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054 - Book Eight Chapter Eight · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty four of the Brothers Karamatzov by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This Librevox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter eight, Delirium. What
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Speaker 1: followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all
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Speaker 1: were welcome. Grushenka was the first to call for wine.
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Speaker 1: I want to drink. I want to be quite drunk
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Speaker 1: as we were before. Do you remember, Mitya, Do you
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Speaker 1: remember how we made friends here last time? Mitchya himself
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Speaker 1: was almost delirious, feeling that his happiness was at hand,
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Speaker 1: but Grushenka was continually sending him away from her. Go
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Speaker 1: and enjoy yourself. Tell them to dance, to make merry.
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Speaker 1: Let the stove and cottage dance as we had it
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Speaker 1: last time. She kept exclaiming. She was tremendously excited, and
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Speaker 1: Mitya hastened to obey her. The chorus were in the
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Speaker 1: next room. The room in which they had been sitting
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Speaker 1: till that moment was too small and was divided in
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Speaker 1: two by cotton curtains, behind which was a huge bed
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Speaker 1: with a puffy feather mattress and a pyramid of cotton pillows.
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Speaker 1: In the four rooms for visitors, there were beds. Grushenka
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Speaker 1: settled herself just at the door. Mitya set an easy
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Speaker 1: chair for her. She had sat in the same place
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Speaker 1: to watch the dancing and singing the time before, when
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Speaker 1: they had made merry there. All the girls who had
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Speaker 1: come had been there. Then the Jewish band with fiddles
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Speaker 1: and zithers had come too, and at last the long
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Speaker 1: expected cart had arrived with the wines and provisions. Mitcha
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Speaker 1: bustled about. All sorts of people began coming into the
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Speaker 1: room to look on peasants and their women, who had
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Speaker 1: been roused from sleep and attracted by the hoops of
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Speaker 1: another marvelous entertainment, such as they had enjoyed a month before.
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Speaker 1: Mitchya remembered their faces, greeting and embracing everyone he knew.
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Speaker 1: He uncorked bottles and poured at wine, but everyone who
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Speaker 1: presented himself. Only the girls were very eager for the champagne.
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Speaker 1: The men preferred rum, brandy and above all hot punch.
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Speaker 1: Mitya had chucked that made for all the girls and
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Speaker 1: ordered that three summer ours should be kept boiling all
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Speaker 1: night to provide tea and punch for everyone to help himself.
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Speaker 1: An absurd chaotic confusion followed, but Mitya was in his
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Speaker 1: natural element, and the more foolish it became, the more
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Speaker 1: his spirits rose. If the peasants had asked him for
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Speaker 1: money at that moment, he would have pulled out his
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Speaker 1: notes and given them away right and left. This was
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Speaker 1: probably why the landlord, the tryphon Borissovitch, kept hovering about
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Speaker 1: Mitya to protect him. He seemed to have given up
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Speaker 1: all idea of going to bed that night, but he
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Speaker 1: drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a
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Speaker 1: sharp look out on Mitya's interests. After his own fashion,
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Speaker 1: he intervened in the nick of time, sivilly and obsequiously,
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Speaker 1: persuading Mitya not to give away cigars and rhine wine
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Speaker 1: and above all money to the peasants as he had
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Speaker 1: done before. He was very indignant too at the peasant
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Speaker 1: girls drinking the cure and eating sweets. They're a lousy lot,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch. He said, I'd give them a kick, every
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Speaker 1: one of them, and they'd take it as an honor.
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Speaker 1: That's all they're worth. Mitya remembered Andrey again and ordered
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Speaker 1: punch to be sent out to him. I was rude
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Speaker 1: to him just now, he repeated with a sinking, softened voice.
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Speaker 1: Kalganov did not want to drink, and at first did
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Speaker 1: not care for the girls singing. But after he had
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Speaker 1: drunk a couple of glasses of champagne, he became extraordinarily lively,
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Speaker 1: strolling about the room, laughing and praising the music and
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Speaker 1: the songs, admiring everyone and everything. Maximov, blissfully drunk, never
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Speaker 1: left his side. Grushenka, too was beg beginning to get drunk.
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Speaker 1: Pointing to Kalganov, she said to Mitya, what a dear
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Speaker 1: charming boy he is, And Mitya, delighted ran to kiss
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Speaker 1: Kalganov and Maximov, oh great way his hopes. She had
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Speaker 1: said nothing yet, and seemed indeed purposely to refrain from speaking,
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Speaker 1: but she looked at him from time to time with
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Speaker 1: caressing and passionate eyes. At last, she suddenly gripped his
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Speaker 1: hand and drew him vigorously to her. She was sitting
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Speaker 1: at the moment in the low chair by the door.
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Speaker 1: How was it you came just now?
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Speaker 2: Eh?
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Speaker 1: Have you walked in I was frightened. So you wanted
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Speaker 1: to give me up to him? Did you? Did you
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Speaker 1: really want to? I didn't want to spoil your happiness.
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Speaker 1: Mitya faltered blissfully, but she did not need his answer. Well,
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Speaker 1: go and enjoy yourself. She sent him away. Once more,
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Speaker 1: don't cry, I'll call you back again. He would run away,
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Speaker 1: and she listened to the singing and looked at the dancing,
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Speaker 1: though her eyes followed him wherever he went. But in
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Speaker 1: another quarter of an hour she would call him once more,
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Speaker 1: and again he would run back to her. Come sit
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Speaker 1: beside me. Tell me how did you hear about me
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Speaker 1: and my coming here yesterday? From whom did you first
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Speaker 1: hear it? And Mitya began telling her all about it, disconnectedly, incoherently, feverishly.
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Speaker 1: He spoke strangely, often frowning and stopping abruptly. What are
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Speaker 1: you frowning at?
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Speaker 2: She asked?
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Speaker 1: Nothing. I left a man ill there. I'd give ten
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Speaker 1: years of my life for him to get well, to
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Speaker 1: know he was all right. Well, never mind him if
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Speaker 1: he's ill. So you meant to shoot yourself tomorrow? What
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Speaker 1: a silly boy? What for? I like such reckless fellows
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Speaker 1: as you, she lisped, with a rather halting tongue, So
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Speaker 1: you would go any length for me?
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Speaker 2: Eh?
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Speaker 1: Did you really mean to shoot yourself to morrow? You
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Speaker 1: s stupid? No, wait a little tomorrow. I may have
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Speaker 1: something to say to you. I won't say it to day,
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Speaker 1: but to morrow. You'd like it to be to day? No,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to to day. Come go along, now,
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Speaker 1: go and amuse yourself once, however, she called him, as
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Speaker 1: it were, puzzled and uneasy. Why are you sad? I
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Speaker 1: see you're sad. Yes, I see it, she added, looking
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Speaker 1: intently into his eyes. Though you keep kissing the pless
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Speaker 1: and shouting I see something. No, be merry, I'm merry.
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Speaker 1: You be merry too. I love somebody here. Guess who
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Speaker 1: it is. Ah, Look, my boy has fallen asleep. Poor dear,
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Speaker 1: he's drunk, she meant. Kalganov. He was, in fact drunk,
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Speaker 1: and had dropped asleep for a moment sitting on the sofa,
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Speaker 1: But he was not merely drowsy from drink. He felt
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Speaker 1: suddenly dejected or, as he said, bored. He was intensely
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Speaker 1: depressed by the girl's sons, which, as the drinking went on,
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Speaker 1: gradually became coarse and more reckless, and the dances were
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Speaker 1: as bad. Two girls dressed up as bears, and a
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Speaker 1: lively girl called Stepanida, with a stick in her hand,
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Speaker 1: acted the part of keeper and began to show them
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Speaker 1: look alive, marryette, Oh you'll get the stick. The bears
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Speaker 1: rolled on the ground at last, in the most unseemly
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Speaker 1: fashioned amid roars of laughter from the closely backed crowd
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Speaker 1: of men and women. Well let them, let them, said Grushenka, sententiously,
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Speaker 1: with an ecstatic expression on her face. When they do
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Speaker 1: get a day to enjoy themselves, why shouldn't folks be happy?
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Speaker 1: Kalganov looked as though he had been besmirched with dirt.
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Speaker 1: It's swinish, all this peasant foolery, he murmured, moving away.
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Speaker 1: It's the game they play when it's light all night
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Speaker 1: in summer. He particularly disliked one new song to a
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Speaker 1: jaunty dance tune. It described how a gentleman came and
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Speaker 1: tried his luck with the girls to see whether they
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Speaker 1: would love him. The master came to try their girls.
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Speaker 1: Would they love him? Would they not? But the girls
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Speaker 1: could not love the master. He would beat me crewelly
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Speaker 1: and such love won't do for me. Then a gypsy
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Speaker 1: comes along, and he too tries. The gypsy came to
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Speaker 1: try their girls. Would they love him? Would they not?
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Speaker 1: But they couldn't love the gypsy either. He would be
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Speaker 1: a thief by beer and would cause me many a
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Speaker 1: dear And many more men came to try their luck,
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Speaker 1: among them a soldier. The soldier came to try their girls.
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Speaker 1: Would they love him? Would they not? But the soldier
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Speaker 1: is rejected with contempt in two indecent lines, sung with
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Speaker 1: absolute frankness and producing a furory in the audience. The
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Speaker 1: song with the Merchant. The merchant came to try their girls.
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Speaker 1: Would they love him? Would they not? And it appears
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Speaker 1: that he wins their love. Because the merchant will make
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Speaker 1: gold for me and his queen, I'll gladly be. Kalganov
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Speaker 1: was positively indignant. That's just a song of yesterday, he
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Speaker 1: said aloud, who writes such things for them? They might
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Speaker 1: just as well have had a railwayman or a duke
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Speaker 1: come to try his luck with the girls. They'd have
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Speaker 1: carried all before them. And almost as though it were
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Speaker 1: a personal affront, he declared on the spot that he
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Speaker 1: was bored, sat down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.
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Speaker 1: His pretty little face looked rather pale as it fell
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Speaker 1: back on the sofa cushion. Look how pretty he is,
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Speaker 1: said Grushenka. Taking Mitya, upped him. I was combing his
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Speaker 1: hair just now, his hairs like flaxen, so thick, And
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Speaker 1: bending over him tenderly, she kissed his forehead. Kalganov instantly
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Speaker 1: opened his eyes, looked at her, stood up and with
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Speaker 1: the most anxious air, inquired, where was Maximov? So that's
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Speaker 1: who it is you want, Grushenka laughed. Stay with me
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Speaker 1: a minute, Mitya, run and find his Maximov. Maximov, it appeared,
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Speaker 1: could not tear himself away from the girl's, only running
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Speaker 1: away from time to time to pour himself out a
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Speaker 1: glass of liqueur. He had drunk two cups of chocolate.
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Speaker 1: His face was red and his nose was crimson. His
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Speaker 1: eyes were moist and maukiusly sweet. He ran up and
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Speaker 1: announs that he was going to dance the sapotiere. They
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Speaker 1: taught me all those well bred aristocratic dances when I
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Speaker 1: was little. Go go with him, Mitya, and I'll watch
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Speaker 1: from here how he dances, said Grushenka. No, no, I'm
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Speaker 1: coming to look on, too, exclaimed Kalganov, brushing aside in
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Speaker 1: the most naive way Grushenka's offer to sit with him.
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Speaker 1: They all went to look on. Maximov danced his dance,
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Speaker 1: but it roused no great admiration in any one but Mitya.
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Speaker 1: It consisted of nothing but skipping and hopping, kicking up
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Speaker 1: the feet, and at every skin Maximov slapped the upturned
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Speaker 1: sole of his foot. Kalganov did not like it at all,
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Speaker 1: but Mitya kissed the danswer. Thanks, you're tired, perhaps, What
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Speaker 1: are you looking for here? Oh? Would you like some sweets?
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Speaker 1: A cigar? PABs a cigarette? Don't you want to drink?
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Speaker 1: I'll just have a liqueur. Have you any chocolates? Yes,
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Speaker 1: there's a heap of them on the table. That choose one,
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Speaker 1: my dear soul, I like one with vanilla for old people.
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Speaker 1: He no, brother, we've none of that special sort, I say.
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Speaker 1: The old man bent down to whisper in Mitya's ear.
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Speaker 1: That girl there, little Mariah, he he, How would it
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Speaker 1: be if you were to help me make friends with her?
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Speaker 1: So that's what you're after, know, brother? That won't do
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Speaker 1: I do no harm to any one? Maximov muttered disconsolately. Oh,
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, they only come here to dance
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Speaker 1: and sing, you know, brother, But damn it all. Wait
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Speaker 1: a bit, eat and drink and be merry. Meanwhile, don't
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Speaker 1: you want money later on? Perhaps, smiled Maximov. All right,
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Speaker 1: all right, Mitya's head was burning. He went outside to
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Speaker 1: the wooden balcony which ran round the whole building on
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Speaker 1: the inner side, overlooking the courtyard. The fresh air revived him.
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Speaker 1: He stood alone in a dark corner and suddenly clutched
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Speaker 1: his head in both hands. His scattered thoughts came together,
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Speaker 1: his sensations blended into a hole, and threw a sudden
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Speaker 1: light into his mind, a fearful, un terrible light. If
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Speaker 1: I'm to shoot myself, why not now us through his mind?
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Speaker 1: Why not go for the pistols? Bring them here and
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Speaker 1: hear it in this dark, dirty corner, make an end.
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Speaker 1: Almost a minute he stood undecided. A few hours earlier,
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Speaker 1: when he had been dashing here, he was pursued by disgrace,
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Speaker 1: by the theft he had committed, and that blood, that blood,
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Speaker 1: But yet it was easier for him. Then then everything
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Speaker 1: was over. He had lost her, given her up. She
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Speaker 1: was gone for him. Oh, then his death sentence had
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Speaker 1: been easier for him. At least it had seemed necessary, inevitable,
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Speaker 1: for what had he to stay on earth for? But
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Speaker 1: now was it the same as them? Now? One phantom,
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Speaker 1: one terror. At least was at an end. That first
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Speaker 1: rightful lover, that fateful figure, had banished, leaving no trace.
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Speaker 1: The terrible phantom had turned into something so small, so comic.
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Speaker 1: It had been carried into the bedroom and locked in.
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Speaker 1: It would never return. She was ashamed, and from her
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Speaker 1: eyes he could see now whom she loved. Now he
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Speaker 1: had everything to make life happy, but he could not
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Speaker 1: go on living. He could not, Oh damnation, Oh God,
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Speaker 1: restore to like the man I knocked down at the fence.
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Speaker 1: Let this peopul come and pass from me. Lord thou
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Speaker 1: hast brought miracles for such sinners as me, But what
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Speaker 1: of the old man's alive? Hard than the shame of
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Speaker 1: the other disgrace I would wipe away. I would restore
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Speaker 1: the stolen money, I'd give it back, I'd get it somehow.
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Speaker 1: No trace of that shame will remain except in my
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Speaker 1: heart forever. But no, no, Oh, impossible or cowardly dreams.
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Speaker 1: Oh damnation. Yet there was a ray of light and
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Speaker 1: hope in his darkness. He jumped up and ran back
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Speaker 1: to the room to hurt to her, his queen. For ever,
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Speaker 1: was not one moment of her love worth all the
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Speaker 1: rest of life, even in the agonies of disgrace. This
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Speaker 1: wild question clutched at his heart, to her, to her alone,
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Speaker 1: to see her, to hear her, to think of nothing,
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Speaker 1: to forget ever a thing, if only for that night,
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Speaker 1: for an hour, for a moment. Just as he turned
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Speaker 1: from the balcony into the passage, he came upon the
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Speaker 1: landlord Tryphon Borissovitch. He thought he looked gloomy and worried,
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Speaker 1: and fancied he had come to find him. What is it,
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Speaker 1: Tryfon Borissovitch? Are you looking for me? No, sir, the
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Speaker 1: landlord seemed disconcerted. Why should I be looking for you?
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Speaker 1: Where have you been? Why do you look so glum?
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Speaker 1: You're not angry? Are you? Wait a bit? You shall
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Speaker 1: soon get to bed. What's the time. It'll be three
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Speaker 1: o'clock past three, it must be. We'll leave off soon.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave off. Don't mention it, it doesn't matter. Keep
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Speaker 1: it up. As long as you like. What's the matter
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Speaker 1: with him? Mitya wondered for an instant, and he ran
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Speaker 1: back to the room where the girls were dancing.
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Speaker 2: But she was not there.
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Speaker 1: She was not in the blue room either. There was
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Speaker 1: no one but Kalganov asleep on the sofa. Mitya peeped
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Speaker 1: behind the curtain. She was there. She was sitting in
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Speaker 1: the corner on a trunk, bent forward, with her head
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Speaker 1: and arms on the bed close by. She was crying bitterly,
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Speaker 1: doing her utmost to stifle herself that she might not
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Speaker 1: be heard. Seeing Mitcha, she beckoned him to her, and
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Speaker 1: when he ran to her, she grasped his hand tightly. Mitcha, Mitcha,
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Speaker 1: I loved him, You know how I have loved him
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Speaker 1: these five years? All that time? Did I love him?
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Speaker 1: Or only my own anger?
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Speaker 2: No him him.
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Speaker 1: It's a lie that it was my anger I loved
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Speaker 1: and not him, Mitcha. I was only seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Then.
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Speaker 1: He was so kind to me, so merried. He used
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Speaker 1: to sing to me, or so it seemed to a
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Speaker 1: silly girl like me. And now, o, lord, it's not
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Speaker 1: the same man. Even his face is not the same.
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Speaker 1: He's different. Altogether. I shouldn't have known him. I drove
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Speaker 1: here with timofey, and all the way I was thinking
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Speaker 1: how I should meet him, what I should say to him,
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Speaker 1: how we should look at one another. My soul was faint,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it was just as though
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Speaker 1: he had emptied a pail of dirty water over me.
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Speaker 1: He talked to me like a schoolmaster, all so grave
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Speaker 1: and learned. He met me so solemnly that I was
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Speaker 1: struck dumb. I couldn't get a word in. At first
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Speaker 1: I thought he was ashamed to talk before his great
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Speaker 1: big pole. I sat staring at him and wondering why
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Speaker 1: I couldn't say a word to him. Now it must
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Speaker 1: have been his wife that ruined him. You know, he
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Speaker 1: threw me up to get married. She must have changed
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Speaker 1: him like that. Mitya, how shameful it is. Oh, Mitya,
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Speaker 1: I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed for all my life. Curse it,
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Speaker 1: curse it, curse those five years. And again she burst
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Speaker 1: in to tears, but clung tight to Mitya's hand and
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Speaker 1: did not let it go. Mitya, darling, stay, don't go away.
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Speaker 1: I want to say one word to you, she whispered,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly raised her face to him. Listen, tell me
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Speaker 1: who it is I love. I love one man here?
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Speaker 1: Who is that man? That's what you must tell me.
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Speaker 1: A smile lighted up her face that was swollen with weeping,
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Speaker 1: and her eyes shone in the half darkness. A falcon
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Speaker 1: clew in and my heart sank. Fool, that's the man
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Speaker 1: you love? That was what my heart whispered to me.
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Speaker 1: At once you came in and all grew bright. What's
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Speaker 1: he afraid of? I wondered, for you were frightened, you
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Speaker 1: couldn't speak. It's not them he's afraid of. Could you
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Speaker 1: be frightened of any one? It's me he's afraid of.
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Speaker 1: I thought only me. So Fenya told you, you little
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Speaker 1: stupid how I called to Ali your shut out of
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Speaker 1: the window, that I'd loved Mityenka for one hour and
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Speaker 1: that I was going now to love another Mitchya, Mitya.
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Speaker 1: How could I be such a fool as to think
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Speaker 1: I could love anyone after you? Do you forgive me, Mitya?
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Speaker 1: And do you forgive me or not? Do you love me?
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Speaker 1: Do you love me? She jumped up and held him
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Speaker 1: with both hands on his shoulders. Mitya dumb with rapture,
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Speaker 1: gazed into her eyes, at her face, at her smile,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly clasped that tightly in his arms and kissed
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Speaker 1: her passionately. You will forgive me for having tormented you.
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Speaker 1: It was through spite I tormented you all. It was
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Speaker 1: for spite. I drove the old man out of his mind.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember how you drank at my house one
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Speaker 1: day and broke the wine glass. I remember that, and
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Speaker 1: I broke a glass to day and drank to my
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Speaker 1: vile heart. Mitya, my falcon. Why don't you kiss me?
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Speaker 1: He kissed me once, and now he draws back and
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Speaker 1: looks and listens. Why listen to me? Kiss me, kiss
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Speaker 1: me hard.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: If you love well, then love. I'll be your slave.
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Speaker 1: Now you'll stay for the rest of my life. It's
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Speaker 1: sweet to be a slave. Kiss me, beat me, ill,
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Speaker 1: treat me, do what you will with me, and I
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Speaker 1: do deserve to supper. Stay wait afterwards, I won't have that.
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Speaker 1: She suddenly thrust him away. Go along, Mitya, I'll come
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Speaker 1: and have some wine. I want to be drunk. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to get drunk and dance. I must, I must.
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Speaker 1: She tore herself away from him and disappeared behind the curtain.
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Speaker 1: Mitya followed like a drunken man. Yes, come, what may,
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Speaker 1: whatever may happen, now, for one minute, I'd give the
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Speaker 1: whole world, he thought. Grushenka did, in fact, toss off
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Speaker 1: a whole glass of champagne at one gulp and became
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Speaker 1: at once very tipsy. She sat down in the same
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Speaker 1: chair as before, with a blissful smile on her face.
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Speaker 1: Her cheeks were glowing, her lips were burning, her flashing
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Speaker 1: eyes were moist. There was passionate appeal in her eyes.
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Speaker 1: Even Kalganov felt a stir at the heart and went
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Speaker 1: up to her. Did you feel how I kissed you
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Speaker 1: when you were asleep?
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Speaker 2: Just now?
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Speaker 1: She said thickly. I'm drunk, now, that's what it is.
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Speaker 1: And don't you drunk? And why isn't Mitya drinking? Why
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Speaker 1: don't you drink? Mitya, I'm drunk and you don't drink.
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Speaker 1: I am drunk. I'm drunk as it is, drunk with you,
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Speaker 1: and now I'll be drunk with wine too. He drank
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Speaker 1: off another glass, and he thought it strange himself that
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Speaker 1: glass made him completely drunk. He was suddenly drunk, although
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Speaker 1: till that moment he had been quite sober. He remembered
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Speaker 1: that from that moment everything whirled about him as though
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Speaker 1: we were delirious. He wore, laughed, talk to everybody, without
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Speaker 1: knowing what he was doing. Only one persistent burning sensation
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Speaker 1: made itself felt continually like a red hot coal in
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Speaker 1: his heart, he said. Afterwards, he went up to her,
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Speaker 1: sat beside her, gazed at her, listen to her. She
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Speaker 1: became very talkative, kept calling every one to her, and
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Speaker 1: beckoned to different girls out of the chorus. When the
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Speaker 1: girl came up, she either kissed her or made the
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Speaker 1: sign of the crossover. In another minute, she might have cried.
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Speaker 1: She was greatly amused by the little old man, as
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Speaker 1: she called Maximov. He ran up every minute to kiss
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Speaker 1: her hands, each little finger. And finally he danced another
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Speaker 1: dance to an old song of which he sang himself.
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Speaker 1: He danced with special vigor, to the refrain.
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Speaker 2: The little picks that m m M, the little cup that,
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Speaker 2: the little tak what the little the strutting through the
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Speaker 2: podch trev Rosche'll stay trim Ros'll say, give him something, Mitya,
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Speaker 2: said Grushenka. Give him a present.
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Speaker 1: He's poor euna ah, the poor, the insulted. Do you know, Mitya,
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Speaker 1: I shall go into a nunnery? No, I really shall.
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Speaker 1: One day. Alyosha said something to me to day that
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Speaker 1: I shall remember all my life. Yes, but to day
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Speaker 1: let us dance. Tomorrow to the nunnery, But to day
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Speaker 1: will dance. I want to play today, good people, and
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Speaker 1: what of it? God will forgive us. If I were God,
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Speaker 1: I'd forgive everyone, my dear sinners. From this day forth,
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Speaker 1: I forgive you. I'm going to beg forgiveness, forgive me
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Speaker 1: good people. A silly wench, I'm a beast, That's what
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Speaker 1: I am. But I want to pray. I gave a
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Speaker 1: little onion, wicked as I've been. I want to pray.
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Speaker 1: Meet you. Let them dance, don't stop them. Everyone in
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Speaker 1: the world is good everyone, even the worst of them.
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Speaker 1: The world's a nice place, though were bad. The world's
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Speaker 1: all right. We're good and bad, good and bad. Come
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Speaker 1: tell me I've something to ask you. Come here, everyone,
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Speaker 1: and I'll ask you. Why am I so good? You
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Speaker 1: know I am good? I'm very good? Come am I
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Speaker 1: so good? So? Grushenka babbled on, getting more and more drunk.
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Speaker 1: At last, she announced that she was going to dance too.
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Speaker 1: She got up from her chair, staggering, Mitch, it don't
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Speaker 1: give me any more wine. If I ask, you don't
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Speaker 1: give it to me. Wine doesn't give peace. Everything's going
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Speaker 1: around the stove and everything. I want a dance. Let
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Speaker 1: everyone see how I dance. Let them see how beautifully
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Speaker 1: I dance. She really meant it. She pulled a white
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Speaker 1: cambra handkerchief out of her pocket and took it by
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Speaker 1: one corner in her right hand to wave it in
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Speaker 1: the dance. Mitya ran to and fro. The girls were
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Speaker 1: quiet and got ready to break into a dancing song.
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Speaker 1: At the first signal, Maxim up here that Grushenka wanted
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Speaker 1: to dance, squealed with delight and ran skipping about in
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Speaker 1: front of her, humming with legs of them and sights
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Speaker 1: so trim hand.
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Speaker 2: It, little tail out tight.
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Speaker 1: But Grushenka waved her handkerchief at him and drove him away.
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Speaker 1: Sh Mitya, why don't they come, Let everyone come to
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Speaker 1: look on? Call them into that were locked up? Why
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Speaker 1: did you lock them in? Tell them I'm going to dance.
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Speaker 1: Let them look on too, Mitya walked with a drunken
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Speaker 1: swagger to the locked door and began knocking to the
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Speaker 1: poles with his furst. Hi, you podbysotskis. Come, she's going
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Speaker 1: to dance. She calls you lash dak. One of the
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Speaker 1: poles shouted in reply, you're a lash dak yourself. You're
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Speaker 1: a little scoundrel, that's what you are. Leave off laughing
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Speaker 1: at Poland, said Kalganov sententiously, He too was drunk. Be
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Speaker 1: quiet by If I call him a scoundrel, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean that I called old Poland. So one lash dak
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Speaker 1: doesn't make a Poland. Be quiet, my pretty boy, eat
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Speaker 1: a sweetmeat. Ah what fellows? As though they were not men?
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Speaker 1: Why won't they make friends? Said Grushenka, and went forward
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Speaker 1: to dance. The chorus broke into.
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Speaker 2: Ah my porch, My new porch.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka flung back, her head, half opened her lips, smiled,
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Speaker 1: waved her handkerchief, and suddenly, with a violent lurch, stood
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Speaker 1: still in the middle of the room, looking bewildered. I'm weak,
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Speaker 1: she said, in an exhausted voice. Forgive me, I'm weak.
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Speaker 1: I can't I'm sorry. She bowed to the chorus and
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Speaker 1: then began bowing in all directions. I'm sorry forgive me.
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Speaker 1: The lady's been drinking. The pretty lady has been drinking.
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Speaker 1: Voices were heard saying the lady's drunk too much, Maximov
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Speaker 1: explained to the girls, giggling, Mitya, lead me away, Take me,
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Speaker 1: said Grushenka. Helplessly. Mitya pounced on her, snatched her up
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Speaker 1: in his arms, and carried the precious burden through the curtains. Well,
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Speaker 1: now I'll go, thought Kalganov, and walking out of the
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Speaker 1: blue room, he closed the two halves of the door
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Speaker 1: after him, but the orgy in the larger room went
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Speaker 1: on and grew louder and louder. Mitya lay Grushenka on
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Speaker 1: the bed and kissed her on the lips. Don't touch me,
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Speaker 1: she faltered in an imployed voice. Don't touch me till
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Speaker 1: i'm yours. I've told you I'm yours, But don't touch me.
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Speaker 1: Spare me with them here with them, plus, you mustn't
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Speaker 1: he's here. It's nasty here. I'll obey you. I won't
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Speaker 1: think of it. I worship you, muttered Mitya. Yes, it's
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Speaker 1: nasty here, it's abominable and still holding her in his arms.
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Speaker 1: He sank on his knees by the bedside. I know,
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Speaker 1: though you're a brute, you're generous, Grushenka articulated with difficulty.
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Speaker 1: It must be honorable. It shall be honorable for the future,
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Speaker 1: and let us be honest. That does be good. Not brutes,
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Speaker 1: but good. Take me away, Take me far away. Do
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Speaker 1: you hear it? I don't want it to be here,
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Speaker 1: but far far away. Oh yes, yeah, yes, it must be,
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Speaker 1: said Mitya, pressing her in his arms. I'll take you
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Speaker 1: and we'll fly away. Oh. I'd give my old life
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Speaker 1: for one year only to know about that blood. What blood,
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Speaker 1: asked Grushenka, bewildered, Nothing muttered Mitya to his teeth. Grusha,
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Speaker 1: you wanted to be honest, But I'm a thief. But
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Speaker 1: I've stolen money from catcha disgrace and disgrace from ketcha
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Speaker 1: from that young lady. No, you didn't steal it. Give
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Speaker 1: it her back, take it from me. Why make a
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Speaker 1: fuss now? Ever, a thing of mine is yours. What
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Speaker 1: does money matter? We shall waste it anyway. Folks like
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Speaker 1: us are bound to waste money. But we'd better go
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Speaker 1: and work the land. I want to dig the earth
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Speaker 1: with my own hands. We must work to you here,
34:46
Speaker 1: Alyosha said, So, I won't be your mistress. I'll be
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Speaker 1: faithful to you. I'll be your slave. I'll work for you.
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Speaker 1: We'll go to the young lady and bow down to
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Speaker 1: her together so that she may forgive us. And then
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Speaker 1: we'll go away. And if she won't forgive us, we'll
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Speaker 1: go anywhere. Take her her money and love me. Don't
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Speaker 1: love her, don't love her any more. If you'll love her,
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Speaker 1: I shall strangle her. I'll put out both her eyes
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Speaker 1: with a needle. I love you, I love only you.
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Speaker 1: I'll love you in Siberia. Why Siberia, Never mind Siberia.
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Speaker 1: If you'll like, I don't care.
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Speaker 2: We'll work.
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Speaker 1: There's snow in Siberia. I love driving in the snow.
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Speaker 1: And must have bells. Do you hear there's a bell ringing?
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Speaker 1: Where is that bell ringing? There are people coming. Now
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Speaker 1: it's stopped. She closed her eyes, exhausted, and suddenly fell asleep.
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Speaker 1: For an instant there had certainly been the sound of
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Speaker 1: a bell in the distance, but the ringing had ceased.
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Speaker 1: Mitya let his head sink on her breast. He did
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Speaker 1: not notice that the bell had ceased ringing, Nor did
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Speaker 1: he notice that the songs had ceased, and that instead
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Speaker 1: of singing and drunken clamor, there was absolute stillness in
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Speaker 1: the house. Grushenka opened her eyes. What's the matter? Was
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Speaker 1: I asleep? Yes, a bell, I've been asleep and dreamt.
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Speaker 1: I was driving over the snow with bells, and I dozed.
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Speaker 1: I was with some one I loved with you, and
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Speaker 1: far far awake. I was holding you and kissing you,
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Speaker 1: nestling close to you. I was cold, and the snow glistened.
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Speaker 1: You know how the snow glistens at night when the
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Speaker 1: moon shine. It was as though I was not on earth.
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Speaker 1: I woke up. My dear one is close to me.
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Speaker 1: How sweet that is? Close to you? Murmured Mitya, kissing
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Speaker 1: her dress, her bosom, her hands, And suddenly he had
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Speaker 1: a strange fancy. It seemed to him that she was
36:54
Speaker 1: looking straight before her, not at him, not into his face,
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Speaker 1: but over his head with an intent, almost uncanny fixity,
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Speaker 1: an expression of wonder, almost of alarm, came suddenly into
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Speaker 1: her face. Mitchya, who is that looking at us? She whispered.
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Speaker 1: Mitcha turned and saw that someone had in fact parted
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Speaker 1: the curtains and seemed to be watching them, and not
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Speaker 1: one person alone, it seemed. He jumped up and walked
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Speaker 1: quickly to the intruder. Here, come to us, Come here,
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Speaker 1: said a voice, speaking not loudly, but firmly and peremptorily.
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Speaker 1: Mitcha passed to the other side of the curtain and
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Speaker 1: stood stuck still. The room was filled with people, but
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Speaker 1: not those who had been there before. An instantaneous shiver
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Speaker 1: ran down his back, and he sheddered. He recognized all
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Speaker 1: those people instantly. That tall, stout old man in the
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Speaker 1: overcoat and forage cap with a cockade was the police
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Speaker 1: Captain Mihail Makarovitch. And that consumptive looking trim dandy who
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Speaker 1: always has such polished boots, that was the deputy prosecutor.
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Speaker 1: He has a chronometer worth four hundred roubles. He showed
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Speaker 1: it to me. And that small young man in spectacles
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Speaker 1: Mitya forgot his surname, though he knew him, had seen him.
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Speaker 1: He was the investigating lawyer from the school of jurisprudence,
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Speaker 1: who had only lately come to the town. And this
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Speaker 1: man the inspector of police, Mavoriki Mavorikyevich, a man he
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Speaker 1: knew well, and those fellows with the brass plates on
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Speaker 1: why are they here? And those other two peasants, and
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Speaker 1: there at the door Kalganov with trifon Borisovik. Gentlemen, what's this?
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Speaker 1: Poor gentleman? Began Mitya, but suddenly, as though beside himself,
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Speaker 1: not knowing what he was doing, he cried aloud at
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Speaker 1: the top of his voice, I under damn. The young
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Speaker 1: man in spectacles moved forward suddenly, and stepping up to Mitya,
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Speaker 1: began with dignity, though hurriedly. We have to make him brief.
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Speaker 1: I beg you to come this way, this way to
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Speaker 1: the sofa. It is absolutely imperative that you should give
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Speaker 1: an explanation. The old ma'am, cried Mitya frantically. The old
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Speaker 1: man and his blood, I understand, and he sank, almost
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Speaker 1: fell on a chair close by, as though he had
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Speaker 1: been mown down by a side. You understand. He understands it.
40:24
Speaker 1: Monster and parricide. Your father's blood cries out against you.
40:30
Speaker 1: The old captain of police roared, suddenly, stepping up to Mitya.
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Speaker 1: He was beside himself crimson in the face and quivering
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Speaker 1: all over. This is impossible, cried the small young man
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Speaker 1: Mihail Makarovitch, Mihhil Makarovitch, this won't do. I beg you
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Speaker 1: allow me to speak. I should never have expected such
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Speaker 1: behavior from you. This is delirium, gentleman, raving delirium, cried
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Speaker 1: the captain of police. Look at him, drunk at this
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Speaker 1: time of night, and the company of a disreputable woman,
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Speaker 1: with the blood of his father on his hands. It's delirium.
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Speaker 1: I beg you most earnestly, dear Mihail Makaraviitch, to restrain
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Speaker 1: your feelings. The prosecutor said, in a rapid whisper to
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Speaker 1: the old piece Captain, I shall be forced to resort
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Speaker 1: to But the little lawyer did not allow him to finish.
41:30
Speaker 1: He turned to Mitya and delivered himself in a loud, firm,
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Speaker 1: dignified voice. Ex Lieutenant Karamatzov, it is my duty to
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Speaker 1: inform you that you are charged with the murder of
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Speaker 1: your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamatzov perpetrated this night. He said
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Speaker 1: something more, and the prosecutor too, put in something. But
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Speaker 1: though Mitya heard them, he did not understand them. He
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Speaker 1: stared at them all with wild eyes. End of Chapter
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Speaker 1: fifty four,