Excerpt from Petersburg Tales There was an uneasy feeling abroad in St. Peters burg. It had penetrated into our apartments, brought by each successive comer returning for the evening meal; and now, as we sat, a party of four, at the square table in the barely-furnished, lofty, yet small dining-room, it was very present to us all, both in our increased sense of intimacy under its shadow, and in the difficulty of sustaining any conversation unconnected with it. We looked questioningly at one another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.