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Lise and Alyosha's Childhood Friendship
Also known as a friend of her childhood, the greatest friend of her childhood, in old days in Moscow, the old days in Moscow, friends for ever, He used to carry me about, We used to play together, teach me to read.
Lise and Alyosha's childhood friendship is the shared Moscow past that Lise suddenly throws at him from her invalid chair. She says he used to carry her, play with her, teach her to read, and promise they would be friends forever. The memory embarrasses Alyosha because it turns a public teasing scene before Father Zossima into something intimate and old.
V-I. The Engagement
When Alyosha sits with Lise again, their old habit of telling stories returns, and the childhood bond lets them speak with a startling directness about pity, love, and their possible future.
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