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Updated: July 17, 2025
They took several books wholly innocent in their contents, simply because they thought they detected a rebellious note in their titles. The Colonel of the gendarmerie announced: "We will take the correspondence and the manuscripts with us." Doctor Svetilovitch said in vexation: "I assure you there's nothing criminal there. The manuscripts are very necessary to my work."
He filled it with a colourless liquid, and lowered into it the cube containing Matov's body. The slow process of rehabilitation began. Unperceived by the eye, the cube began to thaw and to swell. It needed a half-year before it would thaw out sufficiently to permit the body to peer through. Sonya Svetilovitch was badly shaken by the hard, cruel events of that night in the woods.
He made a determined effort to give the impression that he did not know Doctor Svetilovitch or the others. Actually he knew nearly all of them personally. Doctor Svetilovitch walked up to him. "I am the master of this house. I am Doctor Svetilovitch," he said in a no less official tone.
These informed Doctor Svetilovitch that a very careful investigation had been made in connexion with his complaints; in conclusion, it was affirmed that Doctor Svetilovitch's evidence as to the illegal actions of the police, and as to the subjection of the girls caught in the woods to blows, was not borne out by facts. At last Sonya began to improve.
Doctor Svetilovitch shrugged his shoulders in astonishment and replied: "Of course they are known to me! Why shouldn't I know my own guests? I believe you know many of them yourself." "Be so good," requested the Colonel, "as to give me the names of all your guests." He produced a sheet of paper from his portfolio and placed it on the piano.
Several days after Doctor Svetilovitch presented his petition he had a call from an inspector of the police, who handed him, with a request for a receipt, a grey, rough paper impressed at the upper left-hand corner with the stamp of the Skorodozh governing authorities, together with a packet from the District Attorney.
The Colonel in the blue uniform then announced: "M. Svetilovitch, it is my duty to make a search of your house." Doctor Svetilovitch asked: "Under whose authority are you doing this? And where is your warrant for carrying out the search?" The Colonel of the gendarmerie turned towards the piano and rummaged in his portfolio, but produced nothing. He said: "I assure you I have an order.
Other people around him, if placed in unusual circumstances, might lose their presence of mind and forget their principles; others around him, friends or enemies, might act incorrectly and illegally; but Doctor Svetilovitch always remained faithful to himself.
The members of the family and acquaintances tried not to recall the sad incident of that night before Sonya. Only indifferent and pleasant matters were mentioned in the poor girl's presence in order to divert her. A number of visitors were invited one evening for this purpose. Some were asked by letter, others by Doctor Svetilovitch in person.
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