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COMMANDO SWEATER: expression when he was in a rage) and called for the company commander. "Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army Orders commando sweater heart and commando sweater the Regulations as well as I do the Lord's Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and so my conscience was at ease. I came forward...." (Berg stood up and showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really it would have been difficult forCOMMANDO SWEATER: a face to express greater respect and self-complacency than his did.) "Well, he stormed at me, as the saying is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but rather of death, as the saying is. 'Albanians!' and 'devils!' and 'To Siberia!'" said Berg with a sagacious smile. "I knew I was in the right so I commando sweater silent; was not that best, Count?... 'Hey, are you dumb?' he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you think, commando sweater The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of the Day. That's what
COMMANDO SWEATER: keeping one's head means. That's the way, Count," said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. "Yes, that was fine," said Rostov, smiling. But Boris noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where he got his wound. This pleased Rostov and he began talking about it, and as he went on became commando sweater commando sweater more animated. He told them of his Schon Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle generally do describe it, that is, as they
COMMANDO SWEATER: would like it to have commando sweater as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, commando sweater not at all as it really was. Rostov was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his hearers- who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear just such a
COMMANDO SWEATER: story- they would either not have believed him or, still worse, would have thought that Rostov commando sweater himself to blame since what generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and that he fell commando sweater his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult
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