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- 460 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
am not in the least afraid of you. Lead the way," she said with
apparent composure, but her face was very pale.
Svidrigailov stopped at Sonia's room.
"Allow me to inquire whether she is at home. . . . She is not.
How unfortunate! But I know she may come quite soon. If
she's gone out, it can only be to see a lady about the orphans.
Their mother is dead. . . . I've been meddling and making ar-
rangements forthem. If Sofya Semyonovna does not come back
in ten minutes, I will send her to you, to-day if you like. This
is my flat. These are my two rooms. Madame Resslich, my
landlady, has the next room. Now, look this way. I will show
you my chief piece of evidence: this door from my bedroom
leads into two perfectly empty rooms, which are to let. Here
they are . . . you must look into them with some attention."
Svidrigailov occupied two fairly large furnished rooms.
Dounia was looking about her mistrustfully, but saw nothing
special in the furniture or position of the rooms. Yet there was
something to observe, for instance, that Svidrigailov's flat was
exactly between two sets of almost uninhabited apartments. His
rooms were not entered directly from the passage, but through
the landlady's two almost empty rooms. Unlocking a door lead-
ing out of his bedroom, Svidrigailov showed Dounia the two
empty rooms that were to let. Dounia stopped in the doorway,
not knowing what she was called to look upon, but Svidrigai-
lov hastened to explain.
"Look here, at this second large room. Notice that door, it's
locked. By the door stands a chair, the only one in the two
rooms. I brought it from my rooms so as to listen more con-
veniently. Justthe other side of the door is Sofya Semyonovna's
table; she sat there talking to Rodion Romanovitch. And I sat
here listening on two successive evenings, for two hours each
time — and of course I was able to learn something, what do
you think?"
"You listened?"
"Yes, I did. Now come back to my room; we can't sit down
here."He brought Avdotya Romanovna back into his sitting-room
and offered her a chair. He sat down at the opposite side of the
table, at least seven feet from her, but probably there v/as the
same glow in his eyes which had once frightened Dounia so
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