A quarter past ten
You see I have come for you myself . The horses are splendid , we shall get there in twenty minutes . '' `` And what time is it now ? '' `` A quarter past ten . '' Lyzhin , sleepy and discontented , put on his felt overboots , his fur-lined coat , his cap and hood , and went out with the doctor . There was not a very sharp frost , but a violent and piercing wind was blowing and driving along the street the clouds of snow which seemed to be racing away in terror : high drifts were heaped up already under the fences and at the doorways . The doctor and the examining magistrate got into the sledge , and the white coachman bent over them to button up the cover .