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‘Father, father, how can you — with him! Let him alone!’
cried the boy, sitting up in his bed and gazing at his father
with glowing eyes.
‘Do give over fooling, showing off your silly antics which
never lead to anything! shouted Varvara, stamping her foot
with passion.
‘Your anger is quite just this time, Varvara, and I’ll make
haste to satisfy you. Come, put on your cap, Alexey Fyodo-
rovitch, and I’ll put on mine. We will go out. I have a word
to say to you in earnest, but not within these walls. This girl
sitting here is my daughter Nina; I forgot to introduce her
to you. She is a heavenly angel incarnate... who has flown
down to us mortals,... if you can understand.’
‘There he is shaking all over, as though he is in convul-
sions!’ Varvara went on indignantly.
‘And she there stamping her foot at me and calling me a
fool just now, she is a heavenly angel incarnate too, and she
has good reason to call me so. Come along, Alexey Fyodo-
rovitch, we must make an end.’
And, snatching Alyosha’s hand, he drew him out of the
room into the street.