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Updated: June 11, 2025
His aspect combined the formality of the caller with the freedom of the proprietor. Florid and bearded and masked by the dark blue glasses, he met the visitor, and at once took him familiarly under the arm. Razumov suppressed every sign of repugnance by an effort which the constant necessity of prudence had rendered almost mechanical.
No doubt it entered unconsciously into the general dread and the general appallingness of this crisis. Razumov, as has been seen, was aware of more subtle ways in which an individual may be undone by the proceedings of a despotic Government.
Zurich, Geneva still a dream, minutely followed, wearing one into harsh laughter, to fury, to death with the fear of awakening at the end. "Perhaps life is just that," reflected Razumov, pacing to and fro under the trees of the little island, all alone with the bronze statue of Rousseau. "A dream and a fear." The dusk deepened.
Razumov made ready without a word of answer. As he was leaving the room the voice on the bed said after him "Go with God, thou silent soul." On the landing, moving softly, Razumov locked the door and put the key in his pocket. The words and events of that evening must have been graven as if with a steel tool on Mr.
The features of Miss Haldin expressed a painful irresolution; she made a movement as if to go in, but checked herself. She had heard footsteps on the other side of the door. It came open, and Razumov, without pausing, stepped out into the ante-room.
The event of the morning affected them all. What would they say if they knew what this student in a cloak was going to do? "Not one of them is capable of feeling and thinking as deeply as I can. How many of them could accomplish an act of conscience?" Razumov lingered in the well-lighted street. He was firmly decided. Indeed, it could hardly be called a decision.
And talking rapidly under the cover of his downcast air, he told Razumov that this was known through an inferior Government clerk employed at the Central Secretariat. That man belonged to one of the revolutionary circles. "The same, in fact, I am affiliated to," remarked the student. They were crossing a wide quadrangle.
"And how is Herr Razumov?" sounded the greeting in German, by that alone made more odious to the object of the affable recognition. At closer quarters the diminutive personage looked like a reduction of an ordinary-sized man, with a lofty brow bared for a moment by the raising of the hat, the great pepper-and salt full beard spread over the proportionally broad chest.
The intense black spokes of shadow swung about in the circle of light. A terrible fury the blind rage of self-preservation possessed Razumov. "Ah! The vile beast," he bellowed out in an unearthly tone which made the lantern jump and tremble! "I shall wake you! Give me...give me..."
I admit it is difficult sometimes at first for a young man abandoned to himself with his generous impulses undisciplined, so to speak at the mercy of every wild wind that blows. Religious belief, of course, is a great...." Councillor Mikulin glanced down his beard, and Razumov, whose tension was relaxed by that unexpected and discursive turn, murmured with gloomy discontent
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