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Vasenka's Letter Miracle

Also known as the prophecy has been fulfilled, the new miracle of prediction, the new miracle.

Vasenka's Letter Miracle is the reported fulfillment of Father Zossima's assurance to the widow Prohorovna that her missing son is alive. Madame Hohlakov writes to Alyosha that the old woman reached home and found a letter already waiting from Siberia. The monastery receives the story in a state of excited suspense, while Father Paissy urges caution even as he is visibly moved.

IV-IV. At The Hohlakovs’

Madame Hohlakov is still inflamed by the report when Alyosha reaches her house, calling it the restoration of a son to his mother and treating the whole town's excitement as part of her own nervous storm.

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