—When the old couple used to be very drunk and roll about, the lame girl used to cry over them. At first he beat her, but then ceased.
—They killed a goose.—
—The Bible. Jacob bowed three times. He gets muddled with the Bible. The lame girl laughs.
—The habit of beating her; he did not want to kiss her.
| (The lame girl was not frozen to death. | |
| They found her. But she disappeared from the house of the Alfonskys.) |
His incessant thinking. From the time he began to remember himself: What shall I be and how shall I do it all?
Then doubt: is power alone worth everything and could one not be the slave of all the strongest.
He began training his will power. He is stung by passions.
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