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Updated: June 21, 2025
Pyotr Verhovensky had succeeded in getting together a "quintet" amongst us like the one he had already formed in Moscow and, as appeared later, in our province among the officers. It was said that he had another in X province.
The fact was that young Verhovensky, from the first step, had displayed a flagrant lack of respect for Andrey Antonovitch, and had assumed a strange right to dictate to him; while Yulia Mihailovna, who had always till then been so jealous of her husband's dignity, absolutely refused to notice it; or, at any rate, attached no consequence to it.
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!..."
"People have talked about you to me, and here I've heard ... I know that you are very clever and... are working for the cause ... and think a great deal. Pyotr Stepanovitch Verhovensky spoke about you in Switzerland," she added hurriedly. "He's a very clever man, isn't he?" Shatov stole a fleeting, momentary glance at her, but dropped his eyes again.
IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find' myself forced in absence of literary skill to begin my story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biographical details concerning that talented and highly-esteemed gentleman, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky.
"Why, that the initiation of new members into anything you like is done, anyway, tete-a-tete and not in the company of twenty people one doesn't know!" blurted out the lame man. He had said all that was in his mind because he was too irritated to restrain himself. Verhovensky turned to the general company with a capitally simulated look of alarm.
But as it's hardly possible to carry out your idea, we must confine ourselves to an earthly paradise, since that's what they call it." "This is pretty thorough rot," broke, as though involuntarily, from Verhovensky. Without even raising his eyes, however, he went on cutting his nails with perfect nonchalance. "Why is it rot?"
I invented you abroad; I invented it all, looking at you. If I hadn't watched you from my corner, nothing of all this would have entered my head!" Stavrogin went up the steps without answering. "Stavrogin!" Verhovensky called after him, "I give you a day... two, then... three, then; more than three I can't and then you're to answer!"
Verhovensky is leaving the town at eleven o'clock to-morrow morning." "Just what I thought!" Shatov whispered furiously, and he struck his fist on his hip. "He's run off, the sneak!" He sank into agitated reflection. Erkel looked intently at him and waited in silence. "But how will you take it? You can't simply pick it up in your hands and carry it." "There will be no need to.
You agree and then you go back on it!" "But to my mind the irresponsibility of your principal question suggests to me that you have no authority, no right, and only asked from personal curiosity." "What do you mean? What do you mean?" cried Verhovensky, apparently beginning to be much alarmed.
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