Anna Karenina - Part 7

"Do you remember your mother?" he asked suddenly.

"No, I don't," Seryozha said quickly. He blushed crimson, and

his face clouded over. And his uncle could get nothing more out

of him. His tutor found his pupil on the staircase half an hour

later, and for a long while he could not make out whether he was

ill-tempered or crying.

"What is it? I expect you hurt yourself when you fell down?"

said the tutor. "I told you it was a dangerous game. And we

shall have to speak to the director."

"If I had hurt myself, nobody should have found it out, that's

certain."

"Well, what is it, then?"

"Leave me alone! If I remember, or if I don't remember?...what

business is it of his? Why should I remember? Leave me in

peace!" he said, addressing not his tutor, but the whole world.