Ach, Varvara Petrovna, I'm sure you must be blaming me now, and just for my way of talking too...." "On the contrary, on the contrary, I see that you are driven out of all patience, and, no doubt you have had good reason," Varvara Petrovna answered spitefully.

She had listened with spiteful enjoyment to all the "candid outbursts" of Pyotr Stepanovitch, who was obviously playing a part (what part I did not know then, but it was unmistakable, and over-acted indeed).
"On the contrary," she went on, "I'm only too grateful to you for speaking; but for you I might not have known of it.

My eyes are opened for the first time for twenty years.

Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, you said just now that you had been expressly informed; surely Stepan Trofimovitch hasn't written to you in the same style ?" "I did get a very harmless and...

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