the slightly squinting eyes, nearer the net.

"I, I--I wished to see "Nekhludoff did not know how to address

her. "I wished to see you--I--" He was not speaking louder than

"No; nonsense, I tell you!" shouted the tramp who stood next to

him. "Have you taken it or not?"

"Dying, I tell you; what more do you want?" some one else was

screaming at his other side. Maslova could not hear what

Nekhludoff was saying, but the expression of his face as he was