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WALKING WITH CANE : one direction. Petya was being walking with cane so that he could scarcely breathe, and everybody shouted, "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!" Petya stood on tiptoe and pushed and pinched, but could see nothing except the people about him. All the faces bore the same expression of excitement and enthusiasm. A tradesman's wife standing beside Petya sobbed, and the tears ran down her cheeks. "Father! walking with cane Dear one!" she kept repeating, wiping away her tears with her fingers. "Hurrah!" was heard on all sides. For a moment the crowd stood still, but then it made another rush forward. Quite beside himself, Petya, clinching his teeth and rolling his eyes ferociously, pushed forward, elbowing his way and shouting walking with cane as if he were prepared that instant to kill himself and everyone else, but walking with cane both sides of him walking with cane people with similarly ferocious faces pushed
WALKING WITH CANE : forward and everybody shouted "hurrah!" "So this is what the Emperor is!" thought Petya. walking with cane I can't petition him myself- that would be too bold." But in spite of this he continued to struggle desperately forward, and from between the backs of those in front he caught glimpses of an open space with a strip of red cloth spread out on it; but just then the crowd swayed back- walking with cane police in front were pushing back those who had pressed too close to the procession: the Emperor was passing from the palace to the Cathedral of the Assumption- and Petya unexpectedly received such a blow walking with cane his side and ribs and was squeezed so hard that suddenly everything grew dim walking with cane his eyes and he lost consciousness. When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft
WALKING WITH CANE : of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock- probably a church clerk and chanter- was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with walking with cane other. "You've crushed the young gentleman!" said the clerk. "What are you up to? Gently!... They've crushed him, crushed him!" The Emperor entered walking with cane Cathedral of the Assumption. The crowd spread out again more evenly, and the clerk led Petya- pale and breathless- to the Tsar-cannon. Several people were sorry for Petya, and suddenly a crowd turned toward him and pressed walking with cane him. Those who stood nearest him attended to him, unbuttoned walking with cane coat, seated him on the raised platform of the cannon, and reproached those others (whoever they might be) who had crushed walking with cane "One might easily get killed
WALKING WITH CANE : walking with cane way! walking with cane do they mean by it? Killing people! Poor dear, he's as white as a sheet!"- various voices were heard saying. Petya soon walking with cane to himself, the color returned to his walking with cane the pain had passed, and at the cost of that temporary unpleasantness he had obtained a place by the cannon from where he hoped to see the Emperor who would be returning that way. Petya no longer thought of presenting his petition. If he could only see the Emperor he would be happy! While the service was proceeding in the Cathedral of the Assumption- it was a combined service of prayer on the occasion of the Emperor's arrival and of thanksgiving for the conclusion of peace with the Turks- the crowd outside spread out and hawkers walking with cane selling kvas, gingerbread, and poppyseed sweets (of which Petya
WALKING WITH CANE : was particularly fond), and ordinary conversation could again be heard. A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl walking with cane telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear. The clerk who had rescued Petya was talking to a functionary about the priests who were walking with cane that day with the bishop. The clerk several times walking with cane the word "plenary" (of the service), a word Petya did not walking with cane Two young citizens were joking with some serf girls who were cracking nuts. All these conversations, walking with cane the joking with the girls, were such as might have had a particular charm for Petya at his age, but they did not interest him now. He sat on his elevation- the pedestal of the cannon- still agitated as before by the thought of the
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