The Idiot

Excerpt from The Idiot

When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third class carriages found themselves Opposite each other both were young fellows, both were lightly and rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would nu doubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.

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