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The Possessed

CHAPTER VIII
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whom ?" "Whom ?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch." "Who-m ?" "Ivan the Tsarevitch.

You! You!" Stavrogin thought a minute.
"A pretender ?" he asked suddenly, looking with intense-surprise at his frantic companion.

"Ah! so that's your plan at last!" "We shall say that he is 'in hiding,'" Verhovensky said softly, in a sort of tender whisper, as though he really were drunk indeed.

"Do you know the magic of that phrase, 'he is in hiding'?
But he will appear, he will appear.

We'll set a legend going better than the Skoptsis'.


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