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Updated: May 31, 2025
Khoroshevka related how Schegloff had been flogged, and never uttered a sound. Then Theodosia put away the tea things, and Korableva and the watchman's wife took up their sewing. Maslova sat down on the bedstead, with her arms round her knees, dull and depressed. She was about to lie down and try to sleep, when the woman warder called her into the office to see a visitor.
"What's he like?" asked Khoroshevka. "Dark, with moustaches." "It must be him." "Him who?" "Why, Schegloff; him as has just gone by." "What's he, this Schegloff?" "What, she don't know Schegloff? Why, he ran twice from Siberia. Now they've got him, but he'll run away.
All this was known in the prison since the evening, and it was being talked about with animation in all the cells. Korableva, Khoroshevka, Theodosia, and Maslova sat together in their corner, drinking tea, all of them flushed and animated by the vodka they had drunk, for Maslova, who now had a constant supply of vodka, freely treated her companions to it.
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