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068 - Book Ten Chapter Five · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter sixty eight of The Brothers Karamatzov by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. The Sleebrivox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter five by Ilusha's bedside,
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Speaker 1: the room inhabited by the family of the retired Captain
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Speaker 1: Snegiia is already familiar to the reader. It was close
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Speaker 1: and crowded at that moment, with a number of visitors.
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Speaker 1: Several boys were sitting with Ilusha, and though all of them,
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Speaker 1: like Smurov, were prepared to deny that it was Alyosha
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Speaker 1: who had brought them and reconciled them with Ilusha, it
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Speaker 1: was really the fact all the arti ad used had
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Speaker 1: been to take them one by one to Ilusha without
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Speaker 1: sish sentimentality, appearing to do so casually and without design.
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Speaker 1: It was a great consolation to Ilusha in his suffering.
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Speaker 1: He was greatly touched by seeing the almost tender affection
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Speaker 1: and sympathy shown him by these boys who had been
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Speaker 1: his enemies. Krazotkin was the only one missing, and his
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Speaker 1: absence was a heavy load on Ilusha's heart, perhaps the
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Speaker 1: bitterest of all his bitter memories was his stabbing Krasotkin,
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Speaker 1: who had been his one friend and protective club. A
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Speaker 1: little Smerrop, who was the first to make it up
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Speaker 1: with Ilusha, thought it was so. But when Smerrop hinted
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Speaker 1: to Krassotkin that Alyosha wanted to come and see him
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Speaker 1: about something, the latter cut him short, bidding Smerrop tell
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Speaker 1: Karamatzov at once that he knew best what to do,
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Speaker 1: that he wanted no one's advice, and that if he
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Speaker 1: went to see Ilusha, he would choose his own time,
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Speaker 1: for he had his own reasons. That was a fortnight
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Speaker 1: before this Sunday. That was why Alyosha had not been
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Speaker 1: to see him as he had meant to. But though
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Speaker 1: he waited, he sent Smerrop to him twice again. Both
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Speaker 1: times Krassotkin met him with a curt impatient refusal, sending
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Speaker 1: Alyosha a message not to bother him any more, that
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Speaker 1: it became himself he Krassotkin would not go to Ilusha
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Speaker 1: at all. Up to the very last day. Smerrob did
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Speaker 1: not know that Kolia meant to go to Ilusha that
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Speaker 1: morning and only the evening before. As he parted from
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Speaker 1: smerrab Colia abruptly told him to wait at home for
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Speaker 1: him next morning, for he would go with him to
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Speaker 1: the Snegiryovs, but warned him on no account to say
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Speaker 1: he was coming, as he wanted to drop in casually obeyed.
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Speaker 1: Smearrov's fancy that Collia would bring back the lost dog
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Speaker 1: was based on the words Collier had dropped that they
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Speaker 1: must be asses not to find the dog if it
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Speaker 1: was alive. When smear Up, waiting for an opportunity, timidly
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Speaker 1: hinted at his guess about the dog, Krassotkin flew into
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Speaker 1: a violent rage. I'm not such an ass as to
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Speaker 1: go hunting about the town for other people's dogs when
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Speaker 1: I've got a dog of my own, And how can
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Speaker 1: you imagine the dog could be alive? After swallowing a
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Speaker 1: pen sheepish sentimentality, that's what it is. For the last fortnight,
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Speaker 1: Ilusha had not left his little bed under the icons
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Speaker 1: in the corner. He had not been to school since
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Speaker 1: the day he met Alyosha and Bitter's finger. He was
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Speaker 1: taken ill the same day, though for a month afterwards
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Speaker 1: he was sometimes able to get up and walk about
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Speaker 1: the room and passage, but latterly, he had become so
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Speaker 1: that he could not move without help from his father.
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Speaker 1: His father was terribly concerned about him. He even gave
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Speaker 1: up drinking and was almost crazy with terror that his
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Speaker 1: boy would die. And often, especially after leading him round
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Speaker 1: the room on his arm and putting him back to bed,
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Speaker 1: he would run to a dark corner in the passage,
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Speaker 1: and leaning his head against the wall, he would break
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Speaker 1: into paroxysms of violent weeping, stifling his sobs that they
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Speaker 1: might not be heard by Ilusha. Returning to the room,
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Speaker 1: he would usually begin doing something to amuse and comfort
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Speaker 1: his precious boy. He would tell him stories, funny anecdotes,
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Speaker 1: or would mimic comic people he had happened to meet,
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Speaker 1: even imitate the howls and cries of animals. But Ilusha
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Speaker 1: could not bear to see his father fooling and playing
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Speaker 1: the buffum. Though the boy tried not to show how
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Speaker 1: he disliked it, he saw with an aching heart that
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Speaker 1: his father was an object contempt, and he was continually
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Speaker 1: haunted by the memory of the Whisp of Tow and
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Speaker 1: that terrible day. Nina, Ilucia's gentle crippled sister, did not
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Speaker 1: like her father's buffoonery either. Varvara had been gone for
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Speaker 1: some time past to Petersburg to study at the university,
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Speaker 1: but the half imbecile mother was greatly diverted and laughed
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Speaker 1: heartily when her husband began capering about or performing something.
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Speaker 1: It was the only way she could be amused. All
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Speaker 1: the rest of the time she was grumbling and complaining
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Speaker 1: that now everyone had forgotten her, that no one treated
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Speaker 1: her with respect, that she was slighted, and so on.
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Speaker 1: But during the last few days she had completely changed.
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Speaker 1: She began looking constantly at Ilucia's bed in the corner
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Speaker 1: and seemed lost in thought. She was more silent, quieter,
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Speaker 1: and if she cried, she cried quietly so not to
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Speaker 1: be heard. The captain noticed the change in her with
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Speaker 1: mournful perplexity. The boy's visits at first only angered at
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Speaker 1: but later on their merry shouts and stories began to
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Speaker 1: divert her, and at last she liked them so much
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Speaker 1: that if the boys had given up coming, she would
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Speaker 1: have felt dreary without them. When the children told some
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Speaker 1: story or played a game, she laughed and clapped her hands.
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Speaker 1: She called some of them to her and kissed them.
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Speaker 1: She was particularly fond of smearrov As for the captain.
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Speaker 1: The presence in his room of the children who came
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Speaker 1: to cheer up Ilusha filled his heart from the first
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Speaker 1: with ecstatic joy. He even hoped that Ilusha would now
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Speaker 1: get over his depression and that that would hasten his recovery.
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Speaker 1: In spite of his alarm about Ilusha, he had not
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Speaker 1: till lately felt one minute's doubt of his boy's ultimate recy.
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Speaker 1: He met his little visitors with homage, waited upon them
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Speaker 1: hand and foot. He was ready to be their horse,
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Speaker 1: and even began letting them ride on his back. But
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Speaker 1: Ilusha did not like the game, and it was given up.
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Speaker 1: He began buying little things for them, gingerbread and nuts,
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Speaker 1: gave them tea, and cut them sandwiches. It must be
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Speaker 1: noted that all this time he had plenty of money.
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Speaker 1: He had taken the two hundred roubles from Katerina Ivanovna,
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Speaker 1: just as Alyosha had predicted he would, and afterwards Katerina Ivanovna,
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Speaker 1: learning more about their circumstances and Ilusha's illness, visited them herself,
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Speaker 1: made the acquaintance of the family, and succeeded in fascinating
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Speaker 1: the half imbecile mother. Since then she had been lavish
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Speaker 1: in helping them, and the captain, terror stricken at the
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Speaker 1: thought that his boy might be dying, forgot his pride
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Speaker 1: and humbly accepted her assistance. All this time, doctor Hurtzon's Tuba,
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Speaker 1: who was called in by Katerina Ivanovna, came punctually every
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Speaker 1: other day, but little was gained by his visits, and
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Speaker 1: he dosed the invalid mercilessly. But on that Sunday morning
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Speaker 1: a new doctor was expected, who had come from Moscow,
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Speaker 1: where he had a great reputation. Katerina Ivanovna had sent
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Speaker 1: for him from Moscow at great expense, not expressly for Ilusha,
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Speaker 1: but for another object, of which more will be said
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Speaker 1: in its place hereafter. But as he had come, she
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Speaker 1: had asked him to see Ilusha as well, and the
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Speaker 1: captain had been told to expect him. He hadn't the
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Speaker 1: slightest idea that Kolia Krazotkin was coming, though he had
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Speaker 1: long wished for a visit from the boy for whom
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Speaker 1: Ilusha was fretting. At the moment when Kosutkin opened the
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Speaker 1: door and came into the room, the captain and all
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Speaker 1: the boys were round Ilusha's bed, looking at a tiny
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Speaker 1: mastif pup which had only been born the day before,
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Speaker 1: though the captain had bespoken it a week ago to
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Speaker 1: comfort and amuse Ilusha, who was still fretting over the
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Speaker 1: lost and probably dead Zuchke. Ilusha, who had heard three
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Speaker 1: days before that he was to be presented with a puppy,
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Speaker 1: not an ordinary puppy, but a pedigree mastiff, a very
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Speaker 1: important point, of course, tried from delicacy of feeling to
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Speaker 1: pretend that he was pleased, but his father and the
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Speaker 1: boys could not help seeing that the puppy only served
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Speaker 1: to recall to his little heart the thought of the
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Speaker 1: unhappy dog he had killed. The puppy lay beside him,
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Speaker 1: feebly moving, and he, smiling sadly stroked it with his thin, pale,
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Speaker 1: wasted hand. Clearly he liked the puppy, but it wasn't Zuchika.
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Speaker 1: If he could have had Zuchika and the puppy too,
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Speaker 1: then he would have been completely happy. Krazotkin, cried one
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Speaker 1: of the boys. Suddenly he was the first to see
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Speaker 1: him come in. Krazutkin's entrance made a general sensation. The
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Speaker 1: boys moved away and stood on each side of the
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Speaker 1: bed so that he could get a full view of Ilusha.
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Speaker 1: The captain ran eagerly to meet Kolier. Please come in,
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Speaker 1: you are welcome, he said hurriedly, Ilusha, mister Kazutkin has
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Speaker 1: come to see you. But Krazotkin, shaking hands with him hurriedly,
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Speaker 1: instantly showed his complete knowledge of the manners of good society.
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Speaker 1: He turned first to the captain's wife, sitting in her
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Speaker 1: arm chair, who was very ill humored at the moment,
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Speaker 1: and was grumbling that the boy stood between her and
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Speaker 1: Ilusha's bed and did not let us see the new puppy.
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Speaker 1: With the greatest courtesy, he made a rebow, scraping his foot,
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Speaker 1: and turning to Nina, he made herb as the only
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Speaker 1: other lady present a similar verb. This polite behavior made
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Speaker 1: an extremely favorable impression on the deranged lady. There you
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Speaker 1: can see at once, here's a young man that has
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Speaker 1: been well brought up, she commented aloud, throwing up her hands.
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Speaker 1: But as for other visitors, they come in one on
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Speaker 1: the top of another. How do you mean, Mamma, One
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Speaker 1: on the top of another. How is that? Muttered the
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Speaker 1: captain affectionately, though a little anxious on her account. That's
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Speaker 1: how they ride in. They get on each other's shoulders
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Speaker 1: in the passage and prance in like that on a
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Speaker 1: respectable family. Strange sort of visitors. But who's come in
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Speaker 1: like that, mamma? Why that boy came in riding on
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Speaker 1: that one's back and this one on that one's. Collier
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Speaker 1: was already by Ilusha's bedside. The sick boy turned visibly paler.
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Speaker 1: He raised himself in the bed and looked intently at Colyer.
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Speaker 1: Colier had not seen his little friend for two months,
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Speaker 1: and he was overwhelmed at the sight of him. He
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Speaker 1: had never imagined that he would see such a wasted
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Speaker 1: yellow face, such enormous, feverishly glowing eyes, and such thin
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Speaker 1: little hands. He saw with grieved surprise Ilusha's rapid, hard
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Speaker 1: breathing and dry lips. He stepped close to him, held
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Speaker 1: out his hand, and, almost overwhelmed, he said, well, oh, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: how are you? But his voice failed him. He couldn't
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Speaker 1: achieve an appearance of ease. His face suddenly twitched and
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Speaker 1: the corners of his mouth quivered. Ilusha smiled a pitiful
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Speaker 1: little smile, still unable to utter a word. Something moved
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Speaker 1: Colier to raise his hand and pass it over Ilusha's hair.
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Speaker 1: Never mind, he murmured suftly to him, to cheer him up,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps not knowing why he said it. For a minute,
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Speaker 1: they were silent again. Hullo, see you've got a new puppy,
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Speaker 1: Collier said suddenly, in a most callous voice. Yes, answered
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Speaker 1: Ilusha in a long whisper, gasping for breath. A black nose.
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Speaker 1: That means he'll be fierce, a good ass dog. Colier
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Speaker 1: observed gravely and stolidly, as if the only thing he
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Speaker 1: cared about was the puppy in its black nose. But
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Speaker 1: in reality he still had to do his utmost to
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Speaker 1: control his feelings not to burst out crying like a
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Speaker 1: child and do what he would. He could not control it.
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Speaker 1: When it grows up, you have to keep it on
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Speaker 1: the chain. I'm sure he'll be a huge dog, cried
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Speaker 1: one of the boys. Of course, he well, a mass
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Speaker 1: large like this, as big as a calf, shouted several voices,
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Speaker 1: as big as a calf, as a real calf, chimed
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Speaker 1: in the captain, I got one like that on purpose.
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Speaker 1: One of the fiercest breed, and his parents are huge
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Speaker 1: and very fierce. They stand as high as this from
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Speaker 1: the floor. Sit down here on Ilusha's bed or here
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Speaker 1: on the bench. You are welcome. We've been hoping to
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Speaker 1: see you a long time. He was so kind as
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Speaker 1: to come with Alexey Fyodorovitch Krasutkan sat on the edge
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Speaker 1: of the bed at Ilusha's feet. Though we had perhaps
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Speaker 1: prepared a free and easy opening for the conversation on
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Speaker 1: his way, now he completely lost the thread of it,
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Speaker 1: and no, I came with perets Bam. I've got the
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Speaker 1: dog now called Peretzbam, a slabonic name. He's out there.
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Speaker 1: If I whistle, he'll run in. I brought a dog too,
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Speaker 1: he said, addressing Ilusha all at once. Do you remember Zuchka,
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Speaker 1: old man? He suddenly fired the question at him. Ilusha's
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Speaker 1: little face quivered. He looked with an agonized expression at
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Speaker 1: Kolyia Alyosha standing at the door, frowned and signed to
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Speaker 1: Kolia not to speak of Zuchka. But he did not
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Speaker 1: or would not notice. Where is suchikak? Ilusha asked, in
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Speaker 1: a broken voice, Oh well, my boy, Yazuchka has lost
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Speaker 1: and done for. Ilusha did not speak, but he fixed
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Speaker 1: an intent gaze once more on coolya Alyosha, catching Kolia's eye,
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Speaker 1: signed to him vigorously again, but he turned away's eyes,
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Speaker 1: pretending not to have noticed. It must have run away
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Speaker 1: and died somewhat. It must have died after a meal
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Speaker 1: like that, Kolia pronounced pitilessly, though he seemed a little breathless.
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Speaker 1: But I've got a dog, Paratzban a slabonic name. I
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Speaker 1: brought him to show you. I don't want to, said
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Speaker 1: Ilusha suddenly. No, no, you really must see him. It
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Speaker 1: will amuse you. I've brought him on purpose. He's the
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Speaker 1: same sort of shaggy dog. You allow me to call
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Speaker 1: him my dog, Madam. He suddenly addressed Madame Snegiia with
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Speaker 1: inexplicable excitement in his manner. I don't want em, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to, cried Ilusha, with a mournful break in
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Speaker 1: his voice. There was a reproachful light in his eyes.
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Speaker 1: You'd better, the captain started up from the chest by
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Speaker 1: the wall on which he had just sat down. You'd
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Speaker 1: better another time, he muttered. But Colier could not be restrained.
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Speaker 1: He hurriedly shouted to smear up open the door, and
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Speaker 1: as soon as it was open, he blew his whistle,
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Speaker 1: baretz Bon dashed headlong into the room. Jump baretts Bon
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Speaker 1: beg Beg shouted, Colier jumping up, and the dog stood
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Speaker 1: erect on its hind legs by Ilusha's bedside. What followed
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Speaker 1: was a surprise to every one. Ilusha started lurched violently forward,
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Speaker 1: bent over parrets Bon and gazed at him, faint with suspense.
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Speaker 1: It Suchkat, he cried suddenly, in a voice breaking with
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Speaker 1: joy and suffering. And who did you think it was?
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Speaker 1: Trazutkin shouted with all his might in a ringing, happy voice,
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Speaker 1: and bending down, he seized the dog and lifted him
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Speaker 1: up to Ilusha. Look, old man, you see blind of
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Speaker 1: one eye and the left ears Tom, just the marks
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Speaker 1: you described to me. It was by that I found him.
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Speaker 1: I found him directly. He did not belong to any one,
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Speaker 1: he explained, turning quickly to the captain, to his wife,
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Speaker 1: to Alyosha, and then again to Ilusha. He used to
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Speaker 1: live in the Darop's back yard. Though he made his
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Speaker 1: home there, They did not feed him. He was a
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Speaker 1: stray dog that had run away from the village. I
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Speaker 1: found him, you see, old ma'am. He couldn't have swallowed
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Speaker 1: what you gave him. If he had, he must have died.
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Speaker 1: He must have, so he must have spat it out,
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Speaker 1: since he is alive. You did not see him do it.
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Speaker 1: But the pin pricked his tongue. That is why he squealed.
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Speaker 1: He ran away squealing, and you thought he'd swallowed it.
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Speaker 1: He might well squeal because the skin of dog's mouths
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Speaker 1: is so tender, tenderer than in men, much tenderer. Colia
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Speaker 1: cried impetuously, his face glowing and radiant with delight. Ilusia
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Speaker 1: could not speak. White as a sheet, he gazed open
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Speaker 1: mouthed at Collier with his great eyes almost starting out
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Speaker 1: of his head. And if Krassotkin, who had no suspicion
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Speaker 1: of it, had known what a disastrous and fatal effect
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Speaker 1: such a moment might have on the sick child's nothing
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Speaker 1: would have induced him to play such a trick on him.
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Speaker 1: But Alyosha was perhaps the only person in the room
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Speaker 1: who realized it. As for the Captain, he behaved like
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Speaker 1: a small child. Suchka, it's suchka, he cried in a
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Speaker 1: bistful voice. Ilusha, this is zuchka, yozuchka, Mamma, this is zuchka.
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Speaker 1: He was almost weeping. And I never guessed, cried Smearrov regretfully.
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Speaker 1: Bravo Krazotkin. I said he'd find the dog. And here
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Speaker 1: he's found him. Here, he's found him. Another boy repeated, gleefully.
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Speaker 1: Krassotkin's a break, cried a third voice. He's a break,
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Speaker 1: He's a break, cried the other boys, and they began clapping. Wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: Krazutkin did his utmost shout above them all. I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you how it happened. That's the whole point. I found him.
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Speaker 1: I took him home and hid him at once. I
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Speaker 1: kept him locked up at home and did not show
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Speaker 1: him to any one till the dead only smew up
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Speaker 1: as known for the last fortnight. But I assured him
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Speaker 1: this dog was called Parrettswan, and he did not guess.
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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I took the dog all sorts of tricks.
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Speaker 1: You should only see all the things he can do.
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Speaker 1: I trained him so as to bring you a well
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Speaker 1: trained dog in good condition, old man, so as to
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Speaker 1: be able to say to you, see, old ma'am, what
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Speaker 1: a fine dog yr Zuchka is. Now, haven't you a
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Speaker 1: bit of meat? He'll show you a trick that will
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Speaker 1: make you die with laughing a piece of meat, haven't
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Speaker 1: you got any? The captain ran across the passage to
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Speaker 1: the landlady whether cooking was done. Not to lose precious time, Collier,
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Speaker 1: in desperate haste, shunkeded to Parretzvan dead, and the dog
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Speaker 1: immediately turned round and lay on his back with its
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Speaker 1: fore paws in the air. The boy's laughed. Ilusha looked
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Speaker 1: on with the same suffering smile. But the person most
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Speaker 1: delighted with the dog's performance was Mamma. She laughed at
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Speaker 1: the dog and began snapping her fingers and calling it
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Speaker 1: baras bomb, parass bomb. Nothing will make him get up, nothing,
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Speaker 1: Colia cried triumphantly, proud of his success. He won't move
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Speaker 1: for all the shouting in the world. But if I
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Speaker 1: call to him, he'll jump up in a minute. He's
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Speaker 1: see barats bomb. The dog leapt up and bounded about,
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Speaker 1: whining with delight. The captain ran back with a piece
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Speaker 1: of cooked beef. Is it hot? Colia inquired, hurriedly, with
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Speaker 1: the business Nike air taking the meat. Dogs don't like
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Speaker 1: off things. No, it's all right. Look everybody, look Ilusha, Look,
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Speaker 1: old ma'am. Why aren't you looking? He does not look
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Speaker 1: at him. Now I brought him The new trick consisted
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Speaker 1: him making the dog stand motionless with his nose out
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Speaker 1: and putting a tempting morsel of meat just on his nose.
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Speaker 1: The luckless dog had to stand without moving with the
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Speaker 1: meat on his nose as long as his master chose
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Speaker 1: to keep him without a movement, perhaps for half an hour.
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Speaker 1: But he kept Parettesvon only for a brief moment. Pay
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Speaker 1: Bob cried Colier, and the meat passed in a flash
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Speaker 1: from the dog's nose to his mouth. The audience, of course,
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Speaker 1: expressed enthusiasm and surprise. Can you really have put off
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Speaker 1: coming all this time simply to train the dog, exclaimed Alyosha,
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Speaker 1: with an involuntary note of reproach in his voice. Simply
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Speaker 1: for that, answered Colia with perfect simplicity. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: show him in all his gloryde Parett's Baum. Parett's Baum
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Speaker 1: called Ilusha, suddenly, snapping his thin fingers and beckoning to
22:53
Speaker 1: the dog, what is it? Let him jump up on
22:56
Speaker 1: the bed. He see parretts Baum colyus up the bed
23:01
Speaker 1: and Paret's bond darted up by Ilusha. The boy threw
23:05
Speaker 1: both arms round his head, and parets Bon instantly licked
23:09
Speaker 1: his cheek. Ilusha crept close to him, stretched himself out
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Speaker 1: in bed, and hid his face in the dog's shaggy coat. Dear, Dear,
23:19
Speaker 1: kept exclaiming the Captain. Colia sat down again on the
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Speaker 1: edge of the bed. Ilusha. I can show you another trick.
23:28
Speaker 1: I brought you a little cannon. You remember I told
23:32
Speaker 1: you about it before, and you said, I much you'd
23:34
Speaker 1: like to see it. Well, here I brought it to you,
23:38
Speaker 1: and Colia hurriedly pulled out of his satchel the little
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Speaker 1: bronze cannon. He hurried because he was happy himself. Another
23:47
Speaker 1: time he would have waited till the sensation made by
23:50
Speaker 1: Paretspon had passed up. Now, he hurried on, regardless of
23:54
Speaker 1: all consideration. You are all happy now, he felt, So
23:59
Speaker 1: here's something to make you happier. He was perfectly enchanted himself.
24:05
Speaker 1: I've been coveting this thing for a long while. It's
24:09
Speaker 1: for you, all man, it's for you. It belonged to Marotsov.
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Speaker 1: It was no use to him. He had it from
24:15
Speaker 1: his brother. I swapped a book from father's bookcase for it.
24:19
Speaker 1: A kinsman of Mahammet or Saltary Folly, a scandalous book
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Speaker 1: published in Moscow one hundred years ago before they had
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Speaker 1: any censorship, and Marotzov has a taste for such things.
24:33
Speaker 1: He was grateful to me too. Colia held the cannon
24:37
Speaker 1: in his hand so that all could see and admire it.
24:41
Speaker 1: Ilusha raised himself, and with his right arm still round
24:45
Speaker 1: the dog, he gazed and chanted at the tide. The
24:50
Speaker 1: sensation was even greater when Collier announced that he had
24:54
Speaker 1: gunpowder too, and that he could be fired off at
24:57
Speaker 1: once if it weren't alarm the ladies. Mamma immediately asked
25:01
Speaker 1: to look at the toy closer, and her request was granted.
25:05
Speaker 1: She was much pleased with the little bronze cannon on wheels,
25:09
Speaker 1: and began rolling it to and fro on her lamp.
25:12
Speaker 1: She readily gave permission for the cannon to be fired,
25:15
Speaker 1: without any idea of what she had been asked. Collier
25:19
Speaker 1: showed the powder and the shut the Captain, as a
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Speaker 1: military man, undertook to load it, putting in a minute
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Speaker 1: quantity of powder. He asked that the shot might be
25:31
Speaker 1: put up till another time. The cannon was put on
25:34
Speaker 1: the floor aiming towards an empty part of the room.
25:38
Speaker 1: Three grains of powder were thrust into the touch hole,
25:42
Speaker 1: and a match was put to it. A magnificent explosion followed.
25:47
Speaker 1: Mamma was startled, but at once laughed with delight. The
25:52
Speaker 1: boys gazed in speechless triumph, but the Captain, looking at Ilusha,
25:58
Speaker 1: was more enchanted than any of them. Colier picked up
26:02
Speaker 1: the cannon and immediately presented it to Ilusha, together with
26:07
Speaker 1: the powder and the shut. I got it for you,
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Speaker 1: for you. I've been keeping it for you a long time,
26:14
Speaker 1: he repeated, once more in his delight. Oh give it
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Speaker 1: to me, No, give me the cannon. Mamma began begging
26:23
Speaker 1: like a little child. Her face showed a piteous bear
26:27
Speaker 1: that she would not get it. Colier was disconcerted. The
26:31
Speaker 1: Captain fidgeted uneasily. Mamma, Mamma. He ran to her. The
26:36
Speaker 1: cannon's yours, of course, But let Ilusha have it, because
26:40
Speaker 1: it's a present to him. But it's just as good
26:43
Speaker 1: as yours. Illusia will always let you play with it.
26:46
Speaker 1: It shall belong to both of you, both of you. No,
26:49
Speaker 1: I don't want it to belong to both of us.
26:51
Speaker 1: I want it to be mine altogether, not, Ilusha's persisted, Mamma,
26:55
Speaker 1: on the point of tears, take it, mother, here, keep it,
27:00
Speaker 1: Ilusha cried Krassotkin. May I give it to my mother.
27:04
Speaker 1: He turned to Krassotkin with an imploring face, as though
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Speaker 1: he were afraid he might be offended at his giving
27:10
Speaker 1: his present to some one else. Of course you may,
27:14
Speaker 1: Krassotkin asserted heartily, and taking the cannon from Ilusha, he
27:19
Speaker 1: handed it himself to Mamma with a polite bag. She
27:23
Speaker 1: was so touched that she cried, Ilusha, darling, he's the
27:28
Speaker 1: one who loves his mamma, she said tenderly, and at
27:32
Speaker 1: once began wheeling the cannon to and fro on her lap. Again, Mamma,
27:39
Speaker 1: let me kiss your hand. The captain darted up to
27:42
Speaker 1: her at once and did so. And I never saw
27:46
Speaker 1: such a charming fellow as this nice boyt said the
27:50
Speaker 1: dreadful lady, pointing to Krassotkin. And I'll bring you as
27:55
Speaker 1: much powder as you like, Ilusha. We make the powder ourselves. Now.
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Speaker 1: Borovikov found out how it's made. Twenty four parts of saltpeter,
28:04
Speaker 1: ten of supper, and six of but with charcoal it's
28:08
Speaker 1: all pounded together, mixed into a paste with water and
28:12
Speaker 1: rubbed for a tummy sip. That's how it's done. Smeer
28:16
Speaker 1: Ub told me about your powder. Only father says it's
28:19
Speaker 1: not real gunpowder, responded DeLucia. Not real, Collier flushed it burns.
28:26
Speaker 1: I don't know, of course, no, I didn't mean that,
28:30
Speaker 1: put in the captain with a guilty pace. I only
28:33
Speaker 1: said that real powder is not made like that. But
28:37
Speaker 1: that's nothing. It can be made. So I don't know.
28:40
Speaker 1: You know best. We lighted summon a permatum pot. It
28:44
Speaker 1: burns splendidly. It all burnt away, leaving only a tiny ash.
28:49
Speaker 1: But that was only the paste. And if you rub
28:51
Speaker 1: it through, But of course you know best. I don't know.
28:55
Speaker 1: And Bulkin's father thrashed him on account of a powder.
28:58
Speaker 1: Did you hear it? He turned to Ilusha, Yes, answered Ilusha.
29:04
Speaker 1: He listened to Colia with immense interest and enjoyment. We
29:08
Speaker 1: have prepared a whole bottle of it, and he used
29:10
Speaker 1: to keep it under his bed. His father saw it,
29:13
Speaker 1: he said it might explode, and thrashed him on the spot.
29:17
Speaker 1: He was going to make it complaint against me to
29:19
Speaker 1: the masters. He is not allowed to go about with me. Now,
29:23
Speaker 1: no one is allowed to go about with me. Now
29:25
Speaker 1: Smeerov is not allowed to either. I've got a bad
29:28
Speaker 1: name with every one. They say I'm a desperate character,
29:32
Speaker 1: Colia smiled scornfully. It all began from what happened on
29:36
Speaker 1: the railway. Ah, we've heard of that exploit of yours,
29:40
Speaker 1: cried the captain. How could you lie still on the line.
29:44
Speaker 1: Is it possible you want the least of prey lying
29:46
Speaker 1: there under the train, won't you? Frightened? The captain was
29:50
Speaker 1: abject in his flattery of Collier, not particularly, answered Colia carelessly.
29:58
Speaker 1: What's blasted my reputation more than anything? Here? Was that
30:01
Speaker 1: cursed goose, he said, turning again to Ilusha. But though
30:06
Speaker 1: he assumed an unconcerned air as he talked, he still
30:10
Speaker 1: could not control himself and was continually missing the note
30:14
Speaker 1: he tried to keep up. Ah, I heard about the goose,
30:18
Speaker 1: Ilusha laughed, beaming all over. They told me, But I
30:21
Speaker 1: didn't understand. Did they really take you to the court
30:25
Speaker 1: the most stupid trivial affair. They made a mountain of
30:29
Speaker 1: a mole hill, as they always do. Colia began carelessly.
30:34
Speaker 1: I was walking through the market place here one day,
30:37
Speaker 1: just when they'd driven in the geese. I stopped and
30:40
Speaker 1: looked at them all at once. A fellow who was
30:43
Speaker 1: an errand boy at Plotney Cups now looked at me
30:47
Speaker 1: and said, what are you looking at the geese? For
30:50
Speaker 1: I looked at him. He was a stupid, moon faced
30:53
Speaker 1: fellow of twenty I'm always on the side of the peasantry.
30:57
Speaker 1: You know, I liked talking to the peasants. We've dropped
31:00
Speaker 1: behind the peasants. That's an axiom. I believe you are laughing, Karamatzov.
31:07
Speaker 1: No heaven forbid, I am listening, said Alyosha with a
31:11
Speaker 1: most good natured air, and the sensitive collier was immediately reassured.
31:17
Speaker 1: My theory, Karamatzov, is clear and simple. He hurried on again,
31:23
Speaker 1: looking pleased. I believe in the people and am always
31:27
Speaker 1: glad to give them their due. But I am not
31:30
Speaker 1: for spoiling them, that is asina Kwannon. But I was
31:34
Speaker 1: telling you about the goose, So I turned to the
31:37
Speaker 1: fool and answered, I am wondering what the goose thinks about.
31:42
Speaker 1: He looked at me quite stupidly. And what does the
31:45
Speaker 1: goose think about? He asked? Do you see that cart
31:49
Speaker 1: full of oats? I said. The oats are dropping out
31:52
Speaker 1: of the sack, and the goose has put its neck
31:55
Speaker 1: right under the wheel to gobble them up. Do you
31:57
Speaker 1: see I see that quite well, he said, Well, said I.
32:02
Speaker 1: If that cart were to move on a little, would
32:05
Speaker 1: it break the goose's neck or not? It'd be sure
32:08
Speaker 1: to break it. And he grinned all over his face,
32:11
Speaker 1: highly delighted. Come on, then, said I let's try. Let's
32:17
Speaker 1: he said, And it did not take us long to arrange.
32:21
Speaker 1: He stood at the bridle without being noticed, and I
32:24
Speaker 1: stood on one side to direct the goose, and the
32:27
Speaker 1: owner wasn't looking. He was talking to some one, so
32:31
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do. The goose thrust its head
32:34
Speaker 1: in after the oats, of itself under the cart, just
32:37
Speaker 1: under the wheel. I winked at the lad He tugged
32:40
Speaker 1: at the bridle and cracked, and the goose's neck was
32:44
Speaker 1: broken in half. And as luck would have it, all
32:47
Speaker 1: the peasants saw us at that moment, and they kicked
32:50
Speaker 1: up a shindy at once. You did that on purpose, No,
32:54
Speaker 1: not on purpose, Yes, you did on purpose. Well, they shouted,
32:59
Speaker 1: take to the justice of the peace. They took me too.
33:03
Speaker 1: You were there too, They said, you helped. You're known
33:07
Speaker 1: all over the market, and for some reason, I really
33:10
Speaker 1: am known all over the market, Collier added conceitedly. We
33:15
Speaker 1: all went up to the justices. They brought the goose to.
33:19
Speaker 1: The fellow was crying in a great bunk, simply blubbering
33:23
Speaker 1: like a woman, and the farmer kept shouting that you
33:27
Speaker 1: could kill any number of geese like that. Well, of
33:30
Speaker 1: course there were witnesses. The Justice of the Peace settled
33:34
Speaker 1: it in a minute that the farmer was to be
33:36
Speaker 1: paid a rouble for the goose, and the fellow to
33:39
Speaker 1: have the goose, and he was warned not to play
33:42
Speaker 1: such pranks again. And the fellow kept blubbering like a woman.
33:47
Speaker 1: It wasn't me, he said, it was he egged me
33:50
Speaker 1: arm and he pointed to me. I answered, with the
33:53
Speaker 1: utmost composure that I hadn't egged him on that. I
33:56
Speaker 1: simply stated the general proposition, had spoken pathetically. The Justice
34:02
Speaker 1: of the Peace smiled and was vexed with himself at
34:04
Speaker 1: once for having smiled. I'll complain to your masters of you,
34:09
Speaker 1: so that for the future you mayn't waste your time
34:12
Speaker 1: on such general propositions instead of setting at your books
34:16
Speaker 1: and learning your lessons. He didn't complain to the masters.
34:19
Speaker 1: That was a joke. But the matter was noised abroad
34:22
Speaker 1: and came to the ears of the masters. Their ears
34:25
Speaker 1: are long, you know. The classical master Karlbashnikov was particularly
34:30
Speaker 1: shocked about it. But Doar Dunilov got me up again.
34:34
Speaker 1: But Karbashnikov is savage with every one now, like a
34:37
Speaker 1: green ass. Did you know, Ilusha, He is just married,
34:41
Speaker 1: got a dowry of a thousand roubles, and his brides
34:45
Speaker 1: a regular fright at the first rank and the last degree.
34:48
Speaker 1: The third class Fellows wrote an epigram on it, astounding
34:53
Speaker 1: news has reached the class. Kalbashnikov has been an h
35:00
Speaker 1: and so on, awfully, bunny, I'll bring it to you
35:03
Speaker 1: later on. I say nothing against Arduanilov. He is a
35:07
Speaker 1: learned man, there's no doubt about it. I respect man
35:11
Speaker 1: like that. And it's not because he stood up for me,
35:14
Speaker 1: but you took him down. About the founders of Troy
35:18
Speaker 1: Smeera put In suddenly unmistakably proud of Grassotkin at such
35:22
Speaker 1: a moment. He was particularly pleased with the story of
35:26
Speaker 1: the goose did you really take him down? The captain
35:30
Speaker 1: inquired in a fluttering way on the question, who founded Troy?
35:34
Speaker 1: We heard of it? Ilusha told me about it at
35:37
Speaker 1: the time. He knows everything, Father, He knows more than
35:41
Speaker 1: any of us. Put in Ilusha. He only pretends to
35:44
Speaker 1: be like that, but really he is top in every subject.
35:48
Speaker 1: Ilusha looked at Kolia with infinite happiness. Oh, that's all
35:52
Speaker 1: nonsense about Troy A trivial matter. I consider this an
35:56
Speaker 1: unimportant question, said Kolia, with haughty humility. Here by now
36:01
Speaker 1: completely recovered his dignity, though we were still a little uneasy.
36:06
Speaker 1: He felt that he was greatly excited, and that he
36:09
Speaker 1: had talked about the goose, for instance, with too little reserve,
36:13
Speaker 1: while Alyosha had looked serious and had not said a
36:16
Speaker 1: word all the time. And the vain boy began, by
36:20
Speaker 1: degrees to have a rankling fear that Alyosha was silent
36:24
Speaker 1: because he despised him and thought he was showing off
36:27
Speaker 1: before him if he dared to think anything like that,
36:30
Speaker 1: Colya Wood, I regard the question as quite a trivial one.
36:35
Speaker 1: He ruped out again proudly. And I know who found Detroit?
36:40
Speaker 1: A boy who had not spoken before, said suddenly, to
36:43
Speaker 1: the surprise of every one. He was silent and seemed
36:47
Speaker 1: to be shy. He was a pretty boy of about eleven,
36:51
Speaker 1: called Katashaff. He was sitting near the door. Colia looked
36:56
Speaker 1: at him with dignified amazement. The fact was that the
37:01
Speaker 1: identity of the founders of Troy had become a secret
37:05
Speaker 1: for the whole school, a secret which could only be
37:08
Speaker 1: discovered by reading Smaragdoff, and no one had Smagdoff but Colier.
37:15
Speaker 1: One day, when Collier's back was turned, Kartashoff hastily opened Smaragdoff,
37:22
Speaker 1: which lay among Collier's books, and immediately lighted on the
37:26
Speaker 1: passage relating to the foundation of Troy. This was a
37:31
Speaker 1: good time ago, but he felt uneasy and could not
37:35
Speaker 1: bring himself to announce publicly that he too, knew who
37:38
Speaker 1: had founded Troy, afraid of what might happen, and of
37:42
Speaker 1: Krazotkin's summer, putting him to shame over it. But now
37:47
Speaker 1: he couldn't resist saying it. For weeks he had been
37:51
Speaker 1: longing to well, who did found it? Asked Colier, turning
37:57
Speaker 1: to him with haughty, superciliousness. He saw from his face
38:01
Speaker 1: that he really did know, and that once made up
38:04
Speaker 1: his mind how to take it, there was, so to speak,
38:08
Speaker 1: a discordant note in the general harmony. Troy was founded
38:13
Speaker 1: by Tucca, Dardinus Ilius and Truss. The boy rapped out
38:17
Speaker 1: at once, and in the same instant he blushed, blushed
38:22
Speaker 1: so that it was painful to look at him. But
38:25
Speaker 1: the boy stared at him, stared at him for a
38:28
Speaker 1: hale minute, and then all the staring eyes turned that
38:32
Speaker 1: once and were fastened upon Collier, who was still scanning
38:35
Speaker 1: the audacious boy with disdainful composure. In what sense did
38:41
Speaker 1: they found it? He deigned to comment at last, And
38:45
Speaker 1: what is meant by founding a city of a state?
38:48
Speaker 1: What do they do? Did they go and each lay
38:51
Speaker 1: a brick? Do you suppose there was laughter? The offending
38:56
Speaker 1: boy turned from pink to crimson. He was silent, and
39:00
Speaker 1: on the point of tears. Collier held him. So for
39:03
Speaker 1: a minute, before you talk of a historical event, like
39:08
Speaker 1: the foundation of a nationality, you must first understand what
39:12
Speaker 1: you mean by it, he admonished him, in stern, incisive tones.
39:17
Speaker 1: But I attached no consequence to these old wives tales,
39:21
Speaker 1: and I don't think much of universal history in general,
39:24
Speaker 1: he added, carelessly, addressing the company generally universal history. The
39:31
Speaker 1: captain inquired, looking almost scared. Yes, universal history. It's the
39:37
Speaker 1: study of the successive follices of mankind, and nothing more.
39:41
Speaker 1: The only subjects I respect are mathematics and natural science,
39:45
Speaker 1: said Collier. He was showing off, and he stole a
39:49
Speaker 1: glance at a Leotia. His was the only opinion he
39:52
Speaker 1: was afraid of. There. But Alyoysha was still silent and
39:56
Speaker 1: still serious as before. If Alyoisha had so a word,
40:00
Speaker 1: it would have stopped him. But Alyosha was silent, and
40:04
Speaker 1: it might be the silence of contempt, and that finally
40:07
Speaker 1: irritated Colia. The classical languages too, They are simply madness,
40:13
Speaker 1: nothing more. You seem to disagree with me again, Kara matself,
40:17
Speaker 1: I don't agree, said Alyosha, with a faint smile. The
40:21
Speaker 1: study of the classics, if you ask my opinion, is
40:24
Speaker 1: simply a police measure. That's simply why it has been
40:28
Speaker 1: introduced into our schools by degrees. Colia began to get
40:33
Speaker 1: breathless again. Latin and Greek were introduced because they are
40:37
Speaker 1: a bore and because they stupefy the intellect. It was
40:42
Speaker 1: dull before, so what could they do to make things
40:44
Speaker 1: duller It was senseless enough before, so what could they
40:48
Speaker 1: do to make it more senseless? So they thought of
40:51
Speaker 1: Greek and Latin. That's my opinion. I hope I shall
40:54
Speaker 1: never change it, Calia finished abruptly. His cheeks were flushed.
40:59
Speaker 1: That's true, assented smer Up suddenly, in a ringing tone
41:03
Speaker 1: of conviction. He had listened attentively, and yet he is
41:08
Speaker 1: first in Latin himself, cried one of the group of boys. Suddenly, yes, father,
41:14
Speaker 1: he says that, and yet he is first in Latin,
41:17
Speaker 1: echoed Ilusha. What of it? Carlo thought fit to defend
41:21
Speaker 1: himself further praise was very sweet to him. I am
41:25
Speaker 1: fagging away at Latin because I have to, because I
41:28
Speaker 1: promised my mother to pass my examination, and I think
41:32
Speaker 1: that whatever you do, it's worth doing it well. But
41:35
Speaker 1: in my soul I have a propound contempt for the
41:38
Speaker 1: classics and all that fraud. You don't agree, Karamatzov, Why fraud?
41:44
Speaker 1: Alyosha smiled again. Well, all the classical authors have been
41:49
Speaker 1: translated into all languages, so it was not for the
41:52
Speaker 1: sake of studying the classics. They introduced Latin, but solely
41:56
Speaker 1: as a police measure to stupefy the intelligence. So what
42:00
Speaker 1: can one call it but a fraud? Why who tought
42:03
Speaker 1: you all this? Cried Alyosha, surprised at last in the
42:08
Speaker 1: first place, I am capable of thinking for myself without
42:12
Speaker 1: being taught. Besides what I said just now about the
42:15
Speaker 1: classics being translated, our teacher Karbashnikov has said to the
42:19
Speaker 1: whole of the third class. The doctor has come, cried Nina,
42:24
Speaker 1: who had been silent till then. A carriage belonging to
42:28
Speaker 1: Madame Hohlakov drove up to the gate. The captain, who
42:32
Speaker 1: had been expecting the doctor all the morning, rushed headlong
42:35
Speaker 1: out to meet him. Mamma pulled herself together and assumed
42:40
Speaker 1: a dignified her. Alyosha went up to Ilusha and began
42:45
Speaker 1: setting his pillow straight. Nina from her invalid chair anxiously
42:50
Speaker 1: watched him putting the bed tidy. The boys hurriedly took leave.
42:55
Speaker 1: Some of them promised to come again in the evening.
42:58
Speaker 1: Kolia called peretzpon, and the dog jumped up the bed.
43:02
Speaker 1: I won't come away, I won't come away, Collier said
43:05
Speaker 1: hastily to Ilusha. I'll wait in the passage and come
43:08
Speaker 1: back when the doctor's gone. I'll come back with Peretzwan.
43:12
Speaker 1: But by now the doctor had entered an important looking
43:16
Speaker 1: person with long, dark whiskers and a shiny shaven chin,
43:21
Speaker 1: wearing a burskin coat. As he crossed the threshold, he
43:25
Speaker 1: stopped taken aback. He probably fancied he had come to
43:28
Speaker 1: the wrong place. How is this where am i? He muttered,
43:33
Speaker 1: not removing his coat nor his peaked sealskin cap. The crowd,
43:37
Speaker 1: the poverty of the room, the washing hanging on a
43:40
Speaker 1: line in the corner, puzzled him. The captain bent double
43:44
Speaker 1: was bowing low before him. It's here, sir, Here, sir,
43:49
Speaker 1: he muttered, cringingly. It's here. You've come right, you were
43:52
Speaker 1: coming to us. Snag Giria, the doctor said, loudly and pompously,
43:58
Speaker 1: mister Snagirriov, is that thank you? That's me, sir ah.
44:03
Speaker 1: The doctor looked round the room with a squeamish air
44:07
Speaker 1: once more, and threw off his coat, displaying to all
44:10
Speaker 1: eyes the grand decoration at his neck. The captain caught
44:15
Speaker 1: the furk coat in the air, and the doctor took
44:17
Speaker 1: off his cap. Where is the patient? He asked emphatically
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Speaker 1: end of Chapter sixty eight,