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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated by Eva Martin
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Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nineo’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw andPetersburg railway was approaching the latter city at fullspeed. The morning was so damp and misty that it wasonly with great difficulty that the day succeeded inbreaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anythingmore than a few yards away from the carriage windows.Some of the passengers by this particular train werereturning from abroad; but the third-class carriages werethe best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of variousoccupations and degrees, picked up at the different stationsnearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of themhad sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on thecolour of the fog outside.When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Bothwere young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, bothhad remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious tostart a conversation. If they had but known why, at thisparticular moment, they were both remarkable persons,they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange
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