Let us note, incidentally, that when he first came to our town, Mitya was warmly received at the police chief’s house, but later, especially during the last month, Mitya hardly ever visited him, and the police chief, meeting him in the street, for example, frowned deeply and bowed to him only out of politeness, which circumstance Mitya noted very well. His acquaintance with the prosecutor was even more distant, but to the prosecutor’s wife, a nervous and fantastic lady, he sometimes paid visits, most respectful visits, by the way, himself not even quite knowing why he was calling on her, and
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