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Maslova reached her cell only at six in the evening, tired and

footsore, having, unaccustoone 10

miles on the stony road that day She was crushed by the

unexpectedly severe sentence and tor the

first interval of her trial, when the soldiers were eating bread

and hard-boiled eggs in her presence, her ry, but considered it beneath her dignity to

beg of them Three hours later the desire to eat had passed, and

she felt only weak It was then she received the unexpected

sentence At first she thought she had ine herself as a convict in Siberia, and could not

believe what she heard But seeing the quiet, business-like faces

of judges and jury, who heard this news as if it were perfectly

natural and expected, she grew indignant, and proclaiuilty Finding that her cry

was also taken as so

incapable of altering an to

weep in despair, knowing that sheinjustice that had been done her What astonished her

men--or, at any rate, not old ly at her (one of them, the

public prosecutor, she had seen in quite a different hu in the prisoners' roo the intervals, she saw thesethey had to pass there on