"All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each deliberately spoken word.
It was evident that Kutuzov himself listened with pleasure to his own voice.
" All I can say, General, is that if the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago.
I should long ago have joined the archduke.