Don't I see how others live at my age ?" "Your head wouldn't fall off from my scolding you.

And I scold you because I see there is something in you that is not mine.

What it is, I do not know, but I see it is there.

And that something is harmful to you." These words of Ignat made the son very thoughtful.

Foma also felt something strange in himself, something which distinguished him from the youth of his age, but he, too, could not understand what it was.