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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 305
"Yes. . . . Did you know her?" Sonia asked with some sur-
prise.
"Katerina Ivanovna is in consumption, rapid consumption;
she will soon die," said Raskolnikov after a pause, without an-
swering her question.
"Oh, no, no, no!"
And Sonia unconsciously clutched both his hands, as though
imploring that she should not.
"But it will be better if she does die."
"No, not better, not at all better!" Sonia xmconsciously re-
peated indismay.
"And the children? "What can you do except take them to
live with you?"
"Oh, I don't know," cried Sonia, almost in despair, and she
put her hands to her head.
It was evident that that idea had very often occurred to her
before and he had only roused it again.
"And, what, if even now, while Katerina Ivanovna is alive,
you get ill and are taken to the hospital, what will happen then?"
he persisted pitilessly.
"How can you? That cannot be!"
And Soma's face worked with awful terror.
"Cannot be?" Raskolnikov went on with a harsh smile.
"You are not insiu"ed against it, are you? What will happen
to them then? They will be in the street, all of them, she will
cough and beg and knock her head against some wall, as she
did to-day, and the children will cry. . . . Then she will fall
down, be taken to the police station and to the hospital, she
will die, and the children . . ."
"Oh, no. . . . God will not let it be!" broke at last from
Sonia's overburdened bosom.
She listened, looking imploringly at him, clasping her hands
in dumb entreaty, as though it all depended upon him.
Raskolnikov got up and began to walk about the room. A
minute passed. Sonia was standing with her hands and her head
hanging in terrible dejection.
"And can't you save? Put by for a rainy day?" he^ asked,
stopping suddenly before her.
"No," whispered Sonia.
"Of course not. Have you tried?" he added almost ironically.
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