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"During all this time you were like a child in the hands of your

friends You did precisely what they told you to do, no more, no less

You were absorbed by the one idea You could not see nor reason beyond

that You even forgot your fiancé and your love for her, save on that

one day when the sight of her on the street brought her vividly before

your one

At last your ed to a type more morose and sullen The

delay fretted you, and one day without consulting your friends, you

resolved to act You had reason enough left to know that yourweaker and you feared that it would be altogether shattered;

that you would never avenge the fate of your sister unless you acted at

once You told nobody of your intention, but you armed yourself with a

pistol and started for the palace You had determined to kill the czar

before your reason fled utterly"

"Regarding the two hours that passed between the time you were last

seen by your friends, and the events that happened in the palace that

day, nothing is known What streets you traversed on your way there;

how you gained aduarded as strictly