1 Then he stood aside and let in Liza.
2 See, Liza, I will tell you about myself.
3 Liza looked at Apollon with positive alarm.
4 It was as though I were worried only by Liza.
5 You don't know, Liza, what that torturer is to me.
6 The thought that Liza was coming worried me continually.
7 And I was so taken up that morning that I actually forgot all about Liza.
8 "If it had not been for Liza nothing of this would have happened," I decided inwardly.
9 Another thing, Liza, man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.
10 "Liza," she answered almost in a whisper, but somehow far from graciously, and she turned her eyes away.
11 But, however, "Liza will very likely come all the same," was the refrain with which all my reflections ended.
12 "You have found me in a strange position, Liza," I began, stammering and knowing that this was the wrong way to begin.
13 But this thought stirred such wrath in me that I believed I should have crushed that "damned" Liza if she had chanced to be near me at the time.
14 As soon as the room was lighted up, Liza sprang up, sat up in bed, and with a contorted face, with a half insane smile, looked at me almost senselessly.
15 Such a thing, Liza, happens in those accursed families in which there is neither love nor God," I retorted warmly, "and where there is no love, there is no sense either.
16 I felt particularly bold and cheerful after nine o'clock, I even sometimes began dreaming, and rather sweetly: I, for instance, became the salvation of Liza, simply through her coming to me and my talking to her.
17 All that evening, even when I had come back home, even after nine o'clock, when I calculated that Liza could not possibly come, still she haunted me, and what was worse, she came back to my mind always in the same position.
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