ntly the male public of the car
provoked them, and they swore back in unceremonious language, in hoarse
voices. The young people treated them with wine and cigarettes.

Horizon was here altogether unrecognizable; he was majestically
negligent and condescendingly jocose. On the other hand, cringing
ingratiation sounded in every word addressed to him by his female
clients. But he, having looked over all of them--this strange mixture
of Roumanians, Jewesses, Poles and Russians--and having assured himself
that all was in order, gave orders about the sandwiches and
majestically withdrew. At these moments he very much resembled a
drover, who is transporting by railroad cattle for slaughter, and at a
station drops in to look it over and to feed it. After that he would
return to his COUPE and again begin to toy with his wife, and Hebrew
anecdotes just poured from his mouth.

At the long stops he would go out to the buffet only to see about his
lady clients. But he himself said to his neighbours:

"You know, it's all the same to me if it's TREIF or KOSHER. I don't
recognize any difference. But what can I do with my stomach! The devil
knows what stuff they'll feed you sometimes at these stations. You'll
pay some three or four roubles, and then you'll spend a hundred roubles
on the doctors curing yourself. But maybe you, now, Sarochka"--he would
turn to his wife--"maybe you'll get off at the station to eat
something? Or shall I send it up to you here?"

Sarochka, happy over his attention, would turn red, beam upon him with
grateful eyes, and refuse.

"You're very kind, Senya, only I don't want to. I'm full."

Then Horizon would reach out of a travelling hamper a chicken, boiled
meat, cucumbers, and a bottle of Palestine wine; have a snack, without
hurrying, with appetite; regale his wife, who ate very genteelly,
sticking out the little fingers of her magnificent white hands; then
painstakingly wrap up the remnants in paper and, without hurrying, lay
them away accurately in the hamper.

In the distance, far ahead of the locomotive, the cupolas and belfries
were already beginning to sparkle with fires of gold. Through the COUPE
passed the conductor and made some imperceptible sign to Horizon. He
immediately followed the conductor out to the platform.

"The inspector will pass through right away," said the conductor, "so
you'll please be so kind as to stand for a while here on the platform
of the third class with your spouse