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057 - Book Nine Chapter Three · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty seven of the Brothers Karamatzov by Fyodor 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 three, The Sufferings
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Speaker 1: of a Soul, the First Ordeal, And so Mitya sat
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Speaker 1: looking wildly at the people round him, not understanding what
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Speaker 1: was said to him. Suddenly he got up, flung up
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Speaker 1: his hands, and shouted aloud, I'm not guilty. I'm not
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Speaker 1: guilty of that blood. I'm not guilty of my father's blood.
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Speaker 1: I meant to kill him, but I'm not guilty, not
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Speaker 1: I But he had hardly said this before Grushenka rushed
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Speaker 1: from behind the curtain and flung herself at the police
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Speaker 1: captain's feet. It was my fault, mine, my wickedness, she
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Speaker 1: cried in a heartrending voice, bathed in tears, stretching out
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Speaker 1: her clasped hands towards them. He did it through me.
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Speaker 1: I tortured him and drove him to it. I tortured
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Speaker 1: that poor old man that's dead too, in my wickedness
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Speaker 1: and brought him to their It's my fault, mine first, mine, most,
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Speaker 1: my fault. Yes, it's your fault. You're the cheap criminal.
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Speaker 1: You fury, you harlot, You're the most to blame, shouted
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Speaker 1: the police captain, threatening her with his hand, but he
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Speaker 1: was quickly and irresolutely suppressed. The prosecutor positively seized whole
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Speaker 1: of him. This is absolutely irregular, Mihail Makarovitch, he cried,
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Speaker 1: you are positively hindering the inquiry. You're ruining the case.
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Speaker 1: He almost gasped. Follow the regular coasts. Follow the regular coast,
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Speaker 1: cried Nikolai Popanovitch, fearfully excited too. Otherwise, it's absolutely impossible.
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Speaker 1: Just just together, Grushenka cried, frantically, still kneeling. Punish us together.
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Speaker 1: I will go with him now, if it's to death, Grusha,
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Speaker 1: my life, my blood, my holy one. Mitya fell on
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Speaker 1: his knees beside her and held her tight in his arms.
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Speaker 1: Don't believe her, he cried, She's not guilty of anything,
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Speaker 1: of any blood, of anything. He remembered afterwards that he
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Speaker 1: was forcibly dragged away from her by several men, and
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Speaker 1: that she was led out, and that when he recovered himself,
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Speaker 1: he was sitting at the table beside him and behind
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Speaker 1: him stood the men with metal plates. Facing him. On
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Speaker 1: the other side of the table sat Nikolay Parfenovitch, the
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Speaker 1: investigating lawyer. He kept persuading him to drink a little
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Speaker 1: water out of a glass that stood on the table.
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Speaker 1: That will refresh you, that will come you. Be calm,
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Speaker 1: don't be frightened, he added extremely politely. Mitya, he remembered it. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: became suddenly intensely interested in his big rings, one with
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Speaker 1: an amethyst and another with a transparent, bright yellowstone of
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Speaker 1: great brilliance, And long afterwards he remembered with wonder how
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Speaker 1: those rings had riveted his attention through all those terrible
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Speaker 1: hours of interrogation, so that he was utterly unable to
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Speaker 1: tear himself away from them, and dismissed them as things
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Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with his position. On Micha's
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Speaker 1: left side, in the place where Maximov had been sitting
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the evening, the prosecutor was now seated,
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Speaker 1: and on Mitya's right hand, where Grushenka had been, was
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Speaker 1: a rosy cheeked young man in a sort of shabby
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Speaker 1: hunting jacket with ink and paper before him. This was
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Speaker 1: the secretary of the investigating lawyer, who had brought him
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Speaker 1: with him. The police captain was now standing by the
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Speaker 1: window at the other end of the room, beside Kalganov,
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Speaker 1: who was sitting there. Drink some water, said the investigating
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Speaker 1: lawyer softly, for the tenth time. I have drunk it, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: I have, but come, gentlemen, trust me, punish me beside
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Speaker 1: my fate, cried Mitya, staring with terribly fixed, wide open
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Speaker 1: eyes at the investigating lawyer. So you positively declare that
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Speaker 1: you are not guilty of the death of your father,
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Speaker 1: A Fayodor Pavlovitch asked the investigating lawyer softly but insistently.
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Speaker 1: I am not guilty. I am guilty of the blood
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Speaker 1: of another old manber not of my father's, and I
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Speaker 1: weep for it. I killed I killed the old man,
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Speaker 1: and not him down. But it's hard to have to
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Speaker 1: answer for that murder with another, A terrible murder of
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Speaker 1: which I am not guilty. It's a terrible accusation, gentleman,
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Speaker 1: a knockdown blow. But who has killed my father? Who
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Speaker 1: has killed him? Who can have killed him? If I didn't?
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Speaker 1: It's marvelous, extraordinary, impossible, Yes, who can have killed him.
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Speaker 1: The investigating lawyer was beginning, but Hippolyte Kirillovitch, the prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: glancing at him, addressed, Mitya, you need not worry yourself
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Speaker 1: about the old servant, Grigory Vassojevitch. He is alive. He
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Speaker 1: has recovered, and in spite of the terrible blows inflicted,
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Speaker 1: according to his own and you your evidence. By you,
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Speaker 1: there seems no doubt that he will live. So the
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Speaker 1: doctor says, at least alive. He's alive. Cried Mitya, flinging
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Speaker 1: up his hands, his face beamed, Lord, I thank THEE
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Speaker 1: for the miracle thou hast wrought for me, a sinner
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Speaker 1: and evil. Do it. That's an answer to my prayer.
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Speaker 1: I've been praying all night. And he crossed himself three times.
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Speaker 1: He was almost breathless. So from this grigory we have
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Speaker 1: received such important evidence concerning you that the prosecutor would
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Speaker 1: have continued. But Mitya suddenly jumped up from his chair.
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Speaker 1: One minute, gentleman, for God's sake, one minute, I will
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Speaker 1: run to her. Excuse me. At this moment, it's quite impossible.
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Speaker 1: Nekolai Pavbanovitch almost shrieked. He too, leaped to his feet.
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Speaker 1: Mitya was seized by the men with the metal plates,
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Speaker 1: but he sat down of his own accord. Gentlemen, what
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Speaker 1: a pity. I wanted to see her for one minute only.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to tell her that it has been washed away.
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Speaker 1: It has come that plod that was weighing on my
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Speaker 1: heart all night, and that I am not a murderer. That, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: she is my betrothed, he said ecstatically and irreverently, looking
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Speaker 1: round at them. All. Oh, thank you, gentlemen. Oh, in
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Speaker 1: one minute you have given me new life, new heart.
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Speaker 1: That old man who's to carry me in his arms, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: he used to wash me in the tub when I
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Speaker 1: was a baby three years old, abandoned by every woman.
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Speaker 1: He was like a pather to me. And so you,
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Speaker 1: the investigating lawyer began, allarm me, gentlemen, allarm me. One
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Speaker 1: minute more, interposed Mitya, putting his elbows on the table
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Speaker 1: and covering his face with his hands. Let me have
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Speaker 1: a moment to think, Let me breathe, gentlemen, all this
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Speaker 1: is horribly upsetting, horribly harmn is not a drum, gentleman.
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Speaker 1: During a little more water murmured Nikolay Parfenovitch. Mitcher took
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Speaker 1: his hands from his face and laughed. His eyes were competent.
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Speaker 1: He seemed completely transformed. In a moment, his whole bearing
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Speaker 1: was changed. He was once more the equal of these men,
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Speaker 1: with all of whom he was acquainted, as though they
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Speaker 1: had all met the day before, when nothing had happened
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Speaker 1: at some social gathering. We may note in passing that
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Speaker 1: on his first arrival Mitya had been made very welcome
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Speaker 1: at the police captain's. But later, during the last month especially,
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Speaker 1: Mitcher had hardly called the toll, and when the police
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Speaker 1: captain met him in the street, for instance, Mitcher noticed
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Speaker 1: that he frowned and only bowed out of politeness. His
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Speaker 1: acquaintance with the prosecutor was less intimate, though he sometimes
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Speaker 1: bade his wife, a nervous and fanciful lady, visits of
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Speaker 1: politeness without quite knowing why, and she always received him
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Speaker 1: graciously and had for some reason taken an interest in him.
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Speaker 1: Up to the last he had not had time to
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Speaker 1: get to know the investigating lawyer, though we had met
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Speaker 1: him and talked to him twice, each time about the
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Speaker 1: fair sex. You're a most skillful lawyer, I see, and
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Parfenovitch cried Mitya, laughing gaily. But I can help
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Speaker 1: you now, Oh, gentlemen, I feel like a new man,
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Speaker 1: and don't be offended at my addressing you so simply
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Speaker 1: and directly. I'm rather drunk too, I'll tell you that. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: I believe I've had the honor and pleasure of meeting you,
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Parfenovitch at my kinsman meusubs gentlemen, gentlemen, I don't
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Speaker 1: pretend to be on equal terms with you. I understand,
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Speaker 1: of course, in what character I am sitting before you. Oh,
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Speaker 1: of course there's a horrible suspicion hanging over me. If
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Speaker 1: Gregory has given evidence a horrible suspicion, it's awful, awful,
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Speaker 1: I understand that. But to business, gentlemen, I am ready,
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Speaker 1: and we will make an end of it in one moment.
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Speaker 1: For listen, listen, gentlemen. Since I know I'm innocent, we
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Speaker 1: can put an end to it in a minute, can't
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Speaker 1: we can't we. Mitya spoke much and quickly, nervously and effusibly,
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Speaker 1: as though he positively took his listeners to be his
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Speaker 1: best friends. So for the present, we will write that
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Speaker 1: you absolutely deny the charge brought against you, said Nikolay Parfenovitch, impressively,
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Speaker 1: and bending down to the secretary, he dictated to him
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Speaker 1: in an undertone, what to write. Write it down? You
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Speaker 1: want to write that down, well, write it. I consent,
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Speaker 1: I give my poll. Consent, gentlemen, only do you see
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Speaker 1: stay stay write this of disorderly conduct. I am guilty
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Speaker 1: of violence on a man. I am guilty. And there
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Speaker 1: is something else at the bottom of my heart of
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Speaker 1: which I am guilty too, but that you need not
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Speaker 1: write down. He turned suddenly to the secretary. That's my
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Speaker 1: personal life, gentleman, that doesn't concern you, the bottom of
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Speaker 1: my heart, that's to say. But at the murder of
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Speaker 1: my old father, I'm not guilty. That's a wild idea.
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Speaker 1: It's quite a wild idea. I will prove you that,
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Speaker 1: and you'll bekin vince directly. You will laugh, gentlemen, you'll
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Speaker 1: laugh yourselves at your suspicion. Be calm, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, said
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Speaker 1: the investigating lawyer, evidently trying to allay Mitya's excitement by
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Speaker 1: his own composure. Before we go on with our inquiry,
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Speaker 1: I should like, if you will consent to answer to
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Speaker 1: hear you confirm the statement that you disliked your father
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Speaker 1: by Yodor Pavlovitch, that you were involved in continual disputes
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Speaker 1: with him. Here at least a quarter of an hour ago,
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Speaker 1: you exclaimed that you wanted to kill him. I didn't
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Speaker 1: kill him, you said, but I wanted to kill him.
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Speaker 1: Did I exclaim that? Ah, that may be so, gentleman, Yes, unhappily,
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Speaker 1: I did want to kill him many times. I wanted to. Unhappily,
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Speaker 1: unhappily you wanted to. Would you consent to explain what
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Speaker 1: motives precisely led you to such a sentiment of hatred
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Speaker 1: for your parent? What is there to explain, gentlemen? Mitya
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Speaker 1: shrugged his shoulders, sullenly, looking down. I have never concealed
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Speaker 1: my feelings. All the town knows about it. Every one
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Speaker 1: knows in the tavern. Only lately I declared them in
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Speaker 1: father Zossima's cell, and the very same day, in the evening,
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Speaker 1: I beat my father. I nearly killed him, and I
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Speaker 1: swaw i'd come again and kill him before witnesses, oh
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Speaker 1: a thousand witnesses. I've been shouting it aloud for the
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Speaker 1: last month. Any one can tell you that the fact
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Speaker 1: stares you in the face. It speaks for itself, it
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Speaker 1: cries aloud. But feelings, gentlemen, feelings are another matter, you see, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: mitya frowned. It seems to me that about feelings you've
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Speaker 1: no right to question me. I know that you are
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Speaker 1: bound by your office. I quite understand that, But that's
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Speaker 1: my affair, my private intimate affair. Yet, since I haven't
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Speaker 1: concealed my feelings in the past, in the tavern, for instance,
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Speaker 1: I've took to every one, so so I won't make
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Speaker 1: a secret of it now, you see. I understand, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: that there are terrible facts against me in this business.
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Speaker 1: I told everyone that I'd kill him, and now all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden he's been killed, So it must to
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Speaker 1: be me. Ha ha. I can make allowances for you, gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: I can quite make allowances. I'm struck Oliver Heap myself.
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Speaker 1: But who can have murdered him? If not I. That's
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Speaker 1: what it comes to, isn't it. If not I, who
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Speaker 1: can it be? Who? Gentlemen? I want to know. I
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Speaker 1: insist on knowing, he exclaimed, suddenly, Where was he murdered.
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Speaker 1: How was he murdered? How? And with what? Tell me,
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Speaker 1: he asked, quickly, looking at the two lawyers. We found
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Speaker 1: him in his study, lying on his back on the
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Speaker 1: floor with his head battered in, said the prosecutor. That's horrible.
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Speaker 1: Mitya shuddered, and, putting his elbows on the table, hid
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Speaker 1: his face in his right hand. We will continue, interposed
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Parfenovitch. So what was it that impelled you to
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Speaker 1: this sentiment of hatred you have asserted in public. I
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Speaker 1: believe that it was based upon jealousy. Well, yes, jealousy,
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Speaker 1: and not only jealousy, disputes about money, Yes, about money too.
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Speaker 1: There was a dispute about three thousand roubles I think,
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Speaker 1: which you claimed as part of your inheritance. Three thousand
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Speaker 1: more more, cried Mitya hotly more than six thousand, more
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Speaker 1: than ten. Perhaps I told everyone so, shouted it at them,
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Speaker 1: But I made up my mind to let it go
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Speaker 1: at three thousand. I was desperately in need of that
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Speaker 1: three thousand. So the bundle of notes for three thousand
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Speaker 1: that I knew he kept under his pillow ready for Grushenka,
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Speaker 1: I considered as simply stolen from me. Yes, gentlemen, I
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Speaker 1: looked upon it as mine, as my own property. The
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Speaker 1: prosecutor looked significantly at the investigating lawyer and had time
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Speaker 1: to wink at him on the slide. We will return
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Speaker 1: to that subject later, said the lawyer. Promptly. You will
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Speaker 1: allow us to note that point and write it down
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Speaker 1: that you looked upon that money as your own property.
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Speaker 1: Write it down by all means. I know that's another
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Speaker 1: fact that tells it against me. But I'm not afraid
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Speaker 1: of facts, and I tell them against myself. Do you
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Speaker 1: hear it? Do you know, gentlemen, you take me for
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Speaker 1: a different sort of man from what I am, He added,
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Speaker 1: suddenly gloomy and dejected. You have to deal with a
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Speaker 1: man of honor, a man of the highest honor above all,
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Speaker 1: don't lose sight of it, A man who has done
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Speaker 1: a lot of nasty things, but has always been and
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Speaker 1: still is honorable at bottom in his inner being. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how to express it. That's just what's made
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Speaker 1: me wretched all my life. Then I yearned to be honorable.
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Speaker 1: That I was, so to say, a martyr to a
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Speaker 1: sense of honor, seeking for it with a lantern, With
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Speaker 1: the lantern of Diogenes. And yet all my life I've
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Speaker 1: been doing filthy things like all of us, gentlemen. That is,
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Speaker 1: like me alone, that was a mistake, Like.
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Speaker 2: Me alone, me alone, gentleman, my head, ay, his brows
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Speaker 2: contracted with pain.
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Speaker 1: You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him.
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Speaker 1: There was something in him, ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred,
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Speaker 1: something sneering and irreverent, loaths and loathsome. But now that
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Speaker 1: he's dead, I feel differently. How do you mean? I
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Speaker 1: don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him.
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Speaker 1: So you feel penitent? No, not penitent. Don't write that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not much good myself. I'm not very beautiful, so
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Speaker 1: I had no right to consider him repulsive. That's what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Write that down if you like saying this.
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Speaker 1: Mitya became very mournful. He had grown more and more
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Speaker 1: gloomy as the inquiry continued. At that moment, another unexpected
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Speaker 1: scene followed. Though Grushenka had been removed, she had not
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Speaker 1: been taken far away, only into the room next but
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Speaker 1: one from the blue room in which the examination was proceeding.
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Speaker 1: It was a little room with one window next beyond
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Speaker 1: the large room in which they had danced and feasted
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Speaker 1: so lavishly. She was sitting there with the warmp by her,
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Speaker 1: but Maximov, who was terribly depressed, terribly scared and clung
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Speaker 1: to her side as though for security. At their door
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Speaker 1: stood one of the peasants with a metal plate on
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Speaker 1: his breast. Grushenka was crying, and suddenly her grief was
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Speaker 1: too much worth. She jumped up, flung up her arms,
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Speaker 1: and with a loud wail of sorrow, rushed out of
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Speaker 1: the room to him, to her Mitya, and so unexpectedly
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Speaker 1: that they had not time to stop her. Mitya, hearing
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Speaker 1: her cry, trembled, jumped up and with a yell, rushed
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Speaker 1: impetuously to meet her, not knowing what he was doing.
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Speaker 1: But they were not allowed to come together. Though they
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Speaker 1: saw one another, he was seized by the arms. He
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Speaker 1: struggled and tried to tear himself away. It took three
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Speaker 1: or four men to hold him. She was seized too,
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Speaker 1: and he saw her stretching out her arms to him,
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Speaker 1: crying aloud as they carried her away. When the scene
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Speaker 1: was over, he came to himself again, sitting in the
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Speaker 1: same place as before, opposite the investigating lawyer, and crying
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Speaker 1: out to them, what do you want with her? Why
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Speaker 1: do you torment? She done nothing nothing. The lawyers tried
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Speaker 1: to soothe him. About ten minutes past like this. At
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Speaker 1: last Mihail Makrovitch, who had been absent, came hurriedly into
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Speaker 1: the room and said, in a loud and excited voice
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Speaker 1: to the prosecutor, she's been removed. She's downstairs. Will you
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Speaker 1: allow me to say one word to this unhappy man, gentleman,
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Speaker 1: in your presence, gentlemen, in your presence, by all means,
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Speaker 1: Mihail Makarovitch answered the investigating lawyer. In the present case,
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Speaker 1: we have nothing against it. Listen, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, my dear fellow,
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Speaker 1: began the priest captain, and there was a look of warm,
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Speaker 1: almost fatherly feeling for the luckless prisoner on his excited face.
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Speaker 1: I took your Agraphena Alexandrovna downstairs myself and confided her
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Speaker 1: to the care of the landlord's daughters. And that old
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Speaker 1: fellow Maximov is with her all the time, and I
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Speaker 1: soothed her. Do you hear I soothed and calmed her.
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Speaker 1: I impressed on her that you have to clear yourself.
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Speaker 1: So she mustn't hinder you, must not depress you, or
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Speaker 1: you may lose your head and say the wrong thing
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Speaker 1: in your evidence. In fact, I talked to her, and
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Speaker 1: she understood. She's a sensible girl, my boy, a good
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Speaker 1: hearted girl. She would have kissed my old hands begging
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Speaker 1: help for you. She sent me herself to tell you
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Speaker 1: not to worry about her, and I must go, my
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Speaker 1: dear fellow, I must go and tell her that you
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Speaker 1: are calm and comforted about her, and so you must
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Speaker 1: be calm. Do you understand I was unfair to her?
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Speaker 1: She is a Christian soul, gentleman, Yes, I tell you
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Speaker 1: she's a gentle soul and not to blame for anything.
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Speaker 1: So what am I to tell her? Dmitri Payodorovitch, will
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Speaker 1: you said quiet or not? The good natured please? Captain
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Speaker 1: said a great deal that was irregular. But Grushenka's suffering,
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Speaker 1: a fellow creature's suffering, touched his good natured heart, and
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Speaker 1: tears stood in his eyes. Mitya jumped up and rushed
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Speaker 1: towards him. Forgive me, gentlemen, oh allow me, allow me,
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Speaker 1: he cried, you've the heart of an angel, an angel,
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Speaker 1: Mihail Makarovitch. I thank you for her. I will I
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Speaker 1: will become cheerful. In fact, tell her in the kindness
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Speaker 1: of your heart that I am cheerful, quite cheerful, that
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Speaker 1: I shall be laughing in a minute, knowing that she
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Speaker 1: has a guardian angel like you. I shall have done
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Speaker 1: with all this directly, and as soon as I'm free,
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Speaker 1: I'll be with us. She'll see. Let her wait, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: he said, turning to the two lawyers. Now, I'll open
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Speaker 1: my whole soul to you. I'll pour at everything. We'll
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Speaker 1: finish this off directly, finish it off gaily. We shall
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Speaker 1: laugh at it in the enshan't we? But, gentlemen, that
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Speaker 1: woman is the queen of my heart. I'll let me
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Speaker 1: tell you that. One thing. I'll tell you now. I
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Speaker 1: see I'm with, honorable men. She is my light, she
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Speaker 1: is my holy one. And if only you knew, did
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Speaker 1: you hear her cry? I'll go to death with you?
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Speaker 1: And what have I, a penniless beggar, done for her?
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Speaker 1: Why such love for me? How can a clumsy, ugly
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Speaker 1: brute like me with my ugly face deserves such love?
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Speaker 1: That she is ready to go to exile with me,
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Speaker 1: and how she felled down at your feet for my
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Speaker 1: sake just now, and yet she's proud and has done nothing.
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Speaker 1: How can I help adoring her? How can I help
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Speaker 1: crying out and rushing to her as I did just now? Gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: forgive me, but no now I am comforted. And he
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Speaker 1: sank back in his chair and covering his face with
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Speaker 1: his hands, burst into tears, but they were happy tears.
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Speaker 1: He recovered himself instantly the old police captain and seemed
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Speaker 1: much pleased, and the lawyers also, They felt that the
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Speaker 1: examination was passing into a new phase. When the police
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Speaker 1: captain went out, Mitya was positively gay. Now, a gentleman,
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Speaker 1: I am at your disposal, entirely at your disposal, and
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Speaker 1: if it were not for all these trivial details, we
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Speaker 1: should understand one another. In a minute. I'm at those
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Speaker 1: details again. I'm at your disposal, gentlemen. But I declare
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Speaker 1: that we must have mutual confidence. You in me and
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Speaker 1: I in you. Will there'll be no end to it.
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Speaker 1: I speak in your interests to business, gentlemen, to business,
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Speaker 1: and don't rummage in my soul. Don't tease me with
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Speaker 1: trifles but only ask me about facts and what matters,
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Speaker 1: and I will satisfy you at once, and damn the details.
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Speaker 1: So spoke Mitcha. The interrogation began again. End of chapter
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