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Chapter III
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Three days later I got up from my bed, and as soon as I was on my legs I felt that I should not go back to it again. I felt all over that convalescence1 was at hand. All these little details perhaps would not be worth writing, but then several days followed which were not remarkable2 for anything special that happened, and yet have remained in my memory as something soothing4 and consolatory5, and that is rare in my reminiscences. I will not for the time attempt to define my spiritual condition; if I were to give an account of it the reader would scarcely believe in it. It will be better for it to be made clear by facts themselves. And so I will only say one thing: let the reader remember the SOUL OF THE SPIDER; and that in the man who longed to get away from them all, and from the whole world for the sake of “seemliness!” The longing6 for “seemliness” was still there, of course, and very intense, but how it could be linked with other longings7 of a very different sort is a mystery to me. It always has been a mystery, and I have marvelled9 a thousand times at that faculty10 in man (and in the Russian, I believe, more especially) of cherishing in his soul his loftiest ideal side by side with the most abject11 baseness, and all quite sincerely. Whether this is breadth in the Russian which takes him so far or simply baseness — that is the question!
But enough of that. However that may be, a time of calm followed. All I knew was that I must get well at all costs and as quickly as possible that I might as soon as possible begin to act, and so I resolved to live hygienically and to obey the doctor (whoever he might be), disturbing projects I put off with great good sense (the fruit of this same breadth) to the day of my escape, that is, to the day of my complete recovery. How all the peaceful impressions and sensations in that time of stillness were consistent with the painfully sweet and
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originality
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repent
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monk
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hermits
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| (尤指早期基督教的)隐居修道士,隐士,遁世者( hermit的名词复数 ) | |
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salvation
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wilt
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squander
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orphans
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uncommon
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grudge
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doctrine
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gaily
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malice
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monks
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groaned
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