"I've told them honestly that I've cut myself off from them in everything.

That is my right, the right to freedom of conscience and of thought....

I won't put up with it! There's no power which could..." "I say, don't shout," Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch said earnestly, checking him.

"That Verhovensky is such a fellow that he may be listening to us now in your passage, perhaps, with his own ears or some one else's.

Even that drunkard, Lebyadkin, was probably bound to keep an eye on you, and you on him, too, I dare say?
You'd better tell me, has Verhovensky accepted your arguments now, or not ?" "He has.