But I'm in earnest now, in earnest, in earnest, though a man who is in such a hurry is stupid, isn't he?
Never mind, I may be stupid, but I'm in earnest, in earnest." He really was speaking in earnest in quite a different tone, and with a peculiar excitement, so that Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch looked at him with curiosity.
"You say you've changed your ideas about me ?" he asked.
"I changed my ideas about you at the moment when you drew your hands back after Shatov's attack, and, that's enough, that's enough, no questions, please, I'll say nothing more now." He jumped up, waving his hands as though waving off questions.

But as there were no questions, and he had no reason to go away, he sank into an arm-chair again, somewhat reassured.
"By the way, in parenthesis," he rattled on at once, "some people here are babbling that you'll kill him, and taking bets about it, so that Lembke positively thought of setting the police on, but Yulia Mihailovna forbade it....

But enough about that, quite enough, I only spoke of it to let you know.

By the way, I moved the Lebyadkins the same day, you know; did you get my note with their address ?" "I received it at the time." "I didn't do that by way of 'stupidity.' I did it genuinely, to serve you.

If it was stupid, anyway, it was done in good faith." "Oh, all right, perhaps it was necessary...." said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch dreamily, "only don't write any more letters to me, I beg you." "Impossible to avoid it.