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- 156 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
spot that sort of thing! No, I should not have the face to do It.
Would you?"
Raskolnikov had an intense desire again "to put his tongue
out." Shivers kept running down his spine.
"I should do it quite differently," Raskolnikov began. "This
is how I would change the notes: I'd count the first thousand
three or four times backwards and forwards, look at every
note and then I'd set to the second thousand; I'd count that
half way through and then hold some fifty rouble note to the
light, then turn it, then hold it to the light again — to see
whether it was a good one? 'I am afraid,' I would say. 'A rela-
tion of mine lost twenty-five roubles the other day through a
false note,' and then I'd tell them the whole story. And after
I began counting the third, 'no, excuse me,* I would say, 'I
fancy I made a mistake in the seventh hundred in that second
thousand, I am not sure.' And so I would give up the third
thousand and go back to the second and so on to the end. And
when I had finished, I'd pick out one from the fifth and one
from the second thousand and take them again to the light
and ask again 'change them, please,' and put the clerk into
such a stew that he would not know how to get rid of me.
When I'd finished and had gone out, I'd come back, 'No,
excuse me,' and ask for some explanation. That's how I'd do
it.""Foo, what terrible things you say!" said Zametov, laughing.
,"But all that is only talk. I dare say when it came to deeds
you'd make a slip. I believe that even a practised, desperate
man cannot always reckon on himself, much less you and I.
To take an example near home — that old woman murdered
in our district. The murderer seems to have been a desperate
fellow, he risked everything in open daylight, was saved by a
miracle — but his hands shook, too. He did not succeed in
robbing the place, he couldn't stand it. That was clear from
the . . . "
Raskolnikov seemed offended.
"Clear? Why don't you catch him then?" he cried, mali-
ciously gibing at Zametov.
"Well, they will catch him."
"Who? You? Do you suppose you could catch him? You've
a tough job! A great point for you is whether a man is spending
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