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 Rh make yourself warm; for I am sure you must be very cold."

"Christ save us!" said Stepanovitch. "It seems to me as if my poor old bones were breaking with the cold."

Stepanovitch, on entering the room, commenced to brush the snow off his clothes, and afterward stooped down to clean his old felt boots so that he would not soil the floor of the little room. In doing so he staggered from sheer exhaustion and nearly fell.

"Never mind," said Martin; "I will clean the floor afterward. We have other business to attend to now. Come in and be seated and have a cup of tea with me," after saying which Martin poured out two glasses of tea and handed one of them to his guest.

Taking his own glass, he poured its contents into the saucer, when he began to blow it so as to cool it. Stepanovitch, after drinking his tea, turned his glass upside down (a Russian custom, signifying that he had had enough),