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Updated: June 14, 2025
He was so full of his work that he did not feel glad when he was transferred back to the common cell, his private cell being needed for a political prisoner who had been just sent to prison. IN the meantime Mahin, the schoolboy who had taught his friend Smokovnikov to forge the coupon, had finished his career at school and then at the university, where he had studied law.
She asked Mahin to tell her more about the man Pelageushkine, and to explain to her how such a great change had come over him.
Mahin told her what he knew from the police official about Stepan's last murder, and also what he had heard from Pelageushkine himself how he had been conquered by the humility, mildness, and fearlessness of a kind woman, who had been his last victim, and how his eyes had been opened, while the reading of the Gospels had completed the change in him. Lisa Eropkin was not able to sleep that night.
From the day she had accepted the forged coupon as payment, she looked closely at all the schoolboys who came in her way in the streets. One day she met Mahin, but did not recognise him, for on seeing her he made a face which quite changed his features. But when, a fortnight after the incident with the coupon, she met Mitia Smokovnikov face to face, she knew him at once.
"It will look lovely in that frame, don't you think so?" said Mahin, turning to Mitia. "Have you no small change?" asked the shop-woman. "I am sorry, I have not. My father gave me that, so I have to cash it." "But surely you have one rouble twenty?" "I have only fifty kopeks in cash. But what are you afraid of? You don't think, I suppose, that we want to cheat you and give you bad money?"
He said he did not mind what she said; but she saw plainly that he was offended, and in his heart did not forgive her. She did not feel inclined to tell Mahin about her quarrel with her father; as to her sister, she was very cold to Lisa, being jealous of Mahin's love for her. "I ought to confess to God," she said to herself.
"Please make a parcel of the frame," said Mahin, taking the money in a leisurely fashion. "Yes, sir." She made a parcel and tied it with a string. Mitia only breathed freely when the door bell rang behind them, and they were again in the street. "There are ten roubles for you, and let me have the rest. I will give it back to you."
Mahin told his story very accurately, as he had a very good memory, which was all the more retentive because of his total indifference to those with whom he had to deal. He never paid the slightest attention to other people's feelings, and was therefore better able to keep all they did or said in his memory.
"We don't bargain in our shop," said the shopkeeper with a dignified air. "Well, I will take it," said Mahin, and put the coupon on the counter. "Wrap up the frame and give me change. But please be quick. We must be off to the theatre, and it is getting late." "You have plenty of time," said the shopkeeper, examining the coupon very closely because of her shortsightedness.
She had two immediate aims before her. The one was to convert Mahin; or, as she put it to herself, to arouse his true nature, which was good and kind. She loved him, and the light of her love revealed the divine element in his soul which is at the bottom of all souls. But, further, she saw in him an exceptionally kind and tender heart, as well as a noble mind.
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