"If there is a scandal in your honourable house once again, I will put you yourself in the lock-up, as it is called in polite society.

Do you hear?
So a literary man, an author took five roubles for his coat-tail in an 'honourable house'?
A nice set, these authors!" And he cast a contemptuous glance at Raskolnikov.

"There was a scandal the other day in a restaurant, too.

An author had eaten his dinner and would not pay; 'I'll write a satire on you,' says he.

And there was another of them on a steamer last week used the most disgraceful language to the respectable family of a civil councillor, his wife and daughter.