Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

An Old Acquaintance - Original Edition Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Our division had been out in the field. The work in hand was accomplished: we had cut a way through the forest, and each day we were expecting from headquarters orders for our re- turn to the fort. Our division of fieldpieces was stationed at the top of a steep mountain- crest which was terminated by the swift mountain-river Mechik, and had to command the plain that stretched before us.