I had a gay time with him there for two days; he was bound to go out of his mind." "Perhaps he did not go out of his mind." "You think he didn't because he began to bite ?" "But, excuse me, if you saw those verses abroad and then, it appears, at that officer's..." "What, puzzling, is it?
You are putting me through an examination, Andrey Antonovitch, I see.

You see," he began suddenly with extraordinary dignity, "as to what I saw abroad I have already given explanations, and my explanations were found satisfactory, otherwise I should not have been gratifying this town with my presence.

I consider that the question as regards me has been settled, and I am not obliged to give any further account of myself, not because I am an informer, but because I could not help acting as I did.

The people who wrote to Yulia Mihailovna about me knew what they were talking about, and they said I was an honest man....

But that's neither here nor there; I've come to see you about a serious matter, and it's as well you've sent your chimney-sweep away.