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- 432 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
That's only theory and my theory, and what authority am I for
you? Perhaps, too, even now I am hiding something from you?
I can't lay bare everything, he-he! And how can you ask what
idvantage? Don't you know how it would lessen your sentence?
i^ou would be confessing at a moment when another man has
taken the crime on himself and so has muddled the whole case.
Consider that! I swear before God that I will so arrange that
your confession shall come as a complete surprise. We will make
a clean sweep of all these psychological points, of all suspicion
against you, so that your crime will appear to have been some-
thing like an aberration, for in truth it was an aberration. I am
an honest man, Rodion Romanovitch, and will keep my word."Raskolnikov maintained a mournful silence and let his head
sink dejectedly. He pondered a long while and at last smiled
again, but his smile was sad and gentle.
"No!" he said, apparently abandoning all attempt to keep up
appearances with Porfiry, "it's not worth it, I don't care about
lessening the sentence!"
"That's just what I was afraid of!" Porfiry cried warmly and,
as it seemed, involuntarily. "That's just what I feared, that you
wouldn't care about the mitigation of sentence."
Raskolnikov looked sadly and expressively at him.
"Ah, don't disdain life!" Porfiry went on. "You have a great
deal of it still before you. How can you say you don't want a
mitigation of sentence? You are an impatient fellow!"
"A great deal of what lies before me?"
"Of life. What sort of prophet are you, do you know much
about it? Seek and ye shall find. This may be God's means for
bringing you to Him. And it's not for ever, the bondage. .. . .'*
"The time will be shortened," laughed Raskolnikov.
"Why, is it the bourgeois disgrace you are afraid of? It may
be that you are afraid of it without knowing it, because you are
young! But anyway you shouldn't be afraid of giving yourself
up and confessing."
"Ach, hang it!" Raskolnikov whispered with loathing and
contempt, as though he did not want to speak aloud.
He got up again as though he meant to go away, but sat
down again in evident despair.
"Hang it, if you like! You've lost faith and you think that
I am grossly flattering you; but how long has your life been?
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