He had been perfectly truthful when he had told Radomsky that he loved her genuinely and wholeheartedly, and his love for her really did contain the kind of bond one has with some pitiful, ailing child whom it is difficult, if not impossible, to leave to its own devices.
Well, that perfectly explains all his love towards Nastasya, really. Aglaya, I think, was a unique and real love of the Prince; Nastasya was a love that was more familiar to him in the form of Marie (Part One), but had never experienced anything of this degree.
