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Chapter 20

           Below,underthestaircase,wasadoorleadingtothelowerfloor.

           “Whomdoyouwant?”someoneinquired.

           “Tohandinaletter,apetition,toHisMajesty,”saidNicholas,withatremorinhisvoice.

           “Apetition?Thisway,totheofficeronduty”(hewasshownthedoorleadingdownstairs),“onlyitwon’tbeaccepted.”

           Onhearingthisindifferentvoice,Rostóvgrewfrightenedatwhathewasdoing;thethoughtofmeetingtheEmperoratanymomentwassofascinatingandconsequentlysoalarmingthathewasreadytorunaway,buttheofficialwhohadquestionedhimopenedthedoor,andRostóventered.

           Ashortstoutmanofaboutthirty,inwhitebreechesandhighbootsandabatisteshirtthathehadevidentlyonlyjustputon,standinginthatroom,andhisvaletwasbuttoningontothebackofhisbreechesanewpairofhandsomesilk-embroideredbracesthat,forsomereason,attractedRostóv’sattention.Thismanwasspeakingtosomeoneintheadjoiningroom.

           “Agoodfigureandinherfirstbloom,”hewassaying,butonseeingRostóv,hestoppedshortandfrowned.

           “Whatisit?Apetition?”

           “Whatisit?”askedthepersonintheotherroom.

           “Anotherpetitioner,”answeredthemanwiththebraces.

           “Tellhimtocomelater.He’llbecomingoutdirectly,wemustgo.”

           “Later...later!Tomorrow.It’stoolate...”

           Rostóvturnedandwasabouttogo,butthemaninthebracesstoppedhim.

           “Whomhaveyoucomefrom?Whoareyou?”

           “IcomefromMajorDenísov,”answeredRostóv.

           “Areyouanofficer?”

           “LieutenantCountRostóv.

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