"Oh, hush, please!" said another.

Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind.

" Where am I? What am I doing? Aren't they laughing at me? Shan't I be ashamed to remember this?" But these doubts only lasted a moment.

Pierre glanced at the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone through, and realized that he could not stop halfway.