I may mention, too, that the great author was also favourably disposed to Pyotr Stepanovitch, and at once invited him to go and see him.

Such alacrity on the part of a man so puffed up with conceit stung Stepan Trofimovitch more painfully than anything; but I put a different interpretation on it.

In inviting a nihilist to see him, Mr.Karmazinov, no doubt, had in view his relations with the progressives of the younger generation in both capitals.

The great author trembled nervously before the revolutionary youth of Russia, and imagining, in his ignorance, that the future lay in their hands, fawned upon them in a despicable way, chiefly because they paid no attention to him whatever.
II Pyotr Stepanovitch ran round to see his father twice, but unfortunately I was absent on both occasions.

He visited him for the first time only on Wednesday, that is, not till the fourth day after their first meeting, and then only on business.