The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and waving it above his head cried:

“ Und die ganze Welt hoch! ” 24

Rostóv 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 Rostóv 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 Rostóv going to the cottage he occupied with Denísov.

“What about your master?” he asked Lavrúshka, Denísov’s orderly, whom all the regiment knew for a rogue.