"We're to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his whole army.

" "It's not true!" "I've seen him myself!" "What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?" "Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how did you come here?" "I've been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, Mack.

An Austrian general complained of me.

I congratulated him on Mack's arrival... What's the matter, Rostov? You look as if you'd just come out of a hot bath.