All his letters were short, dry, consisting only of instructions, and as the father and son had, since their meeting in Petersburg, adopted the fashionable "thou" and "thee," Petrusha's letters had a striking resemblance to the missives that used to be sent by landowners of the old school from the town to their serfs whom they had left in charge of their estates.

And now suddenly this eight thousand which would solve the difficulty would be wafted to him by Varvara Petrovna's proposition.
And at the same time she made him distinctly feel that it never could be wafted to him from anywhere else.

Of course Stepan Trofimovitch consented.
He sent for me directly she had gone and shut himself up for the whole day, admitting no one else.

He cried, of course, talked well and talked a great deal, contradicted himself continually, made a casual pun, and was much pleased with it.

Then he had a slight attack of his "summer cholera"-- everything in fact followed the usual course.