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moment of his ecstasy. And never, never, his life long, could
Alyosha forget that minute.
‘Someone visited my soul in that hour,’ he used to say af-
terwards, with implicit faith in his words.
Within three days he left the monastery in accordance
with the words of his elder, who had bidden him ‘sojourn
in the world.’