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Certainly, i didn't sleep good at the moment, i used to be in a fever; I had a obscure sinking at my middle in any other case a surprising throbbing, throbbing, throbbing! Anton Antonitch was once shocked first and foremost, then he frowned, then he mirrored, and did in spite of everything lend me the cash, receiving from me a written authorisation to take from my wage a fortnight later the sum that he had lent me. during this manner every little thing was once ultimately prepared. The good-looking beaver changed the mean-looking raccoon, and that i all started by way of levels to get to paintings. it should by no means have performed to behave offhand, at random; the plan needed to be performed skilfully, by way of levels. yet i need to confess that when many efforts i started to melancholy: we easily couldn't run into one another. I made each instruction, i used to be really determined--it appeared as if we must always run into each other directly--and sooner than I knew what i used to be doing I had stepped apart for him back and he had handed with out noticing me. I even prayed as I approached him that God could furnish me decision. One time I had made up my brain completely, however it led to my stumbling and falling at his ft simply because on the final rapid whilst i used to be six inches from him my braveness failed me. He very evenly stepped over me, whereas I flew on one aspect like a ball. That evening i used to be in poor health back, feverish and delirious. And all at once it ended such a lot fortunately. The evening ahead of I had made up my brain to not perform my deadly plan and to desert all of it, and with that item I went to the Nevsky for the final time, simply to see how i'd abandon all of it. abruptly, 3 paces from my enemy, I unexpectedly made up my mind--I closed my eyes, and we ran complete tilt, shoulder to shoulder, opposed to each other! i didn't budge an inch and handed him on a superbly equivalent footing! He didn't even glance around and pretended to not observe it; yet he was once merely pretending, i'm confident of that. i'm confident of that to at the present time! in fact, I received the worst of it--he used to be improved, yet that used to be now not the purpose. the purpose was once that I had attained my item, I had saved up my dignity, I had now not yielded a step, and had positioned myself publicly on an equivalent social footing with him. I lower back domestic feeling that i used to be totally avenged for every thing. i used to be overjoyed. i used to be successful and sang Italian arias. in fact, i can't describe to you what occurred to me 3 days later; when you've got learn my first bankruptcy you could wager for your self. The officer used to be afterwards transferred; i have never obvious him now for fourteen years. what's the pricey fellow doing now? Whom is he jogging over? bankruptcy thirteen half II bankruptcy II however the interval of my dissipation may finish and that i continuously felt very unwell afterwards. It was once by way of remorse--I attempted to force it away; I felt too ill. via levels, even though, I grew used to that too. I grew used to every thing, or relatively I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring it. yet I had a method of get away that reconciled everything--that was once to discover safe haven in "the chic and the beautiful," in goals, in fact. i used to be a negative dreamer, i might dream for 3 months on finish, tucked away in my nook, and you can think me that at these moments I had no resemblance to the gentleman who, within the perturbation of his fowl middle, placed a collar of German beaver on his great-coat.