That's not prohibited." "The town's ringing with it?
What's the town ringing with ?" "That is, Captain Lebyadkin is shouting for all the town to hear, and isn't that just the same as the market-place ringing with it?
How am I to blame?
I interest myself in it only among friends, for, after all, I consider myself among friends here." He looked at us with an innocent air.

"Something's happened, only consider: they say his excellency has sent three hundred roubles from Switzerland by a most honourable young lady, and, so to say, modest orphan, whom I have the honour of knowing, to be handed over to Captain Lebyadkin.

And Lebyadkin, a little later, was told as an absolute fact also by a very honourable and therefore trustworthy person, I won't say whom, that not three hundred but a thousand roubles had been sent!...

And so, Lebyadkin keeps crying out 'the young lady has grabbed seven hundred roubles belonging to me,' and he's almost ready to call in the police; he threatens to, anyway, and he's making an uproar all over the town." "This is vile, vile of you!" cried the engineer, leaping up suddenly from his chair.
"But I say, you are yourself the honourable person who brought word to Lebyadkin from Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch that a thousand roubles were sent, not three hundred.

Why, the captain told me so himself when he was drunk." "It's...