And at last he repents and is tormented in his conscience because he wishes so basely to be extraordinary.
But he himself does not know what he will be.
The pure ideal of a free man flashes across him at times; all this when at the boarding school.
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—He made friends with Osip, about the Khlysti, they almost sleep together.
—Umnov; he knows Gogol by heart.
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Monastery—God give us and all animals a good night—(To make a study of Humboldt’s description of animals, Buffon and the Russians.)
—Science as worship.