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And I’ll pay what’s wanted for you there, if they ask for it. But, of course, if they don’t ask, why should we worry them? What do you say? You know, you spend money like a canary, two grains a week. H’m!... Do you know that near one monastery there’s a place outside the town where every baby knows there are none but ‘the monks’ wives’ living, as they are called. Thirty women, I believe.
I say to myself: I must just run in and see the dear wise child, and encourage her in her good resolutions. . . And I fall into the middle of an intime lunch-party. For I suppose it is intime. Eh? Very? H’m, yes . . . ” He was really appalling. Again his wandering stare went round the table, with an expression incredibly incongruous with the words.
“H’m, h’m!” growled Rakitin, laughing, “she murders your brother Mitya and then tells him to remember it all his life! What ferocity!” Alyosha made no reply, he seemed not to have heard. He walked fast beside Rakitin as though in a terrible hurry. He was lost in thought and moved mechanically. Rakitin felt a sudden twinge as though he had been touched on an open wound.
The Personage had tilted his head so far back that, in order to keep the Assistant Commissioner under his observation, he had to nearly close his eyes. “H’m. Ha! And how do you propose—Will you assume a disguise?” “Hardly a disguise! I’ll change my clothes, of course.” “Of course,” repeated the great man, with a sort of absent-minded loftiness.
Perhaps there is just something? Anything is better than nothing!” “Absolute nothingness.” “Alyosha, is there immortality?” “There is.” “God and immortality?” “God and immortality. In God is immortality.” “H’m! It’s more likely Ivan’s right. Good Lord! to think what faith, what force of all kinds, man has lavished for nothing, on that dream, and for how many thousand years.
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