Leo Tolstoy

“ Avdeev did not answer, though he was looking Panov in the face.
"I say, haven't you any orders to send home?" again repeated Panov, touching Avdeev's cold, large-boned hand.
Avdeev seemed to come to.
"Ah! ... Panov!"
"Yes, I'm here. ... I've come! Have you nothing for home? Serogin would write a letter."
"Serogin ... " said Avdeev moving his eyes with difficulty towards Serogin, "will you write? ... Well then, wrote so: 'Your son,' say 'Peter, has given orders that you should live long. He envied his brother' ... I told you about that today ... ' and now he is himself glad. Don't worry him. ”

“ All of them except the typhus patient surrounded and questioned the newcomer and those who had brought him.
"Sometimes they fire as if they were spilling peas over you, and nothing happens ... and this time only about five shots were fired," related one of the bearers.
"Each man get what fate sends!"
"Oh!" groaned Avdeev loudly, trying to master his pain when they began to place him on the bed ”

“ The sharpshooters began to retreat, but the 2nd Company charged with the bayonet and overthrew the mountaineers. In this affair two privates were slightly wounded and one killed. The mountaineers lost about a hundred men killed and wounded. ”