I've chanced to see it with my own eyes, for in our way of life it's impossible to live without assistance...." "How do you mean with your own eyes?
Did you go in at night then ?" "Maybe I did go in, but no one knows of it." "Why didn't you kill him ?" "Reckoning it out, I steadied myself.

For once having learned for sure that I can always get one hundred and fifty roubles, why should I go so far when I can get fifteen hundred roubles, if I only bide my time.

For Captain Lebyadkin (I've heard him with my own ears) had great hopes of you when he was drunk; and there isn't a tavern here--not the lowest pot-house--where he hasn't talked about it when he was in that state.
So that hearing it from many lips, I began, too, to rest all my hopes on your excellency.

I speak to you, sir, as to my father, or my own brother; for Pyotr Stepanovitch will never learn that from me, and not a soul in the world.

So won't your excellency spare me three roubles in your kindness?
You might set my mind at rest, so that I might know the real truth; for we can't get on without assistance." Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch laughed aloud, and taking out his purse, in which he had as much as fifty roubles, in small notes, threw him one note out of the bundle, then a second, a third, a fourth.