"It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible things that he has been expelled by the police.

" "You don't say so!" replied the countess.

"He chose his friends badly," interposed Anna Mikhaylovna.

" Prince Vasili's son, he, and a certain Dolokhov have, it is said, been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it.

Dolokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezukhov's son sent back to Moscow.