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The vesicles and prostate may be looked upon as the commissariat of the army of spermatozoa; the vesicles accumulating a stock of supplies to be drawn upon at short notice; the prostate representing a factory where a considerable quantity of supplies can be prepared at short notice.

Without this omnipresent animal, and the supply of good meat that each white flag represented, the commissariat difficulties of the settlers who won the country as far westward as Indiana would have been many times greater than they were.

"This is how I look at this affair: I know nothing about it and won't begin proceedings, but I advise you to ride over to the staff and settle the business there in the commissariat department and if possible sign a receipt for such and such stores received.


If not, as the demand was booked against an infantry regiment, there will be a row and the affair may end badly.


" Denisov spoke contemptuously of the whole matter, but Rostov knew him too well not to detect that (while hiding it from others) at heart he feared a court-martial and was worried over the affair, which was evidently taking a bad turn.


Every day, letters of inquiry and notices from the court arrived, and on the first of May, Denisov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division to explain his violence at the commissariat office.


On the previous day Platov reconnoitered with two Cossack regiments and two squadrons of hussars.


Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage.


A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg.


Perhaps at another time Denisov would not have left the regiment for so slight a wound, but now he took advantage of it to excuse himself from appearing at the staff and went into hospital.


Just then a commissariat soldier, a hospital orderly, came in from the next room, marching stiffly, and drew up in front of Rostov.


Rostov even noticed that Denisov did not like to be reminded of the regiment, or in general of that other free life which was going on outside the hospital.


He seemed to try to forget that old life and was only interested in the affair with the commissariat officers.


On Rostov's inquiry as to how the matter stood, he at once produced from under his pillow a paper he had received from the commission and the rough draft of his answer to it.


He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies.


His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov-a fresh arrival from the world outside-gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer.


Rostov noticed by their faces that all those gentlemen had already heard that story more than once and were tired of it.


Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly.


In the middle of the reading, the Uhlan interrupted Denisov.


"It seems it's no use knocking one's head against a wall!" he said, coming from the window and giving Rostov a large envelope.


In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.


At the council at Fili the prevailing thought in the minds of the Russian commanders was the one naturally suggesting itself, namely, a direct retreat by the Nizhni road.


In proof of this there is the fact that the majority of the council voted for such a retreat, and above all there is the well-known conversation after the council, between the commander in chief and Lanskoy, who was in charge of the commissariat department.


Lanskoy informed the commander-in-chief that the army supplies were for the most part stored along the Oka in the Tula and Ryazan provinces, and that if they retreated on Nizhni the army would be separated from its supplies by the broad river Oka, which cannot be crossed early in winter.


This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course-a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.


The army turned more to the south, along the Ryazan road and nearer to its supplies.


Subsequently the inactivity of the French (who even lost sight of the Russian army), concern for the safety of the arsenal at Tula, and especially the advantages of drawing nearer to its supplies caused the army to turn still further south to the Tula road.


Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.


Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom, it was decided to move to Tarutino.


Only when the army had got there, as the result of innumerable and varying forces, did people begin to assure themselves that they had desired this movement and long ago foreseen its result.


The officers, who had come from the other sheds, were all strangers to Pierre and much better dressed than he.


They looked at him and at his shoes mistrustfully, as at an alien.


Not far from him walked a fat major with a sallow, bloated, angry face, who was wearing a Kazan dressing gown tied round with a towel, and who evidently enjoyed the respect of his fellow prisoners.


He kept one hand, in which he clasped his tobacco pouch, inside the bosom of his dressin ... of his pipe firmly with the other.


Panting and puffing, the major grumbled and growled at everybody because he thought he was being pushed and that they were all hurrying when they had nowhere to hurry to and were all surprised at something when there was nothing to be surprised at.


Another, a thin little officer, was speaking to everyone, conjecturing where they were now being taken and how far they would get that day.


An official in felt boots and wearing a commissariat uniform ran round from side to side and gazed at the ruins of Moscow, loudly announcing his observations as to what had been burned down and what this or that part of the city was that they could see.


A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow.


Miloradovich, who said he did not want to know anything about the commissariat affairs of his detachment, and could never be found when he was wanted-that chevalier sans peur et sans reproche * as he styled himself-who was fond of parleys with the French, sent envoys demanding their surrender, wasted time, and did not do what he was ordered to do.


One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched conditions the Russian soldiers were in at that time-lacking warm boots and sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow with eighteen degrees of frost, and without even full rations (the commissariat did not always keep up with the troops)-they would have presented a very sad and depressing spectacle.


During the last days of Pierre's stay in Orel his old masonic acquaintance Count Willarski, who had introduced him to the lodge in 1807, came to see him.


Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town.



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