_Mais cela passera._ I'm only puzzled at one thing: you want to build our bridge and at the same time you declare that you hold with the principle of universal destruction.

They won't let you build our bridge." "What! What's that you said?
Ach, I say!" Kirillov cried, much struck, and he suddenly broke into the most frank and good-humoured laughter.
For a moment his face took a quite childlike expression, which I thought suited him particularly.

Liputin rubbed his hand with delight at Stepan Trofimovitch's witty remark.

I kept wondering to myself why Stepan Trofimovitch was so frightened of Liputin, and why he had cried out "I am lost" when he heard him coming.
V We were all standing in the doorway.

It was the moment when hosts and guests hurriedly exchange the last and most cordial words, and then part to their mutual gratification.
"The reason he's so cross to-day," Liputin dropped all at once, as it were casually, when he was just going out of the room, "is because he had a disturbance to-day with Captain Lebyadkin over his sister.