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- i06 CKJ\I^ AND PUNISHMENT
pleasure Razumihin told her how Raskolnikov had looked after
the poor student and his decrepit father and how a year ago he
had been burnt and injured in rescuing two little children from
a fire. These two pieces of news excited Pulcheria Alexan-
drovna's disordered imagination almost to ecstasy. She was con-
tinually talking about them, even entering into conversation
with strangers in the street, though Dounia always accompanied
!:er. In public conveyances and shops, wherever she could cap-
ture alistener, she would begin the discourse about her son, his
article, how he had helped the student, how he had been burnt
at the fire, and so on! Dounia did not know how to restrain her.
Apart from the danger of her morbid excitement, there was the
risk of some one's recalling Raskolnikov's name and speaking ofthe recent trial. Pukheria Alexandrovna found out the address
of the mother of the two children her son had saved and insisted
on going to see her. v
At last her restlessness reached an extreme point. She would
sometimes begin to cry suddenly and was often ill and fever-
ishly delirious. One morning she declared that by her reckoning
Rodya ought soon to be home, that she remembered when he
said good-bye to her he said that they must expect him back
in nine months. She began to prepare for his coming, began to
do up her room for him, to clean the furniture, to wash and put
up new hangings and so on. Dounia was anxious, but said noth-
ing and helped her to arrange the room. After a fatiguing day
spent in continual fancies, in joyful day dreams and tears, Pul-
cheria Alexandrovna was taken ill in the night and by morning
she was feverish and delirious. It v/as brain fever. She died
within a fortnight. In her delirium she dropped words which
showed that she knew a great deal more about her son's terrible
fate than they had supposed.
For a long time Raskolnikov did not know of his mother's
death, though a regular correspondence had been maintained
from the time he reached Siberia. It was carried on by means
of Sonia, who wrote every month to the Razumihins and re-
ceived an answer with unfailing regularity. At first they found
Sonia's letters dry and unsatisfactory, but later on they came
to the conclusion that the letters could not be better, for from
these letters they received a complete picture of their unfortu-
nate brother's life. Sonia's letters were full of the most matter of
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