Chapter XXI

Nekhlyudov stood at the edge of the raft, looking at the broad river. Two pictures kept rising in his mind. One was the shaking head of Kriltsov, who was dying in anger, the other, Katusha’s figure vigorously stepping along the road beside...

Chapter XII

One of the newcomers was a short, thin young man, wearing a cloth-covered sheepskin coat and high boots. He stepped lightly and quickly, carrying two steaming teapots, and holding under his arm a loaf wrapped in a cloth. ‘Well, so our Prince has put in...

Chapter XI

The political prisoners were kept in two small rooms, the doors of which opened into a part of the passage partitioned off from the rest. On entering this part of the passage Nekhlyudov saw Simonson in his rubber jacket and with a log of...

Chapter XXXVI

Nekhlyudov kept up with the quick pace of the convicts. Though lightly clothed he felt dreadfully hot, and it was difficult to breathe in the stifling, motionless, burning air filled with dust. When he had walked about a quarter of a mile he again got...

Chapter XXXIII

‘Well, and how are the children?’ Nekhlyudov asked his sister when he was calmer. His sister told him that the children had remained with their grandmother. And very glad that the dispute with her husband had come to an end she went on...

Chapter X

The town struck Nekhlyudov in a new and peculiar light on his return. He came back in the evening, after the lamps were lit, and drove from the railway station to his house, where the rooms still smelt of naphthalene. Agrafena Petrovna and Korney...

Chapter VII

From the crowd assembled in front of the house of the village elder came the sound of voices; but as soon as Nekhlyudov came up the talking ceased, and all the peasants took off their caps just as those in Kusminsky had done. The...

Chapter VI

Again striking his head against the tops of both doors, Nekhlyudov went out into the street, where the white and pink boys were waiting for him. A few newcomers were standing with them. Among the women, several of whom had babies in their arms,...

Chapter LVII

The next day Nekhlyudov went to see the advocate, and spoke to him about the Menshovs’ case, begging him to undertake their defence. The advocate promised to look into the case, and if it turned out to be as Nekhlyudov said, which...

Chapter XLVIII

The jailer who had brought Maslova in sat on a window-sill at some distance from them. The decisive moment had come for Nekhlyudov. He had been incessantly blaming himself for not having told her the principal thing at the first interview, and was now determined...