The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ghing female voices. The landlord came out ofhis compartment, and walked over to us. He had appar-ently heard my questions and the womans answer. Hecast a stern glance upon the woman, and turned to me:A prostitute, he said, obviously satisfied, because heknew the word which is used in official language andpronounced it correctly. Having said this, he with afaint and respectful smile of satisfaction, which was meantfor me, turned to the woman. The moment he turned toher, his whole face was changed. Speaking in that pecul-iar, contemptuous, quick tone, with
The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ghing female voices. The landlord came out ofhis compartment, and walked over to us. He had appar-ently heard my questions and the womans answer. Hecast a stern glance upon the woman, and turned to me:A prostitute, he said, obviously satisfied, because heknew the word which is used in official language andpronounced it correctly. Having said this, he with afaint and respectful smile of satisfaction, which was meantfor me, turned to the woman. The moment he turned toher, his whole face was changed. Speaking in that pecul-iar, contemptuous, quick tone, with which one addressesa dog, and without looking at her, he said: What use is there of talking bosh, I sit in a restau-rant ? You sit in a restaurant! Say outright, — aprostitute, he repeated the word. She does not knowhow to call herself. His tone offended me. 32iJoH-§ni8boJ 9dJ nl wo u I an ? ?(\ odIv lau»hed. In tb. ir. ment, and walked o\ ei ca. A pr pr She do( ho In the Lodging-house Photogravure from Drawitig by I. E. Kyepin. WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN? 43 It is not proper for us to put her to shame, I said. If all of us lived in godly fashion, there would be noneof them. Well, that is so, said the landlord, with an unnaturalsmile. Then we ought not to rebuke them, but to pity it their fault ? I do not remember how I expressed myself, but Iremember that I was offended by the contemptuous toneof this youthful landlord of the quarters which were fullof women whom he called prostitutes, and I was sorryfor this woman, and so I expressed both sentiments. Themoment I had said this, the boards of the beds in thecompartment where the female voices were heard beganto creak, and above the partition, which did not reach ashigh as the ceiling, there rose a curly, dishevelled femalehead with small, swollen eyes and a shining red face, andafter her a second and a third head. They were evidentlystanding on their beds, and ?? three of them stretchedtheir necks and with bated breath a
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