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059 - Book Nine Chapter Five · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty nine of The Brother's Karametzov by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter five, the Third Ordeal.
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  Speaker 1: Though Mitya spoke sullenly, it was evident that he was
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  Speaker 1: trying more than ever not to forget or miss a
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  Speaker 1: single detail of his story. He told them how he
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  Speaker 1: had leapt over the fence into his father's garden, how
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  Speaker 1: he had gone up to the window, told them all
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  Speaker 1: that had passed under the window, clearly, precisely, distinctly. He
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  Speaker 1: described the feelings that troubled him during those moments in
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  Speaker 1: the garden, when he longed so terribly to know whether
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  Speaker 1: Grushenka was with his father or not, but strange to
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  Speaker 1: say both. The lawyers listened now with a sort of
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  Speaker 1: awful reserve, looked coldly at him, asked few questions. Mitya
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  Speaker 1: could gather nothing from their faces. They're angry and offended,
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  Speaker 1: he thought, well. Bother then, when he described how he
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  Speaker 1: made up his mind at last to make the signal
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  Speaker 1: to his father that Grushenka had come, so that he
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  Speaker 1: should open the window. The lawyers paid no attention to
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  Speaker 1: the words signal, as though they entirely failed to grasp
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of the word in this connection, so much
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  Speaker 1: so that Mitya noticed it coming at last to the moment,
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  Speaker 1: when seeing his father peering out of the window, his
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  Speaker 1: hatred flared up, and he pulled the pestle out of
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  Speaker 1: his pocket. He suddenly, as though of design, stopped short.
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  Speaker 1: He sat gazing at the wall, and was aware that
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  Speaker 1: their eyes were fixed upon him. Well, said the investigating lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He pulled out the weapon, and and what happened? Then? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Why then I murdered him, hit him on the head
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  Speaker 1: and cracked his skull. I suppose that's your story, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes suddenly flashed, all his smothered wrath suddenly flamed
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  Speaker 1: up with extraordinary violence in his soul. Our story, repeated
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  Speaker 1: Nikolay Parfenovitch. Well and yours. Mitya dropped his eyes and
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  Speaker 1: was a long time silent. My story, gentlemen, Well it
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  Speaker 1: was like this, he began softly. Whether it was some
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  Speaker 1: one's tears, or my mother prayed to God, or a
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  Speaker 1: good angel kissed me at that instant, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: But the devil was conquered. I rushed from the window
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  Speaker 1: and ran to the fence. My father was alarmed, and
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  Speaker 1: for the first time he saw me. Then cried out
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  Speaker 1: and sprang back from the window. I remember that very well.
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  Speaker 1: I ran across the garden to the fence, and there
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  Speaker 1: Grigory caught me when I was sitting on the fence.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, he raised his eyes at last and
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  Speaker 1: looked at his listeners. They seemed to be staring at
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  Speaker 1: him with perfectly unruffled attention. A sort of paroxysm of
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  Speaker 1: indignation seized on Mitya's soul. Why you're laughing at me
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  Speaker 1: at this moment, gentlemen, he broke up suddenly. What makes
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  Speaker 1: you think that, observed Nikolay Parfenovitch. You don't believe one word.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I understand of costs, that I have come
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  Speaker 1: to the vital point. The old man's lying there now
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  Speaker 1: with his skull broken. While I, after dramatically describing how
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to kill him and how I snatched up
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  Speaker 1: the pustle, I suddenly ran away from the window. A
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  Speaker 1: romance poetry, as though one could believe a follow on
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  Speaker 1: his word. Ha ha, you are Scopper's gentleman, and he
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  Speaker 1: swung round on his chair so that it creaked. And
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  Speaker 1: did you notice, asked the prosecutor suddenly, as though not
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  Speaker 1: observing Mitya's excitement. Did you notice when you ran away
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  Speaker 1: from the window whether the door into the garden was open? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was not open. It was not it was shut.
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  Speaker 1: And who could open it? Bah the door? Wait a bit,
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  Speaker 1: he seemed suddenly to bethink himself, and almost with a start.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you find the door open? Yes, it was open.
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  Speaker 1: Why who could have opened it? If you did not
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  Speaker 1: open it? Yoursel, cried Mitya, greatly astonished. The door stood open,
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  Speaker 1: and your father's murderer undoubtedly went in at that door, and,
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  Speaker 1: having accomplished the crime, went out again by the same door.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutor pronounced, deliberately, as though chiseling out each word separately.
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  Speaker 1: That is perfectly clear the murder was committed in the
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  Speaker 1: room and not through the window. That is absolutely certain.
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  Speaker 1: From the examination that has been made, from the position
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  Speaker 1: of the body and everything, there can be no doubt
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  Speaker 1: of that circumstance. Mitya was absolutely dumbfounded. But that's utterly impossible,
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  Speaker 1: he cried, completely ut a loss. I didn't go in,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you latively, definitely. The door was shut the
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  Speaker 1: whole time I was in the garden, and when I
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  Speaker 1: ran out of the garden, I only stood at the
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  Speaker 1: window and saw him through the winter. That's all. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I remember, to the last minute. And if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't remember, it would be just the same. I know it.
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  Speaker 1: When no one knew the signals, accepts my diacup and
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  Speaker 1: me and the dead man, And he wouldn't have opened
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  Speaker 1: the door to anyone in the world without the signals? Signals?
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  Speaker 1: What signals? Asked the prosecutor with greedy, almost hysterical curiosity.
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  Speaker 1: He instantly lost all trace of his reserve and dignity.
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  Speaker 1: He asked the question with a sort of tringing timidity.
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  Speaker 1: He scented an important fact of which he had known nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and was already filled with dread that Mitya might be
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  Speaker 1: unwilling to disclose it. So you didn't know, meet your
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  Speaker 1: winketerton with a malicious and mocking smile. What if I
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  Speaker 1: won't tell you? From whom could you find out? No
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  Speaker 1: one knew about the signals except my father Smadayakov and me?
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  Speaker 1: That was all heaven knew too, but it won't tell you.
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  Speaker 1: But it's an interesting fact. There's no knowing what you
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  Speaker 1: might build on it. Ah Ah, take comfort, gentleman, I'll
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  Speaker 1: reveal it. You've some foolish idea in your hearts. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know the man you have to deal with. You
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  Speaker 1: have to do with a prisoner who gives evidence against
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  Speaker 1: himself to his own damage. Yes, for I'm a man
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  Speaker 1: of honor and you are not. The prosecutor swallowed this
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  Speaker 1: without a murmur. He was trembling with impatience to hear
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  Speaker 1: that new fact. Minutely and diffusely, Mitya told them ever
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  Speaker 1: a thing about the signals invented by Fyodor Pavlovitch Forcemardakov.
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  Speaker 1: He told them exactly, whatever he tapped on the window
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  Speaker 1: meant tap the signals on the table. And when Nikolay
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  Speaker 1: Parfenovitch said that he supposed he Mitya had tapped the
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  Speaker 1: signal Grushenka has come when he tapped to his father,
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  Speaker 1: he answered precisely that he had tapped that signal that
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  Speaker 1: Grushenka had come. So now you can build up your tower.
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  Speaker 1: Mitya broke off and again turned away from them contemptuously.
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  Speaker 1: So no, one knew of the signals, but your dead father,
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  Speaker 1: you and the valets Mydyakov, and no one else. Nikolay
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  Speaker 1: Parfenovitch inquired once more, Yes, the valet Smerdyakov and heaven
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  Speaker 1: write down about Heaven that may be of use. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: you will need God yourselves. And they had already, of course,
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  Speaker 1: begun writing it down. But while they wrote, the prosecutor said, suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: as though pitching on a new idea. But if Smerdyakov
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  Speaker 1: also knew of these signals, and you absolutely deny all
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for the death of your father, was it not
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  Speaker 1: he perhaps who knocked the signal agreed upon, induced your
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  Speaker 1: father to open to him, and then committed the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Mitya turned upon him a look of profound irony and
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  Speaker 1: intense hatred. His silence stir lasted so long that it
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  Speaker 1: made the prosecutor blink. You've caught the fox again, commented Mitya.
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  Speaker 1: At last, you've got the beast by the tale. Ha ha,
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  Speaker 1: I see three you missed, the prosecutor. You thought, of
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  Speaker 1: course that I should jump at that catch at your prompting,
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  Speaker 1: and shout with all my might, I it's my diaco.
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  Speaker 1: He's the murder at confess, that's what you thought. Confess
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go on. But the prosecutor did not confess.
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  Speaker 1: He held his tongue and waited, you're mistaken. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to shout. It's my diacup, said Mitya. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't even suspect him. Why do you suspect him? He
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  Speaker 1: is suspected too. Mitya fixed his eyes on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Joking apart, he brought out gloomily. Listen from the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: almost from the moment when I ran out to you
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  Speaker 1: from behind the curtain, I've had the thought of my
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  Speaker 1: dia in my mind. I've been sitting here shouting that
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  Speaker 1: I'm innocent and thinking all the time s my Diacop.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get my diacof out of my head. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I too thought of s my Diakov just now, but
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  Speaker 1: only for a second. Almost at once, I thought, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not my Diakov, it's not his doing, gentleman, in
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  Speaker 1: that case, is there anybody else you suspect? Nikolay Parfenovitch
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  Speaker 1: inquired cautiously. I don't know anyone. It could be, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the hand of ev Noor Satan, but not Sma
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  Speaker 1: Diakov Mitya jerked out with decision. But what makes you
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  Speaker 1: affirm so confidently and emphatically that it's not he from
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  Speaker 1: my conviction, my impression, because my Diakov is a man
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  Speaker 1: of the most abject character and a coward. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a coward. He's the pit to me of all the
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  Speaker 1: cowardice in the world, walking on two legs. He has
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  Speaker 1: the heart of a chicken. When he talked to me,
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  Speaker 1: he was always trembling for fear I should kill him,
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  Speaker 1: though I never raised my hand against him. He fell
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  Speaker 1: at my feet and blobbered. He has kissed these very boots,
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  Speaker 1: literally beseeching me not to frighten him. Do you hear it?
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  Speaker 1: Not to frighten him? What a thing to say? Why
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  Speaker 1: I offered him money? He's a pewling chicken, sickly, epileptic,
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  Speaker 1: weep minded. A child of eight could thrash him. He
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  Speaker 1: has no character worth talking about. It's nut Smartdyakov, gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't care for money. He wouldn't take my presents. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: what motive, buddy for murdering the old man? Why he's
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  Speaker 1: very likely a son, you know, his natural son. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that we have heard that legend. But you
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  Speaker 1: are your father's son too, you know, yet you yourself
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  Speaker 1: told every one you meant to murder him. That's a
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  Speaker 1: thrust and a nasty, mean one too. I'm not afraid, oh, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it too base of you to say that to
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  Speaker 1: my face? It's base because I told you that myself,
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  Speaker 1: I not only wanted to murder him, but I might
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  Speaker 1: have done it. And what's more, I went out of
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  Speaker 1: my way to tell you of my own accord, that
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  Speaker 1: I nearly murdered him. But you see, I didn't murder him.
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  Speaker 1: You see, my guardian Angel saved me. That's what you've
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  Speaker 1: not taken into account. And that's why it's so base
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  Speaker 1: of you, For I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear I did not kill him. He was
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  Speaker 1: almost choking. He had not been so moved before during
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  Speaker 1: the whole interrogation. And what has he told you, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 1: Smartdocaf I mean, he added suddenly, after a pause. May
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  Speaker 1: I ask that question? You may ask any question, the
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor replied with frigid severity, any question relating to the
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  Speaker 1: facts of the case. And we are, I repeat bound
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  Speaker 1: to answer every inquiry you make. We found the servant Smerdyakov,
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  Speaker 1: concerning whom you inquire, lying unconscious in his bed in
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  Speaker 1: an epileptic fit of extreme severity that had recurred possibly
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  Speaker 1: ten times. The doctor who was with us told us
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  Speaker 1: after seeing him that he may possibly not outlive the night. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if that's so, the devil must have killed and broke
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  Speaker 1: suddenly from Mitya, as though until that moment he had
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  Speaker 1: been asking himself was it Smerdyakov or not? We will
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  Speaker 1: come back to this later, Nikolai Pavanovitch decided, and now
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you like to continue your statement? Mitya asked for
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  Speaker 1: a rest. His request was courteously granted. After resting, he
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  Speaker 1: went on with his story, but he was evidently depressed.
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  Speaker 1: He was exhausted, mortified, and morally shaken. To make things worse,
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutor exasperated him, as though intentionally, by vexatious interruptions
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  Speaker 1: about trifling points. Scarcely had Mitya described how, sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the wall, he had struck Gregory on the head with
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  Speaker 1: the pestle while the old man had hold of his
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  Speaker 1: left leg, and how we had then jumped down to
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  Speaker 1: look at him when the prosecutor stopped him to ask
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  Speaker 1: him to describe exactly how he was sitting on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Mitya was surprised. Oh, I was sitting like this, Astride,
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  Speaker 1: one leg on one side of the wall and one
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  Speaker 1: on the other, and the pestle, the pessl was in
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  Speaker 1: my hand, not in your pocket. Do you remember that precisely?
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  Speaker 1: Was it a violent blow you gave him? It must
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  Speaker 1: have been a violent one. But why do you ask?
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  Speaker 1: Would you mind sitting on the chair just as you
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  Speaker 1: sat on the wall then and showing us just how
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  Speaker 1: you moved your arm and in what direction? You're making
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  Speaker 1: fun of me, aren't you? Asked Mitya, looking haughtily at
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  Speaker 1: the speaker, but the latter did not blinch. Mitya turned abruptly,
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  Speaker 1: sat Astride on his chair and swung his arm. This
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  Speaker 1: was how I struck him. Fat's how I knocked him down.
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  Speaker 1: What more do you want? Thank you? May I trouble
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  Speaker 1: you to explain why you jumped down, with what object
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  Speaker 1: and what you had in view? Oh? Hang it, I
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  Speaker 1: jumped down to look at the man I'd hurt. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what for though you were so excited and
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  Speaker 1: were running away. Yes, though I was excited and running away.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to help him? Help? Yes, perhaps I did
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  Speaker 1: want to help him. I don't remember. You don't remember then.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't quite know what you were doing, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: I remember everything, every detail. I jumped down to look
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  Speaker 1: at him and wiped his face with my handkerchief. We
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  Speaker 1: have seen your handkerchief. Did you hope to restore him
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  Speaker 1: to consciousness? I don't know whether I hoped it. I
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  Speaker 1: simply wanted to make sure whether he was alive or not.
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  Speaker 1: I you wanted to be sure? Well what then? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a doctor. I couldn't decide. I ran away thinking
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  Speaker 1: i'd killed him, and now he's recovered. Excellent, commented the prosecutor.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, that's all I wanted. Kindly proceed alas it
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  Speaker 1: never entered Mitcha's head to tell them, though he remembered it,
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  Speaker 1: that he had jumped back from pity, and standing over
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  Speaker 1: the prostrate figure, had even uttered some words of regret.
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  Speaker 1: You've come to grief, old man. There's no help for it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you must lie. The prosecutor could only draw one
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  Speaker 1: conclusion that the man had jumped back at such a
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  Speaker 1: moment and in such excitement, simply with the object of
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  Speaker 1: ascertaining whether the only witness of his crime were dead,
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  Speaker 1: that he must therefore have been a man of great strength, coolness, decision,
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  Speaker 1: and foresight even at such a moment. And so on,
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutor was satisfied. I provoked the nervous fellow by trifles,
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  Speaker 1: and he has said more than he meant to. With
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  Speaker 1: painful effort, Mitya went on, but this time he was
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  Speaker 1: pulled up immediately by Nikolay Parfenovitch. How came you to
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  Speaker 1: run to the servant Fedoscia mark Kotner with your hands
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  Speaker 1: so covered with blood, and as it appears, your face too.
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  Speaker 1: Why I didn't notice the blood at all of the time,
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  Speaker 1: answered Mitchya. That's quite likely. It does happen sometimes. The
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor exchanged glances with Nikolay Parfenovitch. I simply didn't notice.
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  Speaker 1: You're quite bight there, Prosecutor Mitya assented. Suddenly, next came
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  Speaker 1: the account of Mitcha's sudden determination to step aside and
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  Speaker 1: make way for their happiness. But he could not make
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  Speaker 1: up his mind to open his heart to them as
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  Speaker 1: before and tell them about the queen of his soul.
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  Speaker 1: He disliked speaking of her before these chilly persons who
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  Speaker 1: were fastening on him like bugs, and so in response
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  Speaker 1: to their reiterated questions, he answered briefly and abruptly, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I made up my mind to kill myself. What had
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  Speaker 1: I left to live for? That question stared me in
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  Speaker 1: the face. Her first rightful lover had come back, the
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  Speaker 1: man who wronged her. But he'd hurried back to offer
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  Speaker 1: his love after five years and atone for the wrong
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  Speaker 1: with marriage. So I knew it was all over for me,
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  Speaker 1: and behind me disgrace and that blood grigories what had
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  Speaker 1: I to live for? So I went to redeem the
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  Speaker 1: pistols I had pledged to load them and put a
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  Speaker 1: bullet in my brain tomorrow, and a grand feast the
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  Speaker 1: night before, Yes, a grand feast the night before. Damn it,
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  Speaker 1: old gentleman, do make haste and finish it. I meant
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  Speaker 1: to shoot myself not far from here, beyond the village,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd planned to do it at five o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and I had a note in my pocket already.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote it at Burhoton's when I loaded my pistols.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the letter. Read it. It's not for you I
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  Speaker 1: tell it, he added contemptuously. He took it from his
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  Speaker 1: waistcoat pocket and flung it on the table. The lawyers
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  Speaker 1: read it with curiosity, and as is usual, added it
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  Speaker 1: to the papers connected with the case. And you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even think of washing your hands at Pehotein's. You were
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  Speaker 1: not afraid then, of arousing suspicion. What suspicion? Suspicion or not.
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  Speaker 1: I should have galloped here just the same and shut
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  Speaker 1: myself at five o'clock. And you wouldn't have been in
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  Speaker 1: time to do anything. If it hadn't been for what's
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  Speaker 1: happened to my father, you would have known nothing about
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  Speaker 1: it and wouldn't have come here. How it's the devil's doing.
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  Speaker 1: It was the devil muthered bother. It was through the
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  Speaker 1: devil that you found it out so soon. How did
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  Speaker 1: you manage to get it so quick? It's marvelous a dream.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Perhoutin informed us that when you came to him,
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  Speaker 1: you held in your hands, your blood stained hands, your money,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money, a bundle of hundred rouble notes,
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  Speaker 1: and that his servant boy saw it too. That's true, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: I remember it was so Now there's one little point
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  Speaker 1: presents itself. Can you in almost Nikolay Parfenovitch began with
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  Speaker 1: extreme gentleness, Where did you get so much money all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden when it appears from the facts, from
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  Speaker 1: the reckoning of time, that you had not been home?
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutor's brow contracted at the question being asked so plainly,
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  Speaker 1: but he did not interrupt. Nikolay Parfenovitch. Now I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go home, answered Mitya, apparently perfectly composed, but looking at
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  Speaker 1: the floor, Allow me then to repeat my question. Nikolay
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  Speaker 1: Parfenovitch went on, as though creeping up to the subject,
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  Speaker 1: where were you able to procure such a sum all
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  Speaker 1: at once? When, by your own confession, at five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: the same day, you I was in want of ten
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  Speaker 1: roubles and pledged my pistols with perhotin, and then went
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  Speaker 1: to Madame Hohlakov to borrow three thousand, which she wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: give me, and so on and all the rest of it.
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  Speaker 1: Mitya interrupted sharply, Yes, gentlemen, I was in want of it,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly thousands turned up. A do you know, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you're both afraid? Now what if he won't tell us
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  Speaker 1: where he got it. That's just how it is. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to tell you, gentlemen, you've guessed right. You'll
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  Speaker 1: never know, said Mitya, chipping out each word with extraordinary determination.
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  Speaker 1: The lawyers were silent for a moment. You must understand,
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  Speaker 1: mister Karamtzov, that it is of vital importance for us
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  Speaker 1: to know, said Nikolay Parfenovitch, softly and suavely. I understand,
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  Speaker 1: but still I won't tell you. The prosecutor, too, intervened
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  Speaker 1: and again reminded the prisoner that he was at liberty
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  Speaker 1: to refuse to answer questions if he thought it to
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  Speaker 1: his interest, and so on. But in view of the
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  Speaker 1: damage she might do himself by his silence, especially in
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  Speaker 1: a case of such importance as and so on, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: and so on. Enough, I've heard that rigmarole before. Mitya
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  Speaker 1: interrupted again. I can see for myself how important it is,
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  Speaker 1: and that this is the vital point. And still I
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  Speaker 1: won't say, what is it to us? It's not our
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  Speaker 1: business but yours. You are doing yourself harm, observed Nikolay
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  Speaker 1: Parfenovitch nervously. You see, gentlemen joking apart. Mitya lifted his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and looked firmly at them both. I had an
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  Speaker 1: inkling from the first that we should come to loggerheads
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  Speaker 1: at this point. But that first, when I began to
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  Speaker 1: give my evidence, it was all still far away and misty,
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  Speaker 1: It was all floating, and I was so simple that
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  Speaker 1: I began with the supposition of mutual competence existing between us.
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  Speaker 1: Now I can see for myself that such confidence is
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  Speaker 1: out of the question, for in any case, we were
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  Speaker 1: bound to come to this cursed stumbling block, and now
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  Speaker 1: we've come to it. It's impossible, and there's an end
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  Speaker 1: of it. But I don't blame you. You can't believe it
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  Speaker 1: all simply on my word. I understand that, of course
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  Speaker 1: he relapsed into gloomy silence. But couldn't you, without abandoning
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  Speaker 1: your resolution to be silent about the chief point? Or
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: could you not, at the same time give us some
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: slight hint as to the nature of the motives which
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: are strong enough to induce you to refuse to answer
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  Speaker 1: at a crisis. Soapull of danger to you, Mitya smiled mournfully,
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  Speaker 1: almost dreamily. I'm much more good natured than you think, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the reason why and give you that hint,
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  Speaker 1: though you don't deserve it. I won't speak of that, gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: because it would be a stain on my honor. The
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  Speaker 1: answer to the question where I got the money would
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: expose me to far greater disgrace than the murder and
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  Speaker 1: robbing of my father if I had murdered and robbed him.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I can't tell you. I can't appear of disgrace. What, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to write that down? Yes, we'll write
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  Speaker 1: it down a list. Nikolay Parfenovitch, you ought not to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: write that down about disgrace. I only told you that
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  Speaker 1: in the goodness of my heart. I needn't have told you.
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  Speaker 1: I made you a present of it, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: and you bounce upon it at once a while. Right,
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  Speaker 1: write what you like, He concluded, with scornful disgust. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not afraid of you, and I can still hold up
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  Speaker 1: my head before you. And can't you tell us the
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  Speaker 1: nature of that disgrace? Nikolay Parfenovitch hazarded. The prosecutor frown darkly. No, no, Sippini,
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  Speaker 1: don't trouble yourselves. It's not worth while soiling one's hands.
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  Speaker 1: I have solved myself enough through you as it is.
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  Speaker 1: You're not worth it. No one is enough. Gentlemen, I'm
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: not going on. This was said too peremptorily. Nikolay Parfenovitch
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: did not insist further, but from Ippolyte Girillovitch's eyes he
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: saw that he had not given up hope. Can you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: not at least tell us what sum you had in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: your hands? Or when you went into mister Perhotin's how
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: many roubles? Exactly? I can't tell you that you spoke
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  Speaker 1: to mister Bohoughton. I believe of having received three thousand
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: from Madame Hohlakov. Perhaps I did enough, gentlemen, I won't
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  Speaker 1: say how much I had. Will you be so good
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  Speaker 1: then as to tell us how you came here and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: what you have done since you arrived? Oh, you might
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: ask the people here about that, but I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: if you like. He proceeded to do so, But we
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: won't repeat his story. He told that dryly and curtly,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: of the ruptures of his love. He said nothing but
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: told them that he abandoned his determination to shoot himself
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: owing to new factors in the case. He told the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: story without going into motives or details, And this time
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the lawyers did not worry him much. It was obvious
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  Speaker 1: that there was no cential point of interest to them.
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  Speaker 1: Here we shall verify all that. We will come back
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  Speaker 1: to it during the examination of the witnesses, which will
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  Speaker 1: of course take place in your presence, said Nikolay Parfenovitch
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  Speaker 1: in conclusion. And now allow me to request you to
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: lay on the table everything in your possession, especially all
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the money you still have about you. My money, gentlemen,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: certainly I understand that that is necessary. I'm surprised, indeed
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that you haven't inquired about it before. It's true, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't get away anywhere. I'm sitting here where I can
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: be seen. But here's my money. Count it, take it,
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  Speaker 1: that's all I think. He turned it all out of
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  Speaker 1: his pockets, even the small change two pieces of twenty
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: kopecks he pulled out of his waistcoat pocket. They counted
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  Speaker 1: the money, which amounted to eight hundred and thirty six
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  Speaker 1: rubles and forty kopeks. And is that all, asked the
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  Speaker 1: investigating lawyer. Yes, you stated just now in your evidence
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  Speaker 1: that you spent three hundred rubles at Plotnikups. You gay
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  Speaker 1: perhotin ten your driver twenty. Here you lost two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Then Nikolai Parfenovitch reckoned it all up. Mitya helped him readily.
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  Speaker 1: They recollected every farthing and included it in the reckoning,
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  Speaker 1: and Nikolai Parfenovitch hurriedly added up the total. With this
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: eight hundred, you must have had about fifteen hundred of first,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I suppose so, snapped d Mitchya, how is it? They
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: all assert there was much more. Let them assert it,
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  Speaker 1: But you asserted it yourself. Yes, I did too. We
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: will compare all this with the evidence of other persons
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  Speaker 1: not yet examined. Don't be anxious about your money. It
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: will be properly taken care of and be at your
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: disposal at the conclusion of what is beginning. If it appears,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: or so to speak, is proved that you have undisputed
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: right to it. Well, and now Nikolay Parfenovitch suddenly got
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: up and informed Mitya firmly that it was his duty
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and obligation to conduct a minute and thorough search of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: your clothes and everything else by all means, gentlemen, I'll
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: turn that all my pockets if you like, and he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: did in fact, begin turning out his pockets. It will
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: be necessary to take off your clothes too, what undress?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Oh damn it, won't you search me as I am can't. Yo,
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  Speaker 1: It's utterly impossible, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, you must take off your
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: clothes as you like, Mitya submitted gloomily. Only please not here,
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  Speaker 1: but behind the curtains. Who will search them Behind the curtains,
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  Speaker 1: of course. Nikolay Parfenovitch bent his head in assent. His
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  Speaker 1: small face wore an expression of peculiar solemnity. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty nine,