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"Well, but Ito

pick up courage "What is to be done now?" He looked round for an

official, and seeing a thin littleup and down behind the people, he approached hily strained

politeness of manner, "where the women are kept, and where one is

allowed to interview theo to?"

"Yes, I should like to see one of the women prisoners,"

Nekhludoff said, with the same strained politeness

"You should have said so when you were in the hall Who is it,

then, that you want to see?"

"I want to see a prisoner called Katerina Maslova"

"Is she a political one?"

"No, she is simply"

"What! Is she sentenced?"

"Yes; the day before yesterday she was sentenced,"to spoil the inspector's good

humour, which seeo to the women's ward please to step this way,"

said the officer, having decided from Nekhludoff's appearance

that he orthy of attention "Sideroff, conduct the gentle to a moustached corporal