stay away.
Oh, my goodness! Just listen to that!
Better not come,' when the party is on purpose for him!
What a delightful thing it is to have to do with
such a stupid as you are!
Well, l'll come, l'll come.
l'll give you my word of honour that l will sit the whole
evening and not say a word.
l believe that's the best thing you can do.
l see it, that you are anxious on my account.
Don't be angry.
l am so pleased that you are such a child.
Such a dear good child.
How CHARMlNG you can be if you like, Aglaya.
And you
won't reproach me for all these rude words of mine-some day
afterwards?
What an idea! Of course not.
Of course not.
You've taken to looking too gloomy sometimes, Aglaya,
much more than you used to.
l know why it is.
Be quiet.
No, no.
l had much better speak out.
l HAVE said it, but that's not
enough, for you didn't believe me.
Between us two there stands a being who
Be quiet, be quiet.
Aglaya
Be quiet
Be quiet
l can not.
such a misfortune
at such a moment
- Tee?
- No.
- Is it quick?
-Yes.
Me alone was to blame,
''but that he had acted out of''''pure amiable curiosity''''''
He was the greatest of geniuses.
Patient is in danger, but
still living.
He was the greatest of geniuses.
Prince, Muishkin.
Hello, prince.
How is the patient? How is Nina Alexandrovna?
As before.
Come.
Who this general was, and who was Nina Alexandrovna?
Hello, prince. Do you remember Belconskaia?
Yes.
-Yes.
- l am sorry, prince.
Sorry.
Can l approach you Nicolai Petrovich.
Lef Nicolaievitch. Nicolai Petrovich.
-Yes.
- l am happy.
This family is very nice.
- Good evening.
- Prince.
- Sorry.
- l am pleased
l am too.
No.
-Why?
- l know her very well.
Alexandra.
Hello, Prince.
You are abservant.
l am attentiv.
Yes.
Bravo!
That gentleman-lvan Petrovitch-is a relation
of your late friend, Mr. Pavlicheff.
You wanted to find some of his relations, did you not?
Lef Nicolaievitch was a ward of Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff
after the death of his own parents.
Very happy to meet him, l'm sure
Thank you.
l remember Lef Nicolaievitch well.
You are very little changed, though l saw you
last as a child of some ten or eleven years old.
You saw me as a child!
Oh! yes, long ago
-while you were living with my cousin
-Yes.
you had some malady at the time, l remember
lt was so serious that l was surprised
''- No; l remember nothing!
-Yes.''
l really was an idiot then, you
must know, though he might not believe it
So you had really seen me there!
Good heavens! And was he really
an truly and actually a cousin of Pavlicheff's?
olai Andreevitch Pavlicheff was such a splendid man, don't you think
Good heavens!
l assure you.
Why can't l be cousin to even a splendid man?
Wasn't it this same Pavlicheff
about whom there was
a strange story
in connection with some abbot?
l remember at one time everybody was talking about it
- Do you remember?
-Yes-Abbot Gurot, a Jesuit.
Yes, that's the sort of thing our best men are apt to do.
A man who, might have done anything
and then to throw up the service
and everything else in order to
go over to Roman Catholicism
and turn Jesuit openly, too almost triumphantly.
lt was positively a mercy that he died.
-Yes.
- Everyone said so at the time.
- Pavlicheff?
-Yes.
- Pavlicheff turned Roman Catholic? lmpossible!
-Yes.
Him! impossible is rather a strong word.
But you may ask me, how much
trouble l had over that business
Pavlicheff was a man of bright intellect
and a good Christian, a sincere Christian.
How could he possibly embrace
a faith which is unchristian?
Roman Catholicism is, so to speak, simply
the same thing as unchristianity
- Come, that's a little TOO strong, isn't it?
-What?
Why is the Roman Catholic religion
UNCHRlSTlAN? What is it, then?
Roman Catholicism is, in my opinion, worse than Atheism itself.
Yes that is my opinion.
- But.
- lt is the same atheism.
Atheism only preaches a
negation, but