He locked them in. He got drunk. Stole with the boy. Thrashed him. Fighting with older boys. —Complete depravity. He beats the lame girl to make her fight the boys. She would like to come out, but she was thrashed and she cried— Dreams of power and will. Umnov (looks at naked girls, tries to assault the lame girl). When the old couple died—he is eleven years old, and the lame girl is ten,—Alfonsky—The old man and woman. Death. He makes a speech to the lame girl upon how to behave. —Before that: They teased the lady—fell on her, they were dragged home, flogging—He was afraid to complain. The first fight, he rushed to beat the gentleman with the badge. I shall never play the coward. —I’ll learn not to play the coward. (He was afraid, but thrashed the boy.) —He cut himself for a test. —Instruction from the boy as to fornic...on (Therese-Philosophe gave him a beating for it). But the book she took away from him. He began to save money. To amass (he tells the lame girl). The lame girl was taken into the Alfonsky family before.[80] Footnote 80: On the left-hand margin Dostoevsky wrote, beginning at the words “They caught a mouse” and continuing to this point, “To squeeze all this into four folios (maximum).” He, directly he arrived, puts her through an examination. (Advice to her: do not speak of Gogol and of nothing of ours.) First part. The boy is wild, but thinks a tremendous lot of himself. -------------- Page 18. —The man-servant Osip—at first he was taken into the house to amuse them by telling stories, by his jovial character. _Alfonsky_ had whipped Osip’s brother to death, then he took Osip and pressed him for the army. Immediately Osip escaped (he is also Kulikov). They killed Orlov. They part. Kulikov (Osip) let him off. —In a year and a half’s time the hero’s step-mother weeps at Alfonsky’s betrayal of her. He keeps a mistress openly. Osip’s sister (for that reason he whipped Osip’s brother to death). Alfonsky is killed by the peasants (?). _The Canvas of the Novel._—The hero’s step-mother, Alfonsky’s wife (a society lady), when she pined, becoming an old maid, had a fiancé (an officer or some one—teacher).