I know that you are very clever and...

are working for the cause ...
and think a great deal.

Pyotr Stepanovitch Verhovensky spoke about you in Switzerland," she added hurriedly.

"He's a very clever man, isn't he ?" Shatov stole a fleeting, momentary glance at her, but dropped his eyes again.
"Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch told me a great deal about you, too." Shatov suddenly turned red.
"But here are the newspapers." Liza hurriedly picked up from a chair a bundle of newspapers that lay tied up ready.

"I've tried to mark the facts here for selection, to sort them, and I have put the papers together...