The Idiot

Description

Such a character is met with pretty much of the time in a specific class. They are individuals who know everybody—that is, they know where a man is utilized, what his compensation is, whom he knows, whom he wedded, what cash his better half had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, and so forth., and so on. These men by and large have around a hundred pounds per year to live on, and they invest their entire energy and abilities in the storing up of this style of information, which they diminish—or raise—to the norm of a science.

During the last aspect of the discussion the dark haired youngster had gotten anxious. He gazed out of the window, and squirmed, and clearly ached for the finish of the excursion. He was missing; he would seem to tune in and heard nothing; and he would chuckle of an abrupt, clearly with no thought of what he was giggling about.

‘Reason me,’ said the red-nosed man to the youthful individual with the group, rather out of nowhere; ‘whom have I the honor to talk?’

‘Sovereign Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin,’ answered the last mentioned, with impeccable status.

‘Sovereign Muishkin? Lef Nicolaievitch? H’m! I don’t have the foggiest idea, I’m certain! I may state I have never known about such an individual,’ said the agent, mindfully. ‘In any event, the name, I concede, is chronicled. Karamsin must specify the family name, obviously, in his historybut as an individual—one never knows about any Prince Muishkin these days.’