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Часть I ПОДПОЛЬЕ*1
| PART I Underground |
Часть II ПО ПОВОДУ МОКРОГО СНЕГА
| PART II À Propos of the Wet Snow |
I В то время мне было всего двадцать четыре года. Жизнь моя была уж и тогда угрюмая, беспорядочная и до одичалости одинокая. Я ни с кем не водился и даже избегал говорить и все более и более забивался в свой угол.
| I thought it disgusting, and even suspected that there was something base in my expression, and so every day when I turned up at the office I tried to behave as independently as possible, and to assume a lofty expression, so that I might not be suspected of being abject. |
II
| I, for instance, was triumphant over everyone; everyone, of course, was in dust and ashes, and was forced spontaneously to recognise my superiority, and I forgave them all. |
III
| Afterwards I heard of his barrack-room success as a lieutenant, and of the fast life he was leading. |
IV
| said Trudolyubov to Simonov. |
V
| No matter! |
VI
| “No.” |
VII — Э, полно, Лиза, какая уж тут книга, когда мне самому гадко вчуже. Да и не вчуже. У меня все это теперь в душе проснулось…
| You are sold, all of you, body and soul, and there is no need to strive for love when you can have everything without love. |
VIII
| I defended myself, “if I really may be allowed to defend myself,” by alleging that being utterly unaccustomed to wine, I had been intoxicated with the first glass, which I said, I had drunk before they arrived, while I was waiting for them at the Hôtel de Paris between five and six o’clock. I begged Simonov’s pardon especially; I asked him to convey my explanations to all the others, especially to Zverkov, whom “I seemed to remember as though in a dream” I had insulted. |
IX И в дом мой смело и свободно Хозяйкой полною войди!
| “Shall I get a whole portion?” |
X
| “Liza! |