1 The silence preserved was well-nigh complete.
2 Of all men whom I know he has the broadest mind, and he breaks not his silence save to give advice.
3 For a while Selifan listened in silence; then he left the room, and instructed Petrushka to help the barin to undress.
4 After a moment's silence he added to Platon: "I am beginning to think that the tour might help you to bestir yourself."
5 Again and again did the two friends press one another's hands in silence as they gazed into one another's tear-filled eyes.
6 Higher powers govern those passions, and in them is something which will call to him, and refuse to be silenced, to the end of his life.
7 Finally, all is wrapped in an immensity of silence which even the far, faint echoes of persons singing in the void of the plain cannot shatter.
8 Nor did she know reticence: before any one she would disclose her mind, and no force could compel her to maintain silence when she desired to speak.
9 At all events, within an hour's time they issued, arm in arm, and in profound silence, yet remaining markedly assiduous to one another, and ever ready to help one another around an awkward corner.
10 Meanwhile Murazov sat gazing in silence at the unwonted spectacle of a man who had lately been mincing with the gait of a worldling or a military fop now writhing in dishevelment and despair as he poured out upon the hostile forces by which human ingenuity so often finds itself outwitted a flood of invective.