पृष्ठ 498 / 1294

The most awful recollection of the previous day was the way he

had shown himself "base and mean," not only because he had been

drunk, but because he had taken advantage of the young girl's

position to abuse her fiance in his stupid jealousy, knowing

nothing of their mutual relations and obligations and next to

nothing of the man himself. And what right had he to criticise

him in that hasty and unguarded manner? Who had asked for his

opinion? Was it thinkable that such a creature as Avdotya

Romanovna would be marrying an unworthy man for money? So there

must be something in him. The lodgings? But after all how could

he know the character of the lodgings? He was furnishing a

flat... Foo! how despicable it all was! And what justification

was it that he was drunk? Such a stupid excuse was even more

degrading! In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out,

"that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

And would such a dream ever be permissible to him, Razumihin?