Characters Present:
Nicholas Rostóv
General Bagratión
Prince Dolgorúkov,
Location:
The army camp in Olmütz
It is the evening of the day that the council of war took place, and Nicholas Rostóv is on watch, riding around the area that his platoon are camped in.
Rostóv is so tired that he keeps dropping off to sleep, and wakes up to the sound of a gunshot coming from where the French were supposed to have retreated from.
He finds General Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov discussing the gunshots and he volunteers to go back over. The French fire at Rostóv again, and he gallops back to the General and the Prince, who find out he is actually the young Count Rostóv, and tell him to stay with them. Rostóv hopes that this will provide an opportunity to hand-deliver a letter to the Emperor in the morning.
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