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The Possessed

CHAPTER X
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But she controlled herself and did not run after him; she went quietly out of the room without saying a word or even looking at anyone, accompanied, of course, by Mavriky Nikolaevitch, who rushed after her.
The uproar and the gossip that night in the town I will not attempt to describe.

Varvara Petrovna shut herself up in her town house and Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, it was said, went straight to Skvoreshniki without seeing his mother.

Stepan Trofimovitch sent me that evening to _cette chere amie_ to implore her to allow him to come to her, but she would not see me.

He was terribly overwhelmed; he shed tears.

"Such a marriage! Such a marriage! Such an awful thing in the family!" he kept repeating.
He remembered Karmazinov, however, and abused him terribly.


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