Your father was very fond of his brother and sister, scoundrel, and don’t you forget it. What pearls of hypocrisy! Is loving people who are only prepared to coldly exploit you supposed to run in the family? Was she saying he ought to love these people who had forgotten all about him, and his father, and their own consciences? Your father would never have reneged on his family, and don’t you dare either, scoundrel! He did not know whether to laugh or to cry.
Your Uncle Seva is truly noble. He has dedicated his whole life to serving science and cannot afford that sort of money. He just does not have it. God, how much meanness there is in the world, even in one little family. Was he supposed to let himself be crucified by it? Why was it only his life and soul she wanted to devour, not anybod
