By the way, I must apologise for not having answered you by letter, but confined myself to..." "To sending the money; wait a bit," Shatov interrupted, hurriedly pulling out a drawer in the table and taking from under some papers a rainbow-coloured note.

"Here, take it, the hundred roubles you sent me; but for you I should have perished out there.

I should have been a long time paying it back if it had not been for your mother.

She made me a present of that note nine months ago, because I was so badly off after my illness.

But, go on, please...." He was breathless.
"In America you changed your views, and when you came back you wanted to resign.