Poor Folk

Chapter 32

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August 11th.

O Barbara Alexievna, I am undone--we are both of us undone! Both

of us are lost beyond recall! Everything is ruined--my

reputation, my self-respect, all that I have in the world! And

you as much as I. Never shall we retrieve what we have lost. I--

I have brought you to this pass, for I have become an outcast, my

darling. Everywhere I am laughed at and despised. Even my

landlady has taken to abusing me. Today she overwhelmed me with

shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush.

And last night, when I was in Rataziaev's rooms, one of his

friends began to read a scribble