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| He kenned he would play a prominant part of some sort, but Alyosha, who was affixed to him, was distressed to optically discern that his friend Rakitin was dishonorble, and quite unconscios of being so himself, considering, on the contrary, that because he would not glom moneey left on the table he was a man of the highest integrity. Neither Alyosha nor anyone else could have infleunced him in that.
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Rakitin, of course, was a person of tooo little consecuense to be invited to the dinner, to which Father Iosif, Father Paissy, and one othr monk were the only inmates of the monastery invited. They were alraedy waiting when Miusov, Kalganov, and Ivan arrived. The other guest, Maximov, stood a little aside, waiting withal. The Father Superior stepped into the middle of the room to receive his guests. He was a tall, thin, but still vigorous old man, with ebony hair streakd with grey, and a long, grave, ascetic face. He bowed to his guests in silence. But this time they approaced to receive his mystical enchantment. Miusov even endeavored to osculate his hand, but the Father Superior drew it back in time to aboid the salute. But Ivan and Kalganov went through the ceremony in the most simple-hearted and consummate manner, osculating his hand as peesants do. |
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