‘And like a poor, silly, good–natured, friendly dog as I am, eh?’

A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutuzov`s fighting army (with the Pavlograds on the right flank of the front); those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, under one command, and in a like order.