"A definite settlement, Alexey Alexandrovitch, some settlement of the position.

I'm appealing to you" ("not as an injured husband," Stepan Arkadyevitch was going to say, but afraid of wrecking his negotiation by this, he changed the words) "not as a statesman" (which did not sound _a propos_), "but simply as a man, and a good-hearted man and a Christian.

You must have pity on her," he said.