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Chapter 7

Mitya’s Great Secret

Received with Hisses

ENTLEMEN,’ he began, still in the same agitation, ‘I
‘Gwant to make a full confession: that money was my
own.’
The lawyer’s faces lengthened. That was not at all what
they expected.
‘How do you mean?’ faltered Nikolay Parfenovitch, ‘when
at five o’clock on the same day, from your own confession-.’
‘Damn five o’clock on the same day and my own confes-
sion! That’s nothing to do with it now! That money was my
own, my own, that is, stolen by me...not mine, I mean, but
stolen by me, and it was fifteen hundred roubles, and I had
it on me all the time, all the time..’
‘But where did you get it?’
‘I took it off my neck, gentlemen, off this very neck... it
was here, round my neck, sewn up in a rag, and I’d had it
round my neck a long time, it’s a month since I put it round
my neck... to my shame and disgrace!’
‘And from whom did you... appropriate it?’