"I have seen few people for four years.

For four years I have talked little and have tried to see no one, for my own objects which do not concern anyone else, for four years.
Liputin found this out and is laughing.

I understand and don't mind.

I'm not ready to take offence, only annoyed at his liberty.

And if I don't explain my ideas to you," he concluded unexpectedly, scanning us all with resolute eyes, "it's not at all that I'm afraid of your giving information to the government; that's not so; please do not imagine nonsense of that sort." No one made any reply to these words.