He saw the Little Russian there, who sends you his regards, and Pavel, who also sends you his regards and begs you not to be alarmed.

As a man travels on his way, he says, the jails constitute his resting places, established and maintained by the solicitous authorities! Now, granny, let us get to the point.

Do you know how many people were arrested yesterday ?" "I do not.

Why, were there any others arrested besides Pavel ?" she exclaimed.
"He was the forty-ninth!" calmly interjected Yegor Ivanovich.

"And we may expect about ten more to be taken! This gentleman here, for example." "Yes; me, too!" said Samoylov with a frown.
Nilovna somehow felt relieved.
"He isn't there alone," she thought.
When she had dressed herself, she entered the room and, smiling bravely, said: "I guess they won't detain them long, if they arrested so many." "You are right," assented Yegor Ivanovich; "and if we can manage to spoil this mess for them, we can make them look altogether like fools.
This is the way it is, granny.