"No, we've been hunting in the Tver province.

It was coming back from there that I met your _beaufrere_ in the train, or your _beaufrere's_ brother-in-law," he said with a smile.

" It was an amusing meeting.

" And he began telling with droll good-humor how, after not sleeping all night, he had, wearing an old fur-lined, full-skirted coat, got into Alexey Alexandrovitch's compartment.