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"Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, quivering with fury. "I enlarged

upon your qualities and conduct in my letter solely in response

to your sister's and mother's inquiries, how I found you, and

what impression you made on me. As for what you've alluded to in

my letter, be so good as to point out one word of falsehood,

show, that is, that you didn't throw away your money, and that

there are not worthless persons in that family, however

unfortunate."

"To my thinking, you, with all your virtues, are not worth the

little finger of that unfortunate girl at whom you throw stones."

"Would you go so far then as to let her associate with your

mother and sister?"

"I have done so already, if you care to know. I made her sit down

to-day with mother and Dounia."

"Rodya!" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna. Dounia crimsoned,

Razumihin knitted his brows. Luzhin smiled with lofty sarcasm.