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Chapter 1

Kuzma Samsonov

UT Dmitri, to whom Grushenka, flying away to a new
Blife, had left her last greetings, bidding him remember
the hour of her love for ever, knew nothing of what had
happened to her, and was at that moment in a condition
of feverish agitation and activity. For the last two days he
had been in such an inconceivable state of mind that he
might easily have fallen ill with brain fever, as he said him-
self afterwards. Alyosha had not been able to find him the
morning before, and Ivan had not succeeded in meeting
him at the tavern on the same day. The people at his lodg-
ings, by his orders, concealed his movements.
He had spent those two days literally rushing in all di-
rections, ‘struggling with his destiny and trying to save
himself,’ as he expressed it himself afterwards, and for some
hours he even made a dash out of the town on urgent busi-
ness, terrible as it was to him to lose sight of Grushenka for
a moment. All this was explained afterwards in detail, and
confirmed by documentary evidence; but for the present
we will only note the most essential incidents of those two
terrible days immediately preceding the awful catastrophe

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