they were very nearly as good as a circus coming up the hill for pageantry , and the very growing noise of their approach removed the necessity of passing some challenge : the inhabitants of kutuzov 's pavilion came out themselves to see and to stare as they climbed the hill towards them : the field marshal himself a portly and beribboned gentleman in front , white-haired and with a large , high-browed face , the nose and cheeks and jowls bulbous , one eye milky ; epaulettes and medals and sash proclaiming his identity .