Chapter 91: On the Road

On the Road “Upon the breast of a gigantic crag, A golden cloudlet rested for one night.” Lermontov In the room which the tavern keeper, the Cossack Semyon Tchistopluy, called the “Travellers’ Room,” that is kept exclusively for travellers, a tall, broad-shouldered man of forty was sitting at the big unpainted table. He was asleep with his elbows on the table and his head leaning on his fist. An end of tallow candle, stuck into an old pomatum pot, lighted up his light brown bear…