—Before that: They teased the lady—fell on her, they were dragged home, flogging—He was afraid to complain.
The first fight, he rushed to beat the gentleman with the badge.
I shall never play the coward.
—I’ll learn not to play the coward. (He was afraid, but thrashed the boy.)
—He cut himself for a test.
—Instruction from the boy as to fornic...on (Therese-Philosophe gave him a beating for it).
But the book she took away from him.
He began to save money.
To amass (he tells the lame girl).
The lame girl was taken into the Alfonsky family before.[[80]]