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049 - Book Eight Chapter Three · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter forty nine of The Brother's Kametzov by Fayodo Dostayevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This LibriVox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter three, Gold Minds.
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Speaker 1: This was the visit of Mitya of which Grushenka had
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Speaker 1: spoken to Rakitin with such horror. She was just then
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Speaker 1: expecting the message, and was much relieved that Mitya had
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Speaker 1: not been to see her that day or the day before.
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Speaker 1: She hoped that, please God, he won't come till I'm
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Speaker 1: gone away, and he suddenly burst in on her the
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Speaker 1: rest we know already. To get him off her hands,
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Speaker 1: she suggested at once that he should walk with her
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Speaker 1: to some sonops, where she said she absolutely must go
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Speaker 1: to settle his accounts. And when Mitya accompanied her at
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Speaker 1: once she said good bye to him at the gate,
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Speaker 1: making him promise to come at twelve o'clock to take
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Speaker 1: her home again. Mitya too was delighted at this arrangement.
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Speaker 1: If she was sitting at some sonops, she could not
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Speaker 1: be going to Fayoto Pablo Butch's if only she's not lying,
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Speaker 1: he added at once, But he thought she was not lying.
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Speaker 1: From what he saw. He was that sort of jealous
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Speaker 1: man who, in the absence of the beloved woman, at
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Speaker 1: once invents all sorts of awful fancies of what may
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Speaker 1: be happening to her and how she may be betraying him.
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Speaker 1: But when shaken, heart broken, convinced of her faithlessness, he
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Speaker 1: runs back to her. At the first glance at her face,
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Speaker 1: her gay, laughing, affectionate face, he revives at once, lays
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Speaker 1: aside all suspicion, and with joyful shame, abuses himself for
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Speaker 1: his jealousy. After leaving Grushenka at the Gay, he rushed home.
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Speaker 1: Oh he had so much still to do that day,
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Speaker 1: but a load have been lifted from his heart anyway.
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Speaker 1: Now I must only make haste and find out Promptsmatdayakov,
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Speaker 1: whether anything happened there last night, whether by any chance
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Speaker 1: she went to Fyodor Pavlovitch er floated through his mind.
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Speaker 1: Before he had time to reach his lodging, jealousy had
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Speaker 1: surged up again in his restless heart. Jealousy. Arthollo was
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Speaker 1: not jealous. He was trustful, observed Pushkin. And that remark
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Speaker 1: alone is enough to show the deep insight of our
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Speaker 1: great poet. Othollo's soul was shattered and his whole outlooked clouded,
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Speaker 1: simply because his ideal was destroyed. But Othollo did not
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Speaker 1: begin hiding, spying, peeping. He was trustful. On the contrary,
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Speaker 1: he had to be led up, pushed, arm excited with
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Speaker 1: great difficulty before he could entertain the idea of deceit.
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Speaker 1: The truly jealous man is not like that. It is
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Speaker 1: im possible to picture to oneself the shame and moral
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Speaker 1: degradation to which the jealous man can descend without a
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Speaker 1: qualm of conscience. And yet it's not as though the
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Speaker 1: jealous were all vulgar and base souls. On the contrary,
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Speaker 1: a man of lofty feelings, whose love is pure and
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Speaker 1: full of self sacrifice, may yet hide under tables, bribe
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Speaker 1: the violest people, and be familiar with the lowest ignominy
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Speaker 1: of spying and eavesdropping. Othello was incapable of making up
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Speaker 1: his mind to faithlessness, not incapable of forgiving it, but
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Speaker 1: of making up his mind to it. Though his soul
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Speaker 1: was as innocent and free from malice as a babe's,
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Speaker 1: it is not so with the really jealous man. It
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Speaker 1: is hard to imagine what some jealous man can make
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Speaker 1: up their mind too, and overlook and what they can forgive.
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Speaker 1: The jealous o the readiest of all to forgive, and
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Speaker 1: all women know it. The jealous man can forgive extraordinarily quickly, though,
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Speaker 1: of course, after a violent scene, and he is able
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Speaker 1: to forgive infidelity almost conclusively proved the very kisses and
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Speaker 1: embraces he has seen, if only he can somehow be
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Speaker 1: convinced that it has all been for the last time,
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Speaker 1: and that his rival will vanish from that day forward,
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Speaker 1: will depart to the ends of the earth, or that
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Speaker 1: he himself for carry her away somewhere where the dreaded
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Speaker 1: revel will not get near her. Of course, the reconciliation
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Speaker 1: is only for an hour, for even if the rival
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Speaker 1: did disappear next day, he would invent another one, and
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Speaker 1: would be jealous of him. And one might wonder what
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Speaker 1: there was in a love that had to be so
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Speaker 1: watched over, what a love could be worth that needed
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Speaker 1: such strenuous guarding, But that the jealous will never understand.
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Speaker 1: And yet among them a man of noble hearts. It
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Speaker 1: is remarkable too that those very men of noble hearts
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Speaker 1: standing hidden in some cupboard, listening and spying never feel
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Speaker 1: the stings of conscience at that moment anyway, though they
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Speaker 1: understand clearly enough with their noble hearts the shameful depths
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Speaker 1: to which they have voluntarily sunk. At the sight of Grushenka,
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Speaker 1: Mitya's jealousy vanished, and for an instant he became trustful
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Speaker 1: and generous, and positively despised himself for his evil feelings.
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Speaker 1: But it only proved that in his love for the
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Speaker 1: woman there was an element of something far higher than
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Speaker 1: he himself imagined. That it was not only a sensual passion,
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Speaker 1: not only the curve of her body of which he
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Speaker 1: had talked to Alyosha. But as soon as Grushenka had gone,
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Speaker 1: Mitya began to suspect her of all the low cunning
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Speaker 1: of faithlessness, and he felt no sting of conscience at it,
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Speaker 1: and so jealousy surged up in him again. He had,
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Speaker 1: in any case, to make haste. The first thing to
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Speaker 1: be done was to get hold of at least a
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Speaker 1: small temporary loan of money. The Nine Roubles had almost
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Speaker 1: all gone on his expedition, and as we all know,
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Speaker 1: one can't take a step without money. But he had
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Speaker 1: thought over in the cart where he could get alone.
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Speaker 1: He had a brace of fine dueling pistols in a
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Speaker 1: case which had not porn to them, because he prized
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Speaker 1: them above all his possessions. In the metropolis tavern, he
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Speaker 1: had some time since made acquaintance with a young official,
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Speaker 1: and had learnt that this very opulent bachelor was passionately
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Speaker 1: fond of weapons. He used to buy pistols, revolvers, daggers,
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Speaker 1: hang them on his wall and show them to acquaintances.
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Speaker 1: He prided himself on them and was quite a specialist
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Speaker 1: on the mechanism of the revolver. Mitscha, without stopping to think,
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Speaker 1: went straight to him and offered to pawn his pistols
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Speaker 1: ti him for ten roubles. The official, delighted, began trying
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Speaker 1: to persuade him to sell them outright, but Mitya would
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Speaker 1: not consent, So the young man gave him ten roubles,
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Speaker 1: protesting that nothing would induce him to take interest. They
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Speaker 1: parted friends. Mitya was in haste. He rushed towards Fyodor
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Speaker 1: Pavlovitch's by the back way to his arbor to get
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Speaker 1: hold of Smadayakov as soon as possible. In this way,
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Speaker 1: the fact was established that three or four hours before
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Speaker 1: a certain event of which I shall speak later on.
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Speaker 1: Mitya had not a farthing and pawned for ten roubles,
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Speaker 1: a possession he valued, though three hours later he was
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Speaker 1: in possession of thousands. But I am anticipating U. From
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Speaker 1: Mariah Kondratyevna, of the woman a living near Fyodor Pavlovitch's,
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Speaker 1: he learned the very disturbing fact of Smatdayakov's illness. He
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Speaker 1: heard the story of his fall in the cellar, his fit,
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Speaker 1: the doctor's visit, Fyodor Pavlovitch's anxiety. He heard with interest too,
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Speaker 1: that his brother Ivan had set up that morning for Moscow.
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Speaker 1: Then he must have driven through Volovya before me, thought Dmitri.
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Speaker 1: But he was terribly distressed about Smadyakov. What will happen now?
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Speaker 1: Who'll keep watch for me? Who'll bring me word? He thought?
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Speaker 1: He began greedily questioning the woman whether they had seen
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Speaker 1: anything the evening before. They quite understood what he was
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Speaker 1: trying to find out and completely reassured him. No one
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Speaker 1: had been there. Ivan Fyodorovitch had been there the night.
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Speaker 1: Everything had been perfectly as usual. Mitya grew thoughtful he
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Speaker 1: would certainly have to keep watch to day, but work
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Speaker 1: here are at some Sonov's gate. He decided that he
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Speaker 1: must be on the lookout both here and there. And meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile the difficulty was that he had to carry out
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Speaker 1: the new plan that he had made on the journey bag.
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Speaker 1: He was sure of its success, but he must not
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Speaker 1: delay acting upon it. Mitya resolved to sacrifice an hour
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Speaker 1: to it. In an hour, I shall know everything, I
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Speaker 1: shall settle everything, and then then first of all to
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Speaker 1: some sonops I'll inquire with the Grushenkas there and instantly
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Speaker 1: be back here again, stay till eleven, and then to
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Speaker 1: some sonops again to bring go home. This was what
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Speaker 1: he decided. He flew home, washed, combed his hair, brushed
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Speaker 1: his clothes, dressed, and went to Madame Hohlakov's alas he
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Speaker 1: had built his hopes on her. He had resolved to
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Speaker 1: borrow three thousand from that lady, and what was more,
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Speaker 1: he felt suddenly convinced that she would not refuse to
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Speaker 1: lend it to him. It may be wondered why, if
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Speaker 1: he felt so certain, he had not gone to her
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Speaker 1: at first one of his own sort, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: instead of too Samsunov, a man he did not know
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Speaker 1: who was not of his own class, and to whom
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Speaker 1: he hardly knew how to speak. But the fact was
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Speaker 1: that he had never known Madame Hohlakov well, and had
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Speaker 1: seen nothing of her for the last month, and that
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Speaker 1: he knew she could not endure him. She had detested
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Speaker 1: him from the first because he was engaged to Katerina Ivanovna,
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Speaker 1: and while she had, for some reason suddenly conceived the
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Speaker 1: desire that Katerina Ivanovna should throw him over and marry
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Speaker 1: the charming, chivalrously refined ivan who had such excellent manners
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Speaker 1: Mitya's manners. She detested Mitya positively laughed at her, and
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Speaker 1: had once said about her that she was just as
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Speaker 1: lively and utter ease as she was uncultivated. But that
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Speaker 1: morning in the cart a brilliant idea had strucken, if
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Speaker 1: she is so anxious, I should not marry Katerina Ivanovna,
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Speaker 1: And he knew she was positively hysterical upon the subject.
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Speaker 1: Why should she refuse me now that three thousand just
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Speaker 1: to enable me to leave Katya and get away from
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Speaker 1: her forever? These spoilt, fine ladies, if they set their
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Speaker 1: hearts on anything, must be no expense to satisfy their caprice. Besides,
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Speaker 1: she so rich, Mitya argued, as for his plan, it
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Speaker 1: was just the same as before. It consisted of the
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Speaker 1: offer of his rights to Chamashnya, but not with a
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Speaker 1: commercial object as it had been with Samsonov, not trying
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Speaker 1: to allure the lady with the possibility of making a
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Speaker 1: prophet of six or seven thousand, but simply as a
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Speaker 1: security for the debt. As he worked out this new idea,
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Speaker 1: Mitya was enchanted with it. But so it always was
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Speaker 1: with him in all his undertakings, in all his sudden decisions.
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Speaker 1: He gave himself up to every new idea with passionate enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: Yet when he mounted the steps of Madame Hohlakov's house,
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Speaker 1: he felt a shiver of fear un Danny's spine. At
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Speaker 1: that moment he saw fully as a mathematical certainty, that
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Speaker 1: this was his last hope, that if this broke down,
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Speaker 1: nothing else was left him in the world but to
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Speaker 1: rub and murder someone for the three thousand. It was
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Speaker 1: half past seven when he rang at the bell. At first,
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Speaker 1: fortune seemed to smile upon him. As soon as he
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Speaker 1: was announced, he was received with extraordinary rapidity, as though
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Speaker 1: she were waiting for me, thought Mitya. And as soon
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Speaker 1: as he had been led to the drawing room, the
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Speaker 1: lady of the house herself ran in and declared at
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Speaker 1: once that she was expecting him. I was expecting you.
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Speaker 1: I was expecting you. Though I'd no reason to suppose
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Speaker 1: you would come to see me, as you were admit yourself,
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Speaker 1: Yet I did expect you. You may marvel at my instinct,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Payadorovitch. But I was convinced all the morning that
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Speaker 1: you would come. That is certainly wonderful, Madam, observed Mitya,
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Speaker 1: sitting down limply. But I have come to you on
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Speaker 1: a matter of great importance, on a matter of supreme
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Speaker 1: importance for me, that is, Madam, for me alone, and
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Speaker 1: I hasten. I know you've come on most important business,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch. It's not a case of presentiment, no reactionary
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Speaker 1: HARKing back to the miraculous have you heard about Father Zossima.
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Speaker 1: This is a case of mathematics. You couldn't help coming,
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Speaker 1: after all that is passed with Katerina Ivanovna. You couldn't.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't. That's a mathematical certainty, the realism of actual life. Madam,
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. But allow me to explain realism. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Pyja do, I'm all for realism. Now I've seen
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Speaker 1: too much of miracles. You've heard that Father Zossima is dead. No, Madam,
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Speaker 1: it's the first time I've heard of it. Mitya was
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Speaker 1: a little surprised the image of Alyosha rose to his
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Speaker 1: mind last night. And only imagine, Madame, said Mitya. I
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Speaker 1: can imagine nothing except that I'm in a desperate position
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Speaker 1: and that if you don't help me, everything will come
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Speaker 1: to grief. And I, first of all, excuse me for
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Speaker 1: the triviality of the expression, But I'm in a fever.
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Speaker 1: I know. I know that you're in a fever. You
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Speaker 1: could hardly fail to be. And whatever you may say
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Speaker 1: to me, I know beforehand. I have long been thinking
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Speaker 1: over your destiny. Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I am watching over it
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Speaker 1: and studying it. Oh, believe me, I'm an experienced doctor
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Speaker 1: of the soul, a Dmitri by Dorovitch. Madam, if you
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Speaker 1: are unexperienced doctor, I am certainly unexperienced patient, said Mitya
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Speaker 1: with an effort to be polite, and I feel that
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Speaker 1: if you are watching over my destiny in this way,
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Speaker 1: you will come to my help in my ruin. And
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Speaker 1: so allow me at least to explain to you the
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Speaker 1: plan with which I have ventured to come to you,
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Speaker 1: and what I am hoping of you. I have come, Madam,
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Speaker 1: don't explain it. It's of secondary importance. But as for help,
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Speaker 1: you're not the first I have hoped, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, you
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Speaker 1: have most likely heard of my cousin, Madame Belmasov. Her
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Speaker 1: husband was ruined, had come to grief, as you characteristically
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Speaker 1: express it, Dmitry Fyodorovitch, I recommended him to take to
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Speaker 1: horse breeding, and now he's doing well. Have you any
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Speaker 1: idea her horse breading a Dmitri Pyodorovitch, not the faintest, Madam, Ah, Madam,
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Speaker 1: not the faintest, cried Mitya, in nervous impatience, positively, starting
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Speaker 1: from his seat. I simply imploy you, madam, to listen
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Speaker 1: to me. Only give me two minutes of free speech
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Speaker 1: that I may just explain to you everything the whole
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Speaker 1: plan with which I have come. Besides, I'm short of time.
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Speaker 1: I'm in a fearful hurry, Mitya cried, hysterically, feeling that
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Speaker 1: she was just going to begin talking again, and hoping
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Speaker 1: to cut her short. I have come in despair and
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Speaker 1: the last gasp of despair, to beg you to lend
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Speaker 1: me the sum of three thousand alone, but on safe,
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Speaker 1: most safe security, madam, with the most trustworthy guarantees. Only
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Speaker 1: let me explain. You must tell me all that afterwards. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: Madame Holokov, with a jail gesture, demanded silence in her turn.
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Speaker 1: And whatever you may tell me, I know it all beforehand.
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Speaker 1: I've told you so already. You ask for a certain
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Speaker 1: sum for three thousand, but I can give you more,
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Speaker 1: immeasurably more. I will save you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, But you
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Speaker 1: must listen to me. Mitya started from his seat again. Madam,
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Speaker 1: how will you really be so good? He cried with
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Speaker 1: strong feeling. God, you've saved me, You have saved a
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Speaker 1: man from a violent that from a bullet. My eternal gratitude,
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Speaker 1: I will give you more, infinitely, more than three thousand,
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Speaker 1: cried Madame Holokov, looking with a radiant smile at Mitya's ecstasy. Infinitely,
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Speaker 1: but I don't need so much. I only need that
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Speaker 1: fatal three thousand and on my part, I can give
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Speaker 1: security for that sum with infinite gratitude, and I propose
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Speaker 1: a plan which enough, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, it's said, and dumb
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Speaker 1: Madame Maholakov cut him short with the modest triumph of beneficence.
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Speaker 1: I have promised to save you, and I will save you.
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Speaker 1: I will save you as I did Belmesov. What do
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Speaker 1: you think of the gold mines, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. Of the
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Speaker 1: gold mines, Madam, I have never thought anything about them,
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Speaker 1: but I have thought of them for you thought of
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Speaker 1: them over and over again. I have been watching you
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Speaker 1: for the last month. I've watched you a hundred times
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Speaker 1: as you've walked past, saying to myself, that's a man
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Speaker 1: of energy who ought to be at the gold mines.
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Speaker 1: I've studied your gait and come to the conclusion that's
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Speaker 1: a man who would find gold from my gate, Madam,
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Speaker 1: said Mitya, smiling yes, from your gate. You surely don't
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Speaker 1: deny that character can be told from the gate, Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
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Speaker 1: Science supports the idea of I'm all for science and realism. Now,
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Speaker 1: after all this business with father Zassima, which has so
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Speaker 1: upset me from this very day, I'm a realist and
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Speaker 1: I want to devote myself to practical usefulness. I'm cured enough,
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Speaker 1: as Duganepp says. But Madam, the three thousand you so
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Speaker 1: generously promise to lend me, it is yours, Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
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Speaker 1: Madame Holokov cut in at once. The money is as
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Speaker 1: good as in your pocket, not three thousand, but three million,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch, in less than no ten. I'll make you
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Speaker 1: a present of the idea. You shall find gold mines,
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Speaker 1: make millions, return and become a leading man and wake
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Speaker 1: us up and lead us to better things. Ah, we
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Speaker 1: shall leave it all to the Jews. You will found
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Speaker 1: institutions and enterprises of all sorts. You will help the poor,
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Speaker 1: and they will bless you. This is the age of
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Speaker 1: Railway's dmitriy Pyadorovitch. You'll become famous and indispensable to the
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Speaker 1: Department of Finance, which is so badly off at present.
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Speaker 1: The depreciation of the ruble keeps me awake at night,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Byodorovitch. People don't know that side of me, madam,
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Speaker 1: Madam Dmitri interrupted with an uneasy presentiment. I shall indeed
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Speaker 1: perhaps follow your advice, your wise advice, Madam, I shall
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Speaker 1: perhaps set up to the gold mines. I'll come and
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Speaker 1: see you again about it many times indeed. But now
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Speaker 1: that three thousands you said generously, Oh, that would set
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Speaker 1: me free. And if you could today, you see, I
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Speaker 1: haven't a minute a minute to lose today, Enough Dmitri Byodorovitch, Enough,
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Speaker 1: Madam Holokov interrupted emphatically. The question is will you go
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Speaker 1: to the gold minds or not? Have you quite made
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Speaker 1: up your mind? Answer yes or no? I will go, Madam. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: I'll go where you like. But now wait, cried Madame Hohlakov,
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Speaker 1: and jumping up and running to a handsome bureau with
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Speaker 1: numerous little drawers. She began pulling out one drawer after another,
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Speaker 1: looking for something with desperate taste. The three thousand, thought Mitya,
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Speaker 1: his heart almost stopping. And at the instant, without any
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Speaker 1: papers of formalities. That's doing things in gentlemanly style. She's
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Speaker 1: a splendid woman. If only she didn't talk so much. Here,
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Speaker 1: cried Madame Hohlakov, running back joyfully. Dmtya here, here's what
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Speaker 1: I was looking for. It was a tiny silver icon
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Speaker 1: on a cord such as is sometimes worn next the
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Speaker 1: skin with a cross. This is from kiep Dmitri Pyodorovitch,
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Speaker 1: She went on, reverently, from the relics of the holy
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Speaker 1: Martyr Varvara. Let me put it on your neck myself,
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Speaker 1: and with it dedicate you to a new life, to
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Speaker 1: a new career. And she actually put the cord around
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Speaker 1: his neck and began arranging it. In extreme embarrassment. Mitya
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Speaker 1: bent down and helped her, and at last he got
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Speaker 1: it under his neck tie and collar, through his shirt
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Speaker 1: to his chest. Now you can set off, Madame Holoko pronounced,
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Speaker 1: sitting down triumphantly in her place. Again, Madame, I am
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Speaker 1: so touched. I don't know how to thank you indeed
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Speaker 1: for such kindness. But if only you knew how precious
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Speaker 1: time is to me, that sum of money for which
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Speaker 1: I shall be indebted to your generosity, Oh madam, since
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Speaker 1: you are so kind, so touchingly generous to me, Mitya
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Speaker 1: exclaimed impulsively. Then let me reveal to you, though of
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Speaker 1: course you've known it a long time, that I love somebody.
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Speaker 1: Here I have been forced to Katarina Ivanovna. I should say, oh,
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Speaker 1: I've behaved inhumanly dishonorably to her, But I further in
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Speaker 1: love here with another woman, a woman whom you, Madam,
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Speaker 1: perhaps despise, for you know everything already, but whom I
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Speaker 1: cannot leave on any account. And therefore that three thousand.
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Speaker 1: Now leave everything, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, Madame Hohlakov interrupted in the
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Speaker 1: most decisive tone, Leave everything, especially woman. Gold minds are
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Speaker 1: your goal, and there's no place for women there. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: when you come back, rich and famous, you will find
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Speaker 1: the girl of your heart in the highest society. That
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Speaker 1: twill be a modern girl, a girl of education and
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Speaker 1: advanced ideas. By that time, the dawning woman question will
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Speaker 1: have gained ground, and the new woman will have appeared. Madam,
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Speaker 1: that's not the point, not at all. Mitya clasped his
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Speaker 1: hands in entreaty. Yes it is, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, just what
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Speaker 1: you need, the very thing you're yearning for, though you
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Speaker 1: don't realize it yourself. I am not at all opposed
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Speaker 1: to the present woman movement, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. The development of
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Speaker 1: woman and even the political emancipation of woman in the
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Speaker 1: near future. That's my ideal. I would daughter myself. Dmitri Fyodorovitch.
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Speaker 1: A people don't know that side of me. I wrote
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Speaker 1: a letter to the author Chechatern on that subject. He
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Speaker 1: has told me so much, so much about the vocation
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Speaker 1: of woman. So last year I sent him an anonymous
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Speaker 1: letter of two lines. I kiss and embrace you, my
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Speaker 1: teacher for the modern woman, persevered, and I signed myself
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Speaker 1: a mother. I thought of signing myself a contemporary mother
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Speaker 1: and hesitated, but I stuck to the simple mother. There's
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Speaker 1: more moral beauty in that, dmitriy Pyodorovitch, and the word
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Speaker 1: contemporary might have reminded him of the contemporary, A painful
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Speaker 1: recollection owing to the censorship of good heavens, what is
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Speaker 1: the matter, madam, cried Mitya, jumping up at last, clasping
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Speaker 1: his hands before her in helpless entreaty. You will make
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Speaker 1: me weep if you delay what you have so generously. Oh,
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Speaker 1: do weep, Dmitri Pyodorovitch, do weep? That's a noble feeling,
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Speaker 1: Such a part like open before you. Tears will ease
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Speaker 1: your heart, and later on you will return rejoicing. He
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Speaker 1: will hasten to me from Siberia on purpose to share
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Speaker 1: your joy with me. But allow me to Mitya cried suddenly,
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Speaker 1: for the last time, I entreat you. Tell me, Can
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Speaker 1: I have the sum you promised me today? Hypnot? When
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Speaker 1: may I come forward? What sum, Dmitri Pladorovitch, The three
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Speaker 1: thousand you promised me that you so generously three thousand rubles.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I haven't got three thousand, Madame Hohlakov announced
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Speaker 1: with serene amazement. Mitya was stupefied. Why you suggest now?
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Speaker 1: You said? You said it was as good as in
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Speaker 1: my hands. Oh no, you misunderstood me, Dmitri Pladorovitch. In
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Speaker 1: that case, you misunderstood me. I was talking of the
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Speaker 1: gold mines. It's true. I promised you more, infinitely more
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Speaker 1: than three thousand. I remember it all now. But I
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Speaker 1: was referring to the gold mines. But the money, the
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Speaker 1: three thousand, Mitya exclaimed awkwardly. Oh, if you meant money,
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Speaker 1: I haven't any I haven't a penny, Dmitri Pladorovitch. I'm
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Speaker 1: quarreling with my steward about it, and I've just borrowed
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Speaker 1: five hundred roubles from me. You sup myself? No, no,
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Speaker 1: I've no money, and do you know, Dmitri I p Iyodarevitch,
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Speaker 1: if I had, I wouldn't give it to you in
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Speaker 1: the first place. I never lend money. Lending money means
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Speaker 1: losing friends, and I wouldn't give it to you. Particularly.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't give it you because I like you and
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Speaker 1: want to save you. For all you need is the
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Speaker 1: gold mines, the gold mines, the gold mines. Oh the double,
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Speaker 1: roared Mitya, and with all his might brought his best
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Speaker 1: down on the table. I II cried Madame Holakov, alarmed,
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Speaker 1: and she flew to the other end of the drawing room.
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Speaker 1: Mitya spat on the ground and strode rapidly out of
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Speaker 1: the room, out of the house, into the street, into
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Speaker 1: the darkness. He walked like one possessed, and beating himself
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Speaker 1: on the breast on the spot way had struck himself
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Speaker 1: to Day's previous name before Alyosha the last time he
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Speaker 1: saw him in the dark on the road. But those
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Speaker 1: blows upon his breast signified on fat spot and what
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Speaker 1: he meant by it that was, for the time a
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Speaker 1: secret which was known to no one in the world,
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Speaker 1: and had not been told even to Alyosha. But that
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Speaker 1: secret meant for him more than disgrace. It meant ruin suicide.
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Speaker 1: So we had determined if he did not get hold
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Speaker 1: of the three thousand, that would pay his debt to
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Speaker 1: Katerina Ivanovna, and so removed from his breast, From that
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Speaker 1: spot on his breast, the shame he carried upon it
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Speaker 1: that weighed on his conscience. All this will be fully
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Speaker 1: explained to the reader later on. But now that his
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Speaker 1: last hope had vanished, this man, so strong in appearance,
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Speaker 1: burst out crying like a little child. A few steps
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Speaker 1: from the Holokov's house. He walked on and, not knowing
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Speaker 1: what he was doing, wiped away his tears with his fist.
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Speaker 1: In this way, he reached the square and suddenly became
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Speaker 1: aware that he had stumbled against something. He heard a
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Speaker 1: piercing wail from an old woman whom he had almost
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Speaker 1: knocked down. Good lud Yov nearly killed me. Why don't
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Speaker 1: you look where your gums take grace, Why it's you,
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Speaker 1: cried Mitya, recognizing the old woman in the dark. It
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Speaker 1: was the old servant who waited on samsunop, whom Mitya
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Speaker 1: had particularly noticed the day before. And do it you,
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Speaker 1: my good sir, said the old woman in quite a
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Speaker 1: different voice. I don't know you in the dark. You
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Speaker 1: live at Kutzma Kutzmach's. You're the servant that just so, Sir,
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Speaker 1: I was only running out to propities. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know you. Now tell me, my good woman is Agraffena
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Speaker 1: Alexandrovna than now, said Mitya, beside himself with suspense. I
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Speaker 1: saw her to the house some time ago. She has
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Speaker 1: been there, sir. She stayed a little while and went
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Speaker 1: up again. What went away? Cried Mitya. When did she go? Why?
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Speaker 1: As soon as she came, she only stayed a minute.
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Speaker 1: She only told Kutza Kutzmittya's tale that made him laugh,
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Speaker 1: and then she ran away. You're lying, damn you, roared Mitya.
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Speaker 1: Ii I, shrieked the old woman. But Mitya had vanished.
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Speaker 1: He ran with all his might to the house where
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Speaker 1: Grushenka lived. At the moment he reached it, Grushenka was
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Speaker 1: on her way to Mokro, and it was not more
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Speaker 1: than a quarter of an hour after her departure. Fenya
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Speaker 1: was sitting with her grandmother, the old cook Matriona, in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. When the captain ran in, Fenya uttered a
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Speaker 1: piercing shriek. On seeing him, you scream, roared Mitya, where
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Speaker 1: is she? But without giving the terror stricken Fenya time
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Speaker 1: to utter a word, he fell all of a heap
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Speaker 1: at her feet. Fenya, for christ sake, tell me where
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Speaker 1: is she? I don't know, Dmitri byodorovitch, my dear, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. You may kill me, but I can't tell you.
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Speaker 1: Fenya swore and protested you went out with her yourself
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Speaker 1: not long ago she came back. Indeed she didn't. By God,
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Speaker 1: I swear she didn't come back. You're lying, shouted Mitya.
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Speaker 1: From your terror, I know where she is. He rushed away. Fenya,
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Speaker 1: in her fright, was glad she had got off so easily.
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Speaker 1: But she knew very well that it was only that
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Speaker 1: he was in such haste, or she might not have
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Speaker 1: heard so well. But as he ran, he surprised both
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Speaker 1: Fenya and old Matriona by an unexpected action. On the
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Speaker 1: table stood a brass mortar with a puzzle in it,
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Speaker 1: a small brass puzzle not much more than six inches long.
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Speaker 1: Mitya already had opened the door with one hand when
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Speaker 1: with the other, he snatched up the puzzle and thrust
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Speaker 1: it into his side pocket. Oh lord, he's going to murder,
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Speaker 1: some one, cried Fenya, flinging up her hands and of
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Speaker 1: chapter forty nine,