That was why he was even glad when some one
knocked on the door, and to his answer, "Come in!", two students
entered: Soloviev, and Nijeradze, who had slept that night at his
place.
Soloviev, well-grown and already obese, with a broad, ruddy Volga
face and a light, scandent little beard, belonged to those kindly,
merry and simple fellows, of which there are sufficiently many in
any university. He divided his leisure--and of leisure he had
twenty-four hours in the day--between the beer-shop and rambling
over the boulevards; among billiards, whist, the theatre, reading
of newspapers and novels, and the spectacles of circus wrestling;
while the short intervals in between he used for eating, sleeping,
the home repair of his wardrobe, with the aid of thread,
cardboard, pins and ink; and for succinct, most realistic love
with the chance woman from the kitchen, the anteroom or the
street. Like all the youths of his circle, he deemed himself a
revolutionary, although he was oppressed by political disputes,
dissensions, and mutual reproaches; and not being able to stand
the reading of revolutionary brochures and journals, was almost a
complete ignoramus in the work For that reason he had not attained
even the very least party initiation; although at times there were
given him instructions of a sort, not at all of a safe nature, the
meaning of which was not made clear to him.
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