What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?
Or have you forgotten that I am a laughing stock to everyone, who is not too indifferent even to scoff ?...

By the way," he added, "did you keep your promise ?" "What promise ?" "Did you pray for me ?" "Yes, I prayed for you, and I pray for you every day.

But please do not speak lightly of that." Lavretsky began to assure Lisa that the idea of doing so had never entered his head, that he had the deepest reverence for every conviction; then he went off into a discourse upon religion, its significance in the history of mankind, the significance of Christianity.
"One must be a Christian," observed Lisa, not without some effort, "not so as to know the divine...

and the...

earthly, because every man has to die." Lavretsky raised his eyes in involuntary astonishment upon Lisa and met her gaze.
"What a strange saying you have just uttered!" he said.
"It is not my saying," she replied.
"Not yours....