Meeting the Fugitives
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themselves beautifully, and in bright colours.
But there is none of the ordinary Sunday excitement.
You can't smell Sunday in the street.
They're only dressed in their best, because
—It's the custom.
Sunday!
The whole village keeps to the custom.
And it's dull now in the villages.
The large village of Ilyinska with its statue of Alexander the Second, glimmers as we pass.
In Russia now there are many villages with statues of the Tsar-Liberator.
We come to Medin and stop in the market-place.
—Any fugitives here?
—Yes, some who've been sent to our district. Look, there are some in the market.
