reached the point of having hallucinations. This reflection frightened
him, but not for long.

"But I am all right, and I am doing no harm to any one; so there
is no harm in my hallucinations," he thought; and he felt happy
again.

He sat down on the sofa and clasped his hands round his head.
Restraining the unaccountable joy which filled his whole being, he
then paced up and down again, and sat down to his work. But the
thought that he read in the book did not satisfy him. He wanted
something gigantic, unfathomable, stupendous. Towards morning he
undressed and reluctantly went to bed: he ought to sleep.

When he heard the footsteps of Yegor Semyonitch going out into the
garden, Kovrin rang the bell and asked the footman to bring him
some wine. He drank several glasses of Lafitte, then wrapped himself
up, head and all; his consciousness grew clouded and he fell asleep.

IV

Yegor Semyonitch and Tanya often quarrelled and said nasty things
to each other.

They quarrelled about something that morning. Tanya burst out crying
and went to her room. She would not come down to dinner nor to tea.
At first Yegor Semyonitch went about looking sulky and dignified,
as though to give every one to understand that for him the claims
of justice and good order were more important than anything else
in the world; but he could not keep it up for long, and soon sank