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053 - Book Eight Chapter Seven · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty three of The Brother's Karam Itself by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This biebre Box recording is in
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Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter seven. The
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Speaker 1: First and Rightful Lover, with his long, rapid strides, Mitya
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Speaker 1: walked straight up to the table. Gentlemen, he said, in
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Speaker 1: a loud voice, almost shouting, yet a stammering at every wood.
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Speaker 1: I I'm all right. Don't be afraid, he exclaimed, I
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Speaker 1: there's nothing the matter. He turned suddenly to Grushenka, who
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Speaker 1: had shrunk back in her chair towards Kalganov, and clasped
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Speaker 1: his hand tightly. I I'm coming too. I'm here tom morning, gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: May I stay with you till morning? Only till morning
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Speaker 1: for the last time in the same room, so he finished,
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Speaker 1: Turning to the fat little man with the pipe sitting
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Speaker 1: on the sofa. The latter removed his pipe from his
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Speaker 1: lips with dignity and observed severely, Pani were here in private.
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Speaker 1: There are other rooms. Why it's you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. What
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Speaker 1: do you mean, answered Kalganav Suddenly sit down with us?
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Speaker 1: How are you delighted to see you, dear and precious fellow.
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Speaker 1: I always thought a lot of you, Mitya responded joyfully
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Speaker 1: and eagerly, at once holding out his hand across the table.
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Speaker 1: I how tight you squeeze? You've quite broken my fingers,
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Speaker 1: laughed Kalganov. He always squeezes like that, always. Grushenka put
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Speaker 1: in gaily with a timid smile, seeming suddenly convinced from
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Speaker 1: Mitya's face that he was not going to make a scene.
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Speaker 1: She was watching him with intense curiosity and still some uneasiness.
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Speaker 1: She was impressed by something about him, and indeed the
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Speaker 1: last thing she expected of him was that he would
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Speaker 1: come in and speak like this at such a moment.
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Speaker 1: Good evening, Maximov ventured blandly on the left. Mitya rushed
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Speaker 1: up to him, Too, Good evening. You're here too, Ah,
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Speaker 1: glad I am to find you here too, A gentleman,
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Speaker 1: gentleman I he addressed the Polish gentleman with the pipe, again,
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Speaker 1: evidently taking him for the most important person present. I
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Speaker 1: flew here. I wanted to spend my last day, my
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Speaker 1: last hour, in this room, in this very room, where
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Speaker 1: I too adore my quint forgive me pani, he cried wildly.
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Speaker 1: I flew here and vowed, Oh, don't be afraid. It's
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Speaker 1: my last night. Let's drink to our good understanding. They'll
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Speaker 1: bring the wine at once. I brought this with me.
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Speaker 1: Something made him pull out his bundle of notes. Allow me, pany.
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Speaker 1: I want to have music, singing a revel as we
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Speaker 1: have before. But the worm, the unnecessary worm, will crawl away,
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Speaker 1: and there'll be no more of him. I will commemorate
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Speaker 1: my day of joy on my last night. He was
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Speaker 1: almost choking. There was so much, so much he wanted
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Speaker 1: to say, but strange exclamations were all that came from
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Speaker 1: him his lips. The pole gazed fixedly at him, at
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Speaker 1: the bundle of notes in his hand, looked at Grushenka,
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Speaker 1: and was in evident perplexity. If my sovereign lady is permitting,
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Speaker 1: he was beginning, What does souburen mean, sovereign? I suppose,
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Speaker 1: interrupted Grushenka. I can't help laughing at you the way
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Speaker 1: you talk. Sit down, mitya, what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Don't frighten us? Please? You won't quiteeness, will you? If
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Speaker 1: you won't? I am glad to see you me me frighten, you,
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Speaker 1: cried Mitya, flinging up his hands. Oh pass me by,
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Speaker 1: go your way, I won't indu you. And suddenly he
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Speaker 1: surprised them all, and no doubt himself as well, by
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Speaker 1: flinging himself on a chair and bursting into tears, turning
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Speaker 1: his head away to the opposite wall, while his arms
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Speaker 1: clasped the back of the chair tight as though embracing it.
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Speaker 1: Come come, Oh, what a follow you are, cried Grushenka, reproachfully.
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Speaker 1: That's just how he comes to see me. He begins talking.
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Speaker 1: I can't make out what he means. He cried like
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Speaker 1: that once before, and now he's crying again. It's shameful.
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Speaker 1: Why are you crying as though you had anything to
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Speaker 1: cry for, she added enigmatically, emphasizing each word with some irritability.
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Speaker 1: I I'm not crying. Well, good evening. He instantly turned
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Speaker 1: round in his chair and suddenly laughed, not his abrupt,
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Speaker 1: wooden laugh, but a long, quivering, inaudible, nervous laugh. Well
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Speaker 1: there you are again. Oh come, cheerer, cheerer, Grushenka said
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Speaker 1: to him, persuasively. I'm very glad you come, very glad,
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Speaker 1: Mitya do you hear. I'm very glad. I want him
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Speaker 1: to stay here with us, she said, peremptorily, addressing the
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Speaker 1: whole company, though were words were obviously meant for the
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Speaker 1: man sitting on the sofa. I wish it, I wish it,
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Speaker 1: and if he goes away, I shall go too, she added,
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Speaker 1: with flashing eyes. Or what my queen commands is law,
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Speaker 1: pronounced the poll A, gallantly kissing Grushenka's hand. I beg you,
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Speaker 1: Panny to join our company, he added, politely, addressing Mitya.
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Speaker 1: Mitya was jumping up with the obvious intention of delivering
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Speaker 1: another tirade, but the words did not come. Let's drink, pany,
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Speaker 1: he blurted at instead of making a speech. Every one laughed.
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Speaker 1: Good heavens, I thought he was going to begin again,
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Speaker 1: Grushenka exclaimed, nervously. Do you hear, Mitya? She went on insistently.
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Speaker 1: Don't prounce about. But it's nice you've brought the champagne.
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Speaker 1: I want some myself, and I can't bear the cueurs.
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Speaker 1: And best of all, you've come yourself. We were fearfully
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Speaker 1: dull here you come for spree again, I suppose, but
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Speaker 1: put your money in your pocket? Where did you get
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Speaker 1: such a lot? Mitya had been all this time holding
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Speaker 1: in his hand the crumpled bundle of notes on which
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Speaker 1: the eyes of all, especially of the poles, were fixed
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Speaker 1: in confusion. He thrust them hurriedly into his pocket. He flushed.
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Speaker 1: At that moment the innkeeper brought in an uncorked bottle
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Speaker 1: of champagne and glasses on a tray. Mitya snatched up
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Speaker 1: the bottle, but he was so bewildered that he did
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Speaker 1: not know what to do with it. Chalgarov took it
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Speaker 1: from him and poured out the champagne another another bottle.
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Speaker 1: Mitya cried to the innkeeper and forgetting to clink glasses
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Speaker 1: with the pole whom he had so solemnly invited to
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Speaker 1: drink to their good understanding, He drank off his glass
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Speaker 1: without waiting for anyone else. His whole countenance suddenly changed.
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Speaker 1: The solemn and tragic expression with which he had entered
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Speaker 1: vanished completely, and the look of something childlike came into
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Speaker 1: his face. He seemed to have become suddenly gentle and subdued.
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Speaker 1: He looked shyly and happily at everyone, with a continual
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Speaker 1: nervous little laugh and the blissful expression of a dog
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Speaker 1: who has done wrong, been punished and forgiven. He seemed
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Speaker 1: to have forgotten everything, and was looking round at everyone
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Speaker 1: with a childlike smile of delight. He looked at Grushenka,
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Speaker 1: laughing continually and bringing his chair close up to her.
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Speaker 1: By degrees he had gained some idea of the two poles,
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Speaker 1: though he had formed no definite conception of them. Yet
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Speaker 1: the pole on the sofa struck him by his dignified
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Speaker 1: demeanor and his polish accent, and above all by his pipe. Well,
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Speaker 1: what of it, it's a good thing he's smoking a pipe,
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Speaker 1: he reflected. The pole's puffy, middle aged face, with its
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Speaker 1: tiny nose and two very thin, pointed, dyed and impudent
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Speaker 1: looking mustaches, had not so far raised the faintest doubts
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Speaker 1: in Mitcha. He was not even particularly struck by the
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Speaker 1: pole's absurd wig, made in Siberia with love locks. Foolishly
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Speaker 1: combed forward over the temples. I suppose it's all right,
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Speaker 1: since he wears a wig, he went on, musing blissfully.
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Speaker 1: The other younger pole, who was staring insolently and defiantly
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Speaker 1: at the company, and listening to the conversation with silent contempt,
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Speaker 1: still only impressed Mitya by his great height, which was
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Speaker 1: in striking contrast to the pole on the sofa. If
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Speaker 1: he stood up, he'd be six foot three. The thought
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Speaker 1: flittered through Mitcha's mind. It occurred to him too that
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Speaker 1: this pole must be the friend of the other, as
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Speaker 1: it were a bodyguard. And no doubt the big pole
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Speaker 1: was at the disposal of the little pole with the pipe.
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Speaker 1: But this all seemed to meet you perfectly right, and
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Speaker 1: not to be questioned. In his mood of doglike submissiveness,
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Speaker 1: all feeling of rivalry had died away. Grushenka's mood and
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Speaker 1: the enigmatic tone of some of her words he completely
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Speaker 1: failed to grasp. All he understood with thrilling heart was
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Speaker 1: that she was kind to him, that she had forgiven
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Speaker 1: him and made him sit by her. He was beside
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Speaker 1: himself with delight, watching a siper glass of champagne. The
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Speaker 1: silence of the company seemed somehow to strike him, however,
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Speaker 1: and he looked round at everyone with expectant eyes. Why
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Speaker 1: are we sitting here, though, gentlemen, Why don't you begin
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Speaker 1: doing something? His smiling eyes seemed to ask. He keeps
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Speaker 1: talking nonsense, and we were all laughing. Kalganov began suddenly,
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Speaker 1: as though divining his thought and pointing to Maximov. Mitya
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Speaker 1: immediately stared at Kalganov and then at Maximov. He's talking nonsense,
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Speaker 1: he laughed, his shot wouldn't laugh, seeming suddenly delighted at something.
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Speaker 1: Ha ha, yes, would you believe it? He will have
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Speaker 1: it that all our cavalry officers in the twenties married
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Speaker 1: Polish woman. Oh that's awful, rot, isn't it women, repeated Mitya,
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Speaker 1: perfectly ecstatic. Kalganov was well aware of Mitya's attitude to Grushenka,
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Speaker 1: and he guessed about the poll too, but that did
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Speaker 1: not so much interest him, perhaps did not interest him
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Speaker 1: at all. What he was interested in was Maximov. He
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Speaker 1: had come here with Maximov by chance, and he met
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Speaker 1: the polls here at the Inn for the first time
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Speaker 1: in his life. Grushenka he knew before, and had once
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Speaker 1: been with someone to see her, but she had not
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Speaker 1: taken to him. But she looked at him very affectionately.
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Speaker 1: Before Mitcha's arrival, she had been making much of him.
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Speaker 1: But he seem somehow to be unmoved by it. He
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Speaker 1: was a boy not over twenty, dressed like a dandy,
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Speaker 1: with a very charming, fair skinned face and splendid thick
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Speaker 1: fair hair. From his fair face, looked at beautiful pale
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Speaker 1: blue eyes, with an intelligent and sometimes even deep expression
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Speaker 1: beyond his age. Indeed, although the young man sometimes looked
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Speaker 1: and talked quite like a child, and was not at
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Speaker 1: all ashamed of it, even when he was aware of
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Speaker 1: it himself. As a rule, he was very wilful, even capricious,
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Speaker 1: though always friendly. Sometimes there was something fixed and obstinate
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Speaker 1: in his expression. He would look at you and listen,
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Speaker 1: seeming all the while to be persistently dreaming over something else.
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Speaker 1: Often he was listless and lazy. At other times he
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Speaker 1: would grow excited, sometimes apparently over the most trivial matters.
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Speaker 1: Only imagine, I've been taking him about with me for
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Speaker 1: the last four days. He went on indolently drawling his words,
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Speaker 1: quite naturally, though without the slightest affectation. Ever since your
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Speaker 1: brother Adieu, you remember, shoved him off the carriage and
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Speaker 1: sent him flying. That made me take an interest in
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Speaker 1: him at the time, and I took him into the country.
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Speaker 1: But he keeps talking sat a rat. I'm ashamed to
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Speaker 1: be with them. I'm taking him back. The gentleman has
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Speaker 1: not seen Polish ladies and says, what is impact the
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Speaker 1: poll with the pipe? Observed to Maximov, he spoke Russian
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Speaker 1: fairly well, much better anyway than he pretended. If he
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Speaker 1: used Russian words, he always distorted them into a Polish form.
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Speaker 1: But I was married to a Polish lady myself, tittered Maximov.
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Speaker 1: But did you serve in the cavalry you were talking
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Speaker 1: about the cavalry? Were you a cavalry officer? Put in
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Speaker 1: Kalganov at once? Was he a cavalry officer? Indeed, ha
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Speaker 1: Ha tried Mitya, listening eagerly and turning his inquiring eyes
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Speaker 1: to each as he spoke, as though there were no
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Speaker 1: knowing what he might hear from eache. No, you see,
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Speaker 1: Maximov turned to him. What I mean is that those
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Speaker 1: pretty Polish ladies when they dance the mazurka with our uhlans.
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Speaker 1: When one of them dances a mouzurka with a Yulan,
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Speaker 1: she jumps on his knee like a kitten, a little
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Speaker 1: white one, and the Pan father and Pan mother look
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Speaker 1: on and allow it, They allow it, and next day
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Speaker 1: the uhlan comes in and opposer his hand. That's how
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Speaker 1: it is up his hand, he Maximov ended, tittering. The
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Speaker 1: pern is a large dark The tall pole on the
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Speaker 1: chair growled suddenly and crust one leg over the other.
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Speaker 1: Mitcha's eye was caught by his huge greased boot with
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Speaker 1: its thick, dirty soul. The dress of both the poles
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Speaker 1: look rather greasy. Well, now it's lash dack. What's he
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Speaker 1: scolding about, said Grushenka, suddenly vexed a parnee agrippina, or
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Speaker 1: what the gentleman saw in Poland with servant girls and
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Speaker 1: not the ladies of good birth. The pole with the
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Speaker 1: pipe observed to Grushenka, you can reckon on that. The
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Speaker 1: tall pole snapped contemptuously. What next, Let him talk? People talk?
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Speaker 1: Why hinder them? It makes a chirple, Grushenka said, crust me,
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Speaker 1: I'm not hindering them, Parnee, said the pole in the wig,
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Speaker 1: with a long look at Grushenka, and relapsing into dignified silence,
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Speaker 1: he sucked his pipe again. No, no, the Polish gentleman
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Speaker 1: spoke the truth. Kalg Not got excited again, as though
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Speaker 1: it were a question of vast import. He's never been
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Speaker 1: in Poland, so how can he talk about it. I
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Speaker 1: suppose you weren't married in Poland, were you? No, in
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Speaker 1: the province of Smolensk. Only a U learn had brought
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Speaker 1: her to Russia before that, my future wife, with her
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Speaker 1: mamma and her aunt and another female relation with a
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Speaker 1: grown up son. He brought us straight from Poland and
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Speaker 1: gave her up to me. He was a lieutenant in
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Speaker 1: our regiment, a very nice young man. At first, he
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Speaker 1: meant to marry her himself, but he didn't marry her
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Speaker 1: because she turned out to be lame. Say you married
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Speaker 1: a lame woman, cried Kalganov. Yes. They both desdived me
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Speaker 1: a little bit at the time and concealed it. I
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Speaker 1: thought she was hopping. She kept hopping. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was for fun. So pleased she was go going to
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Speaker 1: marry you, yelled Kalganov in a ringing childish voice. Yes,
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Speaker 1: so pleased. But it turned out to be quite a
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Speaker 1: different cause afterwards, when we were married, after the wedding
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Speaker 1: that very evening, she confessed and very touchingly asked forgiveness.
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Speaker 1: I once jumped over a puddle when I was a child,
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Speaker 1: she said, and injured my leg. He Kalganov went off
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Speaker 1: into the most childish laughter, almost falling on the Sopa
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Speaker 1: Grushenka too A, laughed Mitchi, who was at the pinnacle
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Speaker 1: of happiness. Do you know that's the truth. He's not
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Speaker 1: lying now, exclaimed Kalganov, turning to Mitya. And do you
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Speaker 1: know he's been married twice. It's his first wife he's
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Speaker 1: talking about, but his second wife do you know run
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Speaker 1: away and is alive now? Is it possible? Said Mitya,
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Speaker 1: turning quickly to Maximov with an expression of the utmost astonishment. Yes,
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Speaker 1: she did run away. I've had that unpleasant experience, Maximov
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Speaker 1: modestly assented with a monsieur. And what was worse, she'd
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Speaker 1: had all my little property transferred toner beforehand. You're an
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Speaker 1: educated ma'am, she said to me. You can always get
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Speaker 1: your living. She set up my business with that. A
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Speaker 1: venerable bishop once said to me, one of your wives
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Speaker 1: was lame, but the other was too lightfooted. Listen, listen,
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Speaker 1: cried Kalganov, bobbling over. If he's telling lies and the
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Speaker 1: is he's only doing it to amuse us? All there's
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Speaker 1: no harm in that is there. You know, I sometimes
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Speaker 1: like him. He's awfully low, but it's natural to him, aim,
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Speaker 1: don't you think so? Some people are lowe from self interest,
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Speaker 1: but he's simply so from nature. Only fancy. He claims
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Speaker 1: he was arguing about it all the way yesterday that
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Speaker 1: Gog wrote Dead Souls about him. Do you remember there's
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Speaker 1: a landowner called Maximov in it whom nursdwe off thrash
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Speaker 1: He was charged Do you remember for inflicting bodily injury
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Speaker 1: with rods on the landowner Maximov in a drunken condition.
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Speaker 1: Would you believe it? He claims that he was that
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Speaker 1: Maximov and that he was beaten. Now can it be so?
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Speaker 1: Chichikov made his journey at the very latest, at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the twenties, so that the dates don't fit.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't have been thrashed. Then he couldn't, could he.
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Speaker 1: It was difficult to imagine what Kalganov was excited about,
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Speaker 1: but his excitement was genuine. Mitya followed his lead without protest. Well,
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Speaker 1: but if they did thrash him, he cried, laughing. It's
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Speaker 1: not that they thrashed me exactly, But what I mean
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Speaker 1: is put in Maxim up? What do you mean? Either
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Speaker 1: they thrashed you or they didn't. What a clock is it?
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Speaker 1: To Panny? The poll with the pipe asked his talk
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Speaker 1: friend with a bored expression. The other shrugged his shoulders
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Speaker 1: in reply. Neither of them had a watch. Why not talk?
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Speaker 1: Let other people talk? Mustn't other people talk because you're bored?
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Speaker 1: Grushenka flew at him with evident intention of finding fault.
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Speaker 1: Something seemed, for the first time to flash up on
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Speaker 1: Mitya's This time, the poll answered with unmistakable irritability, Parnie,
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Speaker 1: I didn't oppose it, I didn't say anything. All right, then,
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Speaker 1: come tell us your story, Grushenka cried to Maximov. Why
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Speaker 1: are you all silent? There's nothing to tell. It's all
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Speaker 1: so foolish, answered Maximov at once, with evident satisfaction, mincing
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Speaker 1: a little. Besides, all that's by way of allegory in
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Speaker 1: Go Go, But he's made all the names have a meaning.
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Speaker 1: Nozdryov was really called Nosov, and Kuvshinikov had quite a
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Speaker 1: different name. He was called Schoffeneef. Fernardi really was called Fernardi,
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Speaker 1: only he wasn't an Italian but a Russian and Mamselle Fernardi.
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Speaker 1: He was a pretty girl with her pretty little legs
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Speaker 1: in tights, and she had a little short skirt with spangles,
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Speaker 1: and she kept standing round and round only not for
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Speaker 1: four hours, but for four minutes only, and she bewitched everyone.
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Speaker 1: But what you've beaten for? Cried Kalganov. For Pieron answered Maximov.
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Speaker 1: What Pieron? Cried Mitcha, the famous French writer Pieron. We
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Speaker 1: were all drinking then, a big party of us in
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Speaker 1: a tavern at that very fair. They'd invited me, and
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Speaker 1: first of all I began quoting epigrams, is that you Boileau,
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Speaker 1: what a funny get up? And Boileau answers that she's
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Speaker 1: going to a masquerade, that is to the barty. And
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Speaker 1: they took it to themselves. So I made haste to
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Speaker 1: repeat another very sarcastic well known all educated people. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Sappho and Baion are we, but one grief is weighing
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Speaker 1: on me. You don't know your way to the sea.
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Speaker 1: They were still more offended and began abusing me in
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Speaker 1: the most unseemly way. For it and, as Illert would
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Speaker 1: have it, to set things right, I began telling a
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Speaker 1: very cultivated anecdote about Piron, how he was not accepted
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Speaker 1: into the Bench Academy, and to revenge himself, wrote his
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Speaker 1: own epitaph. CI git Piron, he nephew per mem agademicia.
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Speaker 1: They seized me and thrashed me. But what for? What for?
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Speaker 1: For my education? People can thrash a man for anything?
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Speaker 1: Maximov concluded briefly and sententiously. Eh, that's enough, that's all stupid.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to listen. I thought it would be amusing.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka cut them short. Suddenly Mitya started and at once
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Speaker 1: left off laughing. The tall pole rose upon his feet, and,
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Speaker 1: with the haughty air of a man bored and out
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Speaker 1: of his element, began passing from corner to corner of
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Speaker 1: the room, his hands behind his back. Ah, he can't
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Speaker 1: sit still, said Grushenka, looking at him contemptuously. Mitya began
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Speaker 1: to feel anxious. He noticed besides that the pole on
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Speaker 1: the soapa was looking at him with an irritable expression.
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Speaker 1: Pani cried, Mitya, let's drink, and the other band and
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Speaker 1: two let us drink. In a flash, he had pulled
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Speaker 1: three glasses towards him. And filled them with champagne. To Poland, Panovie,
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Speaker 1: I drink to your Poland, cried Mitya. I shall be delighted.
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Speaker 1: Pani said the pole on the sofa with dignity and
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Speaker 1: affable condescension. And he took his glass, and the other
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Speaker 1: pan what's his name, drink, most illustrious, take your glass.
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Speaker 1: Mitya urged the pan of Vrublevsky put in the pole
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Speaker 1: on the sofa. Pan of Rublevsky came up to the table,
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Speaker 1: swaying as he walked. To Poland. Panovie cried Mitya, raising
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Speaker 1: his glass. Hurrah, All three drank. Mitya seized the bottle
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Speaker 1: and again poured out three glasses. Now to Russia. Panov
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Speaker 1: and let us be brothers, pour out some for us,
29:08
Speaker 1: said Grushenka. I'll drink to Russia too, So will I
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Speaker 1: said Kalganov, And I would too, to Russia. The old
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Speaker 1: grandmother tittered Maximov. Oh oh, cried Mitya. Three from Borisovitch,
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Speaker 1: some more bottles. The other three bottles Mitya had brought
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Speaker 1: with him were put on the table. Mitya filled the
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Speaker 1: glasses to Russia. Hurrah, he shouted again. All drank the toast,
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Speaker 1: except the Poles, and Grushenka tossed off her whole glass
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Speaker 1: at once. The Poles did not touch theirs. How's this,
29:47
Speaker 1: Panov cried, Mitya, won't you drink it? Pan Vrublevsky took
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Speaker 1: the glass, raised it and said, with a resonant voice
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Speaker 1: to Russia as she was bepos seventeen seventy two. Come
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Speaker 1: that's better, tried the other pole, and they both emptied
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Speaker 1: their glasses at once. Your fools, you, Panove broke suddenly
30:13
Speaker 1: from Mitchya Panin shouted, Both the poles menacingly, setting on
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Speaker 1: Mitya like a couple of cocks. Pan Rublevsky was specially furious.
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Speaker 1: Can one help loving one's own country? He shouted, be silent,
30:36
Speaker 1: don't quarrel. I won't have any quarreling, cried Grushenka imperiously,
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Speaker 1: and she stumped her foot on the floor. Her face glowed,
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Speaker 1: her eyes were shining. The effects of the glass she
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Speaker 1: had just drunk were apparent. Mitya was terribly alarmed. Panov
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Speaker 1: forgive me, it was my fault. I'm sorry, Rublevsky, Pani Rublevsky,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Hold your tongue you anyway, sit down, you stupid,
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Speaker 1: Grushenka scolded with angry annoyance. Everyone sat down, all was silent,
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Speaker 1: looking at one another. Gentlemen, I was the cause of
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Speaker 1: it all. Mitcha began again, unable to make anything of
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Speaker 1: Grushenka's words. Come, why are we sitting here? What shall
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Speaker 1: we do to amuse ourselves again? Ah, it's certainly anything
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Speaker 1: but amusing. Cargane up, mumbled lazily. Let's play farah again
31:40
Speaker 1: as we did just now. A Maximuv tittered. Suddenly, Pharaoh
31:45
Speaker 1: splendid cried, Mitcha, if only the panove, it's light, panove
31:52
Speaker 1: the pole on the soap, I responded, as it were, unwillingly,
31:57
Speaker 1: that's true, centered pan of rublevsky light. What do you
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Speaker 1: mean by light, asked Grushenka. Late pani a late hour,
32:12
Speaker 1: I mean the pole on the sopa, explained it's always late.
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Speaker 1: With them, they can never do anything. Grushenka almost shrieked
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Speaker 1: in her anger. They're dull themselves, so they want others
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Speaker 1: to be dull. Before you came, Mitya, they were just
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Speaker 1: as silent and kept turning up their noses at me.
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Speaker 1: My goddess, cried, the pole on the sofa I see
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Speaker 1: you're not well disposed to me. That's why I'm gloomy.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready, Pany added, he addressing Mitya begin Pani. Mitya assented,
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Speaker 1: pulling his notes out of his pocket and laying two
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Speaker 1: hundred rouble notes on the table. I want to lose
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Speaker 1: a lot to you. Take your cards, make the bank.
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Speaker 1: We'll have cards from the landlord, Pani, said the little
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Speaker 1: pole gravely and emphatically. That's much the best way, chimed
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Speaker 1: in Pan Rublevski from the landlord. Very good, I understand.
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Speaker 1: Let's get them from him cards, Mitya shouted to the landlord.
33:28
Speaker 1: The landlord brought in a new, unopened pack and informed
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Speaker 1: Mitya that the girls were getting ready and that the
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Speaker 1: Jews with the symbols would most likely be here soon,
33:41
Speaker 1: but the cart with the provisions had not yet arrived.
33:45
Speaker 1: Mitya jumped up from the table and ran into the
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Speaker 1: next room to give orders. But only three girls had arrived,
33:53
Speaker 1: and Mariah was not there yet, and he did not
33:56
Speaker 1: know himself what orders to give and why he had
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Speaker 1: run out. He only told them to take out of
34:04
Speaker 1: the box the presents for the girls, the sweets, the
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Speaker 1: tuffy and the fondans and vodka for Andrey, Vodka for Andre.
34:12
Speaker 1: He cried in haste, I was rude to Andre. Suddenly Maximov,
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Speaker 1: who had followed him out, touched him on the shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Give me five roubles, he whispered to Mitya. I'll stake
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Speaker 1: something at Pharaoh, do he? He capital splendid? Take ten
34:30
Speaker 1: here again. He took all the notes out of his
34:33
Speaker 1: pocket and picked out one for ten rubles. And if
34:37
Speaker 1: you lose that, come again, come again, very good, Maximov
34:41
Speaker 1: whispered joyfully, and he ran back again. Mitya too returned,
34:47
Speaker 1: apologizing for having kept them waiting. The poles had already
34:51
Speaker 1: sat down and opened the pack. They looked much more amiable,
34:56
Speaker 1: almost cordial. The pole on the sofa had lighted another
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Speaker 1: pipe and was preparing to throw. He wore an air
35:05
Speaker 1: of solemnity to your places, gentlemen, cried Pan Rublevski. No,
35:14
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play anymore, observed Kalganov. I've lost
35:18
Speaker 1: fifty rubles to them just now. The pan had no luck.
35:23
Speaker 1: Perhaps you'll be lucky this time. The pole on the
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Speaker 1: sofa observed in his direction how much in the bank,
35:31
Speaker 1: And to correspond, asked Mitche that's according Puny, maybe one hundred,
35:39
Speaker 1: maybe two hundred, as much as you will stake a million,
35:44
Speaker 1: loved Mitcha. The pan captain has heard of pan perd Vyassotsky.
35:52
Speaker 1: Perhaps what pud Vyassotsky. In Warsaw there was a bang,
35:59
Speaker 1: and anyone comes and steaks against it. Bud Vysotsky comes,
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Speaker 1: sees a thousand gold pieces, steaks against the bank. The
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Speaker 1: banker says, Panny pad Vyasatsky, are you laying down the gold?
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Speaker 1: How must we trust to your honor, to my honor?
36:19
Speaker 1: Panny says bud Vyazutski, So much the better. The banker
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Speaker 1: throws the dice. Bud Vysotsky wins. Take it, Panny, says
36:31
Speaker 1: the banker, and pulling out the drawer, he gives him
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Speaker 1: a million. Take it, Punny, this is your gain. There
36:39
Speaker 1: was a million in the bank. I didn't know that,
36:43
Speaker 1: says bud Vyazatski. Panny, pud Vazatsky said the banker. You
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Speaker 1: pledged your honor, and we pledged ours. Pud Vyazatski took
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Speaker 1: the million. That's not true, said Kalganov. Pani Kalganov. In
37:04
Speaker 1: gentlemanly society, one doesn't say such things as ever Polish
37:10
Speaker 1: gambler would give away a million, cried Mitya, but checked
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Speaker 1: himself at once. Forgive me, pany, it's my fault again,
37:17
Speaker 1: he would, he would give away a million for honor,
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Speaker 1: for Polish honor. You see, I to Polish ha ha.
37:23
Speaker 1: Here I stake ten roubles the knave leads, and I
37:27
Speaker 1: put a ruble on the queen, the queen of heart,
37:30
Speaker 1: the pretty little Paninatchka, he laughed Maximov, pulling out his queen,
37:37
Speaker 1: and as though trying to conceal it from every one,
37:40
Speaker 1: he moved right up and crossed himself hurriedly under the table. Mitya,
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Speaker 1: one the ruble, one too, a corner, cried mitchya Ah.
37:51
Speaker 1: But another ruble a single state, Maximov muttered, gleefully. Hugely
37:58
Speaker 1: delighted at having won a ruble lost, shouted Mitya. A
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Speaker 1: double on the seven. The seven too was trump stop,
38:08
Speaker 1: cried Carganuf. Suddenly double double. Mitya doubled his stakes, and
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Speaker 1: each time he doubled the steak, the card he doubled
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Speaker 1: was trumped by the poles. The ruble stakes kept winning.
38:24
Speaker 1: On the double, shouted Mitya, furiously, you've lost two hundred
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Speaker 1: penny a, will you's take another hundred? The pole on
38:35
Speaker 1: the Sopa inquired, what lost two hundred already? Then another
38:39
Speaker 1: two hundred? All doubles, and pulling his money out of
38:44
Speaker 1: his pocket. Mitya was about to fling two hundred rubles
38:48
Speaker 1: on the Queen, but Carganuff covered it with his hands.
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Speaker 1: That's enough, he shouted in his ringing voice. What's the matter,
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Speaker 1: just stared at him. That's enough. I don't want you
39:03
Speaker 1: to play anymore. Don't why because I don't hang it?
39:09
Speaker 1: Come away? That's why I won't let you go on playing.
39:12
Speaker 1: Mitcha gazed at him in astonishment. Give it up, Mitcha
39:16
Speaker 1: him may be right, you've lost a lot as it is,
39:19
Speaker 1: said Grushenka, with a curious note in her voice. Both
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Speaker 1: the poles rose from their seats with a deeply offended air.
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Speaker 1: Are you joking, panin, said the short man, looking severely
39:35
Speaker 1: at Kalganov. Oh dah you pan Rublevsky too, growled at Kalganop.
39:43
Speaker 1: Don't dare to shut like that, cried Grushenka. Ah you turkeykuts.
39:50
Speaker 1: Mitchya looked at each of them in turn, but something
39:54
Speaker 1: in Grushenka's face suddenly stricken, and at the same instant
39:59
Speaker 1: something new who flashed into his mind, a strange new thought,
40:03
Speaker 1: pani Agrippina. The little poll was beginning crimson with anger,
40:09
Speaker 1: when Mitya suddenly went up to him and slapped him
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder, most illustrious. Two words with you, what
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Speaker 1: do you want in the next room? At two words
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Speaker 1: to say to you something pleasant, very pleasant. You'll be
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Speaker 1: glad to hear it. The little pan was taken aback
40:30
Speaker 1: and looked apprehensibly at Mitya. He agreed at once, however,
40:35
Speaker 1: on condition that pan Vrublevsky went with them. The bodyguard
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Speaker 1: let him come. And I want him too, I must
40:43
Speaker 1: have been cried Mitya. March Panovi, where are you going,
40:48
Speaker 1: asked Grushenka, anxiously. We'll be back in one moment, answered Mitya.
40:54
Speaker 1: There was a sort of boldness, a sudden competence, shining
40:59
Speaker 1: in his eyes. His face had looked very different when
41:02
Speaker 1: he entered the room an hour before. He led the poles,
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Speaker 1: not into the large room where the chorus of girls
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Speaker 1: was assembling and the table was being laid, but into
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Speaker 1: the bedroom on the right, where the trunks and packages
41:18
Speaker 1: were kept, and there were two large beds with pyramids
41:22
Speaker 1: of cutton pillars on each. There was a lighted candle
41:26
Speaker 1: on a small deal table in the corner. The small
41:29
Speaker 1: man and Mitya sat down to this table, facing each other,
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Speaker 1: while the huge Rublevsky stood beside them, his hands behind
41:39
Speaker 1: his back. The poles looked severe but were evidently inquisitive.
41:45
Speaker 1: A what can I do for you? Panine, lisped the
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Speaker 1: little pole. Well, look here, Panny, I won't keep you long.
41:54
Speaker 1: There's money for you. He pulled out his notes. Would
41:57
Speaker 1: you like three thousand? Take it and go your wed
42:01
Speaker 1: The pole gazed open eyed at Mitya with a searching look.
42:05
Speaker 1: A three thousand, Panny. He exchanged glances with Rublevski. Three
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Speaker 1: Panov three. A listen, Panny, I see you're a sensible man.
42:17
Speaker 1: Take three thousand and go to the devil and Rublevsky
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Speaker 1: with your deer here, but at once, this very minute,
42:23
Speaker 1: and forever you understand that, Punny, forever, here's the door,
42:27
Speaker 1: you go out of it. What have you got there?
42:29
Speaker 1: A great cut to work cut. I'll bring it out
42:31
Speaker 1: to you. They'll get the horses out directly, and then goodbye, Punny,
42:36
Speaker 1: Mitya awaited an answer with assurance he had no doubts.
42:41
Speaker 1: An expression of extraordinary resolution passed over the pole's face
42:47
Speaker 1: and the money pany. The money pany five hundred rubles.
42:53
Speaker 1: I'll give you this moment for the journey and as
42:55
Speaker 1: a first installment, and two thousand, five hundred tomorrow in
42:59
Speaker 1: the town. I swear on my honor, I'll get it.
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Speaker 1: I'll get it at any cost, cried Mitya. The poles
43:06
Speaker 1: exchanged glances again. The short man's face looked more forbidding,
43:12
Speaker 1: seven hundred, seven hundred, not five hundred at once this
43:15
Speaker 1: minute cash down, Mitya added, feeling something wrong? What's the matter, bunny,
43:21
Speaker 1: don't you trust me? I can't give you the whole
43:24
Speaker 1: three thousand straight up. If I give it, you may
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Speaker 1: come back tomorrow. Besides, I haven't the three thousand with me.
43:30
Speaker 1: I've got it at home in the town, faltered Mitya,
43:33
Speaker 1: his spirit sinking at every word. He uttered, upon my word,
43:37
Speaker 1: the money's there. Hidden in an instant, an extraordinary sense
43:44
Speaker 1: of personal dignity showed itself in the little man's face.
43:50
Speaker 1: What next, he asked, ironically, for shame, and he spat
43:56
Speaker 1: on the floor, pan Rublevski's back too. You do that,
44:03
Speaker 1: pany said Mitya, recognizing with despair that all was over
44:08
Speaker 1: because you hoped to make more out of Grushenka. There
44:12
Speaker 1: are a couple of kaye pontons. That's what you are.
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Speaker 1: This is a mortal insult. The little Paul turned as
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Speaker 1: red as a crab, and he went out of the
44:21
Speaker 1: room briskly, as though unwilling to hear another word. Rublevsky
44:27
Speaker 1: swung out after him, and Mitya followed, confused and crestfallen.
44:32
Speaker 1: He was afraid of Grushenka, afraid that the pan would
44:36
Speaker 1: at once raise an outcry, and so indeed he did.
44:40
Speaker 1: The Paul walked into the room and threw himself in
44:43
Speaker 1: a theatrical attitude before Grushenka. Pany Agarapina, I have received
44:50
Speaker 1: a mortal insult, he exclaimed. But Grushenka suddenly lost all patients,
44:57
Speaker 1: as though they had wounded her in the tenderest spot speak.
45:02
Speaker 1: Russian speak, Russian, she cried, not another word of Polish.
45:07
Speaker 1: You used to talk Russian. You coun't have forgotten it
45:10
Speaker 1: in five years. She was red with passion. Pany A,
45:16
Speaker 1: my name's Agrafina, Grushenka speak Russian, or I won't lessen
45:25
Speaker 1: the pole, gasped with offended dignity, and quickly and pompously
45:30
Speaker 1: delivered himself in broken Russian. Pani Agrafina, I came here
45:36
Speaker 1: to forget the past and forgive it, to forget all
45:39
Speaker 1: that has happened till the day forgive. Came here to
45:42
Speaker 1: forgive me. Grushenka cut him short, jumping up from her seat.
45:47
Speaker 1: Just so, Pani, I'm not pusillanimous, I'm magnanimous, but I
45:54
Speaker 1: was astounded when I saw your lovers pan. Mitya uppered
45:58
Speaker 1: me three thousand in the other room to depart. I
46:01
Speaker 1: spat in the band's faith. What he offered you money
46:07
Speaker 1: for me, cried Grushenka, hysterictly, is it true, Mitcha? How
46:11
Speaker 1: dare you am I for sale? Pani Pani yelled Mitya.
46:18
Speaker 1: She's pure and shining, and I have never been a lover.
46:21
Speaker 1: That's a lie. How dare you defend me to him?
46:27
Speaker 1: Shrieked Grushenka. It wasn't virtue get me pure, and it
46:32
Speaker 1: wasn't that I was afraid of Kutzma, but that I
46:34
Speaker 1: might hold up my head when I met him and
46:36
Speaker 1: tell him he's a scoundrel. And he did actually refuse
46:40
Speaker 1: the money. He took it. He took it, cried Mitcha.
46:43
Speaker 1: Only he wanted to get the whole three thousand at once,
46:46
Speaker 1: and I could only give him seven hundred straight up.
46:50
Speaker 1: I see he heard I had money and came here
46:54
Speaker 1: to marry me. Pani Agrippina, cried the little poor. I'm
47:00
Speaker 1: a knight, I'm a nobleman and not a lash dak.
47:05
Speaker 1: I came here to make you my wife, and I
47:08
Speaker 1: find you a different woman. Pavasan shameless. Oh go back
47:12
Speaker 1: where you came from. I'll tell them to turn you
47:14
Speaker 1: out and you'll beat and out. Cried Grushenkapirius. I've been
47:18
Speaker 1: a fool, a fool to have been miserable these five years.
47:23
Speaker 1: And it wasn't for his sake. It was my anger
47:25
Speaker 1: made me miserable. And this isn't he at all? Was
47:29
Speaker 1: he like this? It might be his father, Where did
47:32
Speaker 1: you get your week from? He was a falcon, But
47:34
Speaker 1: this is the gander. He used to laugh and sing
47:37
Speaker 1: to me, And I've been crying for five years. Damn
47:40
Speaker 1: for abject shameless I was. She sank back in her
47:45
Speaker 1: low chair and hid her face in her hands. At
47:48
Speaker 1: that instant, the chorus of Mokro began singing in the
47:53
Speaker 1: room on the left, a rollicking dance song, a regular
47:58
Speaker 1: sudden ruble Ski roared, Suddenly, Landlord, send the shameless huzzes
48:04
Speaker 1: a word. The landlord, who had been for some time
48:09
Speaker 1: past inquisitively peeping in at the door, hearing shouts and
48:14
Speaker 1: guessing that his guests were quarreling at once, entered the room.
48:19
Speaker 1: What are you shouting for? Do you want to split
48:23
Speaker 1: your throat? He said, addressing Rublevsky with surprising rudeness. Animal bellowed,
48:31
Speaker 1: pan Vrublevsky? Animal? And what sort of cards were you
48:36
Speaker 1: playing with? Just now? I gave you a pack and
48:38
Speaker 1: you hid it? You played with marked guards. I could
48:42
Speaker 1: send you to Saberia for playing with false cards? Do
48:45
Speaker 1: you know that it's just the same as false banknotes?
48:49
Speaker 1: And going up to the sofa, he thrust his fingers
48:52
Speaker 1: between the sofa back and the cushion and pulled that
48:56
Speaker 1: an unopened pack of cards. Here's my pack, unopened. He
49:00
Speaker 1: held it up and showed it to all in the room.
49:04
Speaker 1: From where I stood, I saw him step my pack
49:07
Speaker 1: away and put his in place of it. You are
49:09
Speaker 1: cheat and not a gentleman. And I twice saw the
49:14
Speaker 1: pound change a card, cried Kalganov. How shameful, how shamful,
49:19
Speaker 1: exclaimed Grushenka, clasping her hands and blushing for genuine shame.
49:25
Speaker 1: Good Lord, he's come to that. I thought so too,
49:30
Speaker 1: said Mitya. But before he had uttered the words, Vrublevsky,
49:36
Speaker 1: with a confused and infuriated face, shook his bist at Grushenka, shouting,
49:42
Speaker 1: you low harlatt. Mitya flew at him at once, clutched
49:46
Speaker 1: him in both hands, lifted him in the air, and
49:49
Speaker 1: in one instant had carried him into the room on
49:52
Speaker 1: the right from which they had just come. I've laid
49:55
Speaker 1: him on the floor there, he announced, returning at once
49:58
Speaker 1: gasping with excitement. And he's struggling, the scoundreal. But he
50:02
Speaker 1: won't come back, no fear of that. He closed one
50:05
Speaker 1: half of the folding doors, and holding the other, Ajieu
50:09
Speaker 1: called out to the little pole, most illustrious, will you
50:14
Speaker 1: be pleased to retire as well? My dear Dmitri Byodorovitch, said,
50:20
Speaker 1: tryphon Borissovitch, make them give you back the money you
50:24
Speaker 1: lost tis good has stolen from you. I don't want
50:28
Speaker 1: my fifty rubles back, Kalganov declared suddenly. I don't want
50:33
Speaker 1: my two hundred either, cried Mitya. I wouldn't take it
50:36
Speaker 1: for anything. Let him keep it as a consolation, perhap, Oh, Mitya,
50:42
Speaker 1: you're a trump. Mitya, cried Grushenka, and there was a
50:46
Speaker 1: note of fierce anger in the exclamation. The little pan crimson,
50:52
Speaker 1: with fury but still mindful of his dignity, was making
50:57
Speaker 1: for the door. But he stopped short and said, suddenly,
51:02
Speaker 1: addressing Grushenka, APANI if you want to come with me, come,
51:06
Speaker 1: If not, goodbye, And swelling with indignation and importance, he
51:12
Speaker 1: went to the door. This was a man of character.
51:16
Speaker 1: He had so good an opinion of himself that, after
51:19
Speaker 1: all that had passed, he still expected that she would
51:22
Speaker 1: marry him. Mitya slammed the door after him. Lock it,
51:27
Speaker 1: said Karganov. But the key clicked on the other side.
51:32
Speaker 1: They had locked it from within. That's capital, exclaimed Grushenka, relentlessly,
51:40
Speaker 1: Sir damn right and of chapter fifty three,