In these unfamiliar surroundings he was puzzled and disconcerted, and could not get his bearings.

As he listened to Countess Lidia Ivanovna, aware of the beautiful, artless--or perhaps artful, he could not decide which--eyes of Landau fixed upon him, Stepan Arkadyevitch began to be conscious of a peculiar heaviness in his head.

The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.

" Marie Sanina is glad her child's dead....