“Will Stavrogin be there?” Shatov asked suddenly, raising his head.
“He is certain to be.”
“Ha ha!”
Again they were silent for a minute. Shatov grinned disdainfully and irritably.
“And that contemptible ‘Noble Personality’ of yours, that I wouldn’t print here. Has it been printed?” he asked.
“Yes.”
“To make the schoolboys believe that Herzen himself had written it in your album?”
“Yes, Herzen himself.”
Again they were silent for three minutes. At last Shatov got up from the bed.
“Go out of my room; I don’t care to sit with you.”