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People looked at each other, every one expecting some one else to answer, and suddenly all, as though at a word of command, turned their eyes to Verhovensky and Stavrogin. "I suggest our voting on the answer to the question whether we are a meeting or not," said Madame Virginsky. "I entirely agree with the suggestion," Liputin chimed in, "though the question is rather vague." "I agree too."
"Let me alone, you drunken fellow!" muttered Stavrogin, and he quickened his pace. "Stavrogin, you are beautiful," cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, almost ecstatically. "Do you know that you are beautiful! What's the most precious thing about you is that you sometimes don't know it. Oh, I've studied you! I often watch you on the sly! There's a lot of simpleheartedness and naivete about you still.
There are certain scenes the scene between Aglaia and Nastasya in "The Idiot;" the scene between Sonia and the mother and sister of Raskolnikoff in "Crime and Punishment;" the scene in "The Possessed" where Liza leaves Stavrogin on the morning after the fire; and the scene where the woman, loved by the mad Karamazov brothers, tears her nerves and theirs to pieces, in outrageous obliquity which brand themselves upon the mind as reaching the uttermost limit of devasting vision.
Stavrogin frowned and watched him disdainfully, but there was no mockery in his eyes. "I'll bet that when I come next time you'll be believing in God too," he said, getting up and taking his hat. "Why?" said Kirillov, getting up too.
There's going to be such an upset as the world has never seen before.... Russia will be overwhelmed with darkness, the earth will weep for its old gods..... Well, then we shall bring forward... whom?" "Whom?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch." "Who-m?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch. You! You!" Stavrogin thought a minute. "A pretender?" he asked suddenly, looking with intense-surprise at his frantic companion.
I've been waiting here two years for you.... Here I've been dancing about in my nakedness before you for the last half-hour. You, only you can raise that flag!..." He broke off, and sat as though in despair, with his elbows on the table and his head in his hands. "I merely mention it as something queer," Stavrogin interrupted suddenly.
What is it to you?" "It's the first time I've heard of him, and... I've never seen anything of that sort of people. Thank you, I'll go." "This way." Shatov lighted him down the stairs. "Go along." He flung open the gate into the street. "I shan't come to you any more, Shatov," said Stavrogin quietly as he stepped through the gateway. The darkness and the rain continued as before.
I did, indeed, go about here and there, and, as before, brought him various items of news, without which he could not exist. I need hardly say that there were rumours of the most varied kind going about the town in regard to the blow that Stavrogin had received, Lizaveta Nikolaevna's fainting fit, and all that happened on that Sunday.
The duel was over. Gaganov stood as though overwhelmed. Mavriky Nikolaevitch went up and began saying something to him, but he did not seem to understand. Kirillov took off his hat as he went away, and nodded to Mavriky Nikolaevitch. But Stavrogin forgot his former politeness. When he had shot into the copse he did not even turn towards the barrier.
Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch Stavrogin, in "the Possessed;" Svridigilaiof Dounia's would-be seducer, in "Crime and Punishment," and Ivan, in "the Brothers Karamazov," though all inspired by ten thousand demons, cannot be called devoid of a certain mysterious spiritual greatness.
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