This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...or with the singing of some incoherent air, or the smearing of the edge of the table with ink, ... I Nicolai stepped out of the schoolroom and went down to the landing without any object whatever."1 Then he heard his older brother Volodya's fooling with the pretty maid, and all at once a restless, pointless curiosity ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...or with the singing of some incoherent air, or the smearing of the edge of the table with ink, ... I Nicolai stepped out of the schoolroom and went down to the landing without any object whatever."1 Then he heard his older brother Volodya's fooling with the pretty maid, and all at once a restless, pointless curiosity came over Nicolai and he spent hours on the landing listening to the noises in the maid's room. This vague and illicit curiosity was linked dangerously with an estrangement from the viewpoint and the interests of his own sister and her friend, Katenka. These girls now seemed changed. They were full of airs, graces, and secrets; with the move to Moscow he no longer shared Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, p. 135. with the girls the games that had been daily events in the country. Nicolai began to watch the girls like an outsider. He noticed that when guests were present Katenka loved to promenade in the hall arm in arm with another girl; she declared that she hated men and would never marry, yet she behaved entirely differently when men were about and seemed afraid. Not understanding all this he began to scorn the girls. "They don't know anything; they can't discuss questions; they are sentimental and hypocritical." By a kind of primitive instinct girls and boys keep apart at this period. The separation of their interests is common in the early teens. "At this age, by almost world-wide consent, boys and girls separate for a time, and lead their lives during this most critical period more or less apart, until the ferment of mind and body which results in maturity of functions... has done its work. The family and the home abundantly recognize this tendency. At twelve and fourteen, brothers and sisters develop a life more i...
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