Thus urged, the Jew began to ascend the steep and narrow steps which led up to the gallery.

"Don`t call him bad!" said Natasha. "But I don`t know, don`t know at all...."

That same evening there was an animated discussion among the squadron`s officers in Denisov`s quarters.

‘You don’t say more than the truth when you say that,’ replied Squeers. ‘I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There’s youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a year at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I’d take sixteen hundred pound worth if I could get ’em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among ’em as nothing should equal it!’