1 You will only eradicate it when you have changed my preference.
2 But I changed my mind and preferred to beat a resentful retreat.
3 Well, do change it, allure me with something else, give me another ideal.
4 I had to change the collar at any sacrifice, and to have a beaver one like an officer's.
5 But I believed that some radical change in my life was coming, and would inevitably come that day.
6 You will change to another house, then to a third, then somewhere else, till you come down at last to the Haymarket.
7 Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.
8 For a long time we gazed at each other like that, but she did not drop her eyes before mine and her expression did not change, so that at last I felt uncomfortable.
9 If they changed the dinner hour they ought at least to have let me know--that is what the post is for, and not to have put me in an absurd position in my own eyes and.
10 The thought, too, came into my overwrought brain that our parts now were completely changed, that she was now the heroine, while I was just a crushed and humiliated creature as she had been before me that night--four days before.
11 And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.
12 We Russians, speaking generally, have never had those foolish transcendental "romantics"--German, and still more French--on whom nothing produces any effect; if there were an earthquake, if all France perished at the barricades, they would still be the same, they would not even have the decency to affect a change, but would still go on singing their transcendental songs to the hour of their death, because they are fools.