| He saw and knew his father, Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the first time on coming of age, when he visited our neighbourhood on purpose to settle with him about his property. | Федора Павловича, отца своего, узнал и увидал в первый раз уже после совершеннолетия, когда нарочно прибыл в наши места объясниться с ним насчет своего имущества. |
| He seems not to have liked his father. He did not stay long with him, and made haste to get away, having only succeeded in obtaining a sum of money, and entering into an agreement for future payments from the estate, of the revenues and value of which he was unable (a fact worthy of note), upon this occasion, to get a statement from his father. | Кажется, родитель ему и тогда не понравился; пробыл он у него недолго и уехал поскорей, успев лишь получить от него некоторую сумму и войдя с ним в некоторую сделку насчет дальнейшего получения доходов с имения, которого (факт достопримечательный) ни доходности, ни стоимости он в тот раз от Федора Павловича так и не добился. |
| Fyodor Pavlovitch remarked for the first time then (this, too, should be noted) that Mitya had a vague and exaggerated idea of his property. | Федор Павлович заметил тогда, с первого разу (и это надо запомнить), что Митя имеет о своем состоянии понятие преувеличенное и неверное. |
| Fyodor Pavlovitch was very well satisfied with this, as it fell in with his own designs. | Федор Павлович был очень этим доволен, имея в виду свои особые расчеты. |
| He gathered only that the young man was frivolous, unruly, of violent passions, impatient, and dissipated, and that if he could only obtain ready money he would be satisfied, although only, of course, a short time. | Он вывел лишь, что молодой человек легкомыслен, буен, со страстями, нетерпелив, кутила и которому только чтобы что-нибудь временно перехватить, и он хоть на малое время, разумеется, но тотчас успокоится. |
| So Fyodor Pavlovitch began to take advantage of this fact, sending him from time to time small doles, instalments. In the end, when four years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second time to our little town to settle up once for all with his father, it turned out to his amazement that he had nothing, that it was difficult to get an account even, that he had received the whole value of his property in sums of money from Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was perhaps even in debt to him, that by various agreements into which he had, of his own desire, entered at various previous dates, he had no right to expect anything more, and so on, and so on. |
