It would have been rather to him that the Governor would have addressed himself had he known who the pretended merchant of Irkutsk really was.

Kamsk, in fact, by its very situation seemed to be outside the Siberian world and the grave events which troubled it.
Besides, Michael Strogoff showed himself little, if at all.

To be unperceived was not now enough for him: he would have wished to be invisible.

The experience of the past made him more and more circumspect in the present and the future.

Therefore he secluded himself, and not caring to traverse the streets of the village, he would not even leave the inn at which he had halted.
As for his horse, he did not even think of exchanging him for another animal.