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Updated: October 26, 2025
He sat there scribbling by the light of a solitary candle, till it occurred to him that having heard the explanation of Haldin's arrest, as put forward by Sophia Antonovna, it behoved him to tell these ladies himself. They were certain to hear the tale through some other channel, and then his abstention would look strange, not only to the mother and sister of Haldin, but to other people also.
Razumov could not prevent himself from raising his head, and Sophia Antonovna nodded slightly. "I have. You remember that letter from St. Petersburg I mentioned to you a moment ago?" "The letter? Perfectly. Some busybody has been reporting my conduct on a certain day. It's rather sickening. I suppose our police are greatly edified when they open these interesting and and superfluous letters."
I did not hide from Sophia Antonovna my surprise that she should have visited Mr. Razumov. I did not even understand the motive. But she informed me that she was not the only one. "Some of us always go to see him when passing through. He is intelligent. We has ideas.... He talks well, too." Presently I heard for the first time of Razumov's public confession in Laspara's house.
"She has a faithful soul, an undaunted spirit and an indefatigable body," the woman revolutionist summed it all up, with a touch of enthusiasm. A conversation thus engaged was not likely to drop from want of interest on my side. We went to sit apart in a corner where no one interrupted us. In the course of our talk about Miss Haldin, Sophia Antonovna remarked suddenly
"I am come here," he began, in a clear voice, "to talk of an individual called Ziemianitch. Sophia Antonovna has informed me that she would make public a certain letter from St. Petersburg...." "Sophia Antonovna has left us early in the evening," said Laspara. "It's quite correct. Everybody here has heard...."
He looked intently on that hand till it descended slowly, and then raised again his eyes to her face. But he did not give her time to speak. "No? You don't understand? Very well." He had recovered his calm by a miracle of will. "So you talked with Sophia Antonovna?" "Yes. Sophia Antonovna told me...." Miss Haldin stopped, wonder growing in her wide eyes. "H'm.
Sofia Antonovna was very patronising.... "When you've worked a little more at the Front, dear, you'll know that these things must happen. Bad work somewhere, of course. What can you expect from a country like Russia? Everything mismanaged ... nothing but thieves and robbers. Of course we're beaten and always will be." "How can you, Sofia Antonovna?"
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