But he himself went on to talk in a strangely broken voice.
"We live in a time when children are ashamed of their own parents." "What!" exclaimed the mother, starting.
He glanced up at her and closed his eyes.

His pockmarked face looked like that of a blind man.
"I say that children have to be ashamed of their parents," he repeated, sighing aloud.

"Now, don't you be afraid.

It's not meant for you.
Pavel will never be ashamed of you.

But I am ashamed of my father, and shall never enter his house again.