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- 12 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
keeper came down from the upper room, apparently on purpose
to listen to the "funny fellow" and sat down at a little distance,
yawning lazily, but with dignity. Evidently Marmeladov was a
familiar figure here, and he had most likely acquired his weak-
ness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently enter-
ing into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and
especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept in order
at home. Hence in the company of other drinkers they try to
justify themselves and even if possible obtain consideration.
"Funny fellow!" pronounced the innkeeper, "And why don't
you work, why aren't you at your duty, if you are in the
service?"
"Why am I not at my duty, honoured sir," Marmeladov
went on, addressing himself exclusively to Raskolnikov, as
though it had been he who put that question to him. "Why am
I not at my duty? Does not my heart ache to think what a use-
less worm I am? A month ago when Mr. Lebeziatnikov beat my
wife with his own hands, and I lay drunk, didn't I suffer? Ex-
cuse me, young man, has it ever happened to you . . . hm . . .
well, to petition hoj>elessly for a loan?"
"Yes, it has. But what do you mean by hopelessly?'*
"Hopelessly in the fullest sense, when you know beforehand
that you will get nothing by it. You know, for instance, before-
hand with positive certainty that this man, this most reputable
and exemplary citizen, will on no consideration give you money;
and indeed I ask you why should he? For he knows of course that
I shan't pay it back. From compassion? But Mr. Lebeziatnikov
who keeps up with modern ideas explained the other day that
compassion is forbidden nowadays by science itself, and that
that's what is done now in England, where there is political
economy. Why, I ask you, should he give it to me? And yet
though I know beforehand that he won't, I set off to him
and . . ."
"Why do you go?" put in Raskolnikov.
"Well, when one has no one, nowhere else one can go! For
every man must have somewhere to go. Since there are times
when one absolutely must go somewhere! When my own daugh-
ter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go .. . (for
my daughter has a yellow passport,") he added in parenthesis,
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