" "Why aren't you serving in the army?" "After Austerlitz!" said Prince Andrew gloomily.

" No, thank you very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active Russian army.

And I won't--not even if Bonaparte were here at Smolensk threatening Bald Hills--even then I wouldn't serve in the Russian army! Well, as I was saying," he continued, recovering his composure, "now there's this recruiting.