ask me about it
as if you saw
nothing reprehensible in that
As though it were just as it should be.
Yes.
From you it is just as it should be.
-And you're not indignant?
- No... Why?
Listen, prince,
l've been staying here since yesterday evening
first,
we were pulling corks with Lebedeff
till three in the morning.
And secondly, and chiefly.
And here l'll take my oath.
l am speaking my holy truth!
l stayed because l wanted,
so to speak,
by making you a full, heart felt
confession,
to promote my own development.
With that idea l fell asleep,
toward; four o'clock,
bathed in tears,
Would you believe on the word
of a man of honour
now at the very minute l fell asleep,
genuinely filled with inward
and, so to say, outward tears
l really was sobbing.
l remember.
A hellish thought occurred to me
Why not,
when all's said and done, borrow money of him
after my confession
one one hundred and fifty roubles.
Don't you think that was base?
lt's simply both things came at once.
that often happens.
lt's constantly so with me, Keller.
Do you know? Just now.
You might have been telling me about myself .
lt's awfully difficult to struggle against
these double thoughts
Awfully difficult.
l don't know how they arise and come.
How they arise?
l've felt it.
Anyway, l'm not your judge.
You were acting deceitfully to obtain my money
by your tears.
But you swear yourself that there was
another motive too for your confession - an honourable.
As for the money,
you want it for riotous living.
But after such a confession, that's feebleness.
But how are you to give up riotous living all
in a minute?
That's impossible.
What's to be done?
lt had better be left to your
own conscience.
Don't you think?
Well, why they call you an idiot
after that?
l don't understand.
You've judged me humanely.
To punish myself
and to show that l am touched.
l won't take a hundred and fifty roubles.
Give me only twenty-five,
and it will be enough
That's all l want fortnight.
for a fortnight
l won't come for money
within a fortnight.
- No. Enough.
- l did mean to treat Agashka.
But she's not worth it.
Oh, dear prince,
God bless you.
The outpourings of the heart?
he really was genuinely penitent
What does his penitence amount to.
lt's just like me saying yesterday.
''l m abject, l am abject!''
it's only words
So that was only words?
l thought you...
Words and deeds.
Lies and truth.
are all mixed up in me
and are perfectly sincere.
Deeds and truth come out in my
genuine penitence.
And words and lies
in the hellish and always present craving
to get the man
to make something even out of one's tears of penitence
it's so, by God.
l wouldn't tell another man.
he'd laugh or curse.
But you, prince, judge humanely.
But he is more sincere, then you're.
And you, Lebedeff, you've
turned your penitence into regulartrade
Don't crease up your face.
And don't lay your hands on your heart,
Lebedeff.
Haven't you something to say to me?
What?
Tell me the truth straight off for once in your life.
Had you anything to do with that carriage stopping here
yesterday or not?
l see you had.
But...
But indirectly, only indirectly.
lt's the holy truth l'm telling you
The only part l had
in it was letting a certain personage know
l had such company in my house
that certain persons were present.
What intrigue is this?
lt's not my intrigue, not mine.
There're others in it
so to speak
and it's rather a fantasy, than an intrigue
But what's the meaning of it?
ls it possible you dont't understand
that it concerns me directly, Lebedeff?
lt takes of me,
lt's blackening Yevgeny Pavlovitch.
- Prince.
-Yes?
lllustrious prince,
you won't allow me to tell the whole truth.
l've tried to already
more than once.
You wouldn't allow me to go on.
Very well, tell the truth.
-Aglaia lvanovna.
- Be silent.
lt's impossible,
lt's all nonsense.
lt's impossible
You invented all that yourself
or