

“They ought to understand that we can but lose by taking the offensive. Time

and patience, these are my champions!” thought Kutuzov. He knew the apple must

not be picked while it was green. It will fall of itself when ripe, but if you

pick it green, you spoil the apple and the tree and set your teeth on edge. Like

an experienced hunter, he knew the beast was wounded, wounded as only the whole

force of Russia could wound it; but whether to death or not, was a question not

yet solved. Now from the sending of Lauriston and Bertemy, and from the reports

brought by the irregulars, Kutuzov was almost sure that the wound was a deadly

one. But more proof was wanted; he must wait.

“They want to run and look how they have wounded him. Wait a bit, you will

see. Always man

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