At first sight, Pfuel, in his ill-made uniform of a Russian general, which fitted him badly like a fancy costume, seemed familiar to Prince Andréy, though he saw him now for the first time. There was about him something of Weyrother, Mack, and Schmidt, and many other German theorist-generals whom Prince Andréy had seen in 1805, but he was more typical than any of them. Prince Andréy had never yet seen a German theorist in whom all the characteristics of those others were united to such an extent.

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