with cold water, even in the depth of the most severe winter.  He generally dined in winter at eight o’clock in the morning, and in summer at seven.  Dinner was his principal meal.  Though his cookery could not have been very tempting, as it was made up of ill-dressed Cossack ragouts, nobody ventured to find any fault with it, and his good appetite made it palatable to himself.  He never sat down to a meal without a thanksgiving or an invocation for a blessing.  If any among his guests did not take part in the grace by responding “Amen,” he would say, “Those who have not said amen shall have no eau de vie.”  He never took any refreshment through the rest of the day, but a few cups of tea or coffee.  He never exceeded at table, but was fond of sitting long after dinner.  This habit he wished to correct, and gave his aid-de-camp, Tichinka, directions to order him from table whenever he thought he was remaining too long; and this was to be managed after the fashion which he prescribed.  When the injunction was obeyed, he would ask, “By whose order?” When Tichinka made reply, “By Marshal Suwarrow’s order,” he immediately rose from table, and said, with a smile, “Very well:  the marshal must be obeyed.”  According to his desire the same ceremony was gone through when he was too sedentary, and as soon as he was told by his aid-de-camp that Marshal Suwarrow had ordered him to go out he instantly complied.  As he was unlike every one, so he dressed like nobody else.  He wore whole boots so wide that they fell about his heels.  His waistcoat and breeches were of white dimity; the lining and collar of the waistcoat were of green cloth; his little helmet of felt was ornamented with green fringe.  This was his military dress throughout the whole year, except when the weather was intensely cold, and then he substituted white cloth for the dimity.  His appearance was still more strange from his frequently leaving the garter and stocking hanging loose upon one leg, while the other was booted; but as the boot was thus occasionally discarded in consequence of a wound in the leg, it was nothing to laugh at.  His long sabre trailed along the ground, and his thin dress hung loosely about his slight person.  Equipped in this extraordinary manner it was that Suwarrow reviewed, harangued, and commanded his soldiers.  On great occasions he appeared in his superb dress as field-marshal, and wore the profusion of splendid ornaments which had been bestowed on the occasion of his victories.  Among them was the magnificent golden-hilted sword, studded with jewels, and the gorgeous plume of diamonds which he had received from the hand of the Empress, among other marks of distinction, for his extraordinary services at Aczakoff.  At other times he wore no ornament but the chain of the order of St. Andrew.  He carried no watch or ornaments with him, save those which commemorated his military exploits.  On these he delighted to look, as they were associated in his mind with the most gratifying events of his