"oh, devil take what he wanted you to do! don’t try to be too cunning with me, young man!" shouted gania. "if you are aware of the real reason for my father’s present condition (and you have kept such an excellent spying watch during these last few days that you are sure to be aware of it) you had no right whatever to torment the unfortunate man, and to worry my mother by your exaggerations of the affair; because the whole business is nonsense simply a drunken freak, and nothing more, quite unproved by any evidence, and i don’t believe that much of it!" (he snapped his fingers). "but you must needs spy and watch over us all, because you are a a "