What he had done for Lukashka continued to give him joy.

He kept looking for occasions to sacrifice himself for others, but did not meet with them.

Sometimes he forgot this newly discovered recipe for happiness and considered himself capable of identifying his life with Daddy Eroshka's, but then he quickly bethought himself and promptly clutched at the idea of conscious self-sacrifice, and from that basis looked calmly and proudly at all men and at their happiness..