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“I’ll admit I thought I might learn something from you. I’ve come to learn of you, Karamazov,’ Kolya concluded, in a voice full of spontaneous feeling.
‘And I of you,’ said Alyosha, smiling and pressing his hand.
Kolya was much pleased with Alyosha. What struck him most was that he treated him exactly like an equal and that he talked to him just as if he were ‘quite grown up.’”