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- 370 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"I don't know. ... I know nothing about it," Sonia articu-
lated faintly at last.
"No, you know nothing?" Luzhin repeated and again he
paused for some seconds. "Think a moment, mademoiselle," he
began severely, but still, as it were, admonishing her. "Reflect,
I am prepared to give you time for consideration. Kindly ob-
serve this: if I were not so entirely convinced I should not, you
may be sure, with my experience venture to accuse you so
directly. Seeing that for such direct accusation before witnesses,
if false or even mistaken, I should myself in a certain sense
be made responsible, I am aware of that. This morning I changed
for my own purposes several five per cent, securities for the sum
of approximately three thousand roubles. The account is noted
down in my pocket-book. On my return home I proceeded to
count the money, — as Mr. Lebeziatnikov will bear witness —
and after counting two thousand three hundred roubles I put
the rest in my pocket-book in my coat pocket. About five hun-
dred roubles remained on the table and among them three notes
of a hundred roubles each. At that moment you entered (at my
invitation) — and all the time you were present you were ex-
ceedingly embarrassed; so that three times you jumped up in
the middle of the conversation and tried to make off. Mr.
Lebeziatnikov can bear witness to this. You yourself, made-
moiselle, probably will not refuse to confirm my statement
that I invited you through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, solely in order to
discuss with you the hopeless and destitute position of your
relative, Katerina Ivanovna (whose dinner I was unable to at-
tend) ,and the advisability of getting up something of the
nature of a subscription, lottery or the like, for her benefit. You
thanked me and even shed tears. I describe all this as it took
place, primarily to recall it to your mind and secondly to show
you that not the slightest detail has escaped my recollection.
Then I took a ten-rouble note from the table and handed it to
you by way of first instalment on my part for the benefit of
your relative. Mr. Lebeziatnikov saw all this. Then I accom-
panied you to the door, — you being still in the same state of
embarrassment — after which, being left alone with Mr. Lebe-
ziatnikov Italked to him for ten minutes, — then Mr. Lebeziat-
nikov went out and I returned to the table with the money lying
on it, intending to coimt it and to put it aside, as I proposed
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