‘Marmeladov, once already you have deceived my expectations⁠ ⁠… I’ll take you once more on my own responsibility’⁠—that’s what he said, ‘remember,’ he said, ‘and now you can go.’ I kissed the dust at his feet⁠—in thought only, for in reality he would not have allowed me to do it, being a statesman and a man of modern political and enlightened ideas. I returned home, and when I announced that I’d been taken back into the service and should receive a salary, heavens, what a to-do there was!⁠ ⁠…”