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The Possessed

CHAPTER X
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He took up his position near the door and with a stern face listened gloomily to the conversation.

Hearing an allusion to the events of the morning, he began fidgeting uneasily, stared at the prince, obviously struck by his stiffly starched, prominent collar; then suddenly he seemed to start on hearing the voice of Pyotr Stepanovitch and seeing him burst in; and no sooner had Stepan Trofimovitch uttered his phrase about Socialists than Lembke went up to him, pushing against Lyamshin, who at once skipped out of the way with an affected gesture of surprise, rubbing his shoulder and pretending that he had been terribly bruised.
"Enough!" said Von Lembke to Stepan Trofimovitch, vigorously gripping the hand of the dismayed gentleman and squeezing it with all his might in both of his.

"Enough! The filibusters of our day are unmasked.

Not another word.

Measures have been taken...." He spoke loudly enough to be heard by all the room, and concluded with energy.


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