"Well, what are the names of the patriarchs?" "Enoch, Enos--" "But you have said that already.
This is bad, Seryozha, very bad.
If you don't try to learn what is more necessary than anything for a Christian," said his father, getting up, "whatever can interest you? I am displeased with you, and Piotr Ignatitch" (this was the most important of his teachers) "is displeased with you....
I shall have to punish you.