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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 91
trepidation he looked down it ... at the house . . . and at once
averted his eyes.
"If they question me, perhaps I'll simply tell," he thought, as
he drew near the p)olice station.
The pjolice-station was about a quarter of a mile oflf. It had
lately been moved to new rooms on the fourth floor of a new
house. He had been once for a moment in the old office but
long ago. Turning in at the gateway, he saw on the right a flight
of stairs which a peasant was mounting with a book in his hand.
"A house-porter, no doubt; so then, the office is here," and he
began ascending the stairs on the chance. He did not want to
ask questions of any one.
"I'll go in, fall on my knees, and confess everything . . ."
he thought, as he reached the fourth floor.
The staircase was steep, narrow and all sloppy with dirty wa-
ter. The kitchens of the flats opened on to the stairs and stood
open almost the whole day. So there was a fearful smell and heat.
The staircase was crowded with porters going up and down with
their books under their arms, policemen, and persons of all sorts
and both sexes. The door of the office, too, stood wide open.
Peasants stood waiting within. There, too, the heat was stifling
and there was a sickening smell of fresh paint and stale oil from
the newly decorated rooms.
After waiting a little, he decided to move forward into the
next room. All the rooms were small and low-pitched. A fearful
impatience drew him on and on. No one paid attention to him.
In the second room some clerks sat writing, dressed hardly bet-
ter than he was, and rather a queer-looking set. He went up to
one of them.
"What is it?"
He showed the notice he had received.
"You are a "student?" the man asked, glancing at the notice.
"Yes, formerly a student."
The clerk looked at him, but without the slightest interest.
He was a particularly unkempt person with the look of a fixed
idea in his eye.
"There would be no getting anything out of him, because he
has no interest in anything," thought Raskolnikov.
"Go in there to the head clerk," said the clerk, pointingtowards the furthest room.
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