the revolutionists, and would perhaps play a conspicuous part. … There’s no doubt about that.”
“Oh, where, where did you get that from? What fool have you made friends with?” exclaimed Alyosha.
“Come, the truth will out! It has so chanced that I have often talked to Mr. Rakitin, of course, but … old Byelinsky said that, too, so they say.”
“Byelinsky? I don’t remember. He hasn’t written that anywhere.”
“If he didn’t write it, they say he said it. I heard that from a … but never mind.”
“And have you read Byelinsky?”
“Well, no … I haven’t read all of him, but … I read the passage about Tatyana, why she didn’t go off with Onyegin.”
“Didn’t go off with Onyegin? Surely you don’t … understand that already?”
“Why, you seem to take me for little Smurov,” said Kolya, with a grin