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Updated: June 21, 2025
Only one conscientiously punctual German was ever known to arrive at the appointed hour, but the only reward of the Teuton's mistaken zeal was to wait for hours in solitary state in an unwarmed, unlighted room till his host and fellow-guests saw fit to assemble. The meeting-room, or parlour, or drawing-room in Nekrovitch's house was by no means a palatial apartment.
The second door opened into a large, vaulted room with small iron-grated windows. In this room, which was called the meeting-room, Nekhludoff saw in a niche a large image of the Crucifixion.
"All I want is a friendly talk with you. We might talk in your shop, but you have no private office." "Whether I have one or not is none of your business" I retorted, with irrelevant resentment We walked on. He proposed to take me to one of the ball and meeting-room places in which he did business, and I acquiesced
Norton descended the ladder and with lighted matches found his way to the vestibule where the switch-box was. Here was the big switch on which all other switches in the building depended. As he pulled it down one lonely bulb in the meeting-room brightened and cast a dim light in the musty, empty place. It was evidently the only bulb in which the individual switch was turned on.
In any event, he cannot enter until permission has been formally voted by the society. When he is allowed to enter he finds the meeting-room little different from the one he has left, except that it is provided with a sort of throne on a raised platform at one end and with cushioned benches for seats.
"Yes; I would like to see one of the women prisoners," Nekhludoff said, with the same strained politeness. "You should have said so in the meeting-room. Whom do you wish to see, then?" "I wish to see Katherine Maslova." "Has she been sentenced?" "Yes, she was sentenced the other day," he said humbly, as if fearing to ruffle the temper of the officer, who seemed to be interested in him.
Just as when a large family is to be considered I believe in one big meeting-room and a number of smaller rooms for special purposes, so I believe that when a family is very small there should be one great living-room and no other day room.
In this room, which was called the meeting-room, Nekhludoff was startled by the sight of a large picture of the Crucifixion. "What's that for?" he thought, his mind involuntarily connecting the subject of the picture with liberation and not with imprisonment.
He went affectionately up to his friend, and eagerly held out his hand. Pentaur grasped it, pressed it warmly, and said: "That was a fearful moment! You do not know what Ameni has been to me, and now, now!" He hardly had ceased speaking when steps were heard approaching the physician's room, and a young priest requested the friends to appear at once in the meeting-room of the Initiated.
La Mothe was near the door, his spare figure erect, his look high. He alone carried no arms. I was a few feet from him, with Diane by my side. In this formation we left the meeting-room, and reached the hall, where the huge iron-studded door was already yielding to the battering from outside. "Throw open the door," La Mothe called out.
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