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029 - Book Four Chapter Five · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty nine of The Brother's Karamazov 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 five A laceration
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Speaker 1: in the drawing room. But in the drawing room the
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Speaker 1: conversation was already over. Katerina Ivanovna was greatly excited, though
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Speaker 1: she looked resolute. At the moment Alyosha and Madame Hohlakov entered,
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Speaker 1: Ivan Fyodorovitch stood up to take leave. His face was
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Speaker 1: rather pale, and Alyosha looked at him anxiously. For this
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Speaker 1: moment was to solve a doubt, a harassing enigma which
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Speaker 1: had for some time haunted Alyosha. During the preceding month,
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Speaker 1: it had been several times suggested to him that his
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Speaker 1: brother Ivan was in love with Katerina Ivanovna, and what
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Speaker 1: was more, that he meant to carry her off from Dmitri.
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Speaker 1: Until quite lately the idea seemed to Alyosha monstrous, though
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Speaker 1: it worried him extremely, He loved both his brothers and
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Speaker 1: dreaded such rivalry between them. Meantime, Dmitri had sat outright
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Speaker 1: on the previous day that he was glad that Ivan
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Speaker 1: was his rival, and that it was a great assistance
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Speaker 1: to him Dmitrid In what way did it assist him
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Speaker 1: to marry Grushenka, But that Alyosha considered the worst thing possible.
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Speaker 1: Besides all this, Alyosha had till the evening before implicitly
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Speaker 1: believed that Katerina Ivanovna had a steadfast and passionate love
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Speaker 1: for Dmitri, But he had only believed it till the
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Speaker 1: evening before. He had fancied too that she was incapable
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Speaker 1: of loving a man like Ivan, and that she did
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Speaker 1: love Dmitri and loved him just as he was, in
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Speaker 1: spite of all the strangeness of such a passion. But
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Speaker 1: during yesterday's scene with Grushenka, another idea had struck him.
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Speaker 1: The word lacerating, which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost
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Speaker 1: made him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night,
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Speaker 1: he had cried out lasar laceration, probably applying it to
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Speaker 1: his dream he had been dreaming all night of the
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Speaker 1: previous day's scene at Katerina Ivanovna's Now, Alyosha was impressed
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Speaker 1: by Madame Hohlakov's blunt and persistent assertion that Katerina Ivanovna
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Speaker 1: was in love with Ivan and only deceived herself through
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Speaker 1: some sort of pose from self laceration and tortured herself
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Speaker 1: by her pretended love for Dmitri from some fancied duty
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Speaker 1: of gratitude. Yes, he thought, perhaps the whole truth lies
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Speaker 1: in those words. But in that case, what was Ivan's position?
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Speaker 1: Alyosha felt instinctively that a character like Katerina Ivanovna's must dominate,
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Speaker 1: and she could only dominate someone like Dmitri, and never
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Speaker 1: a man like Ivan. For Dmitri might at last submit
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Speaker 1: to her domination to his own happiness, which was what
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Speaker 1: Alyosha would have desired. But Ivan, No, Ivan could not
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Speaker 1: submit to her, and such submission would not give him happiness.
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Speaker 1: Alyosha could not help believing that of Ivan. And now
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Speaker 1: all these doubts and reflections fluttered through his mind as
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Speaker 1: he entered the drawing room. Another idea, too, forced itself
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Speaker 1: upon him. What if she loved neither of them, neither
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Speaker 1: Ivan nor Dmitri. It must be noted that Alyosha felt,
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Speaker 1: as it were, ashamed of his own thoughts and blamed
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Speaker 1: himself when they kept recurring to him. During the last month.
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Speaker 1: What do I know about love and women? And how
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Speaker 1: can I decide such questions? He thought reproachfully after such
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Speaker 1: doubts and surmises, And yet it was impossible not to
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Speaker 1: think about it. He felt instinctively that this rivalry was
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Speaker 1: of immense importance in his brother's lives, and that a
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Speaker 1: great deal depended upon it. One reptile will devour the other,
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Speaker 1: Ivan had pronounced the day before, speaking in anger of
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Speaker 1: his father and Dmitri. So Ivan looked upon Dmitri as
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Speaker 1: a reptile, and perhaps had long done so. Was it
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Speaker 1: perhaps since he had known Katerina Ivanovna That phrase had
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Speaker 1: of course escaped Ivan unawares yesterday, But that only made
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Speaker 1: it more important. If he felt like that, What chance
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Speaker 1: was there of peace? Whether not? On the contrary, new
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Speaker 1: grounds were hatred and hostility in their family? And with
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Speaker 1: which of them was Alyosha to sympathize And what was
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Speaker 1: he to wish for each of them? He loved them both,
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Speaker 1: but what could he desire for each in the midst
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Speaker 1: of these conflicting interests. He might go quite astray in
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Speaker 1: this maze, and Alyosha's heart could not endure uncertainty. Because
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Speaker 1: his love was always of an active character. He was
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Speaker 1: incapable of passive love. If he loved any one, he
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Speaker 1: set to work at once to help him, and to
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Speaker 1: do so, he must know what he was aiming at.
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Speaker 1: He must know for certain what was best for each
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Speaker 1: And having ascertained this, it was not true for him
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Speaker 1: to help them both. But instead of a definite aim
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Speaker 1: he found nothing but uncertainty and perplexity on all sides.
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Speaker 1: It was lacerating, as was said just now, But what
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Speaker 1: could he understand even in this laceration. He did not
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Speaker 1: understand the first word in this perplexing maze. Seeing Alyosha,
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Speaker 1: Katerina Ivanovna said quickly and joyfully to Ivan, who had
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Speaker 1: already got up to go a minute, Stay another minute.
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Speaker 1: I want to hear the opinion of this person here,
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Speaker 1: whom I trust absolutely. Don't go away, she added, addressing
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Speaker 1: Madame Hohlakov. She made Alyosha sit down beside her, and
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Speaker 1: Madame Hohlakov sat opposite by Ivan. You are all my
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Speaker 1: friends here, all I have in the world, My dear friends,
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Speaker 1: she began warmly, in a voice which quivered with genuine
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Speaker 1: tears of suffering and Alyosha's heart warmed to her. At once, you,
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Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch, were witnessed yesterday of that abominable scene and
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Speaker 1: saw what I did. You did not see it, Ivan Fyodorovitch.
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Speaker 1: He did what he thought of me yesterday. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I only know one thing that if it were repeated
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Speaker 1: to day, this minute, I should express the same feelings
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Speaker 1: again as yesterday, the same feelings, the same words, the
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Speaker 1: same actions. You remember my actions, Alexey Fyodorovitch, You checked
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Speaker 1: me in one of them. As she said that, she
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Speaker 1: flushed and her eyes shone. I must tell you that
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Speaker 1: I can't get over it. Listen, Alexei Fyodorovitch, I don't
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Speaker 1: even know whether I still love him. I feel pity
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Speaker 1: for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
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Speaker 1: If I loved him, If I still loved him, perhaps
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't be sorry for him now, but should hate him.
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Speaker 1: Her voice quivered and tears glittered on her eyelashes. Alyosha
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Speaker 1: shuddered inwardly. That girl is truthful and sincere, he thought,
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Speaker 1: and she does not love Dmitri any more. That's true,
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Speaker 1: that's true, cried Madame Holokov. Wait, dear, I haven't told
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Speaker 1: you the cheap the final decision I came to during
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Speaker 1: the night. I feel that perhaps my decision is a
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Speaker 1: terrible one for me, but I foresee that nothing will
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Speaker 1: induce me to change it. Nothing. It will be so
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Speaker 1: all my life, my dear kind, ever faithful and generous adviser.
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Speaker 1: For one friend I have in the world, ivn feared
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Speaker 1: i Arevitch, with his deep insight into the heart, approves
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Speaker 1: and commends my decision. He knows it. Yes, I approve
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Speaker 1: of it, Ivan assented in a subdued but firm voice.
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Speaker 1: But I should like Alyosha too, Ah, Alexey Fyaduovitch, forgive
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Speaker 1: my calling you simply, Alyosha. I should like Alexei Fyadorovitch
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Speaker 1: too to tell me before my two friends whether I
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Speaker 1: am right. I feel instinctively that you Alyosha, my dear brother,
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Speaker 1: for you are a dear brother to me, she said again, ecstatically,
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Speaker 1: taking his cold hand in her hot one. I foresee
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Speaker 1: that your decision, your approval, will bring me peace in
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Speaker 1: spite of all my sufferings. For after your words, I
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Speaker 1: shall be calm and submit. I feel that I don't
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Speaker 1: know what you are asking me, said Alyosha flushing. I
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Speaker 1: only know that I love you, and at this moment
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Speaker 1: wish for your happiness more than my own. But I
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Speaker 1: know nothing about such affairs. Something impelled him to add
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Speaker 1: hurriedling in such affairs, Alexey Fyodorovitch. In such affairs, the
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Speaker 1: cheap thing is honor and duty and something higher. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what, but higher, perhaps even than duty. I
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Speaker 1: am conscious of this irresistible feeling in my heart, and
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Speaker 1: it compels me irresistibly. But it may all be put
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Speaker 1: in two words. I have already decided. Even if he
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Speaker 1: marries that creature she began solemnly, whom I never never
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Speaker 1: can forgive, even then, I will not abandon him. Henceforward,
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Speaker 1: I will never never abandon him, she cried, breaking into
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Speaker 1: a sort of pale, hysterical ecstasy. Not that I would
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Speaker 1: run after him, continually, get in his way and worry him.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I will go away to another town where
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Speaker 1: you like. But I will watch over him all my life.
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Speaker 1: I will watch over him all my life unceasingly. When
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Speaker 1: he becomes unhappy with that woman, and that is bound
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Speaker 1: to happen quite soon, let him come to me, and
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Speaker 1: he will find a friend A sister only a sister,
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Speaker 1: of course, and so for ever. But he will learn
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Speaker 1: at least that that sister is really his sister, who
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Speaker 1: loves him and has sacrificed all her life to him.
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Speaker 1: I will gain my point. I will insist on his
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Speaker 1: knowing me and confiding entirely in me without resis. She cried,
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Speaker 1: in a sort of frenzy. I will be of God
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Speaker 1: to whom he can pray, and that at least he
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Speaker 1: owes me for his treachery and for what I suffered
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Speaker 1: yesterday through him, and let him see that all my
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Speaker 1: life I will be true to him and the promise
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Speaker 1: I gave him, in spite of his being untrue and
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Speaker 1: betraying me. I will I will become nothing but a
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Speaker 1: means for his happiness, or how shall I say, an instrument,
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Speaker 1: a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life,
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Speaker 1: my whole life, and that he may see that all
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Speaker 1: his life. That's my decision. Ivan Fyodorovitch fully approves me.
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Speaker 1: She was breathless. She had perhaps intended to express her
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Speaker 1: idea with more dignity, art and naturalness, but her speech
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Speaker 1: was too hurried and crude. It was full of youthful impulsiveness.
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Speaker 1: It betrayed that she was still smarting from yesterday's insult,
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Speaker 1: and that her pride craved satisfaction. She felt this herself.
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Speaker 1: Her face suddenly darkened, an unpleasant look came into her eyes.
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Speaker 1: Alyosha at once saw it and felt a pang of sympathy.
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Speaker 1: His brother Ivan made it worse by adding, I've only
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Speaker 1: expressed my own view, he said. From any one else
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Speaker 1: this would have been affected and overstrained. But from you, no,
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Speaker 1: any other woman would have been wrong. But you are right.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it, but I see
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Speaker 1: that you are absolutely genuine, and therefore you are right.
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Speaker 1: But that's only for the moment. And what does this
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Speaker 1: moment stand for? Nothing but yesterday's insult. Madame Hohlakov obviously
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Speaker 1: had not intended to interfere, but she could not refrain
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Speaker 1: from this very just comment. Quite so, Quite so, cried Ivan,
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Speaker 1: with peculiar eagerness, obviously annoyed at being interrupted. In any
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Speaker 1: one else, this moment would be only due to yesterday's
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Speaker 1: impression and would be only a moment. But with Katerina
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Speaker 1: Ivanovna's character, that moment will last all her life. What
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Speaker 1: for any one else would be only a promise. Is
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Speaker 1: for her an everlasting, burdensome, grim, perhaps, but unflagging duty,
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Speaker 1: and she will be sustained by the feeling of this
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Speaker 1: duty being fulfilled. Your life, Katerina Ivanovna, will henceforth be
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Speaker 1: spent in painful brooding over your own feelings, your own heroism,
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Speaker 1: and your own suffering. But in the end that suffering
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Speaker 1: will be soddened and will pass into sweet contemplation of
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Speaker 1: the fulfillment of a bold and proud design. Yes, proud
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Speaker 1: it certainly is, and desperate in any case, but a
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Speaker 1: triumph for you, and the consciousness of it will at
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Speaker 1: last be a source of complete satisfaction and will make
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Speaker 1: your resign to everything else. This was unmistakably said with
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Speaker 1: some malice, and obviously with intention, even perhaps with no
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Speaker 1: desire to conceal that he spoke ironically and with intention.
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Speaker 1: Oh dear, how mistaken it all is, Madame Hohlokov cried again.
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Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch, you speak, I want dreadfully to know what
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Speaker 1: you will say, cried Katerina Ivanovna, and burst into tears.
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Speaker 1: Alyosha got up from the sofa. It's nothing, nothing, She
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Speaker 1: went on through her tears. I'm upset. I didn't sleep
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Speaker 1: last night, but by the side of two such friends
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Speaker 1: as you and your brother, I still feel strong, for
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Speaker 1: I know you too will never desert me. Unluckily, I'm
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Speaker 1: obliged to return to Moscow, perhaps to morrow, and to
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Speaker 1: leave you for a long time. And unluckily it's unavoidable,
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Speaker 1: Ivanne said, suddenly, to morrow, to Muscow. Her face was
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Speaker 1: suddenly contted. But but dear me, how fortunate, she cried,
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Speaker 1: in a voice suddenly changed in one instant there was
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Speaker 1: no trace left of her tears. She underwent an instantaneous
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Speaker 1: transformation which amazed Alyosha. Instead of a poor, insulted girl
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Speaker 1: weeping in a sort of laceration, he saw a woman
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Speaker 1: completely self possessed and even exceedingly pleased, as though something
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Speaker 1: agreeable had just happened. Oh, not fortunate that I am
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Speaker 1: losing you. Of course not, she corrected herself, suddenly with
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Speaker 1: a charming society smile. Such a friend as you are
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Speaker 1: could not suppose that I am only too unhappy at
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Speaker 1: losing you. She rushed impulsively at ivan and, seizing both
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Speaker 1: his hands, pressed them warmly. But what is fortunate is
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Speaker 1: that you will be able in Moscow to see Auntie
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Speaker 1: and Agafya and to tell them all the horror of
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Speaker 1: my present position. You can speak with complete openness to Agafya,
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Speaker 1: but spare, dear Auntie. You will know her to do that.
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Speaker 1: You can't think how wretched I was yesterday and this morning,
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Speaker 1: wondering how I could write them that dreadful letter, For
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Speaker 1: one can never tell such things in a letter. Now
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Speaker 1: it will be easy for me to write, for you
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Speaker 1: will see them and explain everything. Oh, how glad I am.
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Speaker 1: But I am only glad of that. Believe me. Of course,
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Speaker 1: no one can take your place. I will run at
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Speaker 1: once to write the letter. She finished suddenly, and took
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Speaker 1: a step as though to go out of the room.
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Speaker 1: And what about Alyosha and his opinion, which you are
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Speaker 1: so desperately anxious to hear, cried Madame Hohlakov. There was
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Speaker 1: a sarcastic angry note in her voice. I had not
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Speaker 1: forgotten that, cried Katerina Ivanovna, coming to a sudden standstill.
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Speaker 1: And why are you so antagonistic at such a moment,
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Speaker 1: she added, with warm and bitter reproachfulness. What I said,
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Speaker 1: I repeat, I must have his opinion? More than that.
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Speaker 1: I must have his decision, as he says, so it
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Speaker 1: shall be. You see how anxious I am for your words,
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Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch. But what's the matter. I couldn't have believed it.
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Speaker 1: I can't understand it, Alyosha cried, suddenly in distress. What
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Speaker 1: what he is going to Moscow? And you cry out
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Speaker 1: that you are glad you said that on purpose, And
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Speaker 1: you begin explaining that you are not glad of that,
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Speaker 1: but sorry to be losing a friend. But that was
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Speaker 1: acting too. You were playing a part as in a theater,
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Speaker 1: in a theater. What what do you mean? Exclaimed Katerina Ivanovna, profoundly, astonished, flushing,
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Speaker 1: crimson and frowning. Though you assure him you are sorry
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Speaker 1: to lose a friend in him, you persist in telling
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Speaker 1: him to his face that it's fortunate he is going,
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Speaker 1: said Alyosha breathlessly. He was standing at the table and
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Speaker 1: did not sit down. What are you talking about? I
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Speaker 1: don't understand. I don't understand myself. I seem to see
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Speaker 1: in a flash. I know I am not saying it properly,
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Speaker 1: but I'll say it all the same. Alyosha went on
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Speaker 1: in the same shaking and broken voice. What I see
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Speaker 1: is that perhaps you don't love Dmitri at all, and
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Speaker 1: never have from the beginning. Who Dmitri too, has never
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Speaker 1: loved you and only esteems you. I really don't know
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Speaker 1: how I dare to say all this, but somebody must
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Speaker 1: tell that you. But nobody here will tell the truth.
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Speaker 1: What truth? Cried Katerina Ivanovna, and there was an hysterical
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Speaker 1: ring in her voice. I'll tell you, Alyosha went done
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Speaker 1: with desperate haze, as though he were jumping from the
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Speaker 1: top of her house. Call Dmitri. I will bet him
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Speaker 1: and let him come here, and take your hand and
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Speaker 1: take Ivan's and join your hands. For your torturing Ivan
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Speaker 1: simply because you love him, and torturing him because you
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Speaker 1: love Dmitri through self laceration with an unreal love, because
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Speaker 1: you've persuaded yourself. Alyosha broke up and was silent. You You,
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Speaker 1: you are a little religious idiot, that's what you are,
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Speaker 1: Katerina Ivanovna snapped. Her face was white and her lips
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Speaker 1: were moving with anger. Ivenne suddenly laughed and got up.
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Speaker 1: His hat was in his hand. You are mistaken, my
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Speaker 1: good Alyosha, he said with an expression Alyosha had never
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Speaker 1: seen in his face before, an expression of youthful sincerity
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Speaker 1: and strong, irresistibly frank feeling. Katerina had never cared for me.
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Speaker 1: She has known all the time that I cared for her,
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Speaker 1: though I never said a word of my love to her.
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Speaker 1: She knew, but she didn't care for me. I have
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Speaker 1: never been her friend either, not for one moment. She
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Speaker 1: is too proud to need mine friendship. She kept me
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Speaker 1: at her sight as a means of revenge. She revenged
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Speaker 1: with me and on me all the insults which she
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Speaker 1: has been continually receiving from Dmitri ever since their first meeting.
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Speaker 1: For even that first meeting has rankled in her heart
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Speaker 1: as an insult. That's what her heart is like. She
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Speaker 1: has told to me of nothing but her love for him.
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Speaker 1: I'm going now, but believe me, Katerina Ivanovna. You really
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Speaker 1: love him, And the more he insults you are, the
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Speaker 1: more you love him. That's your laceration. You love him
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Speaker 1: just as he is. You love him for insulting you.
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Speaker 1: If he reformed, you'd give him up at once and
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Speaker 1: cease to love him. But you need him so as
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Speaker 1: to contemplate continually your heroic fidelity, and to reproach him
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Speaker 1: for infidelity. And it all comes from your pride. Oh,
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Speaker 1: there's a great deal of humiliation and self abasement about it,
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Speaker 1: but it all comes from pride. I am too young,
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Speaker 1: and I've loved you too much. I know that I
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Speaker 1: ought not to say this, that it will be more
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Speaker 1: dignified on my part simply to leave you, and it
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Speaker 1: would be less offensive for you. But I'm going far
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Speaker 1: away and she'll never come back. It is for ever.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to sit beside a laceration, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know how to speak now I've said everything. Good Bye,
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Speaker 1: Katerina Ivanovna. You can't be angry with me, for I
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Speaker 1: am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if
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Speaker 1: only by the fact that I shall never see you again. Goodbye.
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Speaker 1: I don't want your hand. You have tortured me too
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Speaker 1: deliberately for me to be able to forgive you at
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Speaker 1: this moment. I shall forgive you later, but now I
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Speaker 1: don't want your hand. Dan dank damma begaire I recogniict,
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Speaker 1: he added with a forced smile, showing, however, that he
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Speaker 1: could read Schiller and read him till he knew him
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Speaker 1: by heart, which Alyosha would never believe. He went out
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Speaker 1: of the room without saying goodbye, even to his hostess,
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Speaker 1: Madame Holokov. Alyosha clasped his hands Ivan, he cried desperately
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Speaker 1: up to him, Come back, Ivan, No, nothing will induce
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Speaker 1: him to come back now, he cried again, regretfully realizing it.
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Speaker 1: But it's my fault, my fault. I began it. Ivan
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Speaker 1: spoke angrily, wrongly, unjustly, and angrily. He must come back here,
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Speaker 1: come back, Alyosha kept exclaiming frantically. Katerina Ivanovna went suddenly
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Speaker 1: into the next room. You have done no harm. You
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Speaker 1: behaved beautifully like an angel. Madame Hohlokov whispered rapidly and
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Speaker 1: ecstatically to Alyosha. I will do my utmost to prevent
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Speaker 1: Ivan Fyodorovitch from going. Her face beamed with delight, to
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Speaker 1: the great distress of Alyosha. But Katerina Ivanovna suddenly returned.
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Speaker 1: She had two hundred rouble notes in her hand. I
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Speaker 1: have a great favor to ask of you, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
27:49
Speaker 1: She began addressing Alyosha with an apparently calm and even voice,
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Speaker 1: as though nothing had happened a week, yes, I think
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Speaker 1: it was a week ago. Dmitri Fyodorovitch was guilty of
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Speaker 1: a hasty and unjust action, a very ugly action. There
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Speaker 1: is a low tavern here, and in it he met
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Speaker 1: that discharged officer, that captain whom your father used to
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Speaker 1: employ in some business. Dmitri Fyodorovitch somehow lost his temper
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Speaker 1: with this captain, seized him by the beard and dragged
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Speaker 1: him out into the street and for some distance along
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Speaker 1: it in that insulting fashion. And I am told that
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Speaker 1: his son, a boy, quite a child, who was at
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Speaker 1: the school here, saw it, and ran beside them, crying
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Speaker 1: and begging for his father, appealing to everyone to defend him,
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Speaker 1: while everyone laughed. You must forgive me, Alexey Fyodorovitch. I
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Speaker 1: cannot think without indignation of that disgraceful action of his,
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Speaker 1: one of those actions which only Dmitri Fyodorovitch would be
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Speaker 1: capable in his anger and in his passions. I can't
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Speaker 1: describe it, even I can't find my words. I've made
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Speaker 1: inquiries about his victim and find he is quite a
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Speaker 1: poor man. His name is Snegiryev. He did something wrong
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Speaker 1: in the army and was discharged. I can't tell you what.
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Speaker 1: And now he has sunk into terrible destitution with his family,
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Speaker 1: an unhappy family of sick children and I believe an
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Speaker 1: insane wife. He has been living here a long time.
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Speaker 1: He used to work as a copying clerk, but now
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Speaker 1: he is getting nothing. I thought, if you that is,
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Speaker 1: I thought, I don't know. I am so confused. You see,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, my dear Alexey Fyodororovitch, to
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Speaker 1: go to him, to find some excuse to go to them.
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Speaker 1: I mean to that captain. Oh goodness, how badly I
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Speaker 1: explain it, and delicately, carefully as only you know how
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Speaker 1: to Alyosha blushed manage to give him this assistance, these
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Speaker 1: two hundred rubens. He will be sure to take it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, persuade him to take it, or rather, what
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Speaker 1: do I mean? You see, it's not my way of
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Speaker 1: compensation to prevent him from taking proceedings, for I believe
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Speaker 1: he meant to, but simply a token of sympathy, of
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Speaker 1: a desire to assist him from me, Dmitri Fyodorovitch's betrothed,
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Speaker 1: not from himself. But you know I would go myself,
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Speaker 1: but June know how to do it ever so much better.
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Speaker 1: He lives in Lake Street, in the house of a
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Speaker 1: woman called Kalmikov. For God's sake, Alexey Fyodorovitch, do it
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Speaker 1: for me, And now now I am rather tired. Good Bye.
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Speaker 1: She turned and disappeared behind the portieza quickly that Alyosha
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Speaker 1: had not time to utter a word, though he wanted
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Speaker 1: to speak. He longed to beg her pardon, to blame
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Speaker 1: himself to say something, for his heart was full and
31:39
Speaker 1: he could not bear to go out of the room
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Speaker 1: without it. But Madame Hohlakov took him by the hand
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Speaker 1: and drew him along with her in the hall. She
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Speaker 1: stopped him again as before. She is proud. She is
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Speaker 1: struggling with herself, but kind arming generous, she exclaimed in
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Speaker 1: a half whisper. Oh how I love her especially sometimes,
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Speaker 1: and how glad I am again of every thing. Oh,
32:12
Speaker 1: dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, you didn't know, but I must tell
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Speaker 1: you that to all all both her aunts, I and
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Speaker 1: all of us Lisa Ivan have been hoping and praying
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Speaker 1: for nothing for the last month, but that she may
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Speaker 1: give up your favorite Dmitri, who takes no notice of
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Speaker 1: her and does not care for her, and may marry
32:34
Speaker 1: Ivan Fyodorovitch, such an excellent and cultivated young man who
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Speaker 1: loves some more than anything in the world. We are
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Speaker 1: in a regular plot to bring it about, and I
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Speaker 1: am even staying on here, perhaps on that account. But
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Speaker 1: she has been trying. She has been wounded again, cried Alyosha.
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Speaker 1: Never trust a woman's tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch. I am never
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Speaker 1: for the women in such cases. I am always on
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Speaker 1: the side of the men. Mamma, you are spoiling him.
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Speaker 1: Lisa's little voice cried from behind the door. No, it
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Speaker 1: was all my fault. I am horribly to blame. Alyosha repeated, unconsoled,
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Speaker 1: hiding his face in his hands in an agony of
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Speaker 1: remorse for his indiscretion. Quite the contrary, You behave like
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Speaker 1: an angel, Like an angel. I am ready to say
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Speaker 1: so a thousand times over. Mamma, how has he behaved
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Speaker 1: like an angel? Lisa's voice was heard again. I somehow
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Speaker 1: fancied all at once. Alyosha went on, as though we
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Speaker 1: had not heard. Lisa that she loved Divan, and so
33:54
Speaker 1: I said that stupid thing. What will happen now to
33:58
Speaker 1: whom to whom? Cried Lisa. Mamma, you really want to
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Speaker 1: be the death of me. I ask you, and you
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Speaker 1: don't answer. At the moment the maid ran in. Katerina
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Speaker 1: Ivanovna is ill. She is crying, struggling hysterics. What is
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Speaker 1: the matter, cried Lisa in a tone of real anxiety. Mamma,
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Speaker 1: I shall be having hysterics and not she Lisa, for
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Speaker 1: Mercy's sake, don't scream. Don't persecute me. At your age,
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Speaker 1: one can't know everything that grown up people know. I'll
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Speaker 1: come and tell you everything you ought to know. Oh,
34:39
Speaker 1: Mercy on us, I am him coming. Hysterics is a
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Speaker 1: good sign, Alexey Fyodorovitch. It's an excellent thing that she
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Speaker 1: is hysterical. That's just as it ought to be in
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Speaker 1: such cases. I am always against the woman, against all
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Speaker 1: these feminine tears and hysterics. Run and say, Yulia that
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Speaker 1: I fly to her. As for Ivan Fyodorovitch's going away
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Speaker 1: like that it's our own world. But he won't go away. Lisa,
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Speaker 1: for Mercy's sake, don't scream. Oh yes, you are not screaming.
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Speaker 1: It's I am screaming. Forgive your mamma, but I am delighted, delighted, delighted.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice, Alexei Fyodorovitch, how young, how young Ivan
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Speaker 1: Fyodorovitch was just now when he went out, When he
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Speaker 1: said all that and went out, I thought he was
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Speaker 1: so learned, such a savant, And all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: he behaved so warmly, openly and youthfully, with such youthful inexperience,
35:39
Speaker 1: and it was all so fine like you. And the
35:42
Speaker 1: way he repeated that German buss, it was just like you.
35:46
Speaker 1: But I must fly, I must fly. Alexei Fyodorovitch, make
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Speaker 1: haste to carry out her commission, and then make haste back. Lisa,
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Speaker 1: do you want anything now? For mercy's sake, don't keep
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Speaker 1: Alexei Fyodorovitch. He will come back to you at once,
36:02
Speaker 1: Madame Holokof, at last one off before leaving. Alyosha would
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Speaker 1: have opened the door to see Lisa. On no account,
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Speaker 1: cried Lisa, on no account. Now speak through the door.
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Speaker 1: How have you come to be an angel? That's the
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Speaker 1: only thing I want to know. For an awful piece
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Speaker 1: of stupidity, Lisa, goodbye. Don't get her go away like that,
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Speaker 1: Lisa was beginning, Lisa, I have a real sorrow. I'll
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Speaker 1: be back directly, but I have a great, great sorrow.
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Speaker 1: And he ran out of the room. End of chapter
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Speaker 1: twenty nine.