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- 330 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"Yes, I do," went on Porfiry, touching Raskolnikov's arm
genially, "you must take care of your illness. Besides, your
mother and sister are here now; you must think of them. You
must soothe and comfort them and you do nothing but frighten
them ..."
"What has that to do with you? How do you know it? "What
concern is it of yours? You are keeping watch on me and want
to let me know it?"
"Good heavens! Wliy, I learnt it all from you yourself! You
don't notice that in your excitement you tell me and others
everything. From Razumihin, too, I learnt a number of inter-
esting details yesterday. No, you interrupted me, but I must
tell you that, for all your wit, your suspiciousness makes you
lose the common-sense view of things. To return to bell-ringing,
for instance. I, an examining lawyer, have betrayed a precious
thing like that, a real fact (for it is a fact worth having) , and
you see nothing in it! Why, if I had the slightest suspicion of
you, should I have acted like that? No, I should first have dis-
armed your suspicions and not let you see I knew of that fact,
should have diverted your attention and suddenly have dealt
you a knock-down blow (your expression) saying: 'And what
were you doing, sir, pray, at ten or nearly eleven at the mur-
dered woman's flat and why did you ring the bell and why
did you ask about blood? And why did you invite the porters
to go with you to the police station, to the lieutenant?' That's
how I ought to have acted if I had a grain of suspicion of you.
I ought to have taken your evidence in due form, searched your
lodging and perhaps have arrested you, too ... so I have no sus-
picion ofyou, since I have not done that! But you can't look
at it normally and you see nothing, I say again."
Raskolnikov started so that Porfiry Petrovitch could not fail
to perceive it.
"You are lying all the while," he cried, "I don't know yotu:
object, but you are lying. You did not speak like that just now
and I cannot be mistaken!"
"I am lying?" Porfiry repeated, apparently incensed, but pre-
serving agood-humoured and ironical face, as though he were
not in the least concerned at Raskolnikov's opinion of him. "I
am lying . . . but how did I treat you just now, I, the examining
lawyer? Prompting you and giving you every means for your
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