Seeing that the woman in the doorway was about to go out he shouted to her: 'Wait, I told you,' and in the awkward and blundering manner familiar to Constantine, he again looked round at everybody, and began to tell his brother about Kritsky: how he had been expelled from the University because he had started a society to help the poorer students, and also Sunday schools, and how he had afterwards taught in an elementary school, and had been turned out from that too, and had then been tried on some charge or other.
Visto che la donna sulla porta stava per uscire, le gridò: «Aspetta, ho detto». E con quell’imprecisione e discontinuità di discorso che Konstantin conosceva bene, guardando di nuovo tutti, cominciò a raccontare al fratello la storia di Krickij: come l’avessero cacciato dall’università perché aveva organizzato una società di soccorso per gli studenti poveri e scuole domenicali, e come poi fosse entrato in una scuola elementare quale maestro, e come anche di là l’avessero cacciato e infine processato per qualche cosa.