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"I am young and strong, I don't get tired, but it was a great

strain for mother," answered Dounia.

"That's unavoidable! our national railways are of terrible

length. 'Mother Russia,' as they say, is a vast country.... In

spite of all my desire to do so, I was unable to meet you

yesterday. But I trust all passed off without inconvenience?"

"Oh, no, Pyotr Petrovitch, it was all terribly disheartening,"

Pulcheria Alexandrovna hastened to declare with peculiar

intonation, "and if Dmitri Prokofitch had not been sent us, I

really believe by God Himself, we should have been utterly lost.

Here, he is! Dmitri Prokofitch Razumihin," she added, introducing

him to Luzhin.

"I had the pleasure... yesterday," muttered Pyotr Petrovitch with

a hostile glance sidelong at Razumihin; then he scowled and was

silent.