Answer:
The answer is that his son has been caught smoking.
Explanation:
Yevgeny's problem is that his seven year old son has been caught smoking tobacco by the governess, and , what's more, the son actually stole the tobacco rom Yevgeny's desk.
Yevgeny's wife, the boy's mother, has died, and he regrets that he really has no notion of how o speak to the child about the smoking, he does not think that smoking is all that bad as an habit after all he does it himself, and he does not know how to impress upon the child the seriousness of lying about that kinda behavior.
"Yevgeny Petrovitch finds it as strange and absurd that he, an experienced advocate, who spent half of his life in the practice of reducing people to silence, forestalling what they had to say, and punishing them, was completely at a loss and did not know what to say to the boy."
A hyperbole is really just an extreme exaggeration
Three line stanzas in which the first and third line rhyme are characteristic of : A. Terza Rima
in Terza rima, The line rhyme in the pattern of aba, bcb, and cdc . This was first made popular through Dante's work, Inferno
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