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Stavrogin laughed aloud in the lame man's face and went out; Kirillov followed him; Verhovensky ran after them into the passage. "What are you doing?" he faltered, seizing Stavrogin's hand and gripping it with all his might in his. Stavrogin pulled away his hand without a word. Be at Kirillov's directly, I'll come.... It's absolutely necessary for me to see you!..."
"Suppose you had lived in the moon," Stavrogin interrupted, not listening, but pursuing his own thought, "and suppose there you had done all these nasty and ridiculous things.... You know from here for certain that they will laugh at you and hold you in scorn for a thousand years as long as the moon lasts. But now you are here, and looking at the moon from here.
That's the question. What's your opinion?" "What do you mean by 'come about'?" Stavrogin asked in his turn. "We know, for instance, that the superstition about God came from thunder and lightning." The girl-student rushed into the fray again, staring at Stavrogin with her eyes almost jumping out of her head.
You don't know what you're seeking." "I seek a burden," laughed Stavrogin. "If you didn't want blood yourself, why did you give him a chance to kill you?" "If I hadn't challenged him, he'd have killed me simply, without a duel." "That's not your affair. Perhaps he wouldn't have killed you." "Only have beaten me?" "That's not your business. Bear your burden. Or else there's no merit."
Seizing Verhovensky by the hair with his left hand he flung him with all his might on the ground and went out at the gate. But he had not gone thirty paces before Verhovensky overtook him again. "Let us make it up; let us make it up!" he murmured in a spasmodic whisper. Stavrogin shrugged his shoulders, but neither answered nor turned round. "Listen.
"On the contrary Shatov, on the contrary," Stavrogin began with extraordinary earnestness and self-control, still keeping his seat, "on the contrary, your fervent words have revived many extremely powerful recollections in me. In your words I recognise my own mood two years ago, and now I will not tell you, as I did just now, that you have exaggerated my ideas.
"And another thing. Do you know, Karmazinov says that the essence of our creed is the negation of honour, and that by the open advocacy of a right to be dishonourable a Russian can be won over more easily than by anything." "An excellent saying! Golden words!" cried Stavrogin. "He's hit the mark there! The right to dishonour why, they'd all flock to us for that, not one would stay behind!
They reached the fatal house at the very moment when the huge crowd, which had gathered round it, had already heard a good deal of Stavrogin, and of how much it was to his interest to murder his wife. Yet, I repeat, the immense majority went on listening without moving or uttering a word.
I was not afraid of caricaturing a grand idea by handling it because Stavrogin was listening to me.... Shan't I kiss your footprints when you've gone? I can't tear you out of my heart, Nikolay Stavrogin!" "I'm sorry I can't feel affection for you, Shatov," Stavrogin replied coldly. "I know you can't, and I know you are not lying. Listen. I can set it all right. I can 'catch your hare' for you."
Stavrogin waited a moment and then began. "I've heard that you have some influence on Marya Timofyevna, and that she was fond of seeing you and hearing you talk. Is that so?" "Yes... she used to listen..." said Shatov, confused. "Within a day or two I intend to make a public announcement of our marriage here in the town." "Is that possible?" Shatov whispered, almost with horror.
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