I became quite an old gentleman.

There was nothing left for me but to think of my eternal salvation.

I went off to Paris--I was as right as could be at once.

" Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described.

In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.