sounded like a pretty good idea to me. We had intended

previous idea of it. I am most ready, most ready to show compassion,

if poverty, so to speak, drove Sofya Semyonovna to it, but why did you

refuse to confess, mademoiselle? Were you afraid of the disgrace?

The first step? You lost your head, perhaps? One can quite

understand it.... But how could you have lowered yourself to such an

action? Gentlemen," he addressed the whole company, "gentlemen!

Compassionate and so to say commiserating these people, I am ready

to overlook it even now in spite of the personal insult lavished