Leo Tolstoy

“ The old man with the blue eye-glasses started with a heavy gait, and after him came Nekhludoff.
“What a peculiar state of things!” said the talkative young man to Nekhludoff on the stairs, as though continuing the interrupted conversation. “It is fortunate that the captain is a kind-hearted man, and does not enforce the rules. But for him it would be tantalizing. As it is, they talk together and relieve their feelings.” ”

“ Finally the prisoners and visitors began to depart—­the former passing through the inner, the latter through the outer, door. First the man in the rubber coat passed out; then the consumptive and the dark-featured convict; next Vera Efremovna and Maria Pavlovna, and the boy who was born in the prison. ”