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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 441
wonderfully young for his age. Svidrigailov was smartly dressed
in light summer clothes and was particularly dainty in his
linen. He wore a huge ring with a precious stone in it.
"Have I got to bother myself about you too now?" said
Raskolnikov suddenly, coming with nervous impatience straight
to the point. "Even though perhaps you are the most danger-
ous man if you care to injure me, I don't want to put myself out
any more. I will show you at -once that I don't prize myself as
you probably think I do. I've come to tell you at once that if you
keep to your former intentions with regard to my sister and if
you think to derive any benefit in that direction from what has
been discovered of late, I will kill you before you get me locked
up. You can reckon on my word. You know that I can keep it.
And in the second place if you want to tell me anything — for
I keep fancying all this time that you have something to tell
me — make haste and tell it, for time is precious and very likely
it will soon be too late."
"Why in such haste?" asked Svidrigailov, looking at him
curiously.
"Every one has his plans," Raskolnikov answered gloomily
and impatiently.
"You urged me yourself to frankness just now, and at tht
first question you refuse to answer," Svidrigailov observed with
a smile. "You keep fancying that I have aims of my own and so
you look at me with suspicion. Of course it's perfectly natural
in your position. But though I should like to be friends with
you, I shan't trouble myself to convince you of the contrary.
The game isn't worth the candle and I wasn't intending to talk
to you about anything special."
"What did you want me for, then? It was you who came
hanging about me."
"Why, simply as an interesting subject for observation. I
liked the fantastic nature of your position — that's what it was!
Besides you are the brother of a person who greatly interested
me, and from that person I had in the past heard a very great
deal about you, from which I gathered that you had a great
influence over her; isn't that enough? Ha-ha-ha! Still I must
admit that your question is rather complex, and is difficult for
me to answer. Here, you, for instance, have come to me not
only for a definite object, but for the sake of hearing something
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