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- 270 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
After saying this, Svidrigaiilov broke into a sudden laugh
again. Raskolnikov saw clearly that this was a man with a
firm purpose in his mind and able to keep it to himself.
"I expect you've not talked to any one for some days?" heasked.
"Scarcely any one. I suppose you are wondering at my being
such an adaptable man?"
"No, I am only wondering at your being too adaptable a
man."
"Because I am not offended at the rudeness of your questions?
Is that it? But why take offence? As you asked, so I answered,"
he replied, with a surprising expression of simplicity. "You
know, there's hardly anything I take interest in," he went on,
as it were dreamily, "especially now, I've nothing to do. . . .
You are quite at liberty to imagine though that I am making
up to you with a motive, particularly as I told you I want to
see your sister about something. But I'll confess frankly, I am
very much bored. The last three days especially, so I am de-
lighted to see you. . . . Don't be angry, Rodion Romanovitch,
but you seem to be somehow awfully strange yourself. Say
what you like, there's something wrong with you, and now, too
. . . not this very minute, I mean, but now, generally. . . . Well,
well, I won't, I won't, don't scowl! I am not such a bear, you
know, as you think."
Raskolnikov looked gloomily at him.
"You are not a bear, perhaps, at all," he said. "I fancy indeed
that you are a man of very good breeding, or at least know
how on occasion to behave like one."
"I am not particularly interested in any one's opinion,'*
Svidrigailov answered, dryly and even with a shade of haughti-
ness, "and therefore why not be vulgar at times when vulgarity
is such a convenient cloak for our climate . . . and especially
•f one has a natural propensity that way," he added, laughing
again.
' "But I've heard you have many friends here. You are, as
they say, 'not without connections.' What can you want with
me, then, unless you've some special object?"
"That's true that I have friends here," Svidrigailov admitted,
not replying to the chief point. "I've met some already. I've
been lounging about for the last three days, and I've seen them.
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