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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 271
or they've seen me. That's a matter of course. I am well dressed
and reckoned not a poor man; the emancipation of the serfs
hasn't affected me; my property consists chiefly of forests and
water meadows. The revenue has not fallen off; but ... I am
not going to see them, I was sick of them long ago. I've been
here three days and have called on no one. . . . What a town it
is! How has it come into existence among us, tell me that? A
town of officials and students of all sorts. Yes, there's a great
deal I didn't notice when I was here eight years ago, kicking up
my heels. . . . My only hope now is in anatomy, by Jove, it is!"
"Anatomy?"
"But as for these clubs, Dussauts, parades, or progress, indeed,
may be — well, all that can go on without me," he went on,
again without noticing the question. "Besides, who wants to be
a card-sharper?"
"Why, have you been a card-sharper then?"
"How could I help being? There was a regular set of us,
men of the best society, eight years ago; we had a fine time.
And all men of breeding, you know, poets, men of property.
And indeed as a rule in our Russian society, the best manners
are found among those who've been thrashed, have you noticed
that? I've deteriorated in the country. But I did get into prison
for debt, through a low Greek who came from Nezhin. Then
Marfa Petrovna turned up; she bargained with him and bought
me off for thirty thousand silver pieces (I owed seventy thou-
sand). We were united in lawful wedlock and she bore me off
into the country like a treasure. You know she was five years
older than I. She was very fond of me. For seven years I never
left the country. And, take note, that all my life she held a
document over me, the i.o.u. for thirty thousand roubles, so if I
were to elect to be restive about anything I should be trapped
at once! And she would have done it! Women find nothing in-
compatible inthat."
"If it hadn't been for that, would you have given her the
slip?"
"I don't know what to say. It was scarcely the document
restrained me. I didn't want to go anywhere else. Marfa Pe-
trovna herself invited me to go abroad, seeing I was bored, but
I've been abroad before, and always felt sick there. For no
reason, but the sunrise, the bay of Naples, the sea — you look
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