“But look what a coincidence of circumstances: I gave that drunken fool Lebyadkin two hundred and thirty roubles of my own (of my own, you hear, of my own, not a rouble of it was yours, and moreover, you know that yourself), two days ago, already that evening—you hear, two days ago, not yesterday after the ‘reading,’ note that: it’s a rather important coincidence, because I didn’t know anything for certain then about Lizaveta Nikolaevna’s going to you or not; and I gave my own money solely because two days ago you distinguished yourself by deciding to announce your secret to everyone.