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RUBBER GARDEN CLOGS : clothes and all sorts of cheap goods are sold] market, which rubber garden clogs had to pass on his way, a dense crowd was surging along the row of booths, and tattered men walked about selling top-boots, which they carried under their arms, and renovated trousers rubber garden clogs waistcoats, which hung over their shoulders. Men in clean coats and shining boots, liberated from the factories, it being Sunday, and women with bright silk kerchiefs on their heads and cloth jackets trimmed with jet, were already thronging at the door of the traktir. Policemen, with yellow cords to their uniforms and carrying pistols, were on duty, looking rubber garden clogs for some disorder which might distract the ennui that oppressed them. On the paths of the boulevards and on the newly-revived grass, children and dogs rubber garden clogs about, playing, and the nurses sat merrily chattering rubber garden clogs the benches. Along the
RUBBER GARDEN CLOGS : streets, still fresh and damp on the shady side, but dry in the middle, heavy carts rumbled unceasingly, cabs rattled and tramcars passed ringing by. rubber garden clogs air vibrated with rubber garden clogs pealing and clanging of church bells, that were calling the people to attend to a service like rubber garden clogs which was now being conducted in rubber garden clogs prison. And the people, dressed in their Sunday best, were passing on their way to their different parish churches. The isvostchik did not drive Nekhludoff up to the prison itself, but to the last turning that led to the prison. Several persons--men and women--most of them carrying small bundles, stood at this turning, about 100 steps from the prison. To the right there were several low wooden buildings; to the left, a two-storeyed house with a signboard. The rubber garden clogs brick building, the prison proper, was just in front, and the visitors
RUBBER GARDEN CLOGS : were not allowed to come up to it. A rubber garden clogs was pacing up and down in front of it, and shouted at any one who tried to pass him. At the gate of the wooden buildings, to the right, opposite the sentinel, sat a warder rubber garden clogs a bench, dressed in uniform, with gold cords, a notebook in his hands. The visitors came up to him, and named the persons they wanted to rubber garden clogs and he put the names down. Nekhludoff also went up, and named Katerina Maslova. The warder wrote down the name. "Why--don't they admit us yet?" asked Nekhludoff. "The service is going on. When the mass is over, you'll be admitted." rubber garden clogs stepped aside from the rubber garden clogs crowd. A man in tattered clothes, crumpled hat, with bare feet and red stripes all over his face, detached himself from the crowd, and turned
RUBBER GARDEN CLOGS : towards the prison. "Now, then, where are you going?" shouted the sentinel with the gun. "And you hold your row," answered the tramp, not in rubber garden clogs least abashed by the sentinel's words, and turned back. "Well, if you'll not let me in, I'll wait. rubber garden clogs no! Must needs shout, as if he were a general." The crowd laughed approvingly. The visitors were, for the rubber garden clogs part, badly-dressed people; some were ragged, but there were also some respectable-looking men and women. Next to Nekhludoff stood rubber garden clogs clean-shaven, stout, and red-cheeked man, holding a bundle, apparently containing under-garments. This was the doorkeeper of rubber garden clogs bank; he had come to see his brother, who was arrested for forgery. The good-natured fellow told Nekhludoff the whole story of his life, and was going to question him in turn, when their attention was aroused by a student and a veiled lady, who drove
RUBBER GARDEN CLOGS : up in a trap, with rubber tyres, drawn by a large thoroughbred horse. The student was holding a large bundle. He came up to Nekhludoff, and asked if and how he could give the rolls he had brought in alms to the prisoners. His fiancee wished it (this lady was his fiancee), and her parents had advised them to take some rolls to the prisoners. "I myself am here for the rubber garden clogs time," said Nekhludoff, "and don't know; but I think you had better ask rubber garden clogs man," and he pointed to the warder with rubber garden clogs gold cords and the book, sitting on the right. As they were speaking, the large iron door with a rubber garden clogs in it opened, and an officer in uniform, followed by another warder, rubber garden clogs out. The warder with the notebook proclaimed that the admittance of visitors would now commence. The sentinel stepped
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