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The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading their cleanliness and discipline.


They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.


The regiments had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand Duke's orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on which the Guards prided themselves), the office ... of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkonski, through whom he hoped to obtain a post on the commander-in-chief's staff.


Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.


Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees.


Boris, in the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg's move, and watched his opponent's face, evidently thinking about the game as he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on.


Boris rose to meet Rostov, but in doing so did not omit to steady and replace some chessmen that were falling.


He was about to embrace his friend, but Nicholas avoided him.


With that peculiar feeling of youth, that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas wished to do something special on meeting his friend.


He wanted to pinch him, push him, do anything but kiss him-a thing everybody did.


But notwithstanding this, Boris embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and kissed him three times.


"The chessmen are set up, the game will begin tomorrow!"
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