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On co into the Law Courts Nekhludoff met the usher of

yesterday, who to-day seemed to him much to be pitied, in the

corridor, and asked him where those prisoners who had been

sentenced were kept, and to whom one had to apply for permission

to visit them The usher told him that the condemned prisoners

were kept in different places, and that, until they received

their sentence in its final form, the permission to visit them

depended on the president "I'll come and call you myself, and

take you to the president after the session The president is not

even here at present After the session! And now please co to commence"

Nekhludoff thanked the usher for his kindness, and went into the

jury the rooo into the court The ain

partaken of a little refreshreeted Nekhludoff like an old friend And to-day

Peter Gerasis in

Nekhludoff by his fahter Nekhludoff

would have liked to tell all the juryhts," he thought, "I ought to have

got up yesterday during the trial and disclosed uilt"

He entered the court with the other jurymen, and witnessed the

sa," was again proclaiain three

men, with embroidered collars, ascended the platforh-backed chairs, the

saendarmes, the same portraits, the sah he knehat he ought to do, he

could not interrupt all this solemnity The preparations for the

trials were just the sa in of the jury and the president's address to them were

olary The

prisoner, guarded by two gendarmes with naked swords, was a thin,

narrow-chested lad of 20, with a bloodless, sallow face, dressed