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031 - Book Four Chapter Seven · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty one of The Brother's Karamatself by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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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 seven. And in
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Speaker 1: the open air the air is fresh, but in my
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Speaker 1: apartment it is not so in any sense of the wood.
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Speaker 1: Let us walk slowly, sir, I should be glad of
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Speaker 1: your kind interest. I too have something important to say
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Speaker 1: to you, observed Alyosha. Only I don't know how to
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Speaker 1: begin to be sure you must have business with me.
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Speaker 1: You would never have looked in upon me without some
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Speaker 1: object unless you come simply to complain of the boy,
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Speaker 1: and that's hardly liking. And by the way, about the boy,
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Speaker 1: I could not explain to you in there, but here
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Speaker 1: I will describe that scene to you. My toe was
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Speaker 1: thicker a week ago, I mean my beard. That's the
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Speaker 1: nick name they give to my beard, the schoolboys. Most
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Speaker 1: of all, well, your brother Dmitri Fyodorovitch was pulling me
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Speaker 1: by my beard. I'd done nothing. He was in a
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Speaker 1: towering rage and happened to come upon me. He dragged
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Speaker 1: me out of the tavern into the market place at
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Speaker 1: that moment, the boys were coming out of school, and
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Speaker 1: with them Ilusha. As soon as he saw me in
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Speaker 1: such a state, he rushed up to me. Father, he cried, Father,
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Speaker 1: He caught hold of me. I've me tried to pull
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Speaker 1: me away, crying to my assailant, Let go, let go.
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Speaker 1: It's my father. Forgive him. Yes, he actually cried, forgive him.
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Speaker 1: He clutched at that hand, that very hand in his
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Speaker 1: little hands, and kissed it. I remember his little face
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Speaker 1: at that moment. I haven't forgotten it, and I never shall.
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Speaker 1: I swear, cried Alyosha, that my brother will express his
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Speaker 1: most deep and sincere regret, even if he has to
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Speaker 1: go down on his knees in that same market place.
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Speaker 1: I'll make him or he is no brother of mine. Ah,
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Speaker 1: then it's only a suggestion, and it does not come
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Speaker 1: from him, but simply from the generosity of your own
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Speaker 1: warm heart. You should have said so. No. In that case,
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Speaker 1: allow me to tell you of your brother's highly chivalrous soul,
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Speaker 1: jolly generosity, for he did give expression to it at
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Speaker 1: the time he left, dragging me by my beard and
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Speaker 1: released me. You are an officer, he said, And I
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Speaker 1: am an officer if you can find a dictant man
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Speaker 1: to be your satin. Send me your challenge. I will
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Speaker 1: give satisfaction. Though you are a scoundrel, That's what he said,
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Speaker 1: mischievalrous spirit. Indeed, I returned with Ilusha, and that scene
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Speaker 1: as a family record, imprinted for ever on Ilusha's soul. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not for us to claim the privileges of noblemen.
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Speaker 1: Judge for yourself. You've just been in our mansion. What
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Speaker 1: did you see that three ladies, one a cripple and
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Speaker 1: weak minded, another a cripple and hunchbag, and the third
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Speaker 1: not cripple but far too clubber. She is a student
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Speaker 1: dying to get back to Petersburg to work for the
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Speaker 1: emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks of the Nema.
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Speaker 1: I won't speak of Ilusha. He is only nine. I
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Speaker 1: am alone in the world. And if I die, what
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Speaker 1: will become of all of them? I simply ask you that.
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Speaker 1: And if I challenge him and he kills me on
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Speaker 1: the spot, what then what will become of them? And
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Speaker 1: worse still, if he doesn't kill me but only cripples me.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't work, but I should still be a mouth
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Speaker 1: to feed who would feed it? And who would feed
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Speaker 1: them all? Must I take Ilusha from school and send
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Speaker 1: him to bed the street. That's what it means for
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Speaker 1: me to challenge him to a dun. It's sully talk
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Speaker 1: and nothing else. He will beg your forgiveness. He will
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Speaker 1: bow down at your feet in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: market place, cried Alyosha again, with glowing eyes. I did
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Speaker 1: think of prosecuting him, The captain went on, but look
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Speaker 1: in our code, can I get much compensation for a
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Speaker 1: personal injury? And then Agravina Alexandrovna sent for me and
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Speaker 1: shouted at me, don't dare to dream of it. If
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Speaker 1: you proceed against him, I'll publish it to all the
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Speaker 1: world that he beat you for your dishonesty, and then
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Speaker 1: you will be prosecuted. I called God to witness whose
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Speaker 1: was the dishonesty and by whose commands I acted? Wasn't
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Speaker 1: it by her own? And for your door, Pablo butches.
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Speaker 1: And what's more, she went on, I'll dismissed you for good,
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Speaker 1: and you'll never earn another penny from me. I'll speak
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Speaker 1: to my merchant too, that's what she calls her, old man,
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Speaker 1: and he will dismiss you. And he dismisses me. What
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Speaker 1: can I earn them from any one? On? Those two
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Speaker 1: were all I have to look to for your by
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Speaker 1: your dog, Pablobert has not only given over employing me
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Speaker 1: for another reason, but he means to make use of
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Speaker 1: papers I've signed to go to law against me. And
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Speaker 1: so I get quiet, and you have seen our retreat.
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Speaker 1: But now let me ask you. Did Lucia hurt Choppinger much?
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Speaker 1: I didn't like to go into it in a mansion
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Speaker 1: before him, Yes, very much. And he was in a
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Speaker 1: great fury. He was avenging you on me as a
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Speaker 1: kra myself. I see that now. But if only you
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Speaker 1: had seen how he was throwing stones at his school fellows.
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Speaker 1: It's very dangerous. They might kill him. They are children
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Speaker 1: and stupid. A stone may be thrown and brick somebody's head.
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Speaker 1: That's just what has happened. He has been bruised by
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Speaker 1: a stone to dead now on the head, on the chest,
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Speaker 1: just above the heart. He came home crying and groaning,
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Speaker 1: and now he is ill. And you know he attacks
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Speaker 1: them first. He is bitter against them on your account.
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Speaker 1: They say he stabbed a boy called Krazotkin with a
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Speaker 1: pennant not long ago. I've heard about that too. It's dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Kazutkin is an official here, we may hear more about it.
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Speaker 1: I would advise you. Alyosha went on warmly not to
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Speaker 1: send him to school at all for a time until
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Speaker 1: he is calmer and his anger is passed. The captain repeated,
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Speaker 1: that's just what it is. He is a little creature,
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Speaker 1: but it's a mighty anger. You don't know, alls, let
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Speaker 1: me tell you more. Since that incident, all the boys
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Speaker 1: have been teasing him about the whisper tug. School boys
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Speaker 1: are a merciless race. Individually they are angels, but to gather,
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Speaker 1: especially in schools, they are merciless. Their teasing has stirred
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Speaker 1: up a gallant spirit in Ilusha. An ordinary boy, a
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Speaker 1: weak son, would have submitted, have felt ashamed of his father.
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Speaker 1: So but he stood up for his father, against them all,
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Speaker 1: for his father, and for truth and justice for what
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Speaker 1: he suffered. When he kissed your brother's hand and cried
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Speaker 1: to him, forgive father, forgive him that only God knows.
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Speaker 1: And I his father, for our children, not your children,
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Speaker 1: but ours, the children of the poor gentleman looked down
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Speaker 1: upon by everyone. Know what justice means Sir, even at
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Speaker 1: nine years old, how should the rich know? They don't
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Speaker 1: explore such depths once in their lives. But at that
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Speaker 1: moment in the square, when he kissed his hand, at
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Speaker 1: that moment, my Ilusha had grasped all that justice means,
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Speaker 1: that the truth entered into him and crushed him forever. Sad,
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Speaker 1: the captain said hotly again, with a sort of frenzy,
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Speaker 1: and he struck his right fist against his lap palm,
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Speaker 1: as though he wanted to show how the truth crushed Ilusha.
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Speaker 1: That very day, Sir, he felt ill with bieber and
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Speaker 1: was delirious all night. All that day, he hardly had
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Speaker 1: a word to me, but I noticed he kept watching
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Speaker 1: me from the corner. So he turned to the window
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Speaker 1: and pretended to be learning his lesson, but I could
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Speaker 1: see his mind was not on his lessons. Next day,
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Speaker 1: I got drunk to forget my trouble, sent for a
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Speaker 1: man as I am, and I don't remember mama. Mamma
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Speaker 1: began crying too. I am very fond of Mamma. Well,
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Speaker 1: I spent my last penny drowning my troubles. Don't despise
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Speaker 1: me for that. Said. In Russia, men who drink are
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Speaker 1: the best, the best man amongst us are the greatest drunkards.
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Speaker 1: I lay down, and I don't remember about Ilusha, though
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Speaker 1: all that day the boys had been jeering at him
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Speaker 1: at school. Whisped doe, They shouted. Your father was pulled
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Speaker 1: out of the tavern by his whisper doe. You ran
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Speaker 1: by and beg forgiveness. On the third day, when he
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Speaker 1: came back from school, I saw he look pale and wretched.
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Speaker 1: What is it? I asked. He wouldn't answer. Well, there's
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Speaker 1: no talking our mansion without Mamma and the girls taking
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Speaker 1: part in it. What's more, the girls had heard about
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Speaker 1: it the very first day. Barvara had begun snarling eve
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Speaker 1: Fils and the boones. Can you ever do anything rational?
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Speaker 1: Quite so, I said, can we ever do anything rational?
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Speaker 1: For the time I turned the top like that? So
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Speaker 1: in the evening I took the boy for a walk,
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Speaker 1: For you must know, we go for a walk every evening,
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Speaker 1: always the same way along which we are going now,
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Speaker 1: from our gate to that great stone which lies alone
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Speaker 1: in the road under the hurdle, which marks the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the town pasture a beautiful and lonely spotsir Ilusha
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Speaker 1: and I walked along hand in hand as usual. He
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Speaker 1: has a little hand. His fingers are thin and cold.
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Speaker 1: He suffers with his chest. You know, father, he said,
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Speaker 1: he father, well said I I saw his eyes flashing, Father,
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Speaker 1: how he treated you. Then it can't be helped, Ilusha,
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Speaker 1: I said, don't forgive them, Father, don't forgive them. At
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Speaker 1: school they say that he has paid you ten roubles
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Speaker 1: for it. No, Ilusha said I. I would not take
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Speaker 1: money from him for anything. Then he began trembling all
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Speaker 1: over and took my hand in both his and kissed
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Speaker 1: it again. Father, he said, Father, challenge him to a duel.
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Speaker 1: At school, they say you are a coward and won't
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Speaker 1: challenge him, and that you'll look ccept ten roubles from him.
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Speaker 1: I can't challenge him to a duel, Ilusha, I answered,
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Speaker 1: and I told briefly what I've just told you. He listened. Father,
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Speaker 1: he said, anyway, don't forgive it. When I grow up,
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Speaker 1: I'll call him out myself and kill him. His eyes
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Speaker 1: shone and glowed. And of course I am his father,
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Speaker 1: and I had to put in a word. It's a
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Speaker 1: sin to kill, I said, even in a jewel. Father,
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Speaker 1: he said, when I grow up and knock him down,
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Speaker 1: knock the sort out of his hand. I'll fall on him,
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Speaker 1: wave my sword over him, and say I could kill you,
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Speaker 1: but I forgive you. So there you see what the
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Speaker 1: workings of his little mind have been during these two days.
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Speaker 1: He must have been planning that vengeance all day and
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Speaker 1: raving about it at night. But he began to come
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Speaker 1: home from school badly beaten. I found out about it
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Speaker 1: the day before yesterday, and you are right. I won't
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Speaker 1: send him to that school anymore. I heard that he
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Speaker 1: was standing up against all the class alone and defying
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Speaker 1: them all. That his heart was full of resentment, of bitterness.
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Speaker 1: I was alarmed about him. We went but another walk. Father,
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Speaker 1: he asked, other rich people stronger than anyone else on earth? Yes, Ilusha,
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Speaker 1: I said, there are no people on earth stronger than
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Speaker 1: the rich. Father. He said, I will get rich. I
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Speaker 1: will become an opposer and conquer everybody. The Tsar will
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Speaker 1: reward me. I will come back here and then no
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Speaker 1: one will diet. Then he was silent, and his lips
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Speaker 1: still kept trembling. Father, he said, what a horrid town
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Speaker 1: this is? Yes, Ilusha, I said, it isn't a very
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Speaker 1: nice town. Father, Let us move into another town, a
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Speaker 1: nice one, he said, where people don't know about us.
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Speaker 1: We will move. We will, Ilusha said I only I
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Speaker 1: must save up for it. I was glad to be
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Speaker 1: able to turn his mind from painful thoughts. And we
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Speaker 1: began to dream of how we would move to another town,
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Speaker 1: how we would buy a horse and cart. We will
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Speaker 1: put Mamma and your sisters inside. We will cover them up,
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Speaker 1: and we'll walk. You shall have a lip now and then,
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Speaker 1: and I'll walk beside, for we must take care of
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Speaker 1: our horse. We can't all ride. That's how we'll go.
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Speaker 1: He was enchanted at that, most of all at the
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Speaker 1: thought of having a horse and driving him, for of course,
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Speaker 1: a Russian boy is born among horses. We chatted a
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Speaker 1: long while. Thank God, I thought I have diverted his
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Speaker 1: mind and comforted him. That was the day before, yesterday
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Speaker 1: in the evening, But last night everything was changed. He
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Speaker 1: had gone to school in the morning. He came back depressed,
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Speaker 1: terribly depressed. In the evening, I took him by the
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Speaker 1: hand and we went for a walk. He would not talk.
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Speaker 1: There was a wind blowing and no sun, and a
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Speaker 1: feeling of autumn. Twilight was coming on. We walked along,
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Speaker 1: both of us depressed. Well, my boy said, I how
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Speaker 1: about our setting off on our travels. I thought I
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Speaker 1: might bring him back to our talk of the day before.
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Speaker 1: He didn't answer, but I felt his fingers trembling in
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Speaker 1: my hand. I thought, it's a bad job. There's something fresh.
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Speaker 1: We had reached the stone where we are now. I
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Speaker 1: sat down on the stone, and in the air there
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Speaker 1: were lots of kites flapping and whirling. They were as
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Speaker 1: many as thirty inside. Of course, it's just the season
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Speaker 1: for the kites. Look, Ilucia said, I it's time we
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Speaker 1: got our last year's kite again. Ar mend it? Where
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Speaker 1: have you put it away? My boy made no answer.
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Speaker 1: He looked away and turned sideways to me, and then
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Speaker 1: a gust of wind blew up the sand. He suddenly
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Speaker 1: fell on me. He boat his little arms around my
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Speaker 1: neck and held me tight. You know when children are
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Speaker 1: silent and proud and tried to keep back their tears,
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Speaker 1: when they are in great trouble, and suddenly break down
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Speaker 1: their tears, falling streams. With those warm streams of tears,
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Speaker 1: he suddenly wetted my face. He sobbed and shook, as
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Speaker 1: though we were in convulsions and squeezed up against me
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Speaker 1: as I sat on the stone. Father, he kept crying,
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Speaker 1: dear father, how he insulted you? And I sobbed too.
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Speaker 1: We sat shaking in each other's arms. Ilosha, I said
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Speaker 1: to him, Ilosha, darling. No one saw us, then God
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Speaker 1: alone saw us. I hope he will record it to
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Speaker 1: my credit. You must thank your brother Alexei Baya daurbrabbit. No, Sir,
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Speaker 1: I won't thrash my boy, but your satisfaction. He had
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Speaker 1: gone back to his original tone of resentful buffoonery. Alyosha felt, though,
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Speaker 1: that he trusted him, and that if there had been
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Speaker 1: someone else in his Alyosha's place, the man would not
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Speaker 1: have spoken so openly and would not have told what
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Speaker 1: he had just told. This encouraged Alyosha, whose heart was
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Speaker 1: trembling on the birde of tears. Ah, how I would
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Speaker 1: like to make friends with your boy, he cried, if
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Speaker 1: you could arrange it, certainly, sir, muttered the captain. But
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Speaker 1: now listen to something quite different. Alyosha went on, I
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Speaker 1: have a message for you. That same brother of mine, Dmitri,
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Speaker 1: has insulted his betrothed too. A noble hearted girl of
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Speaker 1: whom you have probably heard. I have a right to
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Speaker 1: tell you of her wrong I ought to do so,
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Speaker 1: in fact, for hearing of the insult done to you,
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Speaker 1: and learning all about your unfortunate position, she commissioned me
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Speaker 1: at once, just now to bring you this help from her,
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Speaker 1: but only from her alone, not from Dmitri, who has
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Speaker 1: abandoned her, nor from me his brother, nor from any
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Speaker 1: one else, but from her, only from her. She intreats
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Speaker 1: you to accept her help. You have both been insulted
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Speaker 1: by the same man. She thought of you only when
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Speaker 1: she had just received a similar insult from him, similar
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Speaker 1: in its cruelty. I mean, she comes like a sister
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Speaker 1: to help a brother in misfortune. She told me to
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Speaker 1: persuade you to take these two hundred rubles from her,
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Speaker 1: as from a sister, knowing that you were in such need.
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Speaker 1: No one will know of it. It can give rise
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Speaker 1: to no unjust slander. There are the two hundred roubles,
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Speaker 1: and I swear you must take them unless unless all
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Speaker 1: men are to be enemies on earth, but that are
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Speaker 1: brothers even on earth. You have a generous heart. You
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Speaker 1: must see that you must. And Alyosha held her two
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Speaker 1: new rainbow colored hundred ruble notes. They were both standing
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Speaker 1: at the time by the great Stone, close to the fence,
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Speaker 1: and there was no one near. The note seemed to
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Speaker 1: produce a tremendous impression on the captain. He started, but
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Speaker 1: at first only from astonishment. Such an outcome of their
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Speaker 1: conversation was the last thing he expected. Nothing could have
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Speaker 1: been farther from his dreams than help from any one
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Speaker 1: and such a son. He took the notes, and for
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Speaker 1: a minute he was almost unable to answer. Quite a
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Speaker 1: new expression came into his face. That for me, so
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Speaker 1: much money two hundred roubolves good heavens, I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: so much money for the last four years. Mercy on us.
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Speaker 1: And she says she is a sister, And is that
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Speaker 1: the truth? I swear that all I told you is
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Speaker 1: the truth, cried Alyosha. The captain flushed red. Listen, my dear, listen,
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Speaker 1: if I take it, I sha'n't be behaving like a
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Speaker 1: scoundrel in your eyes, Alexei Fyodorovitch, I sha'n't be a scoundrel. No,
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Speaker 1: Alexei Fyodorovitch, Listen, listen, he hurried, touching Alyosha with both
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Speaker 1: his hands. You are persuading me to take it, saying
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Speaker 1: that it's a sister sends it. But inwardly in your heart,
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Speaker 1: won't you feel contempt for me if I take it out?
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Speaker 1: No no one my salvation, I swear I shan't, and
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Speaker 1: no one will ever know about me. I, you and
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Speaker 1: she and one other lady, her great friend. Never mind
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Speaker 1: the lady. Listen, Alexied Payodorovitch. At a moment like this,
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Speaker 1: you must listen, for you can't understand what these two
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Speaker 1: hundred roubles mean to me. Now. The poor fellow went on,
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Speaker 1: rising gradually into a sort of incoherent, almost wild enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: He was thrown up his balance and talked extremely fast,
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Speaker 1: as though afraid he would not be allowed to say
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Speaker 1: all he had to say. Besides, it's being honestly acquired
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Speaker 1: from a sister so highly respected and revered. Do you
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Speaker 1: know that now I can look after Mamma and Nina,
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Speaker 1: my hunchback angel daughter. Doctor Hudson Stupor came to me
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Speaker 1: in the kindness of his heart, and was examining them
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Speaker 1: both for a whole hour. I can make nothing of it,
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Speaker 1: soa but he prescribed a mineral water which is kept
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Speaker 1: at a chemist's here, he said, it will be sure
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Speaker 1: to do her good. And he ordered baths too, with
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Speaker 1: some medicine in them. The mineral water costs thirty copecks,
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Speaker 1: and she'd need to drink forty bottles. Perhaps, so I
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Speaker 1: took the prescription and laid it on the shelf under
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Speaker 1: the icons, and there it lies. And he ordered hot
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Speaker 1: baths for Nina with something dissolved in the morning and evening.
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Speaker 1: But how can we carry out such a cure in
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Speaker 1: our mansion without servants, without help, without a bath, and
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Speaker 1: without water. Nina is rheumatical over I didn't think I
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Speaker 1: told you that, or her right side aches at night.
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Speaker 1: She is in agony, and would you believe it? The
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Speaker 1: angel bears it without groaning, for fear of waking us.
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Speaker 1: We eat what we can get, and she'll only take
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Speaker 1: the leavings what you'd scarce to give to a dog.
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Speaker 1: I am not worth it, I am taking it from you.
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Speaker 1: I am a burden on you. That's what her angel
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Speaker 1: eyes tried to express. We wait on her, but she
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Speaker 1: doesn't like it. I am a useless, crippled, no good
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Speaker 1: to anyone, as though she were not worth it, when
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Speaker 1: she is the saving of all of us with her
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Speaker 1: angelic sweetness. Without her, without her gentle word, it will
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Speaker 1: be hell among us. She softens even Barbara. And don't
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Speaker 1: judge Barbara harshly either. She is an angel too. She
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Speaker 1: too has suffered wrung. She came to us for the summer,
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Speaker 1: and she brought sixteen roubles she had earned by lessons
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Speaker 1: and saved up to go back with to Petersburg in September.
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Speaker 1: That is now. But we took her money and lived
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Speaker 1: on it. So now she has nothing to go back with,
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Speaker 1: though indeed she couldn't come back. But she has to
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Speaker 1: work for us like a slave. She is like an
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Speaker 1: over driven horse with all of us on her back.
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Speaker 1: She waits on us, all mends and washes, sweeps the floor,
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Speaker 1: puts Mama to bed. And Mama is capricious and tearful
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Speaker 1: and insane. And now I can get a servant with
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Speaker 1: this money, you understand, Alexei Byodorobich, I can get medicines
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Speaker 1: with the dear creatures. I can send my student to Peter.
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Speaker 1: I can buy beef, I can feed them properly. Good Lord,
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Speaker 1: but it's a dream. Alyosha was delighted that he had
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Speaker 1: brought him such happiness, and that the poor fellow had
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Speaker 1: consented to be made happy. Stay all excited for Yodorovich Stay,
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Speaker 1: the captain began to talk with friends in rapidity, carried
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Speaker 1: away by a new daydream. Do you know that Elosha
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Speaker 1: and I will perhaps really carry out our dream. We
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Speaker 1: will buy a horse and cart, a black horse, he
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Speaker 1: insists on it being black, and we will set off
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Speaker 1: as we pretended the other day. I have an old friend,
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Speaker 1: a lawyer in Cape Robins, and I heard through a
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Speaker 1: trustworthy man that if I were to go, he'd give
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Speaker 1: me a place's clerk in his office. So who knows,
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Speaker 1: maybe he would. So I just put my Muor and
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Speaker 1: Nina in the cart, and Ilosha could drive, and I'd walk.
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Speaker 1: I'd walk. Why if I only succeed in getting one
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Speaker 1: debt paid, that's owing me. I should have perhaps enough
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Speaker 1: for that too. There would be enough, cried Alyosha Katerina Ivanov.
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Speaker 1: I will send you as much more more as you need,
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Speaker 1: And you know I have money to take what you want,
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Speaker 1: as you would from a brother, from a friend. You
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Speaker 1: can give it back later. You'll get rich. You'll get rich,
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Speaker 1: and you know you couldn't have a better idea than
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Speaker 1: to move to another province. It would be the saving
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Speaker 1: of you, especially of your boy, and you ought to
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Speaker 1: go quickly before the winter, before the cold. You must
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Speaker 1: write to us when you are there, and we will
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Speaker 1: always be brothers. No, it's not a dream. Alyosha could
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Speaker 1: have hugged him, he was so pleased, but glancing at him,
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Speaker 1: he stopped short. The man was standing with his neck
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Speaker 1: outstretched and his lips protruding, with a pale and frenzied face.
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Speaker 1: His lips were moving as they're trying to articulate something.
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Speaker 1: No sound came, but still his lips moved. It was uncanny.
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Speaker 1: What is it? Asked Alyosha startled. Alex II fyodorovitch I,
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Speaker 1: you muttered the captain, faltering, looking at him with a strange, wild,
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Speaker 1: fixed stare and an air of desperate resolution. Half the
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Speaker 1: same time, there was a sort of grin on his lips.
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Speaker 1: Eye you, sir, who wouldn't you like me to show
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Speaker 1: you a little trick? I know, he murmured suddenly in
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Speaker 1: a firm, rapid whisper, his voice no longer faltering. What trick?
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Speaker 1: A pretty trick? Whispered the captain. His mouth was twisted
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Speaker 1: on the left side. His left eye was screwed up.
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Speaker 1: He still stared at Alyosha. What is the matter? What trick?
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Speaker 1: Alyosha cried, now thoroughly alarmed. Why squealed the captain's Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: and showing him the two notes which he had been
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Speaker 1: holding by one corner between his thumb and fore finger
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Speaker 1: during the conversation, he crumpled them up savagely and squeezed
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Speaker 1: them tight in his right hand. Do you think, dear? Sing?
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Speaker 1: He shrieked, pale and infuriated, and suddenly, flinging up his hand,
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Speaker 1: he threw the crumpled notes on the sand. Darcy. He
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Speaker 1: shrieked again, pointing to them, luk that, and with while funured,
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Speaker 1: he began trampling them under his heel, gasping and exclaiming,
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Speaker 1: as he did, so so much for your money, so
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Speaker 1: much for your money, so much for your money, some
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Speaker 1: much for your money. Suddenly he darted back and drew
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Speaker 1: himself up before Alyosha, and his whole figure expressed unutterable pride.
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Speaker 1: Told those who sent you that thou wispu told does
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Speaker 1: not sell his honor, he cried, raising his arm in
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Speaker 1: the air. Then he turned quickly and began to run,
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Speaker 1: but he had not run five steps before he turned
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Speaker 1: completely round and kissed his hand to Alyosha. He ran
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Speaker 1: another five paces and then turned round for the last time.
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Speaker 1: This time his face was not contorted with laughter, but
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Speaker 1: quivering all over with tears. In a tearful, baltering voiced,
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Speaker 1: he cried, what should I say to my bye if
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Speaker 1: I took money from you for Rashah? And then he
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Speaker 1: ran on without turning. Alyosha looked after him, inexpressibly grieved. Oh,
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Speaker 1: he saw that till the very last moment, the man
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Speaker 1: had not known he would crumple up and fling away
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Speaker 1: the notes. He did not turn back. Alyosha knew he
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Speaker 1: would not. He would not follow him and call him back.
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Speaker 1: He knew why. When he was out of sight, Alyosha
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Speaker 1: picked up the two notes. They were very much crushed
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Speaker 1: and crumpled and had been pressed into the sand, but
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Speaker 1: were uninjured and even rustled like new ones when Alyosha
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Speaker 1: unfolded them and smoothed them out. After smoothing them out,
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Speaker 1: he pulled them up, put them in his pocket, and
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Speaker 1: went to Katarina an opener, to report on the success
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Speaker 1: of her commission and of chapter thirty one