" "If I had hurt myself, nobody should have found it out, that's certain.

" "Well, what is it, then?" "Leave me alone! If I remember, or if I don't remember?...what business is it of his? Why should I remember? Leave me in peace!" he said, addressing not his tutor, but the whole world.

Stepan Arkadyevitch, as usual, did not waste his time in Petersburg.

In Petersburg, besides business, his sister's divorce, and his coveted appointment, he wanted, as he always did, to freshen himself up, as he said, after the mustiness of Moscow.

In spite of its _cafes chantants_ and its omnibuses, Moscow was yet a stagnant bog.