In fact, from the very beginning I told them that I was not one of them, and that if I've happened to help them it has simply been by accident as a man of leisure.

I took some part in reorganising the society, on the new plan, but that was all.

But now they've changed their views, and have made up their minds that it would be dangerous to let me go, and I believe I'm sentenced to death too." "Oh, they do nothing but sentence to death, and all by means of sealed documents, signed by three men and a half.

And you think they've any power!" "You're partly right there and partly not," Stavrogin answered with the same indifference, almost listlessness.

"There's no doubt that there's a great deal that's fanciful about it, as there always is in such cases: a handful magnifies its size and significance.