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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 21
she has to step over a puddle. Do you understand, sir, do you
understand what all that smartness means? And here I, her own
father, here I took thirty copecks of that money for a drink?
And I am drinking it! And I have already drunk it! Come, who
will have pity on a man like me, eh? Are you sorry for me, sir,
or not? Tell me, sir, are you sorry or not? He-he-he!"
He would have filled his glass, but there was no drink left.
The pot was empty.
"What are you to be pitied for?" shouted the tavern-keeper
who was again near them.
Shouts of laughter and even oaths followed. The laughter
and the oaths came from those who were listening and also from
those who had heard nothing but were simply looking at the
figure of the discharged government clerk.
"To be pitied! Why am I to be pitied?" Marmeladov sud-
denly declaimed, standing up with his arm outstretched, as
though he had been only waiting for that question.
"Why am I to be pitied, you say? Yes! There's nothing to
pity me for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not
pitied! Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me! And then
I will go of myself to be crucified, for it's not merry-making I
seek but tears and tribulation! . . ; Do you suppose, you that sell,
that this pint of yours has been sweet to me? It was tribulation
I sought at the bottom of it, tears and tribulation, and have
found it, and I have tasted it; but He will pity us Who has had
pity on all men. Who has understood all men and all things. He
is the One, He too is the judge. He will come in that day and
He will ask: 'Where is the daughter who gave herself for her
cross, consumptive step-mother and for the little children of
another? Where is the daughter who had pity upon the filthy
drunkard, her earthly father, undismayed by his beastliness?'
And He will say, 'Come to me! I have already forgiven thee
once. ... I have forgiven thee once. . . . Thy sins which are
many are forgiven thee for thou hast loved much. . . .' And he
will forgive my Sonia, He will forgive, I know it ... I felt it in
my heart when I was with her just now! And He will judge and
will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek.
. . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will sum-
mon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say. 'Come forth ye
drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children
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