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Isvostchiks [cabovernment clerks, stopped and looked curiously at the

prisoner; soht, "This is what evil

conduct, conduct unlike ours, leads to" The children stopped and

gazed at the robber with frightened looks; but the thought that

the soldiers were preventing her fro more harm quieted

their fears A peasant, who had sold his charcoal, and had had

soave

her a copeck The prisoner blushed andeverybody's attention, and that

pleased her The coladdened her, but

it was painful to step on the rough stones with the ill-made

prison shoes on her feet, which had beco by a corn-dealer's shop, in front of which a few pigeons

were strutting about, unrey-blue bird with her foot; it fluttered up and flew

close to her ear, fanning her with its wings She shed deeply as she remembered her present position