It seems now as though nothing wrong will come out of this.

With a character like his, no.

How he bawled at me! A regular trumpet, I tell you! And he appointed himself master at once.

As though he had sipped power and strictness out of a ladle." Yefim spoke the truth: during these few days Foma underwent a striking transformation.

The passion now kindled in him made him master of the soul and body of a woman; he eagerly absorbed the fiery sweetness of this power, and this burned out all that was awkward in him, all that gave him the appearance of a somewhat stupid, gloomy fellow, and, destroying it, filled his heart with youthful pride, with the consciousness of his human personality.