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Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning,a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the lattercity at full speed. The morning was so damp … Altro …

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning,a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the lattercity at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was onlywith great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it wasimpossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from thecarriage windows. Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning fromabroad; but the Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning,a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the lattercity at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was onlywith great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it wasimpossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from thecarriage windows. Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning fromabroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly withinsignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up atthe different stations nearer town. All of them seemed weary, andmost of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while theircomplexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fogoutside. When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriagesfound themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, bothwere rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both wereevidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they wouldundoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them downopposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw RailwayCompany. One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, withblack curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes. His nose was broadand flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantlycompressed into an impudent, ironical-it might almost be called amalicious-smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atonedfor a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face. A specialfeature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave tothe whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hardlook, EBooks, Books, THE-IDIOT~~Fyodor-Dostoevsky, 999999999, THE IDIOT, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eva M, Martin (Translator), 0012096997, SAP, , , , , SAP<