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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 461
much. She shuddered and once more looked about her distrust-
fully. Itwas an involuntary gesture; she evidently did not wish
to betray her uneasiness. But the secluded position of Svidrigai-
lov's lodging had suddenly struck her. She wanted to ask
whether his landlady at least were at home, but pride kept her
from asking. Moreover, she had another trouble in her heart in-
comparably greater than fear for herself. She was in great dis-
tress.
"Here is your letter," she said, laying it on the table. "Can
it be true what you write? You hint at a crime committed, you
say, by my brother. You hint at it too clearly; you daren't
deny it now. I must tell you that I'd heard of this stupid story
before you wrote and don't believe a word of it. It's a disgusting
and ridiculous suspicion. I know the story and why and how it
was invented. You can have no proofs. You promised to prove
it. Speak! But let me warn you that I don't believe you! I don't
believe you!"
Dounia said this, speaking hurriedly, and for an instant the
colour rushed to her face.
"If you didn't believe it, how could you risk coming alone to
my rooms? Why have you come? Simply from curiosity?"
"Don't torment me. Speak, speak!"
"There's no denying that you are a brave girl. Upon my
word, I thought you would have asked Mr. Razumihin to escort
you here. But he was not with you nor anywhere near. I was
on the look-out. It's spirited of you, it proves you wanted to
spare Rodion Romanovitch. But everything is divine in you-
. . . About your brother, what am I to say to you? You've just
seen him yourself. What did you think of him?"
"Surely that's not the only thing you are building on?"
"No, not on that, but on his own words. He came here on
two successive evenings to see Sofya Semyonovna. I've shown
you where they sat. He made a full confession to her. He is
a murderer. He killed an old woman, a pawnbroker, with whom
he had pawned things himself. He killed her sister too, a pedlar
woman called Lizaveta, who happened to come in while he was
murdering her sister. He killed them with an axe he brought
with him. He murdered them to rob them and he did rob them.
He took money and various things. . . . He told all this, word
for word, to Sofya Semyonovna, the only person who knows his
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