"I congratulate you on the excellent means you have taken to ruin yourself. I am really sorry for you. The best thing for you in your frame of mind is to depart for foreign lands."
"You would advise me, then, to desert, when my duty orders me, in this difficult crisis which has overtaken Poland, to remain and do what I can for truth and justice. If I embarrass you," added he laughing, "you can blow out my brains for the public good."
"Unfortunately that is not practicable. We should be implicated in an assassination. Well, if you will not go away, at least shut yourself up, and do not go on the streets."
"Then they will say that I am a conspirator."
"Meet only Russians."
"I will irritate them by my remarks."
"Be silent, then."
"I must speak."
"May Dumah and a million devils catch you at last!" cried Mann, rushing toward the door. "Farewell!"