They don't care for their contempt, and then they use their dishonest gains to buy off the contempt they have deserved.

" "Perfectly true!" chimed in Vassenka Veslovsky.

" Perfectly! Oblonsky, of course, goes out of _bonhomie_, but other people say: 'Well, Oblonsky stays with them.

'..." "Not a bit of it.

" Levin could hear that Oblonsky was smiling as he spoke.