In the midst of his conversation about his acquaintanceship with Sviyazhsky the gates creaked again, and the labourers returning from the fields came into the yard with their ploughs and harrows.
В середине рассказа старика об его знакомстве с Свияжским ворота опять заскрипели, и на двор въехали работники с поля с сохами и боронами.