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072 - Book Eleven Chapter Two · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy two of The Brother's Karamazov by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter two, The Injured Foot.
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  Speaker 1: The first of these things was at the house of
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  Speaker 1: Madame Holoko, and he hurried there to get it over
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as possible and not be too late for Mitya.
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  Speaker 1: Madame Hohlakov had been slightly ailing for the last three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Her foot had for some reasons, swollen up, and though
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  Speaker 1: she was not in bed, she lay all day half
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  Speaker 1: reclining on the couch in her boudoir in a fascinating
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  Speaker 1: but decorous desabille. Alyosha had once noted with and amusement
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  Speaker 1: that in spite of her illness, Madame Hohlakov had begun
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  Speaker 1: to be rather dressy. Top knots, ribbons, loose wrappers had
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  Speaker 1: made their appearance, and he had an inkling of the reason,
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  Speaker 1: though he dismissed such ideas from his mind as frivolous.
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  Speaker 1: During the last two months, the young official Perhutun had
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  Speaker 1: become a regular visitor at the house. Alyosha had not
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  Speaker 1: called for four days, and he was in haste to
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  Speaker 1: go straight to Lisa, as it was with her he
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  Speaker 1: had to speak for Lisa had sent a maid to
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  Speaker 1: him the previous day, specially asking him to come to
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  Speaker 1: her about something very important, a request which for certain
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  Speaker 1: reasons had interest for Alyosha. But while the maid went
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  Speaker 1: to take his name into Lisa, Madame Hohlakov heard of
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  Speaker 1: his arrival from some one and immediately sent to beg
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  Speaker 1: him to come to her just for one minute. Alyosha
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  Speaker 1: reflected that it was better to accede to the mamma's request,
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  Speaker 1: or else she would be sending down to Lisa's room
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  Speaker 1: every minute that he was there. Madame Olokov was lying
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  Speaker 1: on a couch. She was particularly smartly dressed and was
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  Speaker 1: evidently in a state of extreme nervous excitement. She greeted
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  Speaker 1: Alyosha with cries of a rupture. It's ages, ages, perfect ages,
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  Speaker 1: since I've seen you. It's a whole week, only think
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  Speaker 1: of it. But you were here only four days ago
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. You have come to see Lisa. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you meant to step into her room on tiptoe without
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  Speaker 1: my hearing you. My dear dear Alexei bya da rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: if you only knew how worried I am about it.
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  Speaker 1: But of that later, though, that's the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: of that Later, dear Alexei by a da rabbit, I
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  Speaker 1: trust you implicitly with my Lisa since the death the
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  Speaker 1: father's esteemer, God rest his soul. She crossed herself. I
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  Speaker 1: look upon you as a monk, that you look charming
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  Speaker 1: in your new suit. Where did you find such a
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  Speaker 1: tailor in these parts? No, no, that's not the cheap
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  Speaker 1: thing of that later, forgive me for some times calling
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  Speaker 1: you Alyosha. An old woman like me may take liberties,
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  Speaker 1: she smiled coquettishly. But that will do later too. The
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  Speaker 1: important thing is that I shouldn't forget what is important.
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  Speaker 1: Please remind me of it yourself. As soon as my
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  Speaker 1: tongue runs away with me, you just say the important thing? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: how do I know now what is of most importance?
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  Speaker 1: Ever since Lisa took back her promise, a childish promise,
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  Speaker 1: Alexey Poyodorovitch to marry you, you've realized, of course, that
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  Speaker 1: it was only the playful fancy of a sick child
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  Speaker 1: who have been so long confined to a chair thank God,
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  Speaker 1: chicken walk now that new doctor catchya sent for from
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  Speaker 1: Moscow for your unhappy brother who will tomorrow? But why
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  Speaker 1: speak of tomorrow? I am ready to die at the
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  Speaker 1: very thought of tomorrow, Ready to die of curiosity. That
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  Speaker 1: doctor was with us yesterday and saw Lisa. I paid
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  Speaker 1: him fifty roubles for the visit. But that's not the point.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the point. Again. You see, I'm mixing everything up.
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  Speaker 1: I am in such a hurry. Why am I in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry? I don't understand. It's awful how I seem
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  Speaker 1: growing unable to understand anything. Everything seems mixed up in
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  Speaker 1: a sort of tangle. I am afraid you are so
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  Speaker 1: bored you will jump up and run away, and that
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  Speaker 1: will be all I shall see of you. Goodness, Why
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  Speaker 1: are we sitting here and no coffee? Yulia Gladierra coffee?
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  Speaker 1: Alyosha made haste to thank her and said that he
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  Speaker 1: had only just had coffee. Where at Agrafena Alexandrovna's ah.
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  Speaker 1: At that woman's ah. If she has brought ruin on everyone,
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  Speaker 1: I know nothing about it, though they say she has
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  Speaker 1: become a saint. Though it's rather late in the day.
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  Speaker 1: She had better have done it before? What use is
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  Speaker 1: it now? Hush, hush, Alexei Byudorovitch, For I have so
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  Speaker 1: much to say to you that I am afraid I
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  Speaker 1: shall tell you nothing, this awful child. I shall certainly go.
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  Speaker 1: I am making arrangements. I shall be carried there in
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  Speaker 1: my chair. Besides, I can sit up. I shall have
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  Speaker 1: people with me. And you know I am a witness.
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  Speaker 1: How shall I speak? How shall I speak? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I shall say. One has to take an oath,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't one? Yes, But I don't think you will be
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  Speaker 1: able to go. I can sit up. Ah, you put
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  Speaker 1: me out, Ah, this trial, this savage act, and then
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  Speaker 1: they are all going to Siberia. Some are getting married,
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  Speaker 1: and all this so quickly, so quickly, everything's changing, and
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  Speaker 1: at last nothing or grow old and have death to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to. Well, so be it. I am weary.
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  Speaker 1: This catcher, said charmant. A song has disappointed all my hopes.
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  Speaker 1: Now she is going to follow one of your brothers
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  Speaker 1: to Siberia, and your other brother is going to follow her,
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  Speaker 1: and will live in the nearest town, and they will
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  Speaker 1: all torment one another. It drives me out of my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Worst of all the publicity. The story has been told
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  Speaker 1: a million times over in all the papers in Moscow
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  Speaker 1: and Petersburg. Are Yes, would you believe it? There's a
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  Speaker 1: paragraph that I was a dear friend of your brother's.
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  Speaker 1: I can't repeat the horrid word. Just fancy, just fancy impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Where was the paragraph? What did it say? I'll show
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  Speaker 1: you directly. I got the paper and read it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Here in the Petersburg paper Gossip. The paper began coming
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  Speaker 1: out this year. I am awfully fond of gossip, and
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  Speaker 1: I take it in and now it pays me out.
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  Speaker 1: This is what gossip comes to here, it is here
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  Speaker 1: this passage. Read it, and she handed Alyosha a sheet
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  Speaker 1: of newspaper which had been under her pillow. It was
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  Speaker 1: not exactly that she was upset. She seemed overwhelmed, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps ever a thing really was mixed up in the
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  Speaker 1: tangle in her head. The paragraph was very typical and
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  Speaker 1: must have been a great shock to her. But fortunately
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  Speaker 1: perhaps she was enabled to keep her mind fixed on
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  Speaker 1: any one subject at that moment, and so might race
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  Speaker 1: off in a minute do something else, and to quite
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  Speaker 1: forget the newspaper. Alyosha was well aware that the story
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  Speaker 1: of the terrible case had spread all over Russia, and
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  Speaker 1: good heavens, what wild rumors about his brother, about the
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  Speaker 1: karamats Ups, and about himself he had read in the
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  Speaker 1: course of those two months, among other equally credible items.
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  Speaker 1: One paper had even stated that he had gone into
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  Speaker 1: a monastery and become a monk in horror at his
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  Speaker 1: brother's crime. Another contradicted this and stated that he and
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  Speaker 1: his elder father Zossimer, had broken into the monastery chest
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  Speaker 1: and made tracks from the monastery. The present paragraph in
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  Speaker 1: the paper Gossip was under the heading the Karamatzov case
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  Speaker 1: at Scott The poregoniaps that Alas was the name of
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  Speaker 1: our little term. I had hitherto kept it concealed. It
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  Speaker 1: was brief, and Madame Hohlakov was not directly mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: that no names appeared. In fact, it was merely stated
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  Speaker 1: that the criminal whose approaching trial was making such a sensation,
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  Speaker 1: a retired army captain, an idol swaggerer and reactionary bullet,
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  Speaker 1: was continually involved in amorous intrigues and particularly popular with
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  Speaker 1: certain ladies who were pining in solitude. One such a lady,
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  Speaker 1: a pining widow, who tried to seem young, though she
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  Speaker 1: had a grown up daughter, was so fascinated by him that,
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  Speaker 1: only two hours before the crime, she offered him three
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  Speaker 1: thousand roubles on condition that he would elope with her
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  Speaker 1: to the gold mines. But the criminal, counting on escaping punishment,
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  Speaker 1: had preferred to murder his father to get the three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: rather than go up to Siberia with the middle aged
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  Speaker 1: charms of his pining lady. This playful paragraph finished, of course,
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  Speaker 1: with an outburst of generous indignation at the wickedness of
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  Speaker 1: parricide and at the lately abolished institution of serfdom. Reading
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  Speaker 1: it with curiosity, Alyosha folded up the paper and handed
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  Speaker 1: it back to Madame Hohlakov. Well that must be me,
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  Speaker 1: she hurried on again. Of course I am meant scarcely
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  Speaker 1: more than an hour before I suggested gold mines to him,
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  Speaker 1: and here they talk of middle age charms. That that
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  Speaker 1: were my motive. He writes that out o spite, godle Mighty,
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  Speaker 1: forgive him for the middle age charms, as I forgive him.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's do you know who it is? It's
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  Speaker 1: your friend Rakitin, perhaps, said Alyosha, Though I've heard nothing
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  Speaker 1: about it. It's he it's he no perhaps about it?
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  Speaker 1: You know I turned him out of the house. You
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  Speaker 1: know all that story, don't you. I know that you
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  Speaker 1: asked him not to visit you for the future, But
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  Speaker 1: why it was? I haven't heard from you at least? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: then you've heard it from him. He abuses me, I
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  Speaker 1: suppose abuses me dreadfully. Yes, he does, but then he
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  Speaker 1: abuses every one. But why you've given him up? I
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard from him either. I meet Timberry seldom now,
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  Speaker 1: indeed we are not friends. Well, then i'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: all about it. There's no hope for it. I'll confess,
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  Speaker 1: for there is one point in which I was perhaps
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  Speaker 1: to blame, only a little little point, so little, but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it doesn't count. You see, my dear boy, Madame
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  Speaker 1: Mulako suddenly looked arch and a charming, though enigmatic smile
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  Speaker 1: played about her lips. You see, I suspect you must
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  Speaker 1: forgive me Alyosha. I am like a mother to you. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: quite the contrary. I speak to you now as though
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  Speaker 1: you were my father. Mother's quite out of place. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's as though I were confessing to Father Zossima. That's
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  Speaker 1: just it. I called you a monk just now, well,
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  Speaker 1: that poor young man your friend rakitin mercy on us.
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  Speaker 1: I can't be angry with him. I feel cross, but
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  Speaker 1: not very that a frivolous young man, would you believe?
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  Speaker 1: It seems to have taken it into his head to
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  Speaker 1: fall in love with me. I only noticed it later,
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  Speaker 1: at first, a month ago. He only began to come
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  Speaker 1: oftener to see me almost every day, though of course
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  Speaker 1: we were acquainted before. I knew nothing about it, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly it dawned upon me, and I began to notice
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  Speaker 1: things with surprise. You know, two months ago that modest, charming,
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  Speaker 1: excellent young man payoto Ilitch Perhuttin, who's in the service here,
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  Speaker 1: began to be a regular visitor at the house. You
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  Speaker 1: met him here ever so many times yourself. And he
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  Speaker 1: is an excellent, earnest young man, isn't he. He comes
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  Speaker 1: once every three days, not every day, though I should
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  Speaker 1: be glad to see him every day, and always so
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  Speaker 1: well dressed. Altogether. I love young people, Alyosha talented, modest
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  Speaker 1: like you, and he has almost the mind of a statesman.
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  Speaker 1: He talks so charmingly, and I shall certainly certainly try
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  Speaker 1: and get promotion for him. He is a future diplomat.
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  Speaker 1: On that awful day he almost saved me from death
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  Speaker 1: by coming in the night. And your friend Rakitin comes
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  Speaker 1: in such boots and always stretches them out on the carpet.
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  Speaker 1: He began hinting at his feelings in fact, and one day,
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  Speaker 1: as he was going he squeezed my hand terribly hard.
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  Speaker 1: My foot began to swell directly after he pressed my
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  Speaker 1: hand like that. He had met Payoto Ilia Cheer before.
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  Speaker 1: And would you believe it, he is always gibing at him,
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  Speaker 1: growling at him. For some reason, I simply looked at
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  Speaker 1: the way they went on together and laughed inwardly. So
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting here alone, No I was made up.
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  Speaker 1: Then well, I was lying here alone, and suddenly Rakitin
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  Speaker 1: came in, and only fancy brought me some verses of
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  Speaker 1: his own composition, A short poem on my bad foot.
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  Speaker 1: That is, he described my foot in a poem. A
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, how did it go? A captivating littlefoot?
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  Speaker 1: It began somehow like that. I can never remember poetry.
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  Speaker 1: I've got it here. I'll show it to you later.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a charming thing charming, and you know it's
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  Speaker 1: not only about the foot. It had a good moral too,
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  Speaker 1: a charming idea, only I've forgotten it. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: was just the thing for an album. So of course
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  Speaker 1: I thanked him, and he was evidently flattered. Had hardly
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  Speaker 1: had time to thank him when incomes pyotr Ilyitch, and
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  Speaker 1: Rakitin suddenly looked as black as night. I could see
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  Speaker 1: that pyoto Ilioch was in the way, for Rakitin certainly
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say something. After giving me the verses, I
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  Speaker 1: had a presentiment of it, but pyoto Ilitch came in.
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  Speaker 1: I showed by eto Ilyitch the verses, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say who was the author, but I am convinced that
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  Speaker 1: he guessed, though we won't own it to this day
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  Speaker 1: and declares he had no idea. But he says that
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  Speaker 1: on purpose. Pyotor Ilyitch began to laugh at once and
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  Speaker 1: fell to criticizing it. Wretched doggerel. He said, they were
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  Speaker 1: some divinity student. Must have threatened them, and with such vehement,
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  Speaker 1: such vehemence. Then instead of laughing, your friend flew into
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  Speaker 1: a rage. Good gracious, I thought they'll fly at each other.
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  Speaker 1: It was I who wrote them, said he. I wrote
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  Speaker 1: them as a joke. He said, for I think it
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  Speaker 1: degrade him to write verses, but they are good poetry.
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  Speaker 1: They want to put a monument to your pushkin for
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  Speaker 1: writing a bad women's feet, while I wrote with a
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  Speaker 1: moral purpose. And you said, he are an advocate ab surpdom.
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  Speaker 1: You've no humane ideas, said he. You have no modern,
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  Speaker 1: enlightened feelings. You are uninfluenced by progress. You are a
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  Speaker 1: mere official, he said, and you take brides. Then I
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  Speaker 1: began screaming and imploring them. And you know, peyoto Ilyitch
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  Speaker 1: is anything but a coward. He at once took up
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  Speaker 1: the most gentlemanly tone, looked at him sarcastically, listen, and apologized.
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  Speaker 1: I'd no idea, said he. I shouldn't have said it.
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  Speaker 1: If I had known, I should have praised that poets
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  Speaker 1: are all so irritable, he said. In short, he laughed
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  Speaker 1: at and under cover of the most gentlemanly tone. He
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  Speaker 1: explained to me afterwards that it was all sarcastic. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was in earnest only as I lay there,
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  Speaker 1: just as before you. Now, I thought, would it or
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  Speaker 1: would it not be the proper thing for me to
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  Speaker 1: turn a rakitin out for shouting so rudely at a
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  Speaker 1: visitor in my house, and would you believe it? I
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  Speaker 1: lay here, shut my eyes and wondered would it be
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  Speaker 1: the proper thing or not. I kept worrying and worrying,
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  Speaker 1: and my heart began to beat, and I couldn't make
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  Speaker 1: up my mind whether to make an outcry or not.
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  Speaker 1: One voice seemed to be telling me speak, and the
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  Speaker 1: other no, don't speak, and no. Sooner had the second
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  Speaker 1: voice said that, than I cried out and fainted. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there was a fuss. I got up suddenly and said
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  Speaker 1: to Rakitin, it's painful for me to say it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't wish to see you in my house again.
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  Speaker 1: So I turned him out. Ah, Alexey Fyodorovitch. I know
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  Speaker 1: myself I did wrong. I was putting it on. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't angry with him at all, really, but I suddenly
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  Speaker 1: fancied that was what did it, that it would be
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  Speaker 1: such a fine scene. And yet, believe me, it was
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  Speaker 1: quite natural. For I really shed tears and cried for
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  Speaker 1: several days afterwards, and then suddenly one afternoon I forgot
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  Speaker 1: all about it. So it's a fortnight since he's been here,
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  Speaker 1: and I kept wondering whether he would come again. I
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  Speaker 1: wondered even yesterday. Then suddenly last night came this gossip.
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  Speaker 1: I read it and gasped, who could have written it?
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  Speaker 1: He must have written it. He went home, sat down,
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  Speaker 1: wrote it on the spot, sent it and they put
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  Speaker 1: it in. It was a fortnight ago, you see. But Alyosha,
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  Speaker 1: it's awful. I keep talking and don't say what I
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  Speaker 1: want to say. Other words come at themselves. It's very
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  Speaker 1: important for me to be in time to see my
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  Speaker 1: brother today, Alyosha faltered. To be sure, to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: you bring it all back to me. Listen, what is
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  Speaker 1: an aberration? What aberration? Asked Alyosha, wondering in the legal sense,
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  Speaker 1: an aberration in which everything is pardonable. Whatever you do,
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  Speaker 1: you will be acquitted at once. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this catcher Ah. She is a charming,
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  Speaker 1: charming creature. Only I never can make out who it
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  Speaker 1: is she is in love with. She was with me
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  Speaker 1: some time ago, and I couldn't get anything out of her,
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  Speaker 1: especially as she won't talk to me except on the surface.
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  Speaker 1: Now she is always talking about my health and nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: And she takes up such a tone with me too.
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  Speaker 1: I simply said to myself well, so be it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care. Oh yes, I was talking of aberration. This
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  Speaker 1: doctor has come, you know, a doctor has come, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know it, the one who discovers madmen. You wrote
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  Speaker 1: for him. No, it wasn't you, but catcha. It's all
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  Speaker 1: Catcher's doing. Well. You see, a man may be sitting
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  Speaker 1: perfectly saying and suddenly have an aberration. He may be
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  Speaker 1: conscious and know what he is doing, and yet be
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  Speaker 1: in a state of aberration. And there's no doubt that
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri Byodorovitch was suffering from aberration. They found out about
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  Speaker 1: aberration as soon as the law courts were reformed. It's
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  Speaker 1: all the good effect of the reformed law courts. The
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  Speaker 1: doctor has been here and questioned me about that evening,
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  Speaker 1: about the gold mines. How did he seem? Then he
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  Speaker 1: asked me, he must have been in a state of aberration.
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  Speaker 1: He came in shouting money, money, three thousand, give me
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  Speaker 1: three thousand, and then went away and immediately did the murder.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to murder him, he said, And he
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  Speaker 1: suddenly went and murdered him. That's why they're liquit him,
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  Speaker 1: because he struggled against it, and yet he murdered him,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't murder him, Alyosha interrupted rather sharply. He
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: felt more and more sick with anxiety and impatience. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know it was that old man Grigory murdered him.
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  Speaker 1: Gregory cried Alyosha. Yes, yes, it was Grigory. He lay
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  Speaker 1: as Dmitri Fyodorovitch struck him down, and then got up,
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  Speaker 1: saw the door open, went in and killed Fyodor Pavlobert.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But why why suffering from aberration when he recovered from
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the blow Dmitri Fyodorovitch gave him on the head. He
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was suffering from aberration, he went and committed the murder,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: as bees saying he didn't. He very likely doesn't remember.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Only you know, it'll be better, ever so much better,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: if Dmitri Fyodorovitch murdered him, And that's how it must
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: have been. Though I say it was Grigory, it certainly
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was Dmitri Fyodorovitch. And that's better, ever so much better. Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: not better that a son should have killed his father.
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  Speaker 1: I don't defend that children ought to honor their parents.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And yet it would be better if it were he,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: as you'd have nothing to cry over then, for he
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: did it when he was unconscious, or rather when he
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: was conscious but did not know what he was doing.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Let them acquit him. That's so humane and would show
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: what a blessing reformed law courts are. I knew nothing
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: about it, but they say they have been so a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: long time. And when I heard it yesterday, I was
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: so struck by it that I wanted to send for
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you at once. And if he is acquitted, make him
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: come straight from the law courts to dinner with me,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and I'll have a party of friends and we'll drink
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to the reformed law courts. I don't believe he'd be dangerous. Besides,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I'll invite a great many friends so that he could
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: always be let out if he did anything, and then
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: he might be made a justice of the peace or
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: something in another town. For those who have been incroubled
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: themselves make the best judges. And besides, who isn't suffering
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: from aberration nowadays? You? I, all of us are in
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a state of aberration. And there are ever so many
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: examples of it. A man sits singing a song, Suddenly
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: something annoys him. He takes a pistol and shoots the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: first person he comes across, and no one blames him
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: for it. I read that lately, and all the doctors
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: confirm it. The doctors are always confirming, they confirm anything.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Why my Lisa is in a state of aberration. She
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: made me cry again yesterday and the day before too,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and to day. I suddenly realized that it's all due
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to aberration. Oh, Lisa grieves me, so I believe she's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: quite mad. Why did she send for you? Did she
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: send for you or did you come of yourself? Yes,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: she sent for me, and I am just going to her.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Alyosha got up resolutely. Oh my dear dear Alexey Fyodorovitch.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Perhaps that's what's most important, Madame Olokov cried, suddenly bursting
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: into tears. God knows, I trust Lisa to you with
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: all my heart, and it's no matter her sending for
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you on the sly without telling her mother. But forgive me,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I can't trust my daughter so easily to your brother
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Ivan Fyodorovitch, though I still consider him the most chivalrous
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: young ma'am, but only fancy. He's been to see Lisa,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and I knew nothing about it. How what when Alyosha
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was exceedingly surprised he had not sat down again and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: listened standing. I will tell you that's perhaps why I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: asked you to come, for I don't know now why
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I did ask you to come. Well, Ivan Vayodorovitch has
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: been to see me twice since he came back from Moscow.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: First time he came as a friend to call on me,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and the second time Catcha was here and he came
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: because he heard she was here. I didn't, of course,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: expect him to come often, knowing what a lot he
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: has to do as it is of aol comprone sataf
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: ela moretari la da but Papa. But I suddenly heard
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: he'd been here again, not to see me, but to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: see Lisa. That's six days ago now. He came, stayed
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: five minutes and went away, and I didn't hear of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it till three days afterwards from Glafira. So it was
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a great shock to me. I sent for Lisa directly.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: She laughed. He thought you were asleep, she said, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: came in to me to ask after your health. Of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: course that's how it happened. But Lisa, Lisa mercy on us,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: how she distresses me. Would you believe it? One night,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: four days ago, just after you saw her last time
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and had gone away. She suddenly had a fit, screaming, shrieking, hysterics.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Why is it I never have hysterics? Then next day
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: another fit, and the same thing on the third, and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: yesterday too, and then yesterday that aberration. She suddenly screamed out,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I hate iv An Fyodorovitch. I insist on your never
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: letting him come to the house again. I was struck
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: dumb at these amazing words, and answered, on what grounds
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: could I refuse to see such an excellent young man,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: A young man of such learning too, and so unfortunate
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: for all? This business is a misfortune, isn't it? She
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: suddenly burst out, laughing at my words, and so rudely.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You know well, I was pleased. I thought I had
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: amused her and the fits would pass up, especially as
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I wanted to refuse to see Ivan Fyodorovitch anyway on
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: account of his strange visits without my knowledge, and meant
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: to ask him for an explanation. But early this morning
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Lisa waked up and flew into a passion with Julia,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and would you believe it, slapped her in the face,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that monstrous I am always polite to my servants and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: an hour later, she was hugging Yulia's feet and kissing them.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: She sent a message to me that she wasn't coming
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to me at all and would never come and see
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: me again. And when I dragged myself down to her,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: she rushed to kiss me, crying, and as she kissed me,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: she pushed me out of the room without saying a word,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: so I couldn't find out what was the matter. Now,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, I rest all my hopes on you,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and of course my whole life is in your hands.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I simply beg you to go to Lisa and find
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: out everything for her as you alone can, and come
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: back and tell me me o mother, for you understand,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it will be the death of me, simply the death
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of me if this goes on or else I shall
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: run away. I can stand no more. I have patience,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: but I may lose patience in them, then something awful
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: will happen. Ah, dear me at last, by yoto Ilyitch,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: cried Madame Hohlakov, beaming all over as she saw perhotin
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: enter the room. You are late. You are late, well,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: sit down, speak, put us out of suspense. What does
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the council say where are you up to, Alexey Fyodorovitch
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to Lisa. Oh, yes, you won't forget. You won't forget
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: what I asked you. It's a question of life and death.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Of course I won't forget if I can. But I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: am so late, muttered Alyosha, beating a hasty retreat. No,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: be sure, be sure to come in. Don't say if
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: you can, I shall die if you don't. Madame Hohlakov
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: called out to him, but Alyo Lusha had already left
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  Speaker 1: the room. End of Chapter seventy two.