(There are some connoisseurs who prize this yearning more than the most complete satisfaction of it, if such were possible.) But in any case it was just as well that the pupil and the preceptor were, though none too soon, parted.
For the first two years the lad used to come home from the lyceum for the holidays.

While Varvara Petrovna and Stepan Trofimovitch were staying in Petersburg he was sometimes present at the literary evenings at his mother's, he listened and looked on.

He spoke little, and was quiet and shy as before.

His manner to Stepan Trofimovitch was as affectionately attentive as ever, but there was a shade of reserve in it.

He unmistakably avoided distressing, lofty subjects or reminiscences of the past.