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Him and Compeyson had been in a bad thing with a rich lady some years afore, and they'd made a pot of money by it; but Compeyson betted and gamed, and he'd have run through the king's taxes.

You'd have betted a hundred pound to five, now, that you wouldn't have seen me here, wouldn't you?

The right thing now was, if not to retire from the service, at any rate to go home on leave.


Why he had to go he did not know; but after his after-dinner nap he gave orders to saddle Mars, an extremely vicious gray stallion that had not been ridden for a long time, and when he returned with the horse all in a lather, he informed Lavrushka (Denisov's servant who had remained with him) and his comrades who turned up in the evening that he was applying for leave and was going home.


Difficult and strange as it was for him to reflect that he would go away without having heard from the staff-and this interested him extremely-whether he was promoted to a captaincy or would receive the Order of St.


Anne for the last maneuvers; strange as it was to think that he would go away without having sold his three roans to the Polish Count Golukhovski, who was bargaining for the horses Rostov had betted he would sell for two thousand rubles; incomprehensible as it seemed that the ball the hussars were giving in honor of the Polish Mademoiselle Przazdziecka (out of rivalry to the uhlans who had given one in honor of their Polish Mademoiselle Borzozowska) would take place without him-he knew he must go away from this good, bright world to somewhere where everything was stupid and confused.


A week later he obtained his leave.


His hussar comrades-not only those of his own regiment, but the whole brigade-gave Rostov a dinner to which the subscription was fifteen rubles a head, and at which there were two bands and two choirs of singers.


Rostov danced the Trepak with Major Basov; the tipsy officers tossed, embraced, and dropped Rostov; the soldiers of the third squadron tossed him too, and shouted "hurrah!" and then they put him in his sleigh and escorted him as far as the first post station.



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