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There was a long silence. "Yes, by-the-by," whispered the prince, hurriedly and excitedly as before, as though he had just seized hold of an idea and was afraid of losing it again. "I I wanted those cards! They say you played cards with her?" "Yes, I played with her," said Rogojin, after a short silence. "Where are the cards?" "Here they are," said Rogojin, after a still longer pause.
Rogojin listened to the end, and then burst out laughing: "Why, prince, I declare you must have had a taste of this sort of thing yourself haven't you? I have heard tell of something of the kind, you know; is it true?" "What? What can you have heard?" said the prince, stammering. Rogojin continued to laugh loudly. He had listened to the prince's speech with curiosity and some satisfaction.
The two maid-servants were both peeping in, frightened and amazed at this unusual and disorderly scene. "What is that?" asked Nastasia Philipovna, gazing intently at Rogojin, and indicating the paper packet. "A hundred thousand," replied the latter, almost in a whisper. "Oh! so he kept his word there's a man for you! Well, sit down, please take that chair.
Rogojin and the prince each approached the house on his respective side of the road; Rogojin, who was on the near side, beckoned the prince across. He went over to the doorway. "Even the porter does not know that I have come home now. I told him, and told them at my mother's too, that I was off to Pavlofsk," said Rogojin, with a cunning and almost satisfied smile.
Rogojin knows how you love her. Love for love. You took Nastasia Philipovna from him. He will murder Aglaya Ivanovna; for though she is not yours, of course, now, still such an act would pain you, wouldn't it?" He had attained his end. The prince left the house beside himself with terror. These warnings about Rogojin were expressed on the day before the wedding.
"Not for anything!" cried the other; "no, no, no!" "So I had decided, my friend; not to give her up to anyone," continued Rogojin. "We'll be very quiet. I have only been out of the house one hour all day, all the rest of the time I have been with her. I dare say the air is very bad here. It is so hot. Do you find it bad?" "I don't know perhaps by morning it will be."
But the old lady, before Parfen had time to touch her, raised her right hand, and, with three fingers held up, devoutly made the sign of the cross three times over the prince. She then nodded her head kindly at him once more. "There, come along, Lef Nicolaievitch; that's all I brought you here for," said Rogojin.
"He doesn't recognize Rogojin!" He did not move an inch, however. "I have met you somewhere, I believe, but " "Met me somewhere, pfu! Why, it's only three months since I lost two hundred roubles of my father's money to you, at cards. The old fellow died before he found out. Ptitsin knows all about it.
A man, whose face it was difficult to see in the gloom, approached the bench, and sat down beside him. The prince peered into his face, and recognized the livid features of Rogojin. "I knew you'd be wandering about somewhere here. I didn't have to look for you very long," muttered the latter between his teeth. It was the first time they had met since the encounter on the staircase at the hotel.
I meant to ask you before many people are unbelievers nowadays, especially Russians, I have been told. You ought to know you've lived abroad." Rogojin laughed bitterly as he said these words, and opening the door, held it for the prince to pass out. Muishkin looked surprised, but went out. The other followed him as far as the landing of the outer stairs, and shut the door behind him.
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