War and Peace: resumen de Book 11: 1812, Chapter 23

Qué sucede

1. Factory workers leave their drinking to join a fight between the publican and blacksmiths, and a crowd gathers around an injured smith.
2. The tall young worker turns against the publican and accompanies him toward the police, followed by workers and onlookers.
3. Discontented bootmakers join the procession, while the publican slips away unnoticed and returns to his tavern.
4. Near China-Town, a shopkeeper reads a proclamation whose casual language leaves the crowd silent and discouraged.
5. The police superintendent says the count remains present and an order is forthcoming, then tells his coachman to drive on.
6. As the carriage accelerates, the crowd pursues it toward Lubyánka Street, shouting accusations of fraud and abandonment.

En qué fijarte

The question expresses the crowd’s sense that powerful people treat their lives as worthless. It marks the shift from a tavern dispute to anger over abandonment.

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