"No matter what other people may want, a mother always wants affection.

You certainly have a heart plenty big enough for one man!" "But those people! Just think, Andriusha!" she suddenly exclaimed, amazement in her tone.

"How used they get to all this! Their children are taken away from them, are thrown into dungeons, and, mind you, it's as nothing to them! They come, sit about, wait, and talk.

What do you think of that?
If intelligent people are that way, if they can so easily get accustomed to a thing like that, then what's to be said about the common people ?" "That's natural," said the Little Russian with his usual smile.

"The law after all is not so harsh toward them as toward us.