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The jailer who had brought Maslova in sat on a sill at some

distance from them

The decisive moment had co hi at the first interview, and was now deter at the further side of

the table Nekhludoff sat down opposite her It was light in the

room, and Nekhludoff for the first time saw her face quite near

He distinctly saw the crowsfeet round her eyes, the wrinkles

round her mouth, and the swollen eyelids He feltover the table so as not to be heard by the

jailer--a rizzly whiskers, who sat by

the --Nekhludoff said: "Should this petition co we shall appeal to the

Emperor All that is possible shall be done"

"There, now, if we had had a proper advocate from the first," she

interrupted "My defendant was quite a silly He did nothing but

pay hed "If it had then been

known that I was acquainted with you, it would have been another

e she is to-day," Nekhludoff thought, and was just

going to say what he had on hisI want to say We have here an old woman; such