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- 380 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
allow it. The commissariat clerk, though indeed he had not
grasped the whole position, was shouting louder than any one
and was making some suggestions very unpleasant to Luzhin.
But not all those present were drunk; lodgers came in from
all the rooms. The three Poles were tremendously excited and
were continually shouting at him: "The pan is a lajdak!" and
muttering threats in Polish. Sonia had been listening with
strained attention, though she too seemed unable to grasp it all;
she seemed as though she had just returned to consciousness.
She did not take her eyes off Raskolnikov, feeling that all her
safety lay in him. Katerina Ivanovna breathed hard and pain-
fully and seemed fearfully exhausted. Amalia Ivanovna stood
looking more stupid than any one, with her mouth wide open,
unable to make out what had happened. She only saw that
Pyotr Petrovitch had somehow come to grief.
Raskolnikov was attempting to speak again, but they did not
let him. Every one was crowding round Luzhin with threats
and shouts of abuse. But Pyotr Petrovitch was not intimidated.
Seeing that his accusation of Sonia had completely failed, he had
recourse to insolence:
"Allow me, gentlemen, allow me! Don't squeeze," let me
pass!" he said, making his way through the crowd. "And no
threats if you please! I assure you it will be useless, you will
gain nothing by it. On the contrary, you'll have to answer,
gentlemen, for violently obstructing the course of justice. The
thief has been more than unmasked, and I shall prosecute. Ovir
judges are not so blind and . . . not so drunk, and will not be-
lieve the testimony of two notorious infidels, agitators, and
atheists, who accuse me from motives of personal revenge which
they are foolish enough to admit. . . . Yes, allow me to pass!"
"Don't let me find a trace of you in my room! Kindly leave
at once, and everything is at an end between us! When I think
of the trouble I've been taking, the way I've been expounding
... all this fortnight!"
"I told you myself to-day that I was going, when you tried
to keep me; now I will simply add that you are a fool. I advise
you to see a doctor for your brains and your short sight. Let me
pass, gentlemen!"He forced his way through. But the commissariat clerk was
unwillinc to let him off so easily: he picked up a glass from the
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