twelve o'clock
The whole district assembles for the service . There you will see Hrumov the present marshal , Marfutkin , the president of the Zemstvo , Potrashkov , the permanent member of the Rural Board , the two justices of the peace of the district , the police captain , Krinolinov , two police-superintendents , the district doctor , Dvornyagin , smelling of iodoform , all the landowners , great and small , and so on . There are about fifty people assembled in all . Precisely at twelve o'clock , the visitors , with long faces , make their way from all the rooms to the big hall . There are carpets on the floor and their steps are noiseless , but the solemnity of the occasion makes them instinctively walk on tip-toe , holding out their hands to balance themselves . In the hall everything is already prepared . Father Yevmeny , a little old man in a high faded cap , puts on his black vestments .