Chapter 9 Chapter nine

Petya and Dolokhov put on their French army overcoats and caps, and drove towards the clearing where Denisov was observing the enemy's camp. It was completely dark, and they came out of the woods and into the depression. inside.Once at the bottom, Dolokhov ordered his Cossacks to wait for them there, and drove down the road to the bridge.Petya rode beside him, and he was out of breath with excitement. "If it falls into the hands of the enemy, I will never let them take it alive. I have a gun." Petya whispered. "Don't speak Russian," Dolokhov whispered hastily in his ear, and at that moment a voice called out in the darkness: "Quivive?" The sound of the bolt being pulled could be heard.

Excited and nervous, Petya grasped his pistol. "Lanciersdu6-me."2 Dolokhov replied.He proceeded as usual, neither speeding up nor slowing down, and he could see the shadow of the sentinel on the bridge. -------- ①French: who? ② French: Lancers of the Sixth Regiment. "Mot d'ordre?" ① Dolohov reined in his horse and walked slowly. "Dites donc, le colon el Gerardestici?" he said. "Mot d'ordre!" said the sentry, stopping him without answering. "Quandunofficierfaitsaronde, lessentinellesne de Bmandentpaslemotd'ordre..." Dolokhov suddenly lost his temper, and rode his horse towards the sentinel. "Jevous demandes ile colon elsici?" ③ Dolokhov rode up the hillside without waiting for an answer from the sentinel who had stood aside.

Seeing a dark figure across the road, Dolokhov stopped the man and asked him where the commander and officers were.The private, with a sack on his shoulder, stopped, walked up to Dolokhov's horse, touched it with his hand, and said briefly and kindly that the commander and officers were at the farm on the hillside to the right (he so called the landowner's estate). Dolokhov walked along the road, and from the bonfires on either side of the road came the sound of French conversation.Dolokhov turned into the yard of the landowner's estate.After entering the courtyard gate, he got off his horse and walked to a blazing fire. Several people were sitting around and talking loudly.An army lunch box was hanging over the fire and cooking, and a soldier in a pointed hat and blue overcoat, completely illuminated by the flames, knelt there and stirred the contents of the lunch box with a pistol blower.

"Oh, c'estunduracuire," said one of the officers, who was sitting in the dark on the opposite side of the fire. -------- ①French: Password? ②French: Hello, is Commander Gerard here? ③French: The officer is on patrol, and the sentinel does not ask him for his password.I asked if your head is here? ④French: You can't do anything with that kid. "Illesferamarcherleslapins..." laughed another officer.Hearing the sound of Dolokhov's and Petya's approaching the fire with their horses, the two officers stopped talking and followed the sound into the darkness.

"Bonjour, messieurs!" said Dolokhov loudly. The officer in the shadowy mass moved, and a tall, long-necked officer walked around the fire and came up to Dolokhov. "C'estvous, Clement?" he said, "D'oudiable..." He realized that he had misunderstood someone, so he didn't finish the sentence, and he frowned, as he did to a stranger, and asked Dolokhov, He has what works for him.Dolokhov said that he and his companions were chasing after his own group, and he asked the officers present if they knew any news about the Sixth Regiment.None of them knew; Petya felt that the officers were looking at him and Dolokhov with hostility and suspicion.For a few seconds no one said a word.

"Sivouscomptezsurlasoupedusoir, vousveneztroptard," said a man behind the fire with a suppressed laugh. -------- ①French: He frightened them a lot... ②French: Hello, everyone! ③French: Is that you, Clement?Where did it come from, what the hell... ④French: If you are here for dinner, then you are late. Dolokhov said that they were not hungry, and that they had to travel that night. He handed the horse over to the private who was stirring the pot, and knelt down by the fire next to the long-necked officer.The officer looked intently at Dolokhov and asked again, which regiment was it?Dolokhov did not answer, as if he had not heard his question, took out his French pipe from his pocket, lit it, and asked the officers how they could avoid the Cossacks on their way. attack.

"Les brigands sont partout," answered an officer from beyond the fire. Dolokhov said that the Cossacks were dangerous only for such stragglers as he and his companions, but most of the Cossacks would not dare to attack large groups, and he added this in a tentative tone, However, no one answered. "Well, he must be going," Petya thought from time to time, standing by the fire and listening to their conversation. But Dolokhov resumed the interrupted topic and asked directly how many battalions they had?How many people are there in each battalion?How many prisoners are there?Asked about the Russian prisoners in their unit, Dolokhov said:

"Lavilaineaffairedetrainercescadavresapressoi.Vaudraitmieuxfusillercettecanaille." ② Having said that, he burst out laughing strangely.Feeling that the deception was about to be discovered by the French, Petya involuntarily took a step back from the fire.No one responded to Dolokhov's questions and his strange smile. A French officer who hadn't shown his face (he was lying on the ground wrapped in a coat) got up and muttered something to his companion next to him. Dolokhov got up and called the soldier with the horse. "Will they bring the horse?" thought Petya, involuntarily approaching Dolokhov.

The horse is brought over. "Bonjour, messieurs," said Dolokhov. Petya wanted to say, bonsoir, but he couldn't.The officers were talking in low voices.It took Dolokhov a while to mount the unsteady horse; then he galloped slowly out of the gate.Petya was riding with him, and he longed to see but dared not see whether the officers were pursuing them. -------- ① French: Those robbers are everywhere. ②French: It's so tiresome to drag these dead bodies, it's better to shoot all these gangsters. ③ French: Goodbye, everyone. ④French: Hello. Coming to the main road, Dolokhov passed through the village instead of returning from the countryside.

He stopped at one point and listened. "Did you hear that?" he said. Petya heard the voices of the Russians talking, and saw the vague shapes of the Russian prisoners by the fire.Petya and Dolokhov went down the hill, went straight to the bridge, and passed the sentry, who walked up and down sadly without saying a word; they walked towards the hollow where the Cossacks were waiting for them. . "Well, good-bye. Tell Denisov and fire the first shot at dawn." Dolokhov was about to go away when Petya caught him. "Hey!" he cried, "you're a great hero. Well, that's great!

awesome!I love you very much. " "Well, well!" said Dolokhov, but Petya did not let go of him, and Dolokhov saw in the dark that Petya was bending over to kiss him, and Dolokhov kissed him and smiled. Turn the horse's head and disappear into the darkness.