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For every trifle he ran to Katerina Ivanovna, even hunting her

out at the bazaar, at every instant called her "Pani." She was

heartily sick of him before the end, though she had declared at

first that she could not have got on without this "serviceable

and magnanimous man." It was one of Katerina Ivanovna's

characteristics to paint everyone she met in the most glowing

colours. Her praises were so exaggerated as sometimes to be

embarrassing; she would invent various circumstances to the

credit of her new acquaintance and quite genuinely believe in

their reality. Then all of a sudden she would be disillusioned

and would rudely and contemptuously repulse the person she had

only a few hours before been literally adoring.