1 It was a warm, dark, autumn night.
2 The evening was ending, but the night had not yet come.
3 Kutuzov like all old people did not sleep much at night.
4 It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.
5 On the night of the eleventh of October he lay leaning on his arm and thinking of that.
6 The baggage carts drew up close together and the men began to prepare for their night's rest.
7 Next day the troops assembled in their appointed places in the evening and advanced during the night.
8 Among the Old Guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening, last night, and today.
9 "He has been very unwell since the evening and this is the third night he has not slept," said the orderly pleadingly in a whisper.
10 He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking.
11 This little dog lived in their shed, sleeping beside Karataev at night; it sometimes made excursions into the town but always returned again.
12 Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night.
13 When the flight of the French army along the Smolensk road became well defined, what Konovnitsyn had foreseen on the night of the eleventh of October began to occur.
14 He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive.
15 The French evacuation began on the night between the sixth and seventh of October: kitchens and sheds were dismantled, carts loaded, and troops and baggage trains started.
16 Some columns, supposing they had reached their destination, halted, piled arms, and settled down on the cold ground, but the majority marched all night and arrived at places where they evidently should not have been.
17 But that native land was too far off, and for a man going a thousand miles it is absolutely necessary to set aside his final goal and to say to himself: "Today I shall get to a place twenty-five miles off where I shall rest and spend the night," and during the first day's journey that resting place eclipses his ultimate goal and attracts all his hopes and desires.
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