I kept stamping and swearing at you, but I had made up my mind, quite made up my mind, that you should come to me first, that was why I didn't send to you.

Heavens, why he hasn't changed a bit!" She scrutinised him, bending down from the saddle.

"He's absurdly unchanged.

Oh, yes, he has wrinkles, a lot of wrinkles, round his eyes and on his cheeks some grey hair, but his eyes are just the same.

And have I changed?
Have I changed?
Why don't you say something ?" I remembered at that moment the story that she had been almost ill when she was taken away to Petersburg at eleven years old, and that she had cried during her illness and asked for Stepan Trofimovitch.
"You...