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"You know perhaps--yes, I told you myself," began Svidrigailov, "that I was in the debtors1' prison here, for an immense sum, and had not any expectation of being able to pay it. There's no need to go into particulars how Marfa Petrovna bought me out; do you know to what a point of insanity2 a woman can sometimes love? She was an honest woman, and very sensible, although completely uneducated. Would you believe that this honest and jealous woman, after many scenes of hysterics and reproaches, condescended3 to enter into a kind of contract with me which she kept throughout our married life? She was considerably4 older than I, and besides, she always kept a clove5 or something in her mouth. There was so much swinishness in my soul and honesty too, of a sort, as to tell her straight out that I couldn't be absolutely faithful to her. This confession6 drove her to frenzy7, but yet she seems in a way to have liked my brutal8 frankness. She thought it showed I was unwilling9 to deceive her if I warned her like this beforehand and for a jealous woman, you know, that's the first consideration. After many tears an unwritten contract was drawn10 up between us: first, that I would never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her husband; secondly11, that I would never absent myself without her permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent mistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free hand with the maidservants, but only with her secret knowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman of our class; sixthly, in case I--which God forbid--should be visited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to Marfa Petrovna. On this last score, however, Marfa Petrovna was fairly at ease. She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute

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renounce
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judgment
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attain
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ardent
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literally
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persistent
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idiocy
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attentively
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bosom
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ecstasies
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irresistible
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chaste
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virgin
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displeased
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jeering
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rustle
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rapture
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catastrophe
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frantic
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champagne
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sipped
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remains
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naive
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epithet
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bestowed
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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betrothed
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lodging
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widower
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rosy
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scorches
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ecstasy
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maiden
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monstrous
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