about three o'clock in the afternoon
There was a crowd continually before it , not a very huge one , but always about a hundred people , some coming and some going . As they approached they crossed themselves and bowed down to the ikon . They began to give offerings , and a church dish made its appearance , and with the dish a monk . But it was only about three o'clock in the afternoon it occurred to the authorities that it was possible to prohibit the crowds standing about , and to command them when they had prayed , bowed down and left their offerings , to pass on . Upon Von Lembke this unfortunate incident made the gloomiest impression . As I was told , Yulia Mihailovna said afterwards it was from this ill-omened morning that she first noticed in her husband that strange depression which persisted in him until he left our province on account of illness two months ago , and , I believe , haunts him still in Switzerland , where he has gone for a rest after his brief career amongst us . I remember at one o'clock in the afternoon I crossed the marketplace ; the crowd was silent and their faces solemn and gloomy .