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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 333
no escaping form, as you see." Porfiry muttered listening at the
door through which a noise could be heard.
"Ah, they're coming," cried Raskolnikov. "You've sent for
them! You expected them! Well, produce them all: your depu-
ties, your witnesses, what you like! ... I am ready!"
But at this moment a strange incident occurred, something
so unexpected that neither Raskolnikov nor Porfiry Petrovitch
could have looked for such a conclusion to their interview.
CHAPTER VI
When he remembered the scene afterwards, this is how Ras-
kolnikov saw it.
The noise behind the door increased, and suddenly the door
was opened a little.
"What is it?" cried Porfiry Petrovitch, annoyed. "Why, I
gave orders ..."
For an instant there was no answer, but it was evident that
there were several persons at the door, and that they were
apparently pushing somebody back.
"What is it?" Porfiry Petrovich repeated, uneasily.
"The prisoner Nikolay has been brought," some one answered.
"He is not wanted! Take him away! Let him wait! What's
he doing here? How irregular!" cried Porfiry, rushing to thedoor.
"But he . . ." began the same voice, and suddenly ceased.
Two seconds, not more, were spent in actual struggle, then
some one gave a violent shove, and then a man, very pale,
strode into the room.
This man's appearance was at first sight very strange. He
stared straight before him, as though seeing nothing. There
was a determined gleam in his eyes; at the same time there
was a deathly pallor in his face, as though he were being led
to the scaffold. His white lips were faintly twitching.
He was dressed like a workman and was of medium height,
very young, sHm, his hair cut in a round crop, with thin spare
features. The man whom he had thrust back followed him into
the room and succeeded in seizing him by the shoulder; he
was a warder; but Nikolay pulled his arm away.
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