35/132 When he said his prayers going to bed he used to bow down to the ground, and make the sign of the cross on his pillow that he might not die in the night.... Enfin,_ no artistic feeling whatever, not a sign of anything higher, of anything fundamental, no embryo of a future ideal..._c'etait comme un petit idiot,_ but I'm afraid I am incoherent; excuse me... you came upon me..." "You say seriously that he crossed his pillow ?" the engineer asked suddenly with marked curiosity. Go on." Stepan Trofimovitch looked interrogatively at Liputin. |