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fully:
‘I knew it was bound to be so.’ Then he added quickly:
‘Where have they gone to?’
Evgenie meanwhile observed him attentively, and the
rapidity of the questions, their, simplicity, the prince’s
candour, and at the same time, his evident perplexity and
mental agitation, surprised him considerably. However, he
told Muishkin all he could, kindly and in detail. The prince
hardly knew anything, for this was the first informant from
the household whom he had met since the estrangement.
Evgenie reported that Aglaya had been really ill, and that
for two nights she had not slept at all, owing to high fever;
that now she was better and out of serious danger, but still
in a nervous, hysterical state.
‘It’s a good thing that there is peace in the house, at all
events,’ he continued. ‘They never utter a hint about the past,
not only in Aglaya’s presence, but even among themselves.
The old people are talking of a trip abroad in the autumn,
immediately after Adelaida’s wedding; Aglaya received the
news in silence.’
Evgenie himself was very likely going abroad also; so
were Prince S. and his wife, if affairs allowed of it; the gen-
eral was to stay at home. They were all at their estate of
Colmina now, about twenty miles or so from St. Petersburg.
Princess Bielokonski had not returned to Moscow yet, and
was apparently staying on for reasons of her own. Lizabetha
Prokofievna had insisted that it was quite impossible to re-
main in Pavlofsk after what had happened. Evgenie had told
her of all the rumours current in town about the affair; so

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