Dec 05, 2009 14:53
anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
"But what's to be done? What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.