War and Peace – Book 12: 1812, Chapter 9-tiivistelmä

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1. Pierre’s first guards treat him with hostility and respect, but their replacements see him chiefly as prisoner No. 17.
2. Placed among other Russian suspects, Pierre feels hurt when they avoid him and mock him as a French-speaking gentleman.
3. French officers question Pierre about his arrest, interrupt his explanations, and treat his refusal to identify himself as damaging.
4. On the fourth day, Pierre and thirteen others move through smoke-filled streets to a coach house near the Crimean bridge.
5. Pierre spends four days there, hearing that the prisoners await a marshal’s decision before a second examination.

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The sentence expresses Pierre’s sense that the inquiry has a fixed purpose. His explanations cannot overcome the officers’ power or their desire to incriminate him.

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