65/131 Good Heavens, what a lot of bad habits you've fallen into! Karmazinov won't come and see you! And people are only too glad to make the most of anything as it is.... You've betrayed yourself completely now. Well, come, that's enough, that's enough, I'm tired. You really might have mercy upon one!" Stepan Trofimovitch "had mercy," but he withdrew in great perturbation. He had obviously and rapidly deteriorated; and it was true that he had become slovenly. |