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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 289
"I don't remember writing anything false."
"You wrote," Raskolnikov said sharply, not turning to
Luzhin, "that I gave money yesterday not to the widow of the
man who was killed, as was the fact, but to his daughter (whom
I had never seen till yesterday) . You wrote this to make dis-
sension between me and my family, and for that object added
coarse expressions about the conduct of a girl whom you don't
know. All that is mean slander."
"Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, quivering with fury. "I en-
larged upon your quaUties and conduct in my letter solely in
response to your sister's and mother's inquiries how I found
you and what impression you made on me. As for what you've
alluded to in my letter, be so good as to point out one word of
falsehood, show, that is, that you didn't throw away yoxir
money, and that there are not worthless persons in that family,
however unfortunate."
"To my thinking, you with all your virtues are not worth the
little finger of that unfortunate girl at whom you throw
stones."
"Would you go so far then as to let her associate with your
mother and sister?"
"I have done so already, if you care to know. I made her sit
down to-day with mother and Dounia."
"Rodya!" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna. Dounia crimsoned,
Razumihin knitted his brows. Luzhin smiled with lofty sarcasm.
"You may see for yourself, Avdotya Romanovna," he said,
"whether it is possible for us to agree. I hof>e now that this
question is at an end, once and for all. I will withdraw, that I
may not hinder the pleasures of family intimacy, and the dis-
cussion ofsecrets." He got up from his chair and took his hat.
"But in withdrawing, I venture to request that for the future I
may be spared similar meetings, and, so to say, compromises. I
appeal particularly to you, honoured Pulcheria Alexandrovna,
on this subject, the more as my letter was addressed to you and
to no one else."
Pulcheria Alexandrovna was a little offended.
"You seem to think we are completely under your authority,
Pyotr Petrovitch. Dounia has told you the reason your desire
was disregarded, she had the best intentions. And indeed you
write as though you were laying commands upon me. Are we
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