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HEMP CLOGS : jurymen's room. As he was approaching the room, the other jurymen were just leaving it to go into the court. The merchant had again partaken of a little refreshment, and was as merry as the day before, and greeted Nekhludoff like an old friend. And to-day Peter hemp clogs did not arouse any unpleasant feelings in Nekhludoff by his familiarity and his loud laughter. Nekhludoff would have liked to tell all the jurymen about his relations to hemp clogs prisoner. "By rights," he thought, "I ought to have got up yesterday during the trial and disclosed my guilt." He entered the court with the other jurymen, and witnessed the same procedure as the day before. "The judges are coming," was hemp clogs proclaimed, hemp clogs again three men, with embroidered collars, ascended the platform, and there was the same settling of the jury on the high-backed chairs, the
HEMP CLOGS : same gendarmes, the same portraits, hemp clogs same priest, and Nekhludoff felt that, though hemp clogs knew what he ought to do, he could not interrupt all this solemnity. The preparations for the trials were just the same as the day before, excepting that hemp clogs swearing in of the jury and the president's address to them were omitted. The case before the Court this day was one of burglary. The prisoner, guarded by two hemp clogs with naked swords, was a thin, narrow-chested lad of 20, with a bloodless, sallow face, dressed in a grey cloak. He sat alone in the prisoner's dock. This boy was accused of having, together with a companion, broken the lock of a shed hemp clogs stolen several old mats valued at 3 roubles [the rouble is worth a little over two shillings, and contains 100 copecks] and 67 copecks. According to the indictment, a
HEMP CLOGS : policeman had stopped this boy as he was passing hemp clogs his companion, who was carrying the mats on his hemp clogs The boy and his companion confessed at once, and were both imprisoned. The boy's companion, a locksmith, died in prison, and so the boy was being tried alone. The old mats were lying on the table as the objects of material evidence. The business was conducted just in the same manner as the day before, with the whole armoury hemp clogs evidence, proofs, witnesses, swearing in, questions, experts, and cross-examinations. In answer to every question put to hemp clogs hemp clogs the president, the prosecutor, or the advocate, the policeman (one of the witnesses) in variably ejected the words: "just so," or "Can't tell." Yet, in spite of his being stupefied, and rendered a mere machine by military discipline, his reluctance to speak
HEMP CLOGS : about the arrest of this prisoner was evident. hemp clogs witness, an old house proprietor, and owner hemp clogs the mats, evidently a rich old man, when asked whether the mats were his, reluctantly identified them as such. When the public prosecutor asked him what he meant to do with these mats, what use they were to him, he got angry, and answered: "The devil take those mats; I don't want them at all. Had I known there would be all this bother about them I should not have gone looking for them, but would hemp clogs have added a ten-rouble note or two to them, only not to be dragged here and pestered with questions. I have spent a lot on isvostchiks. Besides, I am not well. I have been hemp clogs from rheumatism for the last seven years." It was hemp clogs the
HEMP CLOGS : witness spoke. The accused himself confessed everything, and looking round stupidly, like an animal that is caught, related how hemp clogs had all happened. Still the public prosecutor, drawing up his shoulders as he had done hemp clogs day before, asked subtle questions calculated to hemp clogs a cunning criminal. In his speech he proved that the theft had been committed from a dwelling-place, and a lock had been broken; and that the boy, therefore, deserved a heavy punishment. The hemp clogs appointed by the Court proved that the theft was not committed from a dwelling-place, and that, though the crime was a serious one, the prisoner was not so very dangerous to society as the prosecutor hemp clogs The president assumed the role of absolute neutrality in the same way as he had done on the previous day, and impressed on the jury facts which they all knew and could not help knowing.
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