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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - All is quiet in Moscow. The squeak
of wheels is seldom heard in the snow-covered street. There are no
lights left in the windows and the street lamps have been
extinguished. Only the sound of bells, borne over the city from the
church towers, suggests the approach of morning. The streets are
deserted. At rare intervals a night-cabman's sledge kneads up the
snow and sand in the street as the driver makes his way to another
corner where he falls asleep while waiting for a fare. An old woman
passes by on her way to church, where a few wax candles burn with a
red light reflected on the gilt mountings of the icons. Workmen are
already getting up after the long winter night and going to their
work - but for the gentlefolk it is still evening. From a window in
Chevalier's Restaurant a light - illegal at that hour - is still to
be seen through a chink in the shutter. At the entrance a carriage,
a sledge, and a cabman's sledge, stand close together with their
backs to the curbstone. A three-horse sledge from the post-station
is there also. A yard-porter muffled up and pinched with cold is
sheltering behind the corner of the house.
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