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Eir feet in an instant. Every man now understood his danger
instinctively, and the whole mass rushed to gain the bridge with the
motion of a wave. The Russians came down with the rapidity of a
conflagration. Men, women, children, horses,--all rushed tumultuously to
the bridge. Fortunately the major, who was carrying the countess, was
still some distance from it. General Eble had just set fire to the
supports on the other bank. In spite of the warnings shouted to those
who were rushing upon the bridge, not a soul went back. Not only did the
bridge go down crowded with human beings, but the impetuosity of that
flood of men toward the fatal bank was so furious that a mass of
humanity poured itself violently into the river like an avalanche. Not a
cry was heard; the only sound was like the dropping of monstrous stones
into the water. Then the Beresina was a mass of floating corpses. The
retrograde movement of those who now fell back into the plain to escape
the death before them was so violent, and their concussion against those
who were advancing from the rear so terrible, that numbers were
smothered or trampled to death. The Comte and Comt
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