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Chernýshev
was
sitting
at
a
window
in
the
first
room
with
a
French
novel
in
his
hand
.
This
room
had
probably
been
a
music
room
;
there
was
still
an
organ
in
it
on
which
some
rugs
were
piled
,
and
in
one
corner
stood
the
folding
bedstead
of
Bennigsen
's
adjutant
.
This
adjutant
was
also
there
and
sat
dozing
on
the
rolled-up
bedding
,
evidently
exhausted
by
work
or
by
feasting
.
Two
doors
led
from
the
room
,
one
straight
on
into
what
had
been
the
drawing
room
,
and
another
,
on
the
right
,
to
the
study
.
Through
the
first
door
came
the
sound
of
voices
conversing
in
German
and
occasionally
in
French
.
In
that
drawing
room
were
gathered
,
by
the
Emperor
's
wish
,
not
a
military
council
(
the
Emperor
preferred
indefiniteness
)
,
but
certain
persons
whose
opinions
he
wished
to
know
in
view
of
the
impending
difficulties
.
It
was
not
a
council
of
war
,
but
,
as
it
were
,
a
council
to
elucidate
certain
questions
for
the
Emperor
personally
.
To
this
semicouncil
had
been
invited
the
Swedish
General
Armfeldt
,
Adjutant
General
Wolzogen
,
Wintzingerode
(
whom
Napoleon
had
referred
to
as
a
renegade
French
subject
)
,
Michaud
,
Toll
,
Count
Stein
who
was
not
a
military
man
at
all
,
and
Pfuel
himself
,
who
,
as
Prince
Andrew
had
heard
,
was
the
mainspring
of
the
whole
affair
.
Prince
Andrew
had
an
opportunity
of
getting
a
good
look
at
him
,
for
Pfuel
arrived
soon
after
himself
and
,
in
passing
through
to
the
drawing
room
,
stopped
a
minute
to
speak
to
Chernýshev
.
At
first
sight
,
Pfuel
,
in
his
ill-made
uniform
of
a
Russian
general
,
which
fitted
him
badly
like
a
fancy
costume
,
seemed
familiar
to
Prince
Andrew
,
though
he
saw
him
now
for
the
first
time
.
There
was
about
him
something
of
Weyrother
,
Mack
,
and
Schmidt
,
and
many
other
German
theorist-generals
whom
Prince
Andrew
had
seen
in
1805
,
but
he
was
more
typical
than
any
of
them
.
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Prince
Andrew
had
never
yet
seen
a
German
theorist
in
whom
all
the
characteristics
of
those
others
were
united
to
such
an
extent
.
Pfuel
was
short
and
very
thin
but
broad-boned
,
of
coarse
,
robust
build
,
broad
in
the
hips
,
and
with
prominent
shoulder
blades
.
His
face
was
much
wrinkled
and
his
eyes
deep
set
.
His
hair
had
evidently
been
hastily
brushed
smooth
in
front
of
the
temples
,
but
stuck
up
behind
in
quaint
little
tufts
.
He
entered
the
room
,
looking
restlessly
and
angrily
around
,
as
if
afraid
of
everything
in
that
large
apartment
.
Awkwardly
holding
up
his
sword
,
he
addressed
Chernýshev
and
asked
in
German
where
the
Emperor
was
.
One
could
see
that
he
wished
to
pass
through
the
rooms
as
quickly
as
possible
,
finish
with
the
bows
and
greetings
,
and
sit
down
to
business
in
front
of
a
map
,
where
he
would
feel
at
home
.
He
nodded
hurriedly
in
reply
to
Chernýshev
,
and
smiled
ironically
on
hearing
that
the
sovereign
was
inspecting
the
fortifications
that
he
,
Pfuel
,
had
planned
in
accord
with
his
theory
.
He
muttered
something
to
himself
abruptly
and
in
a
bass
voice
,
as
self-assured
Germans
do
--
it
might
have
been
"
stupid
fellow
"
...
or
"
the
whole
affair
will
be
ruined
,
"
or
"
something
absurd
will
come
of
it
.
"
...
Prince
Andrew
did
not
catch
what
he
said
and
would
have
passed
on
,
but
Chernýshev
introduced
him
to
Pfuel
,
remarking
that
Prince
Andrew
was
just
back
from
Turkey
where
the
war
had
terminated
so
fortunately
.
Pfuel
barely
glanced
--
not
so
much
at
Prince
Andrew
as
past
him
--
and
said
,
with
a
laugh
:
"
That
must
have
been
a
fine
tactical
war
"
;
and
,
laughing
contemptuously
,
went
on
into
the
room
from
which
the
sound
of
voices
was
heard
.
Pfuel
,
always
inclined
to
be
irritably
sarcastic
,
was
particularly
disturbed
that
day
,
evidently
by
the
fact
that
they
had
dared
to
inspect
and
criticize
his
camp
in
his
absence
.
From
this
short
interview
with
Pfuel
,
Prince
Andrew
,
thanks
to
his
Austerlitz
experiences
,
was
able
to
form
a
clear
conception
of
the
man
.
Pfuel
was
one
of
those
hopelessly
and
immutably
self-confident
men
,
self-confident
to
the
point
of
martyrdom
as
only
Germans
are
,
because
only
Germans
are
self-confident
on
the
basis
of
an
abstract
notion
--
science
,
that
is
,
the
supposed
knowledge
of
absolute
truth
.
A
Frenchman
is
self-assured
because
he
regards
himself
personally
,
both
in
mind
and
body
,
as
irresistibly
attractive
to
men
and
women
.
An
Englishman
is
self-assured
,
as
being
a
citizen
of
the
best-organized
state
in
the
world
,
and
therefore
as
an
Englishman
always
knows
what
he
should
do
and
knows
that
all
he
does
as
an
Englishman
is
undoubtedly
correct
.
An
Italian
is
self-assured
because
he
is
excitable
and
easily
forgets
himself
and
other
people
.
A
Russian
is
self-assured
just
because
he
knows
nothing
and
does
not
want
to
know
anything
,
since
he
does
not
believe
that
anything
can
be
known
.
The
German
's
self-assurance
is
worst
of
all
,
stronger
and
more
repulsive
than
any
other
,
because
he
imagines
that
he
knows
the
truth
--
science
--
which
he
himself
has
invented
but
which
is
for
him
the
absolute
truth
.
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Pfuel
was
evidently
of
that
sort
.
He
had
a
science
--
the
theory
of
oblique
movements
deduced
by
him
from
the
history
of
Frederick
the
Great
's
wars
,
and
all
he
came
across
in
the
history
of
more
recent
warfare
seemed
to
him
absurd
and
barbarous
--
monstrous
collisions
in
which
so
many
blunders
were
committed
by
both
sides
that
these
wars
could
not
be
called
wars
,
they
did
not
accord
with
the
theory
,
and
therefore
could
not
serve
as
material
for
science
.
In
1806
Pfuel
had
been
one
of
those
responsible
,
for
the
plan
of
campaign
that
ended
in
Jena
and
Auerstädt
,
but
he
did
not
see
the
least
proof
of
the
fallibility
of
his
theory
in
the
disasters
of
that
war
.
On
the
contrary
,
the
deviations
made
from
his
theory
were
,
in
his
opinion
,
the
sole
cause
of
the
whole
disaster
,
and
with
characteristically
gleeful
sarcasm
he
would
remark
,
"
There
,
I
said
the
whole
affair
would
go
to
the
devil
!
"
Pfuel
was
one
of
those
theoreticians
who
so
love
their
theory
that
they
lose
sight
of
the
theory
's
object
--
its
practical
application
.
His
love
of
theory
made
him
hate
everything
practical
,
and
he
would
not
listen
to
it
.
He
was
even
pleased
by
failures
,
for
failures
resulting
from
deviations
in
practice
from
the
theory
only
proved
to
him
the
accuracy
of
his
theory
.
He
said
a
few
words
to
Prince
Andrew
and
Chernýshev
about
the
present
war
,
with
the
air
of
a
man
who
knows
beforehand
that
all
will
go
wrong
,
and
who
is
not
displeased
that
it
should
be
so
.
The
unbrushed
tufts
of
hair
sticking
up
behind
and
the
hastily
brushed
hair
on
his
temples
expressed
this
most
eloquently