"Would you like to go into my study?" Levin said in French to Stepan Arkadyevitch, scowling morosely.

" Go into my study; you can talk there.

" "Quite so, where you please," said Ryabinin with contemptuous dignity, as though wishing to make it felt that others might be in difficulties as to how to behave, but that he could never be in any difficulty about anything.

On entering the study Ryabinin looked about, as his habit was, as though seeking the holy picture, but when he had found it, he did not cross himself.