felt down,
put the bullet in.
Do you hear now? The bullet last
and the powder first, not the other way, or the pistol won't shoot.
-What are you laughing at?
-Excuse me.
l wish you to buy a pistol
and practise every day,
and you must learn
to hit a mark for CERTAlN.
Will you?
Ah! Lef Nicolaievitch, it's you, is it?
Where are you off to now?
Come along with me; l want to say a word or two to you.
Au revoir, then!
The outrageous behaviour
of this woman
must really be kept within limits,
by the police if necessary,
and l am just on my way
and make some arrangements
lt can all be managed quietly and gently,
even kindly, and without
the slightest fuss or scandal.
-She is insane.
-l too had that idea
and l slept in peace.
But now l do not believe in the theory of madness!
Her outburst of this evening about.
Kapiton Alexeyevitch proves that conclusively.
What about Kapiton Alexeyevitch?
My goodness, Lef Nicolaievitch,
why, you can't have heard a single word l said!
l have started to speak with that.
Look at me, l'm still trembling all
over with the dreadful shock!
lt is that that kept me in town so late.
Kapiton Alexeyevitch Radomsky,
Evgenie Pavlovitch's uncle...
-Well?
-Shot himelf
this morning,
at seven o'clock.
A respected, eminent
old man of seventy.
And exactly point for point as she described it.
-A sum of money, a considerable sum.
-Why, how could she...
-What, know of it?
-Yes!
There was a whole
crowd round her
You know what sort of people surround her nowadays,
and solicit the honour of her 'acquaintance.'
Look at the slyness of her observation
about Evgenie's uniform!
l mean, her remark that
he had retired just in time!
l believed that he was to inherit
a large fortune from this uncle.
lt's dreadful, horrible!
We have just had a terrible scene!
Aglaya laughs at her mother.
She has just been laughing
at her sisters to their very faces,
and at Prince Shcherbatov
and of course she always laughs at me!
l dare swear she has had
a good laugh at YOU before now!
But you'll admit, my dear prince,
what a riddle it must have been for us
when that calm, cold, little spitfire,
informed us with inexpressible contempt,
that 'that madwoman'
as you did say
Didn't you guess until now
that 'that madwoman'
has taken it into her head
to marry me to Prince Lef Nicolaievitch
and therefore is doing her best to choke Evgenie Pavlovitch off,
and rid the house of him.
that's what she said. She would not give the slightest explanation
We all stood there with our mouths open.
She banged the door, and went away.
Well, l was told afterwards of that
little passage with you this afternoon, and...
Dear prince!
you are a good,
sensible fellow,
don't be angry if l speak out
she is laughing at you, my boy!
She is simply making a fool of you, just as she does
all of us because she has nothing better to do.
Well - good bye!
You know our feelings, don't you?
They are unalterable, you know, dear boy, under all circumstances
l must go that way now.
Good bye!
Rarely have l sat so
uncomfortably in my saddle
as they say,
as l now sit.
What a country holidays!
Tomorrow morning, at seven,
l shall be at the green bench in the park
and shall wait there for you.
l have made up my mind to speak to you
about a most important matter
which closely concerns yourself.
l trust that you will not show
this note to anyone.
Though l am ashamed of giving you
such instructions,
l feel that l must do so,
considering what you are.
l therefore write the words, and blush
for your simple character.
lt is the same green bench
that l showed you before.
There! aren't you ashamed of yourself?
l felt that it was necessary to repeat even that information.
l was watching for you, prince,
l dogged you from behind as you walked along with the general.
Well, prince, here is Keller, absolutely at your service
command him!
Ready to sacrifice himself - even to die
in case of