The Passion of Dounia

'Would you believe that the crazy fellow had conceived a passion for dounia from the beginning, but had concealed it under a show of rudeness and contempt? Possibly he was ashamed and horrified himself at his own flighty hopes. And that made him angry with dounia,' she writes. 'And possibly, too, he hoped, by his rude and sneering behaviour, to hide the truth from others.' She goes on: 'You can imagine all she went through. To leave her situation at once was impossible,. not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of marfa petrovna', whose suspicions would have been aroused. There were various other

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