Besides, he had been so tired for the last few days, so exhausted and helpless, that his soul involuntarily yearned for rest.

But alas! he was again uneasy.

The long time he had spent in Petersburg had left ineradicable traces in his heart.

The official and even the secret history of the "younger generation" was fairly familiar to him--he was a curious man and used to collect manifestoes--but he could never understand a word of it.

Now he felt like a man lost in a forest.