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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 277
*T certainly am idle and depraved, but your sister has such
qualities that even I could not help being impressed by them.
But that's all nonsense, as I see myself now."
"Have you seen that long?"
"I began to be aware of it before, but was only perfectly sure
of it the day before yesterday, almost at the moment I arrived
in Petersburg. I still fancied in Moscow, though, that I was
coming to try to get Avdotya Romanovna's hand and to cur
out Mr. Luzhin."
"Excuse me for interrupting you; kindly be brief, and come
to the object of your visit. I am in a hurry, I want to go
out. . . ."
"With the greatest pleasure. On arriving here and determin-
ing on a certain . . . journey, I should like to make some neces-
sary preliminary arrangements. I left my children with an aunt;
they are well provided for; and they have no need of me person-
ally. And a nice father I should make, too! I have taken nothing
but what Marfa Petrovna gave me a year ago. That's enough
for me. Excuse me, I am just coming to the point. Before the
journey which may come off, I want to settle Mr. Luzhin, too.
It's not that I detest him so much, but 'it was through him I
quarrelled with Marfa Petrovna when I learned that she had
dished up this marriage. I want now to see Avdotya Romanovna
through your mediation, and if you like in your presence, to
explain to her that in the first place she will never gain anything
but harm from Mr. Luzhin. Then begging her pardon for all
past unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand
roubles and so assist the rupture with Mr. Luzhin, a rupture to
which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see
the way to it."
"You are certainly mad," cried Raskolnikov not so much
angered as astonished. "How dare you talk like that!"
"I knew you would scream at me; but in the first place,
though I am not rich, this ten thousand roubles is perfectly
free; I have absolutely no need for it. If Avdotya Romanovna
does not accept it, I shall waste it in some more foolish way.
That's the first thing. Secondly, my conscience is perfectly easy;
I make the offer with no ulterior motive. You may not believe it,
but in the end Avdotya Romanovna and you will know. The
point is, that I did actually cause your sister, whom I greatly
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