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 latter city at full
speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was
only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in
breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything
more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
Some of the passengers by this particular train were
returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were
the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various
occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations
nearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of them
had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their
complexions generally appeared to have taken on the
colour of the fog outside.
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