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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 73
almost unconscious of his body. . . . An instant later he heard
the latch unfastened.
CHAPTER VII
The door was as before opened a tiny crack, and again two sharp
and suspicious eyes stared at him out of the darkness. Then
Raskolnikov lost his head and nearly made a great mistake.
Fearing the old woman would be frightened by their being
alone, and not hoping that the sight of him would disarm her
suspicions, he took hold of the door and drew it towards him to
prevent the old woman from attempting to shut it again. Seeing
this she did not pull the door back, but she did not let go the
handle so that he almost dragged her out with it on to the
stairs. Seeing that she was standing in the doorway not allowing
him to pass, he advanced straight upon her. She stepped back
in alarm, tried to say something, but seemed unable to speak
and stared with open eyes at him.
"Good evening, Alyona Ivanovna," he began, trying to speak
easily, but his voice would not obey him, it broke and shook.
"I have come ... I have brought something . . . but we'd better
come in ... to the light. . . ."
And leaving her, he passed straight into the room uninvited.
The old woman ran after him; her tongue was unloosed.
"Good heavens! "What is it? Who is it? What do you want?"
"Why, Alyona Ivanovna, you know me . . . Raskolnikov . . .
here, I brought you the pledge I promised the other day . . ."
and he held out the pledge.
The old woman glanced for a moment at the pledge, but at
once stared in the eyes of her uninvited visitor. She looked in-
tently, maliciously and mistrustfully. A minute passed; he even
fancied something like a sneer in her eyes, as though she had
already guessed everything. He felt that he was losing his head,
that he was almost frightened, so frightened that if she were
to look like that and not say a word for another half minute,
he thought he would have run away from her.
"Why do you look at me as though you did not know me?"
he said suddenly, also with malice. "Take it if you like, if not
I'll go elsewhere, I am in a hurry."
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