![]() ‘At least, the name, I admit, is historical. ‘Prince Muishkin? Lef Nicolaievitch? H’m! I don’t know, I’m sure! I may say I have never heard of such a person,’ said the clerk, thoughtfully. ![]() ‘Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin,’ replied the latter, with perfect readiness. ‘Excuse me,’ said the red-nosed man to the young fellow with the bundle, rather suddenly ‘whom have I the honour to be talking to?’ He was very absent he would appear to listen-and heard nothing and he would laugh of a sudden, evidently with no idea of what he was laughing about. He stared out of the window, and fidgeted, and evidently longed for the end of the journey. ![]() These men generally have about a hundred pounds a year to live on, and they spend their whole time and talents in the amassing of this style of knowledge, which they reduce-or raise-to the standard of a science.ĭuring the latter part of the conversation the black-haired young man had become very impatient. They are people who know everyone-that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc. ![]() This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class. ![]()
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