"So, so, Gavrila Petrovich. Let us continue in the same spirit.
Let us condemn the hungry, petty thief who has stolen a five-
kopeck loaf out of a tray, but if the director of a bank has
squandered somebody else's million on race horses and cigars, let
us mitigate his lot."
"Pardon me, but I do not understand this comparison," answered
Yarchenko with restraint. "However, it's all the same to me; let's
go."
"And all the more so," said Lichonin, letting the subprofessor
pass ahead; "all the more so, since this house guards within it so
many historical traditions. Comrades! Decades of student
generations gaze upon us from the heights of the coat-hooks, and,
besides that, through the power of the usual right, children and
students pay half here, as in a panopticon. Isn't that so, citizen
Simeon?"
Simeon did not like to have people come in large parties--this
always smacked of scandal in the not distant future; moreover, he
despised students in general for their speech, but little
comprehensible to him, for their propensity towards frivolous
jokes, for their godlessness, and chiefly because they were in
constant revolt against officialdom and order.
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