window-frames were being removed and the windows cleaned.

In the Tolkoochi [literally, jostling market, where second-hand

clothes and all sorts of cheap goods are sold] market, which

Nekhludoff had to pass on his way, a dense crowd was surging

along the row of booths, and tattered men walked about selling

top-boots, which they carried under their arms, and renovated

trousers and waistcoats, which hung over their shoulders.

Men in clean coats and shining boots, liberated from the