She had sat down again and was rocking herself back and forth.
"You--" Sergey began again.

Suddenly his face wrinkled pitiably, childishly, and his eyes filled with tears immediately.

Through the sparkling gleams of his tears he looked closely into the white face of his father, whose eyes had also filled.
"You, father, are a noble man!" "What is that?
What are you saying ?" said the colonel, surprised.

And then suddenly, as if broken in two, he fell with his head upon his son's shoulder.

He had been taller than Sergey, but now he became short, and his dry, downy head lay like a white ball upon his son's shoulder.