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Though Lebeziatnikov was so good-natured, he, too, was beginning

to dislike Pyotr Petrovitch. This happened on both sides

unconsciously. However simple Andrey Semyonovitch might be, he

began to see that Pyotr Petrovitch was duping him and secretly

despising him, and that "he was not the right sort of man." He

had tried expounding to him the system of Fourier and the

Darwinian theory, but of late Pyotr Petrovitch began to listen

too sarcastically and even to be rude. The fact was he had begun

instinctively to guess that Lebeziatnikov was not merely a

commonplace simpleton, but, perhaps, a liar, too, and that he had

no connections of any consequence even in his own circle, but had

simply picked things up third-hand; and that very likely he did

not even know much about his own work of propaganda, for he was

in too great a muddle. A fine person he would be to show anyone

up!