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"Excuse me for interrupting you; kindly be brief, and come to the

object of your visit. I am in a hurry, I want to go out..."

"With the greatest pleasure. On arriving here and determining on

a certain... journey, I should like to make some necessary

preliminary arrangements. I left my children with an aunt; they

are well provided for; and they have no need of me personally.

And a nice father I should make, too! I have taken nothing but

what Marfa Petrovna gave me a year ago. That's enough for me.

Excuse me, I am just coming to the point. Before the journey

which may come off, I want to settle Mr. Luzhin, too. It's not

that I detest him so much, but it was through him I quarrelled

with Marfa Petrovna when I learned that she had dished up this

marriage. I want now to see Avdotya Romanovna through your

mediation, and if you like in your presence, to explain to her

that in the first place she will never gain anything but harm

from Mr. Luzhin. Then, begging her pardon for all past

unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand roubles and

so assist the rupture with Mr.