...of admonishment

Shubin had told the truth: the unexpected news of Elena's marriage almost killed Anna Vassilyevna, and she took to her bed. Nikolai Artyomevich insisted that she should not allow her daughter into her presence; he seemed to be enjoying the chance of showing himself master of the house in the fullest sense, the real head of the family. He blustered and raged incessantly at the servants, every now and then telling them: 'I'll show you who I am - you'll see soon enough - you just wait.' While he was at home Anna Vassilyevna did not see Elena, and contented herself with Zoya's company; the young German looked after her very attentively as she thought to herself: 'Fancy preferring Insarov to him.' But as soon as Nikolai Artyomevich went out - and this happened fairly frequently, as Avgustina Christianova had really returned - Elena would go into the bedroom and her mother would gaze at her long and silently, with tears in her eyes. This silent reproach affected her more deeply than anything: it was not repentance that she felt then, but a sense of infinite pity which was akin to repentance.

[On The Eve, Turgenev, I. S.]