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The Possessed

CHAPTER VII
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Some of the visitors who had never seen him before stole thoughtful glances at him.
I can't say whether Madame Virginsky knew anything about the existence of the quintet.

I imagine she knew everything and from her husband.
The girl-student, of course, took no part in anything; but she had an anxiety of her own: she intended to stay only a day or two and then to go on farther and farther from one university town to another "to show active sympathy with the sufferings of poor students and to rouse them to protest." She was taking with her some hundreds of copies of a lithographed appeal, I believe of her own composition.

It is remarkable that the schoolboy conceived an almost murderous hatred for her from the first moment, though he saw her for the first time in his life; and she felt the same for him.

The major was her uncle, and met her to-day for the first time after ten years.

When Stavrogin and Verhovensky came in, her cheeks were as red as cranberries: she had just quarrelled with her uncle over his views on the woman question.
II With conspicuous nonchalance Verhovensky lounged in the chair at the upper end of the table, almost without greeting anyone.


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