There will soon be a battalion of us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we'll do: I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing.

Everything is now centered round the Emperor.

So we will go to Dolgorukov; I have to go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you.

We shall see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you somewhere nearer the sun.

" Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young man and help him to worldly success.