madmen! vain fools! they don’t believe in god, they don’t believe in christ! but you are so eaten up by pride and vanity, that you will end by devouring each other that is my prophecy! is not this absurd? is it not monstrous chaos? and after all this, that shameless creature will go and beg their pardon! are there many people like you? what are you smiling at? because i am not ashamed to disgrace myself before you? yes, i am disgraced it can’t be helped now! but don’t you jeer at me, you scum!" (this was aimed at hippolyte). "he is almost at his last gasp, yet he corrupts others. you have got hold of this lad " (she pointed to colia); "you, have turned his head, you have taught him to be an atheist, you don’t believe in god, and you are not too old to be whipped, sir! a plague upon you! and so, prince lef nicolaievitch, you will call on them tomorrow, will you?" she asked the prince breathlessly, for the second time.