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Now Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch's stern expression was so convincing that a shiver ran down the captain's back. "Listen, and tell the truth, Lebyadkin. Have you betrayed anything yet, or not? Have you succeeded in doing anything really? Have you sent a letter to somebody in your foolishness?" "No, I haven't... and I haven't thought of doing it," said the captain, looking fixedly at him.
"That's allegory; besides, you express yourself too sensationally, sir, which I consider impertinence." "Madam," the captain went on, not hearing, "I should have liked perhaps to be called Ernest, yet I am forced to bear the vulgar name Ignat why is that do you suppose? I should have liked to be called Prince de Monbart, yet I am only Lebyadkin, derived from a swan.* Why is that?
I eat little; always tea. Liputin's sly, but impatient." I was surprised at his wanting to talk; I made up my mind to take advantage of the opportunity. "There were unpleasant misunderstandings this morning," I observed. He scowled. "That's foolishness; that's great nonsense. All this is nonsense because Lebyadkin is drunk.
"It's a slander!" roared Lebyadkin, flinging up his right hand tragically. "No, it's not a slander." "Madam, there are circumstances that force one to endure family disgrace rather than proclaim the truth aloud. Lebyadkin will not blab, madam!" He seemed dazed; he was carried away; he felt his importance; he certainly had some fancy in his mind.
Varvara Petrovna's house was very near the cathedral. Liza told me afterwards that Miss Lebyadkin laughed hysterically for the three minutes that the drive lasted, while Varvara Petrovna sat "as though in a mesmeric sleep." Liza's own expression. VARVARA PETROVNA rang the bell and threw herself into an easy chair by the window. "Sit here, my dear."
Then came the scandalous scene you know of, and then they got him home more dead than alive, and Liputin niched away the two hundred roubles, leaving him only small change. But it appears unluckily that already that morning Lebyadkin had taken that two hundred roubles out of his pocket, boasted of it and shown it in undesirable quarters. That's the whole truth.
But the latter did not even smile, on the contrary, he asked, as it were, suspiciously: "So you intend to publish your will in your lifetime and get rewarded for it?" "And what if I do, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch? What if I do?" said Lebyadkin, watching him carefully. "What sort of luck have I had?
Every berry is worth picking if only he's in the mood for it. You talk of slander, but I'm not crying this aloud though the whole town is ringing with it; I only listen and assent. That's not prohibited." "The town's ringing with it? What's the town ringing with?" "That is, Captain Lebyadkin is shouting for all the town to hear, and isn't that just the same as the market-place ringing with it?
And Lebyadkin, a little later, was told as an absolute fact also by a very honourable and therefore trustworthy person, I won't say whom, that not three hundred but a thousand roubles had been sent!... And so, Lebyadkin keeps crying out' the young lady has grabbed seven hundred roubles belonging to me, and he's almost ready to call in the police; he threatens to, anyway, and he's making an uproar all over the town."
But what do you want with me? What do you want with me? Ever since we met abroad you won't let me alone. The explanation you've given me so far was simply raving. Meanwhile you are driving at my giving Lebyadkin fifteen hundred roubles, so as to give Fedka an opportunity to murder him. I know that you think I want my wife murdered too.
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