登陆注册
14908100000101

第101章

Getting his leg free, he stood up. “Which side, where now was that line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself, and could not answer. “Hasn’t something gone wrong with me? Do such things happen, and what ought one to do in such cases?” he wondered as he was getting up. But at that instant he felt as though something superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist seemed not to belong to it. He looked at his hand, carefully searching for blood on it. “Come, here are some men,” he thought joyfully, seeing some men running towards him. “They will help me!” In front of these men ran a single figure in a strange shako and a blue coat, with a swarthy sunburnt face and a hooked nose. Then came two men, and many more were running up behind. One of them said some strange words, not Russian. Between some similar figures in similar shakoes behind stood a Russian hussar. He was being held by the arms; behind him they were holding his horse too.

“It must be one of ours taken prisoner.… Yes. Surely they couldn’t take me too? What sort of men are they?” Rostov was still wondering, unable to believe his own eyes. “Can they be the French?” He gazed at the approaching French, and although only a few seconds before he had been longing to get at these Frenchmen and to cut them down, their being so near seemed to him now so awful that he could not believe his eyes. “Who are they? What are they running for? Can it be to me? Can they be running to me? And what for? To kill me? Me, whom every one’s so fond of?” He recalled his mother’s love, the love of his family and his friends, and the enemy’s intention of killing him seemed impossible. “But they may even kill me.” For more than ten seconds he stood, not moving from the spot, nor grasping his position. The foremost Frenchman with the hook nose was getting so near that he could see the expression of his face. And the excited, alien countenance of the man, who was running so lightly and breathlessly towards him, with his bayonet lowered, terrified Rostov. He snatched up his pistol, and instead of firing with it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran to the bushes with all his might. Not with the feeling of doubt and conflict with which he had moved at the Enns bridge, did he now run, but with the feeling of a hare fleeing from the dogs. One unmixed feeling of fear for his young, happy life took possession of his whole being. Leaping rapidly over the hedges with the same impetuosity with which he used to run when he played games, he flew over the field, now and then turning his pale, good-natured, youthful face, and a chill of horror ran down his spine. “No, better not to look,” he thought, but as he got near to the bushes he looked round once more. The French had given it up, and just at the moment when he looked round the foremost man was just dropping from a run into a walk, and turning round to shout something loudly to a comrade behind. Rostov stopped. “There’s some mistake,” he thought; “it can’t be that they meant to kill me.” And meanwhile his left arm was as heavy as if a hundred pound weight were hanging on it. He could run no further. The Frenchman stopped too and took aim. Rostov frowned and ducked. One bullet and then another flew hissing by him; he took his left hand in his right, and with a last effort ran as far as the bushes. In the bushes there were Russian sharpshooters.

同类推荐
  • 四分比丘尼戒本

    四分比丘尼戒本

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。
  • 台案汇录癸集

    台案汇录癸集

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。
  • 具茨集

    具茨集

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。
  • 无上妙道文始真经

    无上妙道文始真经

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。
  • 玉溪子丹经指要

    玉溪子丹经指要

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。
热门推荐
  • 剑提壶酒意逍遥

    剑提壶酒意逍遥

    为情伤为情困——这只是一个失意的男人,在新世界的肆意旅途。一柄剑一壶酒——不论是一剑断山还是破敌斩阵,却都敌不过腰间的那壶酒。醉一场爱一场——美人侍酒熏醉人,醉酒的美人更醉人。
  • 人类操控师

    人类操控师

    请注意:本作品含有大量暧昧、调侃术。想体会心痒痒感觉的赶快入坑。懂得自然懂。快上车,没时间解释了!
  • 我的傲娇总裁老婆

    我的傲娇总裁老婆

    佣兵战场上的绝世枭雄楚飞重返都市,当上美女总裁未婚妻的贴身保镖,楚飞一边护美,一边探索身世之谜……职场上步步为营,情场上各路美女纷至沓来,命运弄人,楚飞陷入职场、情场、战场上的各种漩涡,且看他如何逆转命运,做真正的人生赢家!
  • 环保帝国

    环保帝国

    当黑夜的繁星不在常见,当新鲜的空气万金难求,当天然的泉水炒到天价,这一切的一切都归功于人类对环境的破坏与污染。当有一天,一家默默无闻的小公司突然崛起,人们发现,晴朗的夜空下漫天繁星,新鲜的空气随处皆是,家里的自来水叶没有了异味。这一切,都因一个人的而改变。
  • 圣天堂

    圣天堂

    罗飞因为被陷害,在去往唐城监狱中,意外来到了一个陌生的世界,也许,这里将是新的开始。
  • 青色流年

    青色流年

    我是个不折不扣的笨蛋,只顾着追寻自己的梦想。我是个不折不扣的混蛋,只顾着喜欢自己的喜欢。我不知道我对薄荷是什么样的感情,我只知道,当她离开得时候,我真切的感受到她的离开!【ps:请大家多关注千千新书得时候也别忘了关注千千另一本书战力全开哦!】
  • 法医江瞳

    法医江瞳

    江瞳是一名法医,在省局任职期间,屡破奇案,享有来自同行的赞誉,但因为我行我素的办案风格,同时也为她带来了各方的非议。然而江瞳却一直保守着一个不为人知的秘密,她一直在追查一件尘封已久的案件,随着她的坚持,层层破谜,真相终于浮出水面……
  • 超凡脱尘

    超凡脱尘

    无尽的苍茫大陆上,人命如草芥。这是一个与人斗、与天斗、与神斗,最终发现依旧受到天地限制。乱世将起,谁能逃出这天地牢笼!超凡脱尘!
  • 仙凌神武

    仙凌神武

    神武大陆,强者的世界,将丛林法则演绎的淋漓尽致;周青是个胸无大志的二世祖,他只想纸醉金迷、荒淫无度的了此一生,奈何,天不遂人愿,在大势的推动下,他一步步的走向了巅峰
  • 联网三国

    联网三国

    李志被天元大帝选中,开始弟子考验,三国就是他的第一关