noon
I felt my towards the bed , pulled off my shoes , and set about warming my feet between my hands . Then I lay down , as I had done for a long time now , with all my clothes on . The following morning I sat up in bed as soon as it got light , and set to work at the essay once more . I sat thus till noon ; I had succeeded by then in getting ten , perhaps twenty lines down , and still I had not found an ending . I rose , put on my shoes , and began to walk up and down the floor to try and warm myself . I looked out ; there was rime on the window ; it was snowing . Down in the yard a thick layer of snow covered the paving-stones and the top of the pump .