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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 389
unhappy man the terrible idea of the murder overwhelmed her.
In his changed tone she seemed to hear the murderer speaking.
She looked at him bewildered. She knew nothing as yet, why,
how, with what object it had been. Now all these questions
rushed at once into her mind. And again she could not believe
it: "He, he is a murderer! Could it be true?"
"What's the meaning of it.-" Where am I?" she said in com-
plete bewilderment, as though still unable to recover herself.
"How could you, you, a man like you. . . . How could you bring
yourself to it? . . . What does it mean?"
"Oh, well — to plunder. Leave off, Sonia," he answered
wearily, almost with vexation.
Sonia stood as though struck dumb, but suddenly she cried:
"You were hungry! It was ... to help your mother? Yes?"
"No, Sonia, no," he muttered, turning away and hanging his
head. "I was not so hungry. ... I certainly did want to help my
mother, but . . . that's not the real thing either. . . . Don't tor-
ture me, Sonia."
Sonia clasped her hands.
"Could it, could it all be true? Good God, what a truth!
Who could believe it? And how could you give away your last
farthing and yet rob and murder! Ah," she cried suddenly,
"that money you gave Katerina Ivanovna . . . that .money. . . .
Can that money ..."
"No, Sonia," he broke in hurriedly, "that money was not it.
Don't worry yourself! That money my mother sent me and it
came when I was ill, the day I gave it to you. . . . Razumihin
saw it ... he received it for me. . . . That money was mine-^
my own."Sonia listened to him in bewilderment and did her utmost to
comprehend.
"And that money. ... I don't even know really whether
there was any money," he added softly, as though reflecting. "I
took a purse off her neck, made of chamois leather ... a purse
stuflfed full of something . . . but I didn't look in it; I suppose
I hadn't time. . . . And the things — chains and trinkets — I
buried under a stone with the purse next morning in a yard off
the V Prospect. They are all there now. . . ."
Sonia strained every nerve to listen.
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