Don't come with such requests to me." He would have passed on again.
"I repeat that your Excellency is mistaken; it was your wife who asked me to give, not a lecture, but a literary reading at the fete to-morrow.
But I decline to do so in any case now.

I humbly request that you will explain to me if possible how, why, and for what reason I was subjected to an official search to-day?
Some of my books and papers, private letters to me, were taken from me and wheeled through the town in a barrow." "Who searched you ?" said Lembke, starting and returning to full consciousness of the position.

He suddenly flushed all over.

He turned quickly to the chief of police.

At that moment the long, stooping, and awkward figure of Blum appeared in the doorway.
"Why, this official here," said Stepan Trofimovitch, indicating him.