It's his notion that, apart from him, I daren't trouble you, but I stand before you, sir, as before God.

This is the fourth night I've been waiting for your honour on this bridge, to show that I can find my own way on the quiet, without him.

I'd better bow to a boot, thinks I, than to a peasant's shoe." "And who told you that I was going to cross the bridge at night ?" "Well, that, I'll own, came out by chance, most through Captain Lebyadkin's foolishness, because he can't keep anything to himself....
So that three roubles from your honour would pay me for the weary time I've had these three days and nights.

And the clothes I've had soaked, I feel that too much to speak of it." "I'm going to the left; you'll go to the right.

Here's the end of the bridge.