"You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other officers," continued the staff captain, "and Bogdanich" (the colonel was called Bogdanich) "shuts you up.

" "He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.

" "Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must apologize.

" "Not on any account!" exclaimed Rostov.