"I daresay you can laugh now at all the pains of hell.

Castaways such as you are always blind to their own danger; but your father, I hope, has not fallen so far as to care nothing for his religion, though he seems to have forgotten what is due to his family." "I have forgotten nothing," said old Balatka.
"Why then do you not forbid her to do this thing ?" demanded Madame Zamenoy.

But the old man had recognised too well the comparative security of silence to be drawn into argument, and therefore merely hid himself more completely among the clothes.

"Am I to get no answer from you, Josef ?" said Madame Zamenoy.

No answer came, and therefore she was driven to turn again upon Nina.
"Why are you doing this thing, you poor deluded creature?
Is it the man's money that tempts you ?" "It is not the man's money.