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Though what does that mean, 'done your best'? That's a reproach, isn't it? You always go straight for things, though.... What I was most afraid of, as I came here, was that you wouldn't go straight for the point." "I don't want to go straight for anything," said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch with some irritation. But he laughed at once.
She wanted to say something more, but suddenly, for the third time, the same terror instantly distorted her face, and again she drew back, putting her hand up before her. "What's the matter with you?" cried Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, almost enraged. But her panic lasted only one instant, her face worked with a sort of strange smile, suspicious and unpleasant.
So when Kirillov came next morning at nine o'clock with his message he found things in readiness. All the apologies and unheard-of condescension of Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch were at once, at the first word, rejected with extraordinary exasperation.
I'll pass over the description of this life in 'corners, a life to which Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch had taken," * In the poorer quarters of Russian towns a single room is often let out to several families, each of which occupies a "corner." "at that time, from eccentricity. I'm only talking of that period, Varvara Petrovna; as for 'eccentricity, that's his own expression.
"I know that I may be in some danger," he said in measured tones, "but how can you have come to know of it?" "Because I belong to them as you do, and am a member of their society, just as you are." "You... you are a member of the society?" "I see from your eyes that you were prepared for anything from me rather than that," said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, with a faint smile.
But you wouldn't believe it, Stepan Trofimovitch take Captain Lebyadkin, he is stupid enough, one may say... in fact, one's ashamed to say how stupid he is; there is a Russian comparison, to signify the degree of it; and do you know he considers himself injured by Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, though he is full of admiration for his wit. 'I'm amazed, said he, 'at that man.
"It is true," Lebyadkin brought out in a hollow voice, looking at his tormentor. Drops of perspiration stood out on his forehead. "Is it all true?" "It's all true." "Have you nothing to add or to observe? If you think that we've been unjust, say so; protest, state your grievance aloud." "No, I think nothing." "Did you threaten Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch lately?"
He does not conceal much from me. Mile. Lebyadkin, who was thrown in the way of meeting Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch very often, at one time, was fascinated by his appearance. He was, so to say, a diamond set in the dirty background of her life. I am a poor hand at describing feelings, so I'll pass them over; but some of that dirty lot took to jeering at her once, and it made her sad.
It was of a more harmless and ordinary character than the first. Yet, owing to the state of the public mind, it increased the outcry in the town. Our friend Liputin turned up and called on Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch immediately after the latter's interview with his mother, and earnestly begged for the honour of his company at a little party he was giving for his wife's birthday that evening.
The man instantly sprang on to his feet, turned round, and a short, broad boot-knife suddenly gleamed in his hand. "Away with that knife; put it away, at once!" Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch commanded with an impatient gesture, and the knife vanished as instantaneously as it had appeared. Without speaking again or turning round, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch went on his way.
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