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Consequently
,
how
the
boys
loved
him
!
Never
was
there
such
an
attachment
between
master
and
pupils
.
And
even
later
,
during
the
foolish
years
,
when
foolish
things
attract
,
the
measure
of
affection
which
Alexander
Petrovitch
retained
was
extraordinary
.
In
fact
,
to
the
day
of
his
death
,
every
former
pupil
would
celebrate
the
birthday
of
his
late
master
by
raising
his
glass
in
gratitude
to
the
mentor
dead
and
buried
--
then
close
his
eyelids
upon
the
tears
which
would
come
trickling
through
them
.
Even
the
slightest
word
of
encouragement
from
Alexander
Petrovitch
could
throw
a
lad
into
a
transport
of
tremulous
joy
,
and
arouse
in
him
an
honourable
emulation
of
his
fellows
.
Boys
of
small
capacity
he
did
not
long
retain
in
his
establishment
;
whereas
those
who
possessed
exceptional
talent
he
put
through
an
extra
course
of
schooling
.
This
senior
class
--
a
class
composed
of
specially-selected
pupils
--
was
a
very
different
affair
from
what
usually
obtains
in
other
colleges
.
Only
when
a
boy
had
attained
its
ranks
did
Alexander
demand
of
him
what
other
masters
indiscreetly
require
of
mere
infants
--
namely
the
superior
frame
of
mind
which
,
while
never
indulging
in
mockery
,
can
itself
bear
ridicule
,
and
disregard
the
fool
,
and
keep
its
temper
,
and
repress
itself
,
and
eschew
revenge
,
and
calmly
,
proudly
retain
its
tranquillity
of
soul
.
In
short
,
whatever
avails
to
form
a
boy
into
a
man
of
assured
character
,
that
did
Alexander
Petrovitch
employ
during
the
pupil
's
youth
,
as
well
as
constantly
put
him
to
the
test
.
How
well
he
understood
the
art
of
life
!
Of
assistant
tutors
he
kept
but
few
,
since
most
of
the
necessary
instruction
he
imparted
in
person
,
and
,
without
pedantic
terminology
and
inflated
diction
and
views
,
could
so
transmit
to
his
listeners
the
inmost
spirit
of
a
lesson
that
even
the
youngest
present
absorbed
its
essential
elements
.
Also
,
of
studies
he
selected
none
but
those
which
may
help
a
boy
to
become
a
good
citizen
;
and
therefore
most
of
the
lectures
which
he
delivered
consisted
of
discourses
on
what
may
be
awaiting
a
youth
,
as
well
as
of
such
demarcations
of
life
's
field
that
the
pupil
,
though
seated
,
as
yet
,
only
at
the
desk
,
could
beforehand
bear
his
part
in
that
field
both
in
thought
and
spirit
.
Nor
did
the
master
CONCEAL
anything
.
That
is
to
say
,
without
mincing
words
,
he
invariably
set
before
his
hearers
the
sorrows
and
the
difficulties
which
may
confront
a
man
,
the
trials
and
the
temptations
which
may
beset
him
.
And
this
he
did
in
terms
as
though
,
in
every
possible
calling
and
capacity
,
he
himself
had
experienced
the
same
.
Consequently
,
either
the
vigorous
development
of
self-respect
or
the
constant
stimulus
of
the
master
's
eye
(
which
seemed
to
say
to
the
pupil
,
"
Forward
!
"
--
that
word
which
has
become
so
familiar
to
the
contemporary
Russian
,
that
word
which
has
worked
such
wonders
upon
his
sensitive
temperament
)
;
one
or
the
other
,
I
repeat
,
would
from
the
first
cause
the
pupil
to
tackle
difficulties
,
and
only
difficulties
,
and
to
hunger
for
prowess
only
where
the
path
was
arduous
,
and
obstacles
were
many
,
and
it
was
necessary
to
display
the
utmost
strength
of
mind
.
Indeed
,
few
completed
the
course
of
which
I
have
spoken
without
issuing
therefrom
reliable
,
seasoned
fighters
who
could
keep
their
heads
in
the
most
embarrassing
of
official
positions
,
and
at
times
when
older
and
wiser
men
,
distracted
with
the
annoyances
of
life
,
had
either
abandoned
everything
or
,
grown
slack
and
indifferent
,
had
surrendered
to
the
bribe-takers
and
the
rascals
.
In
short
,
no
ex-pupil
of
Alexander
Petrovitch
ever
wavered
from
the
right
road
,
but
,
familiar
with
life
and
with
men
,
armed
with
the
weapons
of
prudence
,
exerted
a
powerful
influence
upon
wrongdoers
.
For
a
long
time
past
the
ardent
young
Tientietnikov
's
excitable
heart
had
also
beat
at
the
thought
that
one
day
he
might
attain
the
senior
class
described
.
And
,
indeed
,
what
better
teacher
could
he
have
had
befall
him
than
its
preceptor
?
Yet
just
at
the
moment
when
he
had
been
transferred
thereto
,
just
at
the
moment
when
he
had
reached
the
coveted
position
,
did
his
instructor
come
suddenly
by
his
death
!
This
was
indeed
a
blow
for
the
boy
--
indeed
a
terrible
initial
loss
!
In
his
eyes
everything
connected
with
the
school
seemed
to
undergo
a
change
--
the
chief
reason
being
the
fact
that
to
the
place
of
the
deceased
headmaster
there
succeeded
a
certain
Thedor
Ivanovitch
,
who
at
once
began
to
insist
upon
certain
external
rules
,
and
to
demand
of
the
boys
what
ought
rightly
to
have
been
demanded
only
of
adults
.
That
is
to
say
,
since
the
lads
'
frank
and
open
demeanour
savoured
to
him
only
of
lack
of
discipline
,
he
announced
(
as
though
in
deliberate
spite
of
his
predecessor
)
that
he
cared
nothing
for
progress
and
intellect
,
but
that
heed
was
to
be
paid
only
to
good
behaviour
.
Yet
,
curiously
enough
,
good
behaviour
was
just
what
he
never
obtained
,
for
every
kind
of
secret
prank
became
the
rule
;
and
while
,
by
day
,
there
reigned
restraint
and
conspiracy
,
by
night
there
began
to
take
place
chambering
and
wantonness
.
Also
,
certain
changes
in
the
curriculum
of
studies
came
about
,
for
there
were
engaged
new
teachers
who
held
new
views
and
opinions
,
and
confused
their
hearers
with
a
multitude
of
new
terms
and
phrases
,
and
displayed
in
their
exposition
of
things
both
logical
sequence
and
a
zest
for
modern
discovery
and
much
warmth
of
individual
bias
.
Yet
their
instruction
,
alas
!
contained
no
LIFE
--
in
the
mouths
of
those
teachers
a
dead
language
savoured
merely
of
carrion
.
Thus
everything
connected
with
the
school
underwent
a
radical
alteration
,
and
respect
for
authority
and
the
authorities
waned
,
and
tutors
and
ushers
came
to
be
dubbed
"
Old
Thedor
,
"
"
Crusty
,
"
and
the
like
.
And
sundry
other
things
began
to
take
place
--
things
which
necessitated
many
a
penalty
and
expulsion
;
until
,
within
a
couple
of
years
,
no
one
who
had
known
the
school
in
former
days
would
now
have
recognised
it
.
Nevertheless
Tientietnikov
,
a
youth
of
retiring
disposition
,
experienced
no
leanings
towards
the
nocturnal
orgies
of
his
companions
,
orgies
during
which
the
latter
used
to
flirt
with
damsels
before
the
very
windows
of
the
headmaster
's
rooms
,
nor
yet
towards
their
mockery
of
all
that
was
sacred
,
simply
because
fate
had
cast
in
their
way
an
injudicious
priest
.
No
,
despite
its
dreaminess
,
his
soul
ever
remembered
its
celestial
origin
,
and
could
not
be
diverted
from
the
path
of
virtue
.
Yet
still
he
hung
his
head
,
for
,
while
his
ambition
had
come
to
life
,
it
could
find
no
sort
of
outlet
.
Truly
'
twere
well
if
it
had
NOT
come
to
life
,
for
throughout
the
time
that
he
was
listening
to
professors
who
gesticulated
on
their
chairs
he
could
not
help
remembering
the
old
preceptor
who
,
invariably
cool
and
calm
,
had
yet
known
how
to
make
himself
understood
.
To
what
subjects
,
to
what
lectures
,
did
the
boy
not
have
to
listen
!
--
to
lectures
on
medicine
,
and
on
philosophy
,
and
on
law
,
and
on
a
version
of
general
history
so
enlarged
that
even
three
years
failed
to
enable
the
professor
to
do
more
than
finish
the
introduction
thereto
,
and
also
the
account
of
the
development
of
some
self-governing
towns
in
Germany
.
None
of
the
stuff
remained
fixed
in
Tientietnikov
's
brain
save
as
shapeless
clots
;
for
though
his
native
intellect
could
not
tell
him
how
instruction
ought
to
be
imparted
,
it
at
least
told
him
that
THIS
was
not
the
way
.
And
frequently
,
at
such
moments
he
would
recall
Alexander
Petrovitch
,
and
give
way
to
such
grief
that
scarcely
did
he
know
what
he
was
doing
.
But
youth
is
fortunate
in
the
fact
that
always
before
it
there
lies
a
future
;
and
in
proportion
as
the
time
for
his
leaving
school
drew
nigh
,
Tientietnikov
's
heart
began
to
beat
higher
and
higher
,
and
he
said
to
himself
:
"
This
is
not
life
,
but
only
a
preparation
for
life
.
True
life
is
to
be
found
in
the
Public
Service
.
There
at
least
will
there
be
scope
for
activity
.
"
So
,
bestowing
not
a
glance
upon
that
beautiful
corner
of
the
world
which
never
failed
to
strike
the
guest
or
chance
visitor
with
amazement
,
and
reverencing
not
a
whit
the
dust
of
his
ancestors
,
he
followed
the
example
of
most
ambitious
men
of
his
class
by
repairing
to
St.
Petersburg
(
whither
,
as
we
know
,
the
more
spirited
youth
of
Russia
from
every
quarter
gravitates
--
there
to
enter
the
Public
Service
,
to
shine
,
to
obtain
promotion
,
and
,
in
a
word
,
to
scale
the
topmost
peaks
of
that
pale
,
cold
,
deceptive
elevation
which
is
known
as
society
)
.
But
the
real
starting-point
of
Tientietnikov
's
ambition
was
the
moment
when
his
uncle
(
one
State
Councillor
Onifri
Ivanovitch
)
instilled
into
him
the
maxim
that
the
only
means
to
success
in
the
Service
lay
in
good
handwriting
,
and
that
,
without
that
accomplishment
,
no
one
could
ever
hope
to
become
a
Minister
or
Statesman
.
Thus
,
with
great
difficulty
,
and
also
with
the
help
of
his
uncle
's
influence
,
young
Tientietnikov
at
length
succeeded
in
being
posted
to
a
Department
.
