He carried on dreadfully! It all started somehow of a sudden.

The first thing he did was to thrash the son-in-law of the Vice-Governor at the Club.

Papa had to take the greatest pains to hush up the scandal, and it was a good thing that the Vice-Governor's son-in-law is a man of very bad reputation.

He is a card-sharper and in general a shady personality, yet it cost father more than two thousand roubles.

And while papa was busying himself about that scandal Foma came near drowning a whole company on the Volga." "Ha-ha! How monstrous! And that same man busies himself with investigating as to the meaning of life." "On another occasion he was carousing on a steamer with a company of people like himself.