Chapter 18: In the Graveyard

In the Graveyard “The wind has got up, friends, and it is beginning to get dark. Hadn’t we better take ourselves off before it gets worse?” The wind was frolicking among the yellow leaves of the old birch trees, and a shower of thick drops fell upon us from the leaves. One of our party slipped on the clayey soil, and clutched at a big grey cross to save himself from falling. “Yegor Gryaznorukov, titular councillor and cavalier …” he read. “I knew that gentleman. He was fond of his wif…