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Then remembering his brother Nikolay, he resolved to himself that

he would never allow himself to forget him, that he would follow

him up, and not lose sight of him, so as to be ready to help when

things should go ill with him. And that would be soon, he felt.

Then, too, his brother's talk of communism, which he had treated

so lightly at the time, now made him think. He considered a

revolution in economic conditions nonsense. But he always felt

the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty

of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite

in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means

luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would

allow himself even less luxury. And all this seemed to him so

easy a conquest over himself that he spent the whole drive in the

pleasantest daydreams. With a resolute feeling of hope in a new,

better life, he reached home before nine o'clock at night.