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- 430 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Porfiry Petrovitch sank back in his chair, as though he were
amazed at the question.
"Who is the murderer?" he repeated, as though unable to
believe his ears. "Why you, Rodion Romanovitch! You are the
murderer," he added almost in a whisper, in a voice of genuineconviction.
Raskolnikov leapt from the sofa, stood up for a few seconds
and sat down again without uttering a word. His face twitched
convulsively.
"Your lip is twitching just as it did before," Porfiry Petro-
vitch observed almost sympathetically. "You've been mis-
understanding me,I think, Rodion Romanovitch," he added
after a brief pause, "that's why you are so surprised. I came on
purpose to tell you everything and deal openly with you."
"It was not I murdered her," Raskolnikov whispered like a
frightened child caught in the act.
"No, it was you, you Rodion Romanovitch, and no one else,"
Porfiry whispered sternly, with conviction.
They were both silent and the silence lasted strangely long,
about ten minutes. Raskolnikov put his elbow on the table and
passed his fingers through his hair. Porfiry Petrovitch sat quietly
waiting. Suddenly Raskolnikov looked scornfully at Porfiry.
"You are at your old tricks again, Porfiry Petrovitch! Your
old method again. I wonder you don't get sick of it!"
"Oh, stop that, what does that matter now? It would be a
different matter if there were witnesses present, but we are
whispering alone. You see yourself that I have not come to chase
and capture you like a hare. Whether you confess it or not is
nothing to me now; for myself, I am convinced without it.'
"If so, what did you come for?" Raskolnikov asked irritably
"I ask you the same question again: if you consider me guilty
why don't you take me to prison?"
"Oh, that's your question! I will answer you, point for point
In the first place, to arrest you so directly is not to my interest.'
"How so? If you are convinced you ought. . . ."
"Ach, what if I am convinced? That's only my dream for
the time. Why should I put you in safety? You know that's it,
since you ask me to do it. If I confront you with that workman
for instance and you say to him 'were you drunk or not? Who
•saw me with you? I simply took you to be drunk, and you were
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