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FÉDYA. Well then, Theodore Protásov.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Your calling, age and religion?
FÉDYA [after a pause] Aren't you ashamed to ask such nonsense? Ask what
you want to know, and not such rubbish!
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. I beg you to be more careful in your expressions,
and to answer my questions!
FÉDYA. Well, if you're not ashamed of it, here you are: Calling,
graduate; age, forty; religion, Orthodox. What next!
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Did Mr. Karénin and your wife know that you
were
alive when you left your clothes on the river bank and disappeared?
FÉDYA. Certainly not! I wished really to commit suicide, but
afterwards--but there's no need to go into that. The thing is, that they
knew nothing about it.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. How is it that you gave a different account to the
police officer?
FÉDYA. What police officer? Oh, when he came to see me at the dosshouse?
I was drunk, and was romancing. I don't remember what I said. All that
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