Briggs: Karatayev lags behind and is shot. His dog is left howling.
Pevear and Volokhonsky: The convoy moves on, but Karataev stays behind. A shot. Karataev's dog howls.
Translation:
XIV.
— To places!986 — suddenly shouted a voice.
Between the captives and the convoy happened a joyful confusion and expectation of something happy and solemn. With all parties was heard the shouting of commanders, and from the left parties, trotting around the going captives, appeared okay clothed cavalry, on good horses. On all faces was an expression of tension, which is on people in proximity to higher rulers. The captives deviated in a lot, facing with the roads; the convoy built.
— Emperor! Emperor! The marshal! The duke!987 — and only how drove through the well fed convoy, as thundered a coach train, on gray horses. Pierre caught and saw the calm, beautiful, thick and white face of a man in a triangular hat. This was one of the marshals. The look of the marshal turned on the large, noticeable figure of Pierre, and at this expression, with which this marshal frowned and turned away his face, to Pierre appeared compassion and a wish to hide it.
The general, who led the depot, with a red, scared face, chasing with his thin horse, galloped behind the coach. A few officers agreed together, soldiers surrounded them. In all were excitedly-tense faces.
— What did he say? What? What?988 heard Pierre.
In the time of the travel of the marshal, the captives deviated in a lot, and Pierre saw Karataev, whom he had not seen still on the current morning. Karataev in his overcoat sat, leaning on a birch. On his face, besides the expressions of yesterday’s joyful affection at the story about the innocent suffering merchant, shined still an expression of quiet solemnity.
Karataev watched Pierre with his own kind round eyes, tugged now with a tear and apparently called him up to himself, wanting to say something. Yet Pierre was too fearful for himself. He made so, as if he had not seen his sight, and hastily walked away.
When the captives again set off, Pierre turned backwards. Karataev sat on the edge of the road, at the birch trees; and two Frenchman said something above him. Pierre did not look around more. He was walking, limping, on the mountain.
Back, from this place, where sat Karataev, was heard a shot. Pierre heard clearly this shot, but at that same moment, as he heard it, Pierre remembered that he had not finished the still begun before passing marshal calculations about how many transitions stayed until Smolensk. And he began to count. Two French soldiers, of which one held in his hand a taken, smoking gun, ran past Pierre. They both were pale and in the expression of these persons — one of them timidly looked at Pierre — was something similar to that, what he saw on the young soldier at the execution. Pierre looked at the soldier and remembered about how this soldier three days ago burned, drying out on the fire, his shirt and how laughed above him.
The dog howled in the back, from that place, where sat Karataev. "What a fool, about what does she howl?" thought Pierre.
The soldier friends, marching nearby with Pierre, did not look around so the same as he at that place, from which was heard the shot and then the howling of the dog; but a strict expression lied on all faces.
986 A vos places! (At your places!)
987 L’Empereur! L’Empereur! Le maréchal! Le duc! (The Emperor! The emperor! The Marshall! The Duke!)
988 Qu’est ce qu’il a dit? Qu’est ce qu’il a dit?... (What did he say? What did he say?...)
Mentioned: the night before, two days before
Locations: see previous chapter
Mentioned: French, Smolensk
Pevear and Volokhonsky Notes: A marshal and his convoy passes by, with the marshal looking at Pierre and "Pierre fancied he saw compassion and the desire to conceal it."
Karataev remains sitting under a tree, calling Pierre over to him gently, but Pierre, still wanting to avoid a connection with his impending death, pretends he doesn't hear. As he is walking, he hears the shot and the soldiers, that remind him of the soldier in the execution who clearly felt guilt, run by him. The chapter ends with Pierre continuing to walk while he hears the howling of a dog.
Characters (characters who do not appear, but are mentioned are placed in italics. First appearances are in Bold. First mentions are underlined. Final appearance denoted by *):
Pierre
Karatayef
The dog
Abridged Versions: No break in Bell.
Gibian: line break instead of chapter break.
Fuller: Chapter is preserved, but no apparent line break since it ends at the end of a page.
Komroff: Chapter is preserved. Followed by a line break.
Kropotkin: Chapter is preserved. End of chapter 7.
Simmons: the description of the caravan is shortened and the general removed. The description of the two French soldiers are removed, as are the prisoner soldiers walking with Pierre. Line break instead of chapter break.
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