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The Possessed

CHAPTER V
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You can see this woman, sitting down.
Do you know her ?" "I have never seen her," Dasha answered quietly, and after a pause she added at once: "She must be the invalid sister of Captain Lebyadkin." "And it's the first time I've set eyes on you, my love, though I've been interested and wanted to know you a long time, for I see how well-bred you are in every movement you make," Marya Timofyevna cried enthusiastically.

"And though my footman swears at you, can such a well-educated charming person as you really have stolen money from him?
For you are sweet, sweet, sweet, I tell you that from myself!" she concluded, enthusiastically waving her hand.
"Can you make anything of it ?" Varvara Petrovna asked with proud dignity.
"I understand it...." "Have you heard about the money ?" "No doubt it's the money that I undertook at Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch's request to hand over to her brother, Captain Lebyadkin." A silence followed.
"Did Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch himself ask you to do so ?" "He was very anxious to send that money, three hundred roubles, to Mr.
Lebyadkin.

And as he didn't know his address, but only knew that he was to be in our town, he charged me to give it to Mr.Lebyadkin if he came." "What is the money...

lost?
What was this woman speaking about just now ?" "That I don't know.

I've heard before that Mr.Lebyadkin says I didn't give him all the money, but I don't understand his words.


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