"What about me then ?" "Well, certainly you won't come into my house." "But, you know, I'm a relation." "One does one's best to escape from such relations.

Why should I go on giving you money then?
Judge for yourself." "Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, this is impossible.
You will think better of it, perhaps?
You don't want to lay hands upon....

What will people think?
What will the world say ?" "Much I care for your world.

I married your sister when the fancy took me, after a drunken dinner, for a bet, and now I'll make it public...
since that amuses me now." He said this with a peculiar irritability, so that Lebyadkin began with horror to believe him.
"But me, me?
What about me?
I'm what matters most!...

Perhaps you're joking, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch ?" "No, I'm not joking." "As you will, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, but I don't believe you....