21/26 within an hour of her acceptance, that what pleased you most... because it was better to raise a wife from poverty, so that you may have complete control over her, and reproach her with your being her benefactor ?" "Upon my word," Luzhin cried wrathfully and irritably, crimson with confusion, "to distort my words in this way! Excuse me, allow me to assure you that the report which has reached you, or rather, let me say, has been conveyed to you, has no foundation in truth, and I... |