She wouldn't be able to keep quiet for six hours, let alone six days.

Ech, Andrey Antonovitch, don't attempt to tie a woman down for six days! You do admit that I have some experience--in this sort of thing, I mean; I know something about it, and you know that I may very well know something about it.

I am not asking for six days for fun but with an object." "I have heard..." (Lembke hesitated to utter his thought) "I have heard that on your return from abroad you made some expression...

as it were of repentance, in the proper quarter ?" "Well, that's as it may be." "And, of course, I don't want to go into it....

But it has seemed to me all along that you've talked in quite a different style--about the Christian faith, for instance, about social institutions, about the government even...." "I've said lots of things, no doubt, I am saying them still; but such ideas mustn't be applied as those fools do it, that's the point.