I was powerless! I thought you could never get reconciled to us, that you could never adopt our ideas as yours, but that you would suffer in silence as you had suffered all your life long.

It was hard." "Andriusha made me understand many things!" she declared, in her desire to turn her son's attention to his comrade.
"Yes, he told me about you," said Pavel, laughing.
"And Yegor, too! He is a countryman of mine, you know.

Andriusha wanted to teach me to read, also." "And you got offended, and began to study by yourself in secret." "Oh, so he found me out!" she exclaimed in embarrassment.

Then troubled by this abundance of joy which filled her heart she again suggested to Pavel: "Shan't we call him in?
He went out on purpose, so as not to disturb us.

He has no mother." "Andrey!" shouted Pavel, opening the door to the porch.