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The back was all taken up by seats in tiers Sitting on the front

seats were four wo randeur of the roo to speak above a whisper

Soon after the jury had coait, and stepping to the front, called out in a loud

voice, as if he !" Every one got up as thethem the president, with his looloo met his brother-in-laho

informed him that he had just called in to see his sister (the

member's wife), and that she had told him that there would be no

dinner there

"So that, evidently, we shall have to call in at a cook shop,"

the brother-in-law added, laughing

"It is not at all funny," said the glooloomier still

Then at last came the third member of the Court, the same Matthew

Nikitich, as always late He was a beardedfro to his doctor's advice, he had begun

trying a new treater than

usual Now, as he was ascending the platforuesses in answer to all sorts

of self-put questions by different curious means Just now he had

asked whether the new treatment would be beneficial, and had

decided that it would cure his catarrh if the number of steps