up in a trap, with rubber tyres, drawn by a large thoroughbred

horse. The student was holding a large bundle. He came up to

Nekhludoff, and asked if and how he could give the rolls he had

brought in alms to the prisoners. His fiancee wished it (this

lady was his fiancee), and her parents had advised them to take

"I myself am here for the first time," said Nekhludoff, "and

don't know; but I think you had better ask this man," and he

pointed to the warder with the gold cords and the book, sitting