my wishes I reserve myself full latitude in this case. Goodbye till tomorrow. Don’t condemn me, and don’t look on me as a villain,” he added with a smile.
They shook hands warmly as they had never done before.
Alyosha felt that his brother had taken the first step towards him, and that he had certainly done this with some definite motive.
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Both Together
Alyosha left his father’s house feeling even more exhausted and dejected in spirit than when he had entered it. His mind too seemed shattered and unhinged, while he felt that he was afraid to put together the disjointed fragments and form a general idea from all the agonizing and conflicting experiences of the day. He felt something bordering upon despair, which he had never known till then.
Towering like a mountain above all the rest stood the fatal, insoluble question: How would