I am not going to beat people every day, am I ?" said Foma, confused.

His companion began to laugh.
"What a monster you are! Listen to me--it is savage to fight--you must excuse me, but it is abominable.

Yet, I must tell you, in this case you made a happy selection.

You have thrashed a rake, a cynic, a parasite--a man who robbed his nephews with impunity." "Well, thank God for that!" said Foma with satisfaction.

"Now I have punished him a little." "A little?
Very well, let us suppose it was a little.