Communes; and, coughing loudly, they took their stand, crowding

the left side and the middle of the church.

On one side of the gallery above stood the men sentenced to penal

servitude in Siberia, who had been let into the church before the

others. Each of them had half his head shaved, and their presence

was indicated by the clanking of the chains on their feet. On the

other side of the gallery stood those in preliminary confinement,

without chains, their heads not shaved.