![]() Taras sat, looking very happy, opposite the door, keeping a placefor Nekhludoff, and carrying on an animated conversation with aman in a cloth coat who sat opposite to him, and who was, asNekhludoff afterwards found out, a gardener going to a newsituation. ![]() That's right," said the old man, with a look at Nekhludoff,"it's the best way to go and see him, else a young man can easilygo to the bad, living in a town." All these people were sitting quietly the bustle oftaking their places was long over some sat cracking and eatingsunflower seeds, some smoking, some talking. There were in it servants, working men,factory hands, butchers, Jews, shopmen, workmen's wives, asoldier, two ladies, a young one and an old one with bracelets onher arm, and a severelooking gentleman with a cockade on hisblack cap. The carriage in which Nekhludoff had taken his place was halffilled with people. 'While wekeep her here,' she says, 'she may destroy us all likecockroaches.' Well, friend, so she goes off for the policeofficer. ![]() She may come to hersenses.' But, dear me, mother would not hear of it. 'Wait, wife,' sayshe, 'the little woman is a mere child, and did not herself knowwhat she was doing. 'I'm going,' says she, 'to thepolice officer.' My father is a just old man. Well, then in this way, my friend, the business became known.Mother, she takes that cake. Well, and to you? Was she kinder, now?" asked the gardener.
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