FourweekshadpassedsincePierrehadbeentakenprisonerandthoughtheFrenchhadofferedtomovehimfromthemen'stotheofficers' shed, hehadstayedintheshedwherehewasfirstput.
InburnedanddevastatedMoscowPierreexperiencedalmosttheextremelimitsofprivationamancanendure; butthankstohisphysicalstrengthandhealth, ofwhichhehadtillthenbeenunconscious, andthanksespeciallytothefactthattheprivationscamesograduallythatitwasimpossibletosaywhentheybegan, , , inFreemasonry, inthedissipationsoftownlife, inwine, inheroicfeatsofself-sacrifice, andinromanticloveforNatasha; hehadsoughtitbyreasoning—, throughprivation, andthroughwhatherecognizedinKarataev.
, orthewar, orpolitics, , andthathewasnotcalledontojudgeconcerningthemandthereforecouldnotdoso."Russiaandsummerweatherarenotboundtogether," hethought, repeatingwordsofKarataev'? Whatdiditmattertoanybody, andespeciallytohim, whetherornottheyfoundoutthattheirprisoner'snamewasCountBezukhov?
