Let him be
not right and so on, we can express censure to him in our own
intimate company, but when an insult has been rendered our
comrade--I can't remain here. I am going away."
"Oh, my God!" And Lichonin nervously and vexedly scratched his
temple. "Boris behaved himself all the time in the highest degree
vulgarly, rudely and foolishly. What sort of corporate honour do
you think this is? A collective walk-out from editorial offices,
from political meetings, from brothels. We aren't officers to
screen the foolishness of each comrade."
"All the same, just as you wish, but I am going away out of a
sense of solidarity!" said Petrovsky importantly and walked out.
"May the earth be as down upon you!" Jennie sent after him.
But how tortuous and dark the ways of the human soul! Both of
them--Sobashnikov as well as Petrovsky--acted in their indignation
rather sincerely, but the first only half so, while the second
only a quarter in all. Sobashnikov, despite his intoxication and
wrath, still had knocking at the door of his mind the alluring
thought that now it would be more convenient and easier before his
comrades to call out Jennka on the quiet and to be alone with her.
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