White Nights

was two steps from her door. I went home more depressed than I had ever been before.

nothing to earn them with; you know even dreams do not come for nothing!

He is rich now with his own individual life

At that hour our hero—for allow me, Nastenka, to tell my story in the third person, for one feels awfully ashamed to tell it in the first person

At this moment, Nastenka, when we have met at last after such a long separation—for I have known you for ages, Nastenka, because I have been looking for some one for ages, and that is a sign that it was you I was looking for, and it was ordained that we should meet now

You describe it all splendidly, but couldn't you perhaps describe it a little less splendidly? You talk as though you were reading it out of a book."

MORNING

My night ended with the morning. I

When I think that I was the first to go to him, that I humbled myself before him, cried, that I begged of him a little love!

how unbearable a happy person is sometimes!

"I like you because you have not fallen in love with me.