Resurrection

"I have nothing more to ask," said the prosecutor, and, drawing

up his shoulders in an unnatural manner, began writing down, as

the prisoner's own evidence, in the notes for his speech, that

she had been in the empty room with Kartinkin.

There was a short silence.

"You have nothing more to say?"

"I have told everything," she said, with a sigh, and sat down.

Then the president noted something down, and, having listened to

something that the member on his left whispered to him, he

announced a ten-minutes' interval, rose hurriedly, and left the

court. The communication he had received from the tall, bearded

member with the kindly eyes was that the member, having felt a

slight stomach derangement, wished to do a little massage and to

take some drops. And this was why an interval was made.

When the judges had risen, the advocates, the jury, and the

witnesses also rose, with the pleasant feeling that part of the

business was finished, and began moving in different directions.

Nekhludoff went into the jury's room, and sat down by the window.