# Book Nine Chapter Three, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Librivox Audiobook

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[0:00] Speaker 1: CHAPTER THREE THE SUFFERINGS OF A SOUL THE FIRST ORDEAL
[0:31] Speaker 1: And so Mitya sat, looking wildly at the people round him,
[0:36] Speaker 1: not understanding what was said to him. Suddenly he got up,
[0:41] Speaker 1: flung up his hands, and shouted aloud, I'm not guilty,
[0:46] Speaker 1: I'm not guilty of that blood, I'm not guilty of
[0:49] Speaker 1: my father's blood, I meant to kill him, but I'm
[0:52] Speaker 1: not guilty, not I. But he had hardly said this,
[0:57] Speaker 1: before Grushenka rushed from behind the curtain, and flung herself
[1:03] Speaker 1: at the police captain's feet it was my fault mine
[1:07] Speaker 1: my wickedness she cried in a heart-rending voice bathed in
[1:13] Speaker 1: tears stretching out her clasped hands towards them he did
[1:18] Speaker 1: it through me i tortured him and drove him to
[1:22] Speaker 1: it i tortured that poor old man that's dead too
[1:27] Speaker 1: in my wickedness and brought him to this it's my
[1:31] Speaker 1: fault mine first mine most.
[1:37] Speaker 2: My fault yes it's your fault you're the chief criminal
[1:43] Speaker 2: you fury you harlot you're the most to blame shouted
[1:49] Speaker 2: the police captain threatening her with his hand but.
[1:53] Speaker 1: He was quickly and resolutely suppressed the prosecutor positively seized
[1:59] Speaker 1: hold of him This is absolutely irregular, Mikhail Makarovitch, he cried.
[2:08] Speaker 1: You are positively hindering the inquiry. You're ruining the case,
[2:13] Speaker 1: he almost gasped. Follow the regular course. Follow the regular course,
[2:21] Speaker 1: cried Nikolai Parfenovitch, fearfully excited too. Otherwise it's absolutely impossible.
[2:29] Speaker 1: Judge us together! grushenka cried frantically still kneeling punish us
[2:35] Speaker 1: together i will go with him now if it's to
[2:39] Speaker 1: death grusha my life my blood my holy one mitya
[2:49] Speaker 1: fell on his knees beside her and held her tight
[2:53] Speaker 1: in his arms don't believe her he cried she's not
[2:57] Speaker 1: guilty of anything of any blood of anything He remembered
[3:03] Speaker 1: afterwards that he was forcibly dragged away from her by
[3:08] Speaker 1: several men, and that she was led out, and that
[3:12] Speaker 1: when he recovered himself he was sitting at the table.
[3:16] Speaker 1: Beside him and behind him stood the men with metal plates.
[3:23] Speaker 1: Facing him on the other side of the table sat
[3:27] Speaker 1: Nikolai Parfenovitch, the investigating lawyer. He kept persuading him to
[3:35] Speaker 1: drink a little water out of a glass that stood
[3:38] Speaker 1: on the table. That will refresh you. That will calm you.
[3:43] Speaker 1: Be calm. Don't be frightened, he added extremely politely. Meech,
[3:51] Speaker 1: he remembered it afterwards, became suddenly intensely interested in his
[3:57] Speaker 1: big rings, one with an amethyst. and another with a
[4:03] Speaker 1: transparent bright yellow stone of great brilliance. And long afterwards
[4:10] Speaker 1: he remembered with wonder how those rings had riveted his
[4:14] Speaker 1: attention through all those terrible hours of interrogation, so that
[4:20] Speaker 1: he was utterly unable to tear himself away from them
[4:25] Speaker 1: and dismiss them as things that had nothing to do
[4:29] Speaker 1: with his position. On Mitya's left side, in the place
[4:34] Speaker 1: where Maximoff had been sitting at the beginning of the evening,
[4:39] Speaker 1: the prosecutor was now seated, and on Mitya's right hand,
[4:44] Speaker 1: where Grushenka had been, was a rosy-cheeked young man in
[4:49] Speaker 1: a sort of shabby hunting jacket with ink and paper
[4:53] Speaker 1: before him. This was the secretary of the investigating lawyer
[4:58] Speaker 1: who had brought him with him, the police-captain was now
[5:03] Speaker 1: standing by the window at the other end of the
[5:05] Speaker 1: room beside kalganov who was sitting there drink some water
[5:12] Speaker 1: said the investigating lawyer softly for the tenth time i
[5:19] Speaker 1: have drunk it gentlemen i have but come gentlemen crush
[5:22] Speaker 1: me punish me decide my fate cried mitya staring with
[5:28] Speaker 1: terribly fixed wide-open eyes at the investigating lawyer so you
[5:34] Speaker 1: positively declare that you are not guilty of the death
[5:38] Speaker 1: of your father feodor pavlovitch asked the investigating lawyer softly
[5:46] Speaker 1: but insistently i am not guilty i am guilty.
[5:51] Speaker 3: Of the blood of another old man but not of
[5:54] Speaker 3: my father's and i weep for it i killed i
[5:58] Speaker 3: killed the old man and knocked him down but it's
[6:01] Speaker 3: hard to have to answer for that murder with another
[6:04] Speaker 3: a terrible murder of which i am not guilty it's
[6:07] Speaker 3: a terrible accusation gentlemen a knock-down blow but who has killed.
[6:13] Speaker 1: My father who has killed him who can have killed
[6:16] Speaker 1: him if i didn't it's marvellous extraordinary impossible yes who
[6:24] Speaker 1: can have killed him the investigating lawyer was beginning But
[6:30] Speaker 1: Ippolit Kirillovich, the prosecutor, glancing at him, addressed Mitya, You
[6:38] Speaker 1: need not worry yourself about the old servant Grigory Vasilyevich.
[6:44] Speaker 1: He is alive, he has recovered, and in spite of
[6:48] Speaker 1: the terrible blows inflicted, according to his own and your evidence,
[6:54] Speaker 1: by you, there seems no doubt that he will live.
[6:59] Speaker 1: so the doctor says at least alive he's alive cried
[7:04] Speaker 1: mitya flinging up his hands his face beamed lord i
[7:09] Speaker 1: thank thee for the miracle thou hast wrought for me
[7:12] Speaker 1: a sinner and evildoer that's an answer to my prayer
[7:17] Speaker 1: i've been praying all night and he crossed himself three
[7:21] Speaker 1: times he was almost breathless so from this We have
[7:27] Speaker 1: received such important evidence concerning you that the prosecutor would
[7:33] Speaker 1: have continued. But Mitya suddenly jumped up from his chair.
[7:38] Speaker 1: One minute, gentlemen, for God's sake, one minute. I will
[7:41] Speaker 1: run to her. Excuse me, at this moment it's quite impossible.
[7:46] Speaker 1: Nikolai Parvenovich almost shrieked. He too leapt to his feet.
[7:51] Speaker 1: Mitya was seized by the men with the metal plates,
[7:55] Speaker 1: but he sat down of his own accord. gentlemen what
[7:58] Speaker 1: a pity i wanted to see her for one minute
[8:01] Speaker 1: only i wanted to tell her that it has been
[8:04] Speaker 1: washed away it has gone that blood that was weighing
[8:07] Speaker 1: on my heart all night and that i am not
[8:09] Speaker 1: a murderer now gentlemen she is my betrothed he said
[8:13] Speaker 1: ecstatically and reverently looking round at them all oh thank
[8:19] Speaker 1: you gentlemen oh in one minute you have given me
[8:22] Speaker 1: new life new heart that old man used to carry
[8:25] Speaker 1: me in his arms gentlemen He used to wash me
[8:28] Speaker 1: in the tub when I was a baby three years old,
[8:32] Speaker 1: abandoned by everyone. He was like a father to me.
[8:36] Speaker 1: And so you, the investigating lawyer, began. Allow me, gentlemen,
[8:42] Speaker 1: allow me one minute more, interposed Meacher, putting his elbows
[8:47] Speaker 1: on the table and covering his face with his hands.
[8:50] Speaker 1: Let me have a moment to think. Let me breathe, gentlemen.
[8:54] Speaker 1: All this is horribly upsetting, horribly. A man is not
[8:58] Speaker 1: a drum, gentlemen. Drink a little more water, murmured Nikolai Parfenovitch.
[9:08] Speaker 1: Mitya took his hands from his face and laughed. His
[9:11] Speaker 1: eyes were confident. He seemed completely transformed in a moment.
[9:17] Speaker 1: His whole bearing was changed. He was once more the
[9:21] Speaker 1: equal of these men, with all of whom he was acquainted.
[9:26] Speaker 1: as though they had all met the day before, when
[9:29] Speaker 1: nothing had happened at some social gathering. We may note,
[9:33] Speaker 1: in passing, that on his first arrival, Mietje had been
[9:37] Speaker 1: made very welcome at the police captain's, but later, during
[9:43] Speaker 1: the last month especially, Mietje had hardly called at all,
[9:48] Speaker 1: and when the police captain met him in the street,
[9:50] Speaker 1: for instance, Mietje noticed that he frowned, and only bowed
[9:55] Speaker 1: out of politeness. His acquaintance with the prosecutor was long. intimate,
[10:01] Speaker 1: though he sometimes paid his wife, a nervous and fanciful lady,
[10:06] Speaker 1: visits of politeness without quite knowing why, and she always
[10:12] Speaker 1: received him graciously, and had, for some reason, taken an
[10:17] Speaker 1: interest in him up to the last. He had not
[10:21] Speaker 1: had time to get to know the investigating lawyer, though
[10:25] Speaker 1: we had met him and talked to him twice, each
[10:28] Speaker 1: time about the fair sex. You're a most skilful lawyer,
[10:34] Speaker 1: I see, Nikolai Parfenovich, cried Mitya, laughing gaily. But I
[10:43] Speaker 1: can help you now. Oh, gentlemen, I feel like a
[10:48] Speaker 1: new man. and don't be offended at my addressing you
[10:51] Speaker 1: so simply and directly i'm rather drunk too i'll tell
[10:55] Speaker 1: you that frankly i believe i've had the honour and
[10:59] Speaker 1: pleasure of meeting you nikolai parfenovitch at my kinsman miusov's
[11:07] Speaker 1: gentlemen gentlemen i don't pretend to be on equal terms
[11:12] Speaker 1: with you i understand of course In what character I
[11:16] Speaker 1: am sitting before you? Oh, of course, there's a horrible
[11:20] Speaker 1: suspicion hanging over me. If Grigori has given evidence, a
[11:25] Speaker 1: horrible suspicion is awful, awful. I understand that. But to business, gentlemen,
[11:32] Speaker 1: I am ready, and we will make an end of
[11:35] Speaker 1: it in one moment. For listen, listen, gentlemen, since I
[11:39] Speaker 1: know I'm innocent, we can put an end to it
[11:42] Speaker 1: in a minute. Can't we? can't we? Mitya spoke much,
[11:49] Speaker 1: and quickly, nervously, and effusively, as though he positively took
[11:55] Speaker 1: his listeners to be his best friends. So, for the present,
[12:03] Speaker 1: we will write that you absolutely deny the charge brought
[12:07] Speaker 1: against you, said Nikolai Parfenovitch impressively, and bending down to
[12:14] Speaker 1: the secretary, He dictated to him in an undertone what
[12:19] Speaker 1: to write. Write it down? You want to write that down? Well,
[12:22] Speaker 1: write it. I consent. I give my full consent, gentlemen.
[12:25] Speaker 1: Only do you see. Stay, stay. Write this. Of disorderly
[12:30] Speaker 1: conduct I am guilty. Of violence on a poor old
[12:33] Speaker 1: man I am guilty. And there is something else at
[12:37] Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart of which I am guilty too.
[12:40] Speaker 1: But that you need not write down. He turned suddenly
[12:44] Speaker 1: to the secretary. That's my personal life, gentlemen. That doesn't
[12:47] Speaker 1: concern you. The bottom of my heart, that's to say.
[12:51] Speaker 1: But of the murder of my old father, I'm not guilty.
[12:54] Speaker 1: That's a wild idea. It's quite a wild idea. I
[12:58] Speaker 1: will prove you that, and you'll be convinced directly. You
[13:01] Speaker 1: will laugh, gentlemen. You'll laugh yourselves at your suspicion. Be calm,
[13:08] Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovich, said the investigating lawyer. evidently trying to allay
[13:15] Speaker 1: Miecz's excitement by his own composure. Before we go on
[13:21] Speaker 1: with our inquiry, I should like, if you will consent
[13:25] Speaker 1: to answer, to hear you confirm the statement that you
[13:29] Speaker 1: disliked your father, Fyodor Pavlovich, that you were involved in
[13:35] Speaker 1: continual disputes with him. Here, at least, a quarter of
[13:40] Speaker 1: an hour ago, You exclaimed that you wanted to kill him.
[13:45] Speaker 1: I didn't kill him, you said, but I wanted to
[13:49] Speaker 1: kill him. Did I exclaim that? Ah, that may be so, gentlemen. Yes, unhappily,
[13:55] Speaker 1: I did want to kill him. Many times I wanted to. Unhappily, unhappily.
[14:00] Speaker 1: You wanted to. Would you consent to explain what motives
[14:06] Speaker 1: precisely led you to such a sentiment of hatred for
[14:11] Speaker 1: your parents? What is there to explain, gentlemen? Mitya shrugged,
[14:17] Speaker 1: his shoulders sullenly looking down. I have never concealed my feelings.
[14:23] Speaker 1: All the town knows about it. Everyone knows in the tavern.
[14:28] Speaker 1: Only lately I declared them in Father Zosima's cell. And
[14:33] Speaker 1: the very same day, in the evening I beat my father.
[14:37] Speaker 1: I nearly killed him, and I swore I'd come again
[14:40] Speaker 1: and kill him before witnesses. Oh, a thousand witnesses. I've
[14:43] Speaker 1: been shouting it aloud for the last month. Anyone can
[14:46] Speaker 1: tell you that. The fact stares you in the face.
[14:50] Speaker 1: It speaks for itself. It cries aloud. But feelings, gentlemen,
[14:53] Speaker 1: feelings are another matter. You see, gentlemen, meet your frown.
[14:59] Speaker 1: It seems to me that about feelings you've no right
[15:01] Speaker 1: to question me. I know that you are bound by
[15:04] Speaker 1: your office. I quite understand that. But that's my affair,
[15:08] Speaker 1: my private, intimate affair, yet since I haven't concealed my
[15:13] Speaker 1: feelings in the past. In the tavern, for instance, I've
[15:16] Speaker 1: talked to everyone, so I won't make a secret of
[15:19] Speaker 1: it now. You see, I understand, gentlemen, that there are
[15:23] Speaker 1: terrible facts against me in this business. I told everyone
[15:27] Speaker 1: that I'd kill him, and now, all of a sudden,
[15:30] Speaker 1: he's been killed. So it must have been me. Ha ha!
[15:34] Speaker 1: I can make allowances for you, gentlemen. I can quite
[15:37] Speaker 1: make allowances. I'm struck all of a heap myself. For
[15:41] Speaker 1: who can have murdered him if not I? That's what
[15:44] Speaker 1: it comes to, isn't it? If not I, who can
[15:47] Speaker 1: it be? Who? Gentlemen, I want to know. I insist
[15:52] Speaker 1: on knowing. He exclaimed suddenly. Where was he murdered? How
[15:58] Speaker 1: was he murdered? How and with what? Tell me, he
[16:01] Speaker 1: asked quickly, looking at the two lawyers. We found him
[16:06] Speaker 1: in his study, lying on his back on the floor,
[16:10] Speaker 1: with his head battered in. said the prosecutor. That's horrible.
[16:16] Speaker 1: Mitya shuddered, and putting his elbows on the table, hid
[16:20] Speaker 1: his face in his right hand. We will continue, interposed
[16:26] Speaker 1: Nikolai Parfenovitch. So what was it that impelled you to
[16:30] Speaker 1: this sentiment of hatred? You have asserted in public, I believe,
[16:35] Speaker 1: that it was based upon jealousy. Well, yes, jealousy, and
[16:39] Speaker 1: not only jealousy.' Disputes about money. Yes, about money, too.'
[16:44] Speaker 1: There was a dispute about three thousand roubles, I think,'
[16:50] Speaker 1: which you claimed as part of your inheritance.'' Three thousand more! More!'
[16:57] Speaker 1: cried Meecher hotly.' More than six thousand! More than ten, perhaps!''
[17:02] Speaker 1: I told everyone so, shouted it at them,' but I
[17:06] Speaker 1: made up my mind to let it go at three thousand.'
[17:10] Speaker 1: I was desperately in need of that three thousand. So
[17:14] Speaker 1: the bundle of notes for three thousand that I knew
[17:17] Speaker 1: he kept under his pillow, ready for Grushenka, I considered,
[17:21] Speaker 1: has simply stolen from me. Yes, gentlemen, I looked upon
[17:25] Speaker 1: it as mine, as my own property. The prosecutor looked
[17:31] Speaker 1: significantly at the investigating lawyer and had time to wink
[17:36] Speaker 1: at him on the slide. We will return to that
[17:41] Speaker 1: subject later, said the lawyer promptly. You will allow us
[17:46] Speaker 1: to note that point and write it down. That you
[17:51] Speaker 1: looked upon that money as your own property? Write it
[17:56] Speaker 1: down by all means. I know that's another fact that
[17:59] Speaker 1: tells against me, but I'm not afraid of facts, and
[18:03] Speaker 1: I tell them against myself. Do you hear? Do you know, gentlemen?
[18:08] Speaker 1: You take me for a different sort of man from
[18:11] Speaker 1: what I am, he added, suddenly gloomy and dejected. You
[18:16] Speaker 1: have to deal with a man of honour, a man
[18:19] Speaker 1: of the highest honour. Above all, don't lose sight of it.
[18:23] Speaker 1: A man who's done a lot of nasty things, but
[18:26] Speaker 1: has always been and still is honourable at bottom in
[18:30] Speaker 1: his inner being. I don't know how to express it.
[18:33] Speaker 1: That's just what's made me wretched all my life. then
[18:37] Speaker 1: i yearn to be honourable that i was so to
[18:40] Speaker 1: say a martyr to a sense of honour seeking for
[18:44] Speaker 1: it with a lantern with a lantern of diogenes and
[18:48] Speaker 1: yet all my life i've been doing filthy things like
[18:52] Speaker 1: all of us gentlemen that is like me alone that
[18:56] Speaker 1: was a mistake like me alone me alone gentlemen my
[19:04] Speaker 1: head eh His brows contracted with pain.' You see, gentlemen,
[19:13] Speaker 1: I couldn't bear the look of him. There was something
[19:16] Speaker 1: in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering
[19:23] Speaker 1: and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead I
[19:28] Speaker 1: feel differently.'' How do you mean?'' I don't feel differently,
[19:33] Speaker 1: but I wish I hadn't hated him so.' You feel penitent. No,
[19:39] Speaker 1: not penitent. Don't write that. I'm not much good myself.
[19:43] Speaker 1: I'm not very beautiful. So I had no right to
[19:46] Speaker 1: consider him repulsive. That's what I mean. Write that down
[19:49] Speaker 1: if you like. Saying this, Mitya became very mournful. He
[19:55] Speaker 1: had grown more and more gloomy as the inquiry continued.
[20:01] Speaker 1: At that moment, another unexpected scene followed. Though Grushenko had
[20:07] Speaker 1: been removed, She had not been taken far away, only
[20:12] Speaker 1: into the room next but one from the blue room
[20:16] Speaker 1: in which the examination was proceeding. It was a little
[20:20] Speaker 1: room with one window, next beyond the large room in
[20:25] Speaker 1: which they had danced and feasted so lavishly. She was
[20:30] Speaker 1: sitting there with no one by her but Maximoff, who
[20:33] Speaker 1: was terribly depressed, terribly scared, and clung to her side
[20:38] Speaker 1: as though for security at their door stood one of
[20:42] Speaker 1: the peasants with a metal plate on his breast grushenka
[20:46] Speaker 1: was crying and suddenly her grief was too much for
[20:50] Speaker 1: her she jumped up flung up her arms and with
[20:54] Speaker 1: a loud wail of sorrow rushed out of the room
[20:58] Speaker 1: to him to her mitya and so unexpectedly that they
[21:03] Speaker 1: had not time to stop her hearing her cry, trembled,
[21:08] Speaker 1: jumped up, and with a yell rushed impetuously to meet her,
[21:13] Speaker 1: not knowing what he was doing. But they were not
[21:16] Speaker 1: allowed to come together, though they saw one another. He
[21:20] Speaker 1: was seized by the arms. He struggled and tried to
[21:24] Speaker 1: tear himself away. It took three or four men to
[21:28] Speaker 1: hold him. She was seized too, and he saw her
[21:32] Speaker 1: stretching out her arms to him, crying aloud as they
[21:36] Speaker 1: carried her away. When the scene was over, he came
[21:40] Speaker 1: to himself again, sitting in the same place as before,
[21:45] Speaker 1: opposite the investigating lawyer, and crying out to them, What
[21:51] Speaker 1: do you want with her? Why do you torment her?
[21:54] Speaker 1: She's done nothing, nothing! The lawyers tried to soothe him.
[22:00] Speaker 1: About ten minutes passed like this. At last, Mikhail Makarovitch,
[22:06] Speaker 1: who had been absent, came hurriedly into the room, and
[22:11] Speaker 1: said in a loud and excited voice to the prosecutor,
[22:15] Speaker 1: She's been removed. She's downstairs. Will you allow me to
[22:19] Speaker 1: say one word to this unhappy man, gentlemen, in your presence, gentlemen,
[22:23] Speaker 1: in your presence? By all means, Mikhail Makarovitch, answered the
[22:30] Speaker 1: investigating lawyer, in the present case, We have nothing against it. Listen,
[22:36] Speaker 1: Dmitri Feodorovitch, my dear fellow, began the police-captain, and there
[22:41] Speaker 1: was a look of warm, almost fatherly feeling for the
[22:45] Speaker 1: luckless prisoner on his excited face. I took your Agrafena
[22:50] Speaker 1: Alexandrovna downstairs myself, and confided her to the care of
[22:54] Speaker 1: the landlord's daughters, and that old fellow Maximoff is with
[22:58] Speaker 1: her all the time, and I soothed her. Do you hear?
[23:02] Speaker 1: I soothed and calmed her. I impressed on her that
[23:05] Speaker 1: you have to clear yourself, so she mustn't hinder you,
[23:09] Speaker 1: must not depress you, or you may lose your head
[23:12] Speaker 1: and say the wrong thing in your evidence. In fact,
[23:15] Speaker 1: I talked to her, and she understood. She's a sensible girl,
[23:19] Speaker 1: my boy, a good-hearted girl. She would have kissed my
[23:22] Speaker 1: old hands, begging help for you. She sent me herself
[23:26] Speaker 1: to tell you not to worry about her. And I
[23:29] Speaker 1: must go, my dear fellow.' I must go and tell
[23:32] Speaker 1: her that you are calm and comforted about her. And
[23:35] Speaker 1: so you must be calm. Do you understand? I was
[23:39] Speaker 1: unfair to her. She is a Christian soul, gentlemen. Yes,
[23:42] Speaker 1: I tell you, she's a gentle soul and not to
[23:45] Speaker 1: blame for anything. So what am I to tell her,
[23:48] Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovich? Will you sit quiet or not? The good-natured
[23:54] Speaker 1: police captain said a great deal that was irregular. But
[23:58] Speaker 1: Grushenka's suffering... a fellow creature's suffering, touched his good-natured heart,
[24:05] Speaker 1: and tears stood in his eyes. Mitya jumped up and
[24:10] Speaker 1: rushed towards him. Forgive me, gentlemen. Oh, allow me, allow me,
[24:15] Speaker 1: he cried. You've the heart of an angel, an angel,
[24:18] Speaker 1: Mikhail Makarovitch. I thank you for her. I will, I
[24:22] Speaker 1: will be calm, cheerful, in fact. Tell her, in the
[24:25] Speaker 1: kindness of your heart, that I am cheerful, quite cheerful,
[24:29] Speaker 1: that I shall be laughing in a minute, knowing that
[24:32] Speaker 1: she has a guardian angel like you. I shall have
[24:35] Speaker 1: done with all this directly, and as soon as I'm free,
[24:38] Speaker 1: I'll be with her. She'll see. Let her wait. Gentlemen,
[24:42] Speaker 1: he said, turning to the two lawyers, now I'll open
[24:46] Speaker 1: my whole soul to you. I'll pour out everything. We'll
[24:50] Speaker 1: finish this off directly, finish it off gaily. We shall
[24:53] Speaker 1: laugh at it in the end, shan't we? But, gentlemen,
[24:56] Speaker 1: that woman is the queen of my heart. Oh, let
[24:58] Speaker 1: me tell you that, that one thing I'll tell you now.
[25:02] Speaker 1: I see I'm with honourable men. She is my light,
[25:05] Speaker 1: she is my holy one, and if only you knew.
[25:08] Speaker 1: Did you hear her cry? I'll go to death with you.
[25:11] Speaker 1: And what have I, a penniless beggar, done for her?
[25:14] Speaker 1: Why such love for me? How can a clumsy, ugly
[25:18] Speaker 1: brute like me, with my ugly face, deserve such love,
[25:22] Speaker 1: that she is ready to go to exile with me?
[25:25] Speaker 1: and how she fell down at your feet for my
[25:28] Speaker 1: sake just now and yet she's proud and has done
[25:31] Speaker 1: nothing how can i help adoring her how can i
[25:35] Speaker 1: help crying out and rushing to her as i did
[25:38] Speaker 1: just now gentlemen forgive me but now now i am
[25:44] Speaker 1: comforted and he sank back in his chair and covering
[25:50] Speaker 1: his face with his hands burst into tears but they
[25:53] Speaker 1: were happy tears He recovered himself instantly. The old police
[25:59] Speaker 1: captain seemed much pleased, and the lawyers also. They felt
[26:06] Speaker 1: that the examination was passing into a new phase. When
[26:11] Speaker 1: the police captain went out, Meecher was positively gay.' Now, gentlemen,
[26:20] Speaker 1: I am at your disposal, entirely at your disposal.' And
[26:24] Speaker 1: if it were not for all these trivial details, we
[26:28] Speaker 1: should understand one another in a minute. I'm at those
[26:32] Speaker 1: details again. I'm at your disposal, gentlemen. But I declare
[26:38] Speaker 1: that we must have mutual confidence, you in me and
[26:41] Speaker 1: I in you, or there'll be no end to it.
[26:44] Speaker 1: I speak in your interests. To business, gentlemen, to business.
[26:48] Speaker 1: And don't rummage in my soul. Don't tease me with trifles.
[26:52] Speaker 1: but only ask me about facts and what matters and
[26:56] Speaker 1: i will satisfy you at once and damn the details
[27:02] Speaker 1: so spoke meechat the interrogation began again chapter fifty seven

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