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entered the hermitage copse. He almost ran. ‘Pater Seraphi-
cus- he got that name from somewhere — where from?’
Alyosha wondered. ‘Ivan, poor Ivan, and when shall I see
you again?... Here is the hermitage. Yes, yes, that he is, Pater
Seraphicus, he will save me — from him and for ever!’
Several times afterwards he wondered how he could,
on leaving Ivan, so completely forget his brother Dmitri,
though he had that morning, only a few hours before, so
firmly resolved to find him and not to give up doing so, even
should he be unable to return to the monastery that night.