The boy looked healthy and good-humored.
He bowed to his uncle as to a stranger, but recognizing him, he blushed and turned hurriedly away from him, as though offended and irritated at something.
The boy went up to his father and handed him a note of the marks he had gained in school.
"Well, that's very fair," said his father, "you can go.
" "He's thinner and taller, and has grown out of being a child into a boy; I like that," said Stepan Arkadyevitch.