Are you glad, papa?" "First of all, don't rock your chair, please," said Alexey Alexandrovitch.

" And secondly, it's not the reward that's precious, but the work itself.

And I could have wished you understood that.

If you now are going to work, to study in order to win a reward, then the work will seem hard to you; but when you work" (Alexey Alexandrovitch, as he spoke, thought of how he had been sustained by a sense of duty through the wearisome labor of the morning, consisting of signing one hundred and eighty papers), "loving your work, you will find your reward in it.

" Seryozha's eyes, that had been shining with gaiety and tenderness, grew dull and dropped before his father's gaze.