On the contrary they say that he wept violently.

A fortnight after he was superseded, all of them, in a "family party," went one day for a picnic to a wood outside the town to drink tea with their friends.
Virginsky was in a feverishly lively mood and took part in the dances.
But suddenly, without any preliminary quarrel, he seized the giant Lebyadkin with both hands, by the hair, just as the latter was dancing a can-can solo, pushed him down, and began dragging him along with shrieks, shouts, and tears.

The giant was so panic-stricken that he did not attempt to defend himself, and hardly uttered a sound all the time he was being dragged along.

But afterwards he resented it with all the heat of an honourable man.

Virginsky spent a whole night on his knees begging his wife's forgiveness.