Finally Nikolay Vsevolodovich threw the entire wad at him, and continuing to guffaw, set out down the lane, but this time alone. The tramp remained, groping on his knees in the mud, looking for notes that had been scattered by the wind and had sunk in puddles, and for a whole hour after that his sharp little cries could be heard in the darkness: ‘Ooh, oh!’
Nikolay throwing the money out in his anger, to a tramp that he despises, shows that he is really beyond the materialism we see in the novel The Idiot. In The Idiot, materialism brings about a destructive society which brings our good and Christ-like Myshkin to ruin. But in Demons, are main characters, namely Stavrogin, are beyond tthat point. Stavrogin throws away what the materialist worships as his god, into the mud for a convict and beggar to pick up after.
