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Chapter 3

Gold Mines

HIS was the visit of Mitya of which Grushenka had
Tspoken to Rakitin with such horror. She was just then
expecting the ‘message,’ and was much relieved that Mitya
had not been to see her that day or the day before. She hoped
that ‘please God he won’t come till I’m gone away,’ and he
suddenly burst in on her. The rest we know already. To get
him off her hands she suggested at once that he should walk
with her to Samsonov’s, where she said she absolutely must
go ‘to settle his accounts,’ and when Mitya accompanied her
at once, she said good-bye to him at the gate, making him
promise to come at twelve o’clock to take her home again.
Mitya, too, was delighted at this arrangement. If she was
sitting at Samsonov’s she could not be going to Fyodor Pav-
lovitch’s, ‘if only she’s not lying,’ he added at once. But he
thought she was not lying from what he saw.
He was that sort of jealous man who, in the absence of
the beloved woman, at once invents all sorts of awful fan-
cies of what may be happening to her, and how she may be
betraying him, but, when shaken, heartbroken, convinced
of her faithlessness, he runs back to her, at the first glance