114/141 And I glanced through the middle as well. But I was always meaning..." "Ah, never mind, drop it! Damn it!" cried Shatov, waving his hand. "If you've renounced those words about the people now, how could you have uttered them then ?... That's what crushes me now." "I wasn't joking with you then; in persuading you I was perhaps more concerned with myself than with you," Stavrogin pronounced enigmatically. you confirmed false malignant ideas in him, and brought him to the verge of insanity.... |