He had been really useful at O---- and he had felt a new spirit of kindness around him.

He did not know that Marie Ivanovna had made her declaration to us and that we were therefore all anxious to show him that we thought that he had been badly treated.

Moreover he suspected, with a true English distrust of emotions, that the Russians before him were inclined to luxuriate in their gloom.

Molozov's despair and Ivan Mihailovitch's passionate eyes and jerking white hands irritated him.
He smiled a practical English smile and looked about him at the swaying procession of carts and soldiers with a practical eye.
"Come," he said to Molozov, "don't despair.

There's nothing really to be distressed about.