40/47 whom ?" "Whom ?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch." "Who-m ?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch. You! You!" Stavrogin thought a minute. "Ah! so that's your plan at last!" "We shall say that he is 'in hiding,'" Verhovensky said softly, in a sort of tender whisper, as though he really were drunk indeed. "Do you know the magic of that phrase, 'he is in hiding'? We'll set a legend going better than the Skoptsis'. |