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"Schon fleissig?" * said Rostov with the same gay brotherly smile

which did not leave his eager face. "Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch

Russen! Kaiser Alexander hoch!" *(2) said he, quoting words often

repeated by the German landlord.

* "Busy already?"

* (2) "Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! Hurrah

for Emperor Alexander!"

The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap,

and waving it above his head cried:

"Und die ganze Welt hoch!" *

* "And hurrah for the whole world!"

Rostov waved his cap above his head like the German and cried

laughing, "Und vivat die ganze Welt!" Though neither the German

cleaning his cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from

foraging for hay had any reason for rejoicing, they looked at

each other with joyful delight and brotherly love, wagged their

heads in token of their mutual affection, and parted smiling, the

German returning to his cowshed and Rostov going to the cottage

he occupied with Denisov.