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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent al...

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...d a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have... ...n. It looked as though the two of them, the German and his assailant, were trying to overpower each other by the magnetic force of their stares, and w... ... pranks of such a lad were not to be taken too seriously (he was obviously trying to justify him), but that he had made up his mind to punish his son,... ...h me for leading an idle life, that is, not being in the ser- vice and not trying to get a post. The old man bitterly and irritably reproached me, fro... ... besought me with tears to think of my future. She kept questioning me and trying to discover what I was doing, and when I refused to tell my secret e... ... along the embankment. I could not 37 Dostoevsky speak. I was reflecting, trying to think, and utterly at a loss. My heart was in a whirl. It seemed ... ...ssed in filthy rags; she had broken shoes on her little bare feet. She was trying to cover her shivering little body with a sort of aged semblance of ... ...his lodgings. Y ou tell her, I’ll be back directly.” And he hurried away , trying not even to look at us, as though ashamed of having brought us toget... ... his wrath, and for a minute controlled himself. We were all silent. I was trying not to look at him. But the good moment did not last long. At all co...

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...he could swal low his legs first; then bringing up Ivan Matveitch, who kept trying to jump out and clutching at the sides of the tank, sucked him dow... ... entrance money . “Such a reactionary desire, madam,” said the stranger, trying to avoid falling over in our direction and to remain standing outs... ...person who, covering his mouth with a pillow, shouts from an adjoining room, trying to mimic the sound of two peasants calling to one nother in a de ... ...se there … you must admit it would be a bad example. We should have everyone trying to go the same way to get a salary for nothing.” “Do your best... ... Semyonitch the seven roubles?” “Yes, out of my own pocket,” I answered, trying to emphasise that fact in my voice. “We will settle it,” he an... ...t I must frankly confess, I never could en dure Ivan Matveitch. I have been trying all my life, from a child up, to escape from his tutelage and have...

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...ll, though,” he went on, thinking as he mounted the stairs out of breath and trying to suppress that beating of his heart, which had the habit of beat... ...vered from his amazement. “Come, calm yourself!” he brought out at last, trying to make Mr. Golyadkin sit down in an armchair. “I have enemies... ...ed Mr. Golyadkin, also in a whisper, turning his mis erable eyes about him, trying helplessly to discover in the The Double – Dostoevsky 33 amazed ... ... might happen to any one,” whispered Mr. Golyadkin, moving a little away and trying to escape from the crowd surrounding him. They made way for hi... ...committed a breach of propriety; but as that was utterly impossible he began trying to creep away into a corner and to stand there. modestly, decorous... ...the backs of two chairs, taking complete possession of them in that way, and trying, as far as he could, to glance confidently at Olsufy Ivanovitch’s ... ...Golyadkin looked as though he wanted to hide from himself, as though he were trying to run away from himself! Yes! It was really so. One may say more:... ...n, were the thoughts in the mind of Mr. Golyadkin as, stretching in his bed, trying to rest his ex hausted limbs, he waited for Petrushka to come int... ...en taken off Mr. Golyadkin himself. “Sir,” our hero articulated at last, trying to speak almost in a whisper, and not looking at his companion, “w...

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... pure white “gros de Naples” — but that’s not it … I keep walking about, trying to explain it to myself. I have been trying for the last six hour... ...or the sake of my motherless children.” He really had children. He began trying to make the match and negotiating with the aunts. He was fifty yea... ...he wanted to love. Yes, that’s just what it was, she wanted to love; she was trying to love. And the point was that in this case there were no villani...

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... Smerdyakov too had gone out marketing. Though he had got up early and was trying to put a bold face on it, he looked tired and weak. His forehead, up... ...in subjection and had submitted to it, and now had suddenly turned and was trying to assert himself. Or, better still, like a man who wants dreadfully... ... protruding, with a pale and frenzied face. His lips were moving as though trying to ar- ticulate something; no sound came, but still his lips moved. ... ...t Lise saw perfectly well that he, too, looked away, and that he, too, was trying to talk of 51 Dostoevsky other things. Alyosha sat down to the ... ...you’ve only to try to do the second half and you are saved.” “Y ou are trying to save me, but perhaps I am not lost! And what does your second hal... ... do, and I am going. Do you imagine I am jealous of Dmitri, that I’ve been trying to steal his beautiful Katerina Ivanovna for the last three months? ... ...ves. And so I omit all the hypotheses. For what are we aiming at now? I am trying to explain as quickly as possible my essential na- ture, that is wha... ...to the fact, and I have determined to stick to the fact.” “Why are you trying me?” Alyosha cried, with sudden dis- tress. “Will you say what you m... ...l have a fit and they’ll both be unconscious,” cried Ivan. “But aren’t you trying to arrange it so?” broke from him suddenly , and he frowned threaten...

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...er seen the elder, naturally sup- 27 Dostoevsky posed that his father was trying to intimidate him, but, as he secretly blamed himself for his outbur... ...to enter the university. Miusov with whom he was staying for the time, was trying to persuade him to go abroad to the university of Zurich or Jena. Th... ...ion. Ivan and the two monks took the leading share in it. Miusov, too, was trying to take a part, and appar- ently very eagerly, in the conversation. ... ... this fortress with a golden key, and that’s why he is insolent to me now, trying to get money from me, though he has wasted thousands on this enchant... ... he seemed to be waiting for something and watched them intently as though trying to make out some- thing which was not perfectly clear to him. At las... ... W as it sym- bolic or what?” said Fyodor Pavlovitch, suddenly quieted and trying to reopen conversation without venturing to address anybody in parti... ...atheist, and he admits it’s a fraud himself—that’s your brother Ivan. He’s trying to get Mitya’s betrothed for himself, and I fancy he’ll succeed, too... ...h Ivan’s left foot was still resting, and clutch- ing the carriage he kept trying to jump in. “I am going with you! “ he kept shouting, laughing a thi... ...alking, with intense and sincere indignation, of Lizaveta’s condition, and trying to find out who was the miscreant who had wronged her. Then suddenly...

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...er seen the elder, naturally sup- 27 Dostoevsky posed that his father was trying to intimidate him, but, as he secretly blamed himself for his outbur... ...to enter the university. Miusov with whom he was staying for the time, was trying to persuade him to go abroad to the university of Zurich or Jena. Th... ...ion. Ivan and the two monks took the leading share in it. Miusov, too, was trying to take a part, and appar- ently very eagerly, in the conversation. ... ... this fortress with a golden key, and that’s why he is insolent to me now, trying to get money from me, though he has wasted thousands on this enchant... ... he seemed to be waiting for something and watched them intently as though trying to make out some- thing which was not perfectly clear to him. At las... ... W as it sym- bolic or what?” said Fyodor Pavlovitch, suddenly quieted and trying to reopen conversation without venturing to address anybody in parti... ...atheist, and he admits it’s a fraud himself—that’s your brother Ivan. He’s trying to get Mitya’s betrothed for himself, and I fancy he’ll succeed, too... ... Ivan’ s left foot was still resting, and clutch- ing the carriage he kept trying to jump in. “I am going with you! “ he kept shouting, laughing a thi... ...king, with intense and sincere indignation, of Lizaveta ’ s condition, and trying to find out who was the miscreant who had wronged her. Then suddenly...

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...nst his nature. After a long consideration, I at last thought of a method of trying the question. I re flected that if I could only find a man wiser ... ...n beings? ... I wish, men of Athens, that he would answer, and not be always trying to get up an interruption. Did ever any man believe in horsemanshi...

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...th. Y et the condemnation is not to be taken seriously , for he is evidently trying to express an aspect of the truth. To understand him, we must make... ...olours and forms; and perhaps he might more severely chastise some of us for trying to invent ‘a new shudder’ instead of bringing to the birth living ... ...ysias or any one else anything which might be of service to us. PHAEDRUS: If trying would avail, then I might; but at the moment I can think of nothin...

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...t the worker in wool, and compare the art of weaving with the royal science, trying to sepa- rate either of them from the inferior classes to which th... ...? YOUNG SOCRATES: Hardly . STRANGER: Then you and I will not be far wrong in trying to see the nature of example in general in 86 Statesman a small a...

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...contemplated at first. “The colour is too gaudy, it looks as though one were trying to be conspicuous,” and I did not take the lemon coloured ones. I ... ...snow. At last my wretched little clock hissed out five. I seized my hat and, trying not to look at Apollon, who had been all day expecting his month’s... ...nce, in a sort of cold shiver, almost in terror, began fumbling in the dark, trying hurriedly to get dressed to go. It was dark; though I tried my bes...

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... test of utility have we to make a laborious calculation, any more than in trying them by other standards of morals. For long ago they have been class... ...ave similar pleasures; now do you understand my meaning? PROTARCHUS: I am trying to understand, Socrates, and I hope that you will try to make your m... ...ot by measure, but by skilful conjecture; the music of the flute is always trying to guess the pitch of each vibrating note, and is therefore mixed up...

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...h is most damaging to the argument. Not at all, my good sir, I said; I am trying to understand them; and I wish that you would be a little clearer. ... ... same breath they shall not be permitted to affirm. We will not have them trying to persuade our youth that the gods are the authors of evil, and th... ...Well, then, do not be angry with them; for are they not as good as a play, trying their hand at paltry reforms such as I was describing; they are alwa... ...from the underground den to the sun, while in his presence they are vainly trying to look on animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are abl... ...hey will get their experience of life, and there will be an opportunity of trying whether, when they are drawn all manner of ways by temptation, they ...

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...culations of some of the Schoolmen, which end in nothing. But in truth he is trying to get rid of the stumblingblocks of thought which beset his conte...

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...h he exhibits throughout the discus “Protagoras” — Plato 10 sion under the trying and often sophistical cross examination of Socrates. Although onc...

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...king that if Aesop had remembered them, he would have made a fable about God trying to rec oncile their strife, and how, when he could not, he fasten...

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...e: and that you are only doing what you denied that you were doing just now, trying to refute me, instead of pursuing the argument. And what if I am? ...