The criminals are
also nice people; they help us a good deal. Bukin, four others, and
myself were released. It got too crowded. They'll let Pavel go
soon, too. I'm telling you the truth, believe me. Vyesovshchikov
will be detained the longest. They are very angry at him. He
scolds and swears at everybody all the time. The gendarmes can't
bear to look at him. I guess he'll get himself into court, or
receive a sound thrashing some day. Pavel tries to dissuade him.
'Stop, Nikolay!' he says to him. 'Your swearing won't reform them.'
But he bawls: 'Wipe them off the face of the earth like a pest!'
Pavel conducts himself finely out there; he treats all alike, and
is as firm as a rock! They'll soon let him go."
"Soon?" said the mother, relieved now and smiling. "I know he'll
be let out soon!"
"Well, if you know, it's all right! Give me tea, mother. Tell me
how you've been, how you've passed your time."
He looked at her, smiling all over, and seemed so near to her, such
a splendid fellow. A loving, somewhat melancholy gleam flashed from
the depths of his round, blue eyes.
"I love you dearly, Andriusha!" the mother said, heaving a deep
sigh, as she looked at his thin face grotesquely covered with tufts
of hair.
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