"See, now," said Katavasov, drawling his words from a habit acquired in the lecture-room, "what a capable fellow was our friend Konstantin Dmitrievitch.

I'm not speaking of present company, for he's absent.

At the time he left the university he was fond of science, took an interest in humanity; now one-half of his abilities is devoted to deceiving himself, and the other to justifying the deceit.

" "A more determined enemy of matrimony than you I never saw," said Sergey Ivanovitch.