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071 - Book Eleven Chapter One · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter seventy one of the Brothers Karamatzov by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. The LibriVox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain. Recording by Tony Addison, Book eleven Ivan, chapter one.
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Speaker 1: At Grushenka's Alyosha went towards the Cathedral square to the
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Speaker 1: widow Morotzov's house to see Grushenka, who had sent Fenya
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Speaker 1: to him early in the morning with an urgent message
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Speaker 1: begging him to come. Questioning Fenya, Alyosha learned that her
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Speaker 1: mistress had been particularly distressed since the previous day. During
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Speaker 1: the two months that had passed since Mitya's arrest, Alyosha
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Speaker 1: had called frequently at the widow Morotzov's house, both from
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Speaker 1: his own inclination and to take messages for Mitya. Three
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Speaker 1: days after Mitya's arrest, Grushenka was taken very ill and
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Speaker 1: was ill for nearly five weeks. For one whole week
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Speaker 1: she was unconscious. She was very much changed, thinner and
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Speaker 1: a little sallow, though she had for the past fortnight
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Speaker 1: been well enough to go out. But to Alyosha, her
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Speaker 1: face was even more attractive than before, and he liked
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Speaker 1: to meet her eyes. When he went into her. A
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Speaker 1: look of firmness and intelligent purpose had developed in her face.
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Speaker 1: There were signs of a spiritual transformation in her, and
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Speaker 1: a steadfast, fine and humble determination that nothing could shake
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Speaker 1: could be discerned in her. There was a small vertical
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Speaker 1: line between her brows, which gave her charming face a
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Speaker 1: look of concentrated thought, almost austere. At the first glance,
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Speaker 1: there was scarcely a trace of her former frivolity. It
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Speaker 1: seemed strange to Alyosha too, that, in spite of the
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Speaker 1: calamity that had overtaken the poor girl betrothed to a
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Speaker 1: man who had been arrested for a terrible crime almost
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Speaker 1: at the instant of their betrothal, in spite of her
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Speaker 1: illness and the almost inevitable sentence hanging over Mitchya, Grushenka
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Speaker 1: had not yet lost her youthful cheerfulness. There was a
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Speaker 1: soft light in the once proud eyes, though at times
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Speaker 1: they gleamed with the old vindictive fire. When she was
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Speaker 1: visited by one disturbing thought stronger than ever in her heart.
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Speaker 1: The object of that uneasiness was the same as ever
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Speaker 1: Katerina Ivanovna, of whom Grushenka had even raved when she
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Speaker 1: lay in delirium. Alyosha knew that she was fearfully jealous
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Speaker 1: of her. Yet Katerina Ivanovna had not once visited me
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Speaker 1: in his prison, though she might have done it whenever
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Speaker 1: she liked all. This made a difficult problem for Alyosha,
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Speaker 1: for he was the only person doom Grushenka opened her heart,
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Speaker 1: and from whom she was continually asking advice. Sometimes he
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Speaker 1: was unable to say anything. Full of anxiety, he entered
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Speaker 1: her lodging. She was at home. She had returned from
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Speaker 1: seeing mitya half an hour before, and from the rapid
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Speaker 1: movement with which she leaped up am chair to meet him,
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Speaker 1: he saw that she had been expecting him with great impatience.
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Speaker 1: A pack of cards, dope a game of fools lay
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Speaker 1: on the table. A bed had been made up on
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Speaker 1: the leather sofa on the other side, and Maximov lay
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Speaker 1: half reclining on it. He wore a dressing gown and
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Speaker 1: a cotton nightcap, and was evidently ill and weak, though
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Speaker 1: he was smiling blissfully. When the homeless old man returned
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Speaker 1: with Grushenka from Mokro two months before he had simply
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Speaker 1: stayed on and was still staying with her. He arrived
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Speaker 1: with her in rain and sleep, sat down on the sofa,
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Speaker 1: drenched and scared, and gazed mutely at her with a timid,
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Speaker 1: appealing smile. Grushenka, who was in terrible grief and in
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Speaker 1: the first stage of fever, almost forgot his existence in
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Speaker 1: all she had to do the first half hour after
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Speaker 1: her arrival, as suddenly she chanced to look at him intently,
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Speaker 1: he laughed, a pitiful, helpless little laugh. She called Fenya
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Speaker 1: and told her to give him something to eat. All
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Speaker 1: that day he sat in the same place, almost without stirring.
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Speaker 1: When he got dark and the shutters were closed, Fenya
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Speaker 1: asked her, mistress, is the gentleman going to stay the night? Mistress, yes,
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Speaker 1: make him a bed on the sofa, answered Grushenka. Questioning
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Speaker 1: him more in detail, Grushenka learned from him that he
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Speaker 1: had literally nowhere to go, and that mister Kolganov, my benefactor,
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Speaker 1: told me straight that he wouldn't receive me again and
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Speaker 1: gave me by roubles. Well, God bless you, you'd better stay, then,
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Speaker 1: Grushenka decided in her grief, smiling compassionately at him. Her
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Speaker 1: smile wrung the old man's heart, and his lips twitched
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Speaker 1: with grateful tears. And so the destitute wanderer had stayed
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Speaker 1: with her ever since. He did not leave the house
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Speaker 1: even when she was ill. Fenya and her grandmother, the
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Speaker 1: cook did not turn him out, but went on serving
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Speaker 1: him meals and making up his bed on the sofa.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka had grown used to him, and coming back from
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Speaker 1: seeing me, whom she had begun to visit in prison
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Speaker 1: before she was really well, she would sit down and
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Speaker 1: begin talk him to Maximushka about trifling matters to keep
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Speaker 1: her from thinking of her sorrow. The old man turned
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Speaker 1: out to be a good story teller on occasions, so
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Speaker 1: that at last he became necessary to her. Grushenka saw
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Speaker 1: scarcely any one else beside Alyosha, who did not come
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Speaker 1: every day and never stayed long. Her old merchant lay
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Speaker 1: seriously ill at this time, at his last gasp, as
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Speaker 1: they said in the town, and he did in fact
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Speaker 1: die a week after Mitya's trial. Three weeks before his death.
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Speaker 1: Feeling the end approaching, he made his sons, their wives
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Speaker 1: and children come upstairs to him at last, and pat
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Speaker 1: them not leave him again. From that moment he gave
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Speaker 1: strict orders to his servants not to admit Grushenka and
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Speaker 1: to tell her if she came. The Master wishes you
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Speaker 1: long life and happiness and tells you to forget him.
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Speaker 1: But Grushenka sent almost every day to inquire after him.
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Speaker 1: You've come, at last, she cried, flinging down the cards
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Speaker 1: and joyfully greeting Alyosha and Maximushka's been scaring me that
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Speaker 1: perhaps you wouldn't come. Oh, how I need you? Sit
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Speaker 1: down to the table. What will you have koffee? Yes, please,
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Speaker 1: said Alyosha, sitting down at the table. I am very hungry.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Fanya fanya coffee, cried Grushenka. It's been made
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Speaker 1: a long time ready for you. And bring some little
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Speaker 1: pies and mind they are hot. Do you know we've
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Speaker 1: had a storm over those pies to day. I took
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Speaker 1: them to the prison for him, and would you believe it,
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Speaker 1: he threw them back to me. He would not eat them.
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Speaker 1: He flung one of them on the floor and stand
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Speaker 1: done it. So I said to him, I shall lead
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Speaker 1: them with the wader if you don't eat them before evening,
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Speaker 1: it will be that your venomous bite is enough for you.
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Speaker 1: With that, I went away. We quarreled again. Would you
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Speaker 1: believe it? Whenever I go we quarrel. Grushenka said all
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Speaker 1: this in one breath in her agitation. Maximov, feeling nervous
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Speaker 1: at once, smiled and looked on the floor. What did
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Speaker 1: you quarrel about this time, asked Alyosha. I didn't expect
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Speaker 1: it in the least, only fancy. He is jealous of
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Speaker 1: the pole. Why are you keeping him? He said, So
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Speaker 1: you've begun keeping him. He is jealous, jealous of me
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Speaker 1: all the time, jealous, eating and sleeping. He even took
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Speaker 1: it into his head to be jealous of Goodsma last week.
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Speaker 1: But he knew about the Pole before, Yes, but there
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Speaker 1: it is. He has known about him from the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: But to day he suddenly got up and began scolding
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Speaker 1: about him. I am ashamed to repeat what he said,
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Speaker 1: silly follow Rakitin went in as I came out. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: Rakitin is egging him on. What do you think? She
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Speaker 1: added carelessly. He loves you, That's what it is. He
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Speaker 1: loves you so much. And now he is particularly worried.
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Speaker 1: I should think he might be with the trial to morrow.
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Speaker 1: And I went to him to say something about to morrow,
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Speaker 1: for I dread to think what's going to happen. Then
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Speaker 1: you say that he is worried, But how worried I am?
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Speaker 1: And he talks about the pole. He's too silly. He's
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Speaker 1: not jealous of Matsimushka yet. Anyway, my wife was dreadfully
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Speaker 1: jealous over me too, Maximov put in his word, jealous
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Speaker 1: of you. Grushenka laughed, in spite of herself. Of whom
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Speaker 1: could she have been jealous of? The servant girls. Hold
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Speaker 1: your tongue, Maximushka. I am in no laughing mood. Now
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Speaker 1: I feel angry. Don't ogle the pies. I shan't give
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Speaker 1: you any They're not good for you. And I won't
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Speaker 1: give you any vodka either. I have to look after
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Speaker 1: him too, just as though I kept an almshouse. She laughed.
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Speaker 1: I don't deserve your kindness. I am a worthless creature,
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Speaker 1: said Maximov, with tears in his voice. You would do
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Speaker 1: better to spend your kindness on people of more use
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Speaker 1: than me. Ah, every one is of use, Maximushka. And
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Speaker 1: how can we tell who's of most use if only
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Speaker 1: that pole didn't exist, Alyosha, he's taken it into his
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Speaker 1: head to fall ill too. To day I've been to
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Speaker 1: see him also, and I shall send him some pies too.
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Speaker 1: On purpose, I hadn't sent him any, but Mitya accused
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Speaker 1: me of it, So now I shall send some ah
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Speaker 1: Yreespania with a letter. Yes, it's from the Poles begging again.
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Speaker 1: Pan Mussyalovitch had indeed sent an extremely long and characteristically
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Speaker 1: eloquent letter in which he begged her to lend him
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Speaker 1: three roubles. In the letter was enclosed a receipt for
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Speaker 1: the sum, with a promise to repay it within three months,
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Speaker 1: signed by Pan Brubuski as well. Grushenka had received many
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Speaker 1: such letters accompanied by such receipts from her former lover
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Speaker 1: during the fortnight of her convalescence, but she knew that
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Speaker 1: the two Poles had been to ask after her health
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Speaker 1: during her illness. The first letter Grushenka got from them
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Speaker 1: was a long one, written on large notepaper and with
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Speaker 1: a big family crest on the seal. It was so
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Speaker 1: obscure and rhetorical that Grushenka put it down before she
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Speaker 1: had read her unable to make head or tail of it,
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Speaker 1: she could not attend to letters them. The first letter
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Speaker 1: was followed next day by another in which pan Musi
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Speaker 1: Alovitch Beggedopa alone of two thousand roubles for a very
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Speaker 1: short period. Grushenka left that letter too unanswered. A whole
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Speaker 1: series of letters had followed, one every day, all as
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Speaker 1: pompous and rhetorical, but the lone asked for gradually diminishing,
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Speaker 1: dropped to a hundred roubles, then to twenty five, to ten,
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Speaker 1: and finally Grushenka received a letter in which the Poles
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Speaker 1: begged he put only one ruble and included a receipt
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Speaker 1: signed by both. Then Grushenka suddenly felt sorry for them,
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Speaker 1: and at dusk she went round herself to their lodging.
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Speaker 1: She found the two Poles in great poverty, almost destitution,
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Speaker 1: without food or fuel, without cigarettes, in debt to their landlady.
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Speaker 1: The two hundred roubles they had carried up from Mitya
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Speaker 1: at Mokroe had soon disappeared, but Grushenka was surprised at
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Speaker 1: their meeting her with arrogant dignity and self assertion, with
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Speaker 1: the greatest punctilio and pompous speeches. Grushenka simply laugh and
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Speaker 1: gave her former admirer ten roubles. Then, laughing, she told
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Speaker 1: Mitya of it, and he was not in the least jealous.
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Speaker 1: But ever since the Poles had attached themselves to Grushenka
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Speaker 1: and bombarded her daily with requests for money, and she
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Speaker 1: had always sent them small sums. And now that day
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Speaker 1: Mitya had taken it into his head to be fearfully jealous.
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Speaker 1: Like a fool, I went round to him just for
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Speaker 1: a minute. On the way to see Mitya, for he
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Speaker 1: is ill to my pole. Grushenka began again with nervous haste.
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Speaker 1: I was laughing telling Mitya about it. Fancy, I said,
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Speaker 1: my pole hath the happy thought to sing his old
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Speaker 1: songs to me to the guitar. He thought I would
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Speaker 1: be touched and marry him. Mitya leaped up, swearing, So there,
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Speaker 1: I'll send them the pies. Penya, is it that little
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Speaker 1: girl they've sent here? Give her three roubles and pack
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Speaker 1: up a dozen pies in a paper and tell her
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Speaker 1: to take them. And you, Alyosha, be sure that Tom Mitya,
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Speaker 1: that I did send them the pies. I wouldn't tell
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Speaker 1: him for anything, said Alyosha, smiling. Ah, you think he
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Speaker 1: is unhappy about it? Why he's jealous on purpose? He
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Speaker 1: doesn't care, said Grushenki, bitterly. On purpose, queried Alyosha. I
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Speaker 1: tell you you are silly, Alyosha, you know nothing about
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Speaker 1: it with all your cleverness. I am not offended that
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Speaker 1: he is jealous of a girl like me. I would
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Speaker 1: be offended if he were not jealous. I am like that.
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Speaker 1: I am not offended a jealousy. I have a fierce
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Speaker 1: heart too. I can be jealous myself. Only what offends
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Speaker 1: me is that he doesn't love me at all. I
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Speaker 1: tell you he is jealous now on purpose? Am I blind?
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Speaker 1: Don't I see? He began talking to me just now
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Speaker 1: of that woman of Katerina, saying she was this and that.
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Speaker 1: Now she'd or that a doctor from Moscow for him
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Speaker 1: to gy and save him. Now she had ordered the
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Speaker 1: best counsel, the most learned one too. So he loves her,
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Speaker 1: if he'll praise her to my face, more shame to him.
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Speaker 1: He's treated me badly himself, so he attacked me to
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Speaker 1: make out I am in fourth first, and to throw
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Speaker 1: it all on me. You were with your pole before me,
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Speaker 1: so I can't be blamed. But Katerina, that's what it
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Speaker 1: amounts to. He wants to throw the whole blame on me,
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Speaker 1: attack me on purpose, on purpose, I tell you, but
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Speaker 1: I'll Grushenka could not finish saying what she would do.
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Speaker 1: She hid her eyes in her handkerchief and sobbed violently.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't love Katerina Ivanovna, said Alyosha firmly. Well, whether
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Speaker 1: he loves her or not, I'll soon find out for myself,
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Speaker 1: said Grushenka, with a menacing note in her voice, Taking
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Speaker 1: the handkerchief from her eyes. Her face was distorted. Alyosha
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Speaker 1: saw sorrowfully that from being mild and serene, have become
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Speaker 1: sullen and spiteful. Enough of this foolishness, she said, Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: it's not for that I sent for you, Alyosha, Darling, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: what will happen to morrow? That's what worries me? And
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Speaker 1: it's only me. It worries I look at everyone, and
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Speaker 1: no one is thinking of it. No one cares about it?
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Speaker 1: Are you thinking about it? Even tomorrow? He'll be tried,
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Speaker 1: you know? Tell me how will he be tried. You
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Speaker 1: know it's the valet. The valet killed him. Good heavens
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Speaker 1: can they condemn him in place of the ballet? And
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Speaker 1: will no one stand up for him? They haven't troubled
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Speaker 1: the ballet at all, have they. He's been severely cross examined,
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Speaker 1: observed Alyosha thoughtfully, but everyone came to the conclusion it
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Speaker 1: was not he. Now he is lying very ill. He
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Speaker 1: has been ill ever since that attack, really ill, added Alyosha. Oh, dear,
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Speaker 1: couldn't you go to that council yourself and tell him
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Speaker 1: the whole thing by yourself. He's been brought from Petersburg
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Speaker 1: with three thousand roubles. They say we gave these three
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Speaker 1: thousand together Ivan Katerina Ivanovna and I. But she paid
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Speaker 1: two thousand for the doctor from Moscow herself. The council
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Speaker 1: Offetyakovich or would have charged more. But the case has
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Speaker 1: become known all over Russia. It's talked of in all
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Speaker 1: the papers and journals. Fetyakovich agreed to come more for
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Speaker 1: the glory of the thing because the case has become
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Speaker 1: so notorious. I saw him yesterday. Well did you talk
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Speaker 1: to him, Grushenka put in eagerly. He listened and said nothing.
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Speaker 1: He told me that he had already formed his opinion,
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Speaker 1: but he promised to give my words consideration, consideration. Aren't
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Speaker 1: they husbandlers they'll ruin him? And why did she send
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Speaker 1: for the doctor as an expert. They want to prove
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Speaker 1: that Mitya's mad and committed the murder when he didn't
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Speaker 1: know what he was doing. Alyosha smiled gently, But Mitya
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Speaker 1: won't agree to that. Yes, but that would be the
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Speaker 1: truth if he had killed him, cried Grushenka. He was mad, then,
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Speaker 1: perfectly mad, and that was my fault, wretch that I am.
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Speaker 1: But of course he didn't do it. He didn't do it,
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Speaker 1: and they are all against him, the whole town. Even
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Speaker 1: Penya's evidence went to prub he had done it, and
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Speaker 1: the people at the shop and that official, and at
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Speaker 1: the tavern too before people had heard him say so.
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Speaker 1: They are all all against him, all crying out against him. Yes,
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Speaker 1: there's a fearful accumulation of evidence. Alyosha observed grimly, and
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Speaker 1: grigory grigory Baslyevitch sticks to his story that the door
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Speaker 1: was open, persists that he saw it. There is no
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Speaker 1: shaking him. I went and took to him myself. He's
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Speaker 1: rude about it too. Yes, that's perhaps the strongest evidence
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Speaker 1: against him, said Alyosha. And as for Mitya's being mad,
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Speaker 1: he certainly seems like it now. Grushenka began with a
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Speaker 1: peculiarly anxious and mysterious air. Do you know, Alyosha, I've
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Speaker 1: been wanting to talk to you about it for a
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Speaker 1: long time. I go to him every day and simply
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Speaker 1: wonder at him. Tell me, now, what do you suppose
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Speaker 1: he's always talking about. He talks and talks, and I
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Speaker 1: can make nothing of it. I fancied he was talking
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Speaker 1: of something intellectual that I couldn't understand in my foolishness.
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Speaker 1: Only he suddenly began talking to me about a babe.
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Speaker 1: That's about some child. Why is the babe poor? He said,
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Speaker 1: it's for that babe, I am going to Siberia. Now,
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Speaker 1: I am not a murderer, but I must go to Siberia.
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Speaker 1: What that meant, what babe, I couldn't tell for the
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Speaker 1: life of me. Only I cried when he said that,
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Speaker 1: because he said it so nicely. He cried himself, and
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Speaker 1: I cried too. He suddenly kissed me and made the
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Speaker 1: sign of the cross over me. What does it mean, Alyosha,
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Speaker 1: tell me, what is this, babe? It must be Rakitin,
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Speaker 1: who's been going to see him lately, smiled Alyosha. Though
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Speaker 1: that's not Rakitin's doing. I didn't see Mitya yesterday. I'll
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Speaker 1: see him today. No, it's not Rakitin. It's his brother
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Speaker 1: Ivan Payodorovitch upsetting him. It's his going to see him,
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. Grushenka began and suddenly broke off.
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Speaker 1: Alyosha gazed at her in amazement. Ivan's going Has he
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Speaker 1: been to see him? Mitya told me himself that Ivan
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Speaker 1: hasn't been once. There there, what a girl, I am
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Speaker 1: blurting things at, exclaimed Grushenka, confused and suddenly blushing. Stay, Alyosha, hush,
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Speaker 1: since I've said so much, I'll tell the whole truth.
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Speaker 1: He's been to see him twice, the first directly he arrived.
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Speaker 1: He galloped here from Moscow at once, of course, before
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Speaker 1: I was taken ill. And the second time was a
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Speaker 1: week ago. He told Mitya not to tell you about it,
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Speaker 1: under any circumstances, not to tell anyone. In fact, he
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Speaker 1: came secretly. Alyosha sat plunged in thought, considering something. The
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Speaker 1: news evidently impressed him. Ivne doesn't talk to me of
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Speaker 1: Mitya's case, he said slowly. He said very little to
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Speaker 1: me these last two months, and whenever I go to
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Speaker 1: see him, he seems vexed at my coming. So I've
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Speaker 1: not been to him for the last three weeks. Hmm.
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Speaker 1: If he was there a week ago, there certainly has
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Speaker 1: been a change in this week. There has been a change.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka assented quickly. They have a secret. They have a secret.
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Speaker 1: Mitya told me himself there was a secret, and such
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Speaker 1: a secret that Mitya can't rest. Before then he was cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and indeed he is cheerful now. But when he shakes
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Speaker 1: his head like that, you know, and strides about the
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Speaker 1: room and keeps pulling at the hair on his right
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Speaker 1: temple with his right hand, I know there is something
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Speaker 1: on his mind worrying him. I know he was cheerful before,
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Speaker 1: though indeed he is cheerful today. But you said he
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Speaker 1: was worried. Yes, he is worried, and yet cheerful. He
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Speaker 1: keeps on being irritable but a minute, and then cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and then irritable again. And you know, Alyosha, I am
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Speaker 1: constantly wondering at him, with this awful thing hanging over him.
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Speaker 1: He sometimes laughs at such trifles, as though we were
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Speaker 1: a baby himself. And did he really tell you not
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Speaker 1: to tell me about Ivan? Did he say, don't tell him? Yes,
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Speaker 1: he told me don't tell him. It's you that Mitya's
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Speaker 1: most afraid of, because it's a secret. He said himself,
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Speaker 1: it was a secret, Alyosha, darling, go to him and
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Speaker 1: find out what their secret is, and come and tell me.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka be Sultan with sudden eagerness, set my mind at
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Speaker 1: rest that I may never worse that's in store for me.
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Speaker 1: That's why I sent for you. You think it's something
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Speaker 1: to do with you. If it were, he wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: told you there was a secret. I don't know. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: he wants to tell me but doesn't dare to. He
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Speaker 1: warns me there is a secret, he tells me, but
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Speaker 1: he won't tell me what it is. What do you
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Speaker 1: think yourself? What do I think? It's the end for me?
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Speaker 1: That's what I think. They all three have been plotting
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Speaker 1: my end, but Katerina in it. It's all Katerina. It
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Speaker 1: all comes from her. She is this and that, and
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Speaker 1: that means that I am not. He tells me that beforehand,
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Speaker 1: warns me he is planning to throw me over. That's
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Speaker 1: the whole secret. They planned it together, the three of them, Mitya,
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Speaker 1: Katerina and Ivan. Byodobach A Lyuship. I've been wanting to
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Speaker 1: ask you a long time. A week ago, he suddenly
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Speaker 1: told me that Ivan was in love with Katerina because
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Speaker 1: he often goes to see her. Did he tell me
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Speaker 1: the truth or not? Tell me on your conscience, tell
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Speaker 1: me the worst. I won't tell you a lie. Ivan
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Speaker 1: is not in love with Katerina Ivanovna. I think, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's what I thought. He is lying to me. Shameless deceiver,
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. And he was jealous of me
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Speaker 1: just now so as to put the blame on me afterwards.
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Speaker 1: He is stupid. He can't disguise what he is doing.
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Speaker 1: He is so open, you know. But I'll give it
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Speaker 1: to I'll give it to him. You believe I did it.
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Speaker 1: He said. He said that to me, to me, he
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Speaker 1: reproached me with that. God forgive him. You wait, I'll
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Speaker 1: make it hot by Katarina at the trial. I'll just
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Speaker 1: say a word, then I'll tell everything then and again,
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Speaker 1: she cried bitterly. This I can tell you for certain, Grushenka.
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Speaker 1: Alyosha said, getting up first, that he loves you, loves
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Speaker 1: you more than anyone in the world, and you only
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Speaker 1: believe me. I know, I do know. The second thing
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Speaker 1: is that I don't want to worm me secret out
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Speaker 1: of him, But if he'll tell me of himself to day,
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Speaker 1: I shall tell him straight out that I have promised
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Speaker 1: to tell you. Then I'll come to you to day
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Speaker 1: and tell you only. I fancied Katerina Ivanovna has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with it, and that the secret is about
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Speaker 1: something else. That's certain. It isn't likely it's about Katerina Ivanovna.
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Speaker 1: It seems to me. Good Bye for now, Alyosha shook
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Speaker 1: hands with him. Grushenka was still crying. He saw that
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Speaker 1: she put little faith in his consolation, but she was
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Speaker 1: better for having had her sorrow out for having spoken
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Speaker 1: of it. He was sorry to leave her in such
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Speaker 1: a state of mind, but he was in haste. He
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Speaker 1: had a great many things to do still, and of
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Speaker 1: chapter seventy one,