"I tell you, get on!" and the attendant followed Ilya muttering:
"These fellows, loafers, hiding in corners."
Lunev slackened his pace and as the attendant came up to him, he said quietly and maliciously:
"Don't growl, else I'll have to say, 'lie down dog! lie down!'"
The attendant stopped suddenly, but Lunev went quickly on and felt an evil pleasure in having insulted a man.
In the street he fell again into brooding on the fate of his friends. Pavel, since he was a little lad had fended for himself, had been in prison, and tried all sorts of hard work. What hunger and cold, what blows he had endured! And now finally he had come to the hospital.
Masha would hardly see happy days again, and Jakov the same; how should a being like Jakov keep a whole skin in this world?
Lunev saw that, as a matter of fact, of all the four he had the best of it. But this consciousness brought him no comfort, he only smiled, and looked suspiciously about him.