You met abroad ?" Stepan Trofimovitch managed to mutter to the visitor.
"Both here and abroad." "Alexey Nilitch has only just returned himself after living four years abroad," put in Liputin.

"He has been travelling to perfect himself in his speciality and has come to us because he has good reasons to expect a job on the building of our railway bridge, and he's now waiting for an answer about it.

He knows the Drozdovs and Lizaveta Nikolaevna, through Pyotr Stepanovitch." The engineer sat, as it were, with a ruffled air, and listened with awkward impatience.

It seemed to me that he was angry about something.
"He knows Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch too." "Do you know Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch ?" inquired Stepan Trofimovitch.
"I know him too." "It's...

it's a very long time since I've seen Petrusha, and...