Well, if it were only about fifty puds! But why so much?
Look out that we don't get a good scolding for this." "Leave me alone!" said Foma, shortly.
"What is it to me?
I'll keep quiet.

But as you are so young, and as I was told to keep an eye on you, I may get a rap on the snout for being heedless." "I'll tell my father all about it.

Keep quiet!" said Foma.
"As for me--let it be so--so that you are master here." "Very well." "I have said this, Foma Ignatyich, for your own sake--because you are so young and simple-minded." "Leave me alone, Yefim!" Yefim heaved a sigh and became silent, while Foma stared at the woman and thought: "I wish they would bring such a woman for sale to me." His heart beat rapidly.

Though as yet physically pure, he already knew from conversations the mysteries of intimate relations between men and women.

He knew by rude and shameful names, and these names kindled in him an unpleasant, burning curiosity and shame; his imagination worked obstinately, for he could not picture it to himself in intelligible images.