is Shatov...

that's all." "Shatov?
How do you mean it's Shatov ?" "Shatov is the 'student' who is mentioned in this.

He lives here, he was once a serf, the man who gave that slap...." "I know, I know." Lembke screwed up his eyes.

"But excuse me, what is he accused of?
Precisely and, above all, what is your petition ?" "I beg you to save him, do you understand?
I used to know him eight years ago, I might almost say I was his friend," cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, completely carried away.

"But I am not bound to give you an account of my past life," he added, with a gesture of dismissal.