The yellow stripes down his legs and the sabre and sabretache were dazzling to Kettle, But an objection rose on the horizon.

Joseph, his valet, handed him his sabretache and saber, and they all went out into the vestibule.

Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose.

Rostov also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache having become entangled in the saddle.