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common between Evgenie Pavlovitch, and—her, and again
Rogojin? I tell you he is a man of immense wealth—as I
know for a fact; and he has further expectations from his
uncle. Simply Nastasia Philipovna—‘
Prince S. paused, as though unwilling to continue talk-
ing about Nastasia Philipovna.
‘Then at all events he knows her!’ remarked the prince,
after a moment’s silence.
‘Oh, that may be. He may have known her some time
ago—two or three years, at least. He used to know Tots-
ki. But it is impossible that there should be any intimacy
between them. She has not even been in the place—many
people don’t even know that she has returned from Mos-
cow! I have only observed her carriage about for the last
three days or so.’
‘It’s a lovely carriage,’ said Adelaida.
‘Yes, it was a beautiful turn-out, certainly!’
The visitors left the house, however, on no less friendly
terms than before. But the visit was of the greatest impor-
tance to the prince, from his own point of view. Admitting
that he had his suspicions, from the moment of the occur-
rence of last night, perhaps even before, that Nastasia had
some mysterious end in view, yet this visit confirmed his
suspicions and justified his fears. It was all clear to him;
Prince S. was wrong, perhaps, in his view of the matter, but
he was somewhere near the truth, and was right in so far
as that he understood there to be an intrigue of some sort
going on. Perhaps Prince S. saw it all more clearly than he
had allowed his hearers to understand. At all events, noth-

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