why is it?
Can that, too, come from sentimentalism ?" I don't know whether there is any truth in this observation of Stepan Trofimovitch's.

I only know that Petrusha had somehow got wind of the sale of the woods and the rest of it, and that Stepan Trofimovitch was aware of the fact.

I happened, too, to read some of Petrusha's letters to his father.

He wrote extremely rarely, once a year, or even less often.

Only recently, to inform him of his approaching visit, he had sent two letters, one almost immediately after the other.