Then he glanced at Werner's untouched bread and said: "Why don't you eat?
Eat.

We must brace up." "I don't feel like eating." "Then I'll eat it.

May I ?" "You have a fine appetite, Seryozha." Instead of answering, Sergey, his mouth full, began to sing in a dull voice, out of tune: "Hostile whirlwinds are blowing over us..." After the arrest he at first grew sad; the work had not been done well, they had failed; but then he thought: "There is something else now that must be done well--and that is, to die," and he cheered up again.

And however strange it may seem, beginning with the second morning in the fortress, he commenced devoting himself to gymnastics according to the unusually rational system of a certain German named Mueller, which absorbed his interest.

He undressed himself completely and, to the alarm and astonishment of the guard who watched him, he carefully went through all the prescribed eighteen exercises.