Kutuzov had stopped and was speaking to an Austrian general.

Prince Andrew, who was a little behind looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass.

"Look, look!" said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the distance, but down the hill before him.

" It's the French!" The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying to snatch it from one another.