doubt he still had considerable strength. He was of athletic build. In spite of his great age he was not even quite gray, and still had very thick hair and a full beard, both of which had once been black. His eyes were gray, large and luminous, but strikingly prominent. He spoke with a broad accent. He was dressed in a peasant’s long reddish coat of coarse convict cloth (as it used to be called) and had a stout rope round his waist. His throat and chest were bare. * Beneath his coat, his shirt of the coarsest linen showed almost black with dirt, not having been changed for months. * They said that he wore irons weighing thirty pounds under his coat. * His stockingless feet were thrust in old slippers almost
“From the little Obdorsk monastery, from St. Sylvester,” the monk answered humbly, whilst his keen and