All 3 Uses of
resume
in
The Idiot
- Burdovsky silently resumed his seat, and bent his head as though in profound thought.†
Chpt 2.9 *resumed = began again
- A movement of impatience was noticed in his audience as he resumed: "I merely wish to state, for the information of all concerned, that the reason for Mr. Pavlicheff's interest in your mother, Mr. Burdovsky, was simply that she was the sister of a serf-girl with whom he was deeply in love in his youth, and whom most certainly he would have married but for her sudden death.†
Chpt 2.9
- But let me resume.†
Chpt 3.5resume = begin again
Definition:
begin or take on again