“…Here, dear young lady, I’ll take your little hand and kiss it, just as you did to me. You kissed mine three times, and for that I ought to kiss yours three hundred times to be even. And so I shall, and then let it be as God wills; maybe I’ll be your complete slave and want to please you in everything like a slave. As God wills, so let it be, with no deals or promises between us. What a hand, what a dear little hand you have, what a hand! My dear young lady, beauty that you are, my impossible beauty!”
the brothers Karamezov or something like that…? I remember it vaguely
i don’t know, i’ve never read any dostoevsky. i just found the quote online and liked it. i suppose i should put it him on my list…