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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 129
tasya's chatter with marked displeasure. She sighed and wassilent.
"Why, he was accused of the murder," Razumihin went < n
hotly.
"Was there evidence against him then?"
"Evidence, indeed! Evidence that was no evidence, and that's
what we have to prove. It was just as they pitched on those
fellows, Koch and Pestryakov, at first. Foo! how stupidly it's
all done, it makes one sick, though it's not one's business! Pes-
tryakov may be coming to-night. ... By the way, Rodya, you've
heard about the business already; it happened before you were
ill, the day before you fainted at the police office while they
were talking about it."
Zossimov looked curiously at Raskolnikov. He did not stir.
"But I say, Razumihin, I wonder at you. What a busybody
you are!" Zossimov observed.
"Maybe I am, but we will get him off anyway," shouted
Razumihin, bringing his fist down on the table. "What's the
most offensive is not their lying — one can always forgive lying
— lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth — what is
offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. ... I re-
spect Porfiry, but . . . What threw them out at first? The door
was locked, and when they came back with the porter it was
open. So it followed that Koch and Pestryakov were the mur-
derers— that was their logic!"
"But don't excite yourself; they simply detained them, they
could not help that. . . . And, by the way, I've met that man
Koch. He used to buy unredeemed pledges from the old woman?
Eh?"
"Yes, he is a swindler. He buys up bad debts, too. He makes
a profession of it. But enough of him! Do you know what
makes me angry? It's their sickening rotten, petrified routine.
. . . And this case might be the means of introducing a new
method. One can show from the psychological data alone how
to get on the track of the real man. 'We have facts,' they say.
But facts are not everything — at least half the business lies in
how you interpret them!"
"Can you interpret them, then?"
"Anyway, one can't hold one's tongue when one has a feel-'
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