Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot

PART III 3. CHAPTER III. (continued)

"Come along, then. I don't wish to meet my new year without you-- my new life, I should say, for a new life is beginning for me. Did you know, Parfen, that a new life had begun for me?"

"I see for myself that it is so--and I shall tell HER. But you are not quite yourself, Lef Nicolaievitch."