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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 50^
door is open! Finally, the confession, at the very moment when.
the case was hopelessly muddled by the false evidence given by
Nikolay through melancholy and fanaticism, and when, more-
over, there were no proofs against the real criminal, no sus-
picions even (Porfiry Petrovitch fully kept his word) — all this
did much to soften the sentence. Other circumstances, too, in
the prisoner's favour came out quite unexpectedly. Razumihin
somehow discovered and proved that while Raskolnikov was at
the university he had helped a poor consumptive fellow student
and had spent his last penny on supporting him for six months,
and when this student died, leaving a decrepit old father whom
he had maintained almost from his thirteenth year, Raskolnikov
had got the old man into a hospital and paid for his funeral when
he died. Raskolnikov's landlady bore witness, too, that when
they had lived in another house at Five Corners, Raskolnikov
had rescued two little children from a house on fire and was
burnt in doing so. This was investigated and fairly well con-
firmed bymany witnesses. These facts made an impression in
his favour.
And in the end the criminal was in consideration of extenuat-
ing circumstances condemned to penal servitude in the second
class for a term of eight years only.
At the very beginning of the trial Raskolnikov's mother fell
ill. Dounia and Razumihin found it possible to get her out of
Petersburg during the trial. Razumihin chose a town on the
railway not far from Petersburg, so as to be able to follow every
step of the trial and at the same time to see Avdotya Roman-
ovna as often as possible. Pulcheria Alexandrovna's illness was a
strange nervous one and was accompanied by a partial derange-
ment ofher intellect.
When Dounia returned from her last interview with her
brother, she had found her mother already ill, in feverish delir-
ium. That evening Razumihin and she agreed what answers they
must make to her mother's questions about Raskolnikov and
made up a complete story for her mother's benefit of his having
to go away to a distant part of Russia on a business commission,
which would bring him in the end money and reputation.
But they were struck by the fact that Pulcheria Alexan-
drovna never asked them anything on the subject, neither then
nor thereafter. On the contrary, she had her own version of her
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