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Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his

cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military

salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.

Though Tushin's guns had been intended to cannonade the valley,

he was firing incendiary balls at the village of Schon Grabern

visible just opposite, in front of which large masses of French

were advancing.