[The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky]@TWC D-Link bookThe Possessed CHAPTER IV 46/82
Yes, plunges.
She's an extraordinary person for dreaming; she'll sit for eight hours, for whole days together in the same place.
You see there's a roll lying there, perhaps she's only taken one bite at it since the morning, and she'll finish it to-morrow.
Now she's begun trying her fortune on cards...." "I keep trying my fortune, Shatushka, but it doesn't come out right," Marya Timofyevna put in suddenly, catching the last word, and without looking at it she put out her left hand for the roll (she had heard something about the roll too very likely).
She got hold of the roll at last and after keeping it for some time in her left hand, while her attention was distracted by the conversation which sprang up again, she put it back again on the table unconsciously without having taken a bite of it. "It always comes out the same, a journey, a wicked man, somebody's treachery, a death-bed, a letter, unexpected news.
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