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Chapter 6

“I Am Coming, Too!’

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UT Dmitri Fyodorovitch was speeding along the road.

It was a little more than twenty versts to Mokroe, but

Andrey’s three horses galloped at such a pace that the dis-

tance might be covered in an hour and a quarter. The swift

motion revived Mitya. The air was fresh and cool, there

were big stars shining in the sky. It was the very night, and

perhaps the very hour, in which Alyosha fell on the earth,

and rapturously swore to love it for ever and ever.

All was confusion, confusion in Mitya’s soul, but al-

though many things were goading his heart, at that moment

his whole being was yearning for her, his queen, to whom

he was flying to look on her for the last time. One thing I

can say for certain; his heart did not waver for one instant.

I shall perhaps not be believed when I say that this jealous

lover felt not the slightest jealousy of this new rival, who

seemed to have sprung out of the earth. If any other had

appeared on the scene, he would have been jealous at once,

and would-perhaps have stained his fierce hands with blood

again. But as he flew through the night, he felt no envy, no

hostility even, for the man who had been her first lover.... It