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- 408 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
She stumbled as she ran and fell down.
"She's cut herself, she's bleeding! Oh, dear!" cried Sonia,
bending over her.
All ran up and crowded round. Raskolnikov and Lebeziatni-
kov were the first at her side, the oflScial too hastened up, and
behind him the policeman who muttered, "Bother!" with a
gesture of impatience, feeling that the job was going to be a
troublesorhe one.
"Pass on! Pass on!" he said to the crowd that pressed forward.
"She's dying," some one shouted.
"She's gone out of her mind," said another.
"Lord have mercy upon us," said a woman, crossing herself.
"Have they caught the little girl and the boy? They're being
brought back, the elder one's got them. . . . Ah, the naughty
imps!"When they examined Katerina Ivanovna carefully, they saw
that she had not cut herself against a stone, as Sonia thought,
but that the blood that stained the pavement red was from her
chest.
"I've seen that before," muttered the oflScial to Raskolnikov
and Lebeziatnikov; "that's consumption; the blood flows and
chokes the patient. I saw the same thing with a relative of my
own not long ago . . . nearly a pint of blood, ill in a minute. . . .
What's to be done though? She is dying."
"This way, this way, to my room!" Sonia implored. "I live
here! . . . See, that house, the second from here. . . . Come to
me, make haste," she turned from one to the other. "Send for "
the doctor! Oh, dear!"
Thanks to the official's eflforts, this plan was adopted, the
policeman even helping to carry Katerina Ivanovna. She was
carried to Sonia's room, almost unconscious, and laid on the bed.
The blood was still flowing, but she seemed to be coming to her-
self, Raskolnikov, Lebeziatnikov, and the oflficial accompanied
Sonia into the room and were followed by the policeman, who
first drove back the crowd which followed to the very door,
Polenka came in holding Kolya and Lida, who were trembling
and weeping. Several persons came in too from the Kapcrnau-
movs' room; the landlord, a lame one-eyed man of strange ap-
pearance with whiskers and hair that stood up like a brush, his
wife, a woman with an everlastingly scared expression, and sev-
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