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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 87
"Pieces of torn linen couldn't rouse suspicion, whatever hap-
pened; Ithink not, I think not, any way!" he repeated, standing
in the middle of the room, and with painful concentration he
fell to gazing about him again, at the floor and everywhere, try-
ing to make sure he had not forgotten anything. The conviction,
that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of
reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable tortvure.
"Surely it isn't beginning already! Surely it isn't my punish-
ment coming upon me? It is!"
The frayed rags he had cut oflF his trousers were actually lying
on the floor in the middle of the room, where any one coming in
would see them!
"What is the matter with me!" he cried again, like one dis-
traught.
Then a strange idea entered his head; that, perhaps, all his
clothes were covered with blood, that, perhaps, there were a
great many stains, but that he did not see them, did not notice
them because his perceptions were failing, were going to pieces
... his reason was clouded. . . . Suddenly he remembered that
there had been blood on the purse too. "Ah! Then there must
be blood on the pocket too, for I put the wet purse in my
pocket!"In a flash he had turned the pocket inside out and, yes! —
there were traces, stains on the lining of the pocket!
"So my reason has not quite deserted me, so I still have some
sense and memory, since I guessed it of myself," he thought
triumphantly, with a deep sigh of relief: "It's simply the weak-
ness offever, a moment's delirium," and he tore the whole lining
out of the left pocket of his trousers. At that instant the sun-
light fell on his left boot; on the sock which poked out from
the boot, he fancied there were traces! He flung off his boots:
"traces indeed! The tip of the sock was soaked with blood"; he
must have unwarily stepped into that pool. . . . "But what am I
to do with this now? Where am I to put the sock and rags and
pocket?"He gathered them all up in his hands and stood in the middle
of the room.
"In the stove? But they would ransack the stove first of all.
Burn them? But what can I burn them with? There are no
matches even. No, better go out and throw it all away some-
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