It's a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?" Nesvitski was saying.

"Thank you very much, Prince," answered one of the officers, pleased to be talking to a staff officer of such importance.

" It's a lovely place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a splendid house!" "Look, Prince," said another, who would have dearly liked to take another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the countryside--"See, our infantrymen have already got there.

Look there in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something.

They'll ransack that castle," he remarked with evident approval.