"Jakov!" called out his friend, looking down again.
"What?"
"I was thinking——" Ilya broke off.
"What were you thinking?" asked Jakov, speaking softly too.
"About the people here."
"What then?"
"How they——I can't bear it. Here is some one killed, and they all run about the place and seem so busy and talk all the time; but no one cried, not one."
"Yes, Jeremy did."
"He always has tears in his eyes. But Pashka, how he behaves—as if he were telling a tale."
"It isn't that, really. It pains him, but he's ashamed to cry before us; but now he's gone away, and is crying—as he's reason enough to."