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- 498 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"No, I only looked in ... I came to ask ... I thought that
I should find Zametov here."
"Oh, yes! Of course, you've made friends, I heard. Well,
no, Zametov is not here. Yes, we've lost Zametov. He's not
been here since yesterday ... he quarrelled with every one on
leaving ... in the rudest way. He is a feather-headed youngster,
that's all; one might have expected something from him, but
there, you know what they are, our brilliant young men. He
wanted to go in for some examination, but it's only to talk
and boast about it, it will go no further than that. Of course it's
a very different matter with you or Mr. Razumihin there, your
friend. Your career is an intellectual one and you won't be
deterred by failure. For you, one may say, all the attractions
of life nihil est — you are an ascetic, a monk, a hermit! ... A
book, a pen behind your ear, a learned research — that's where
/our spirit soars! I am the same way myself. . . . Have you read
Livingstone's Travels?"
"No."
"Oh, I have. There are a great many Nihilists about nowa-
days, you know, and indeed it is not to be wondered at. What
sort of days are they? I ask you. But we thought . . . you are
not a Nihilist of course? Answer me openly, openly!"
"N-no "
"Believe me, you can speak openly to me as you would to
yourself! Official duty is one thing but . . . you are thinking
I meant to say friendship is quite another? No, you're wrong!
It's not friendship, but the feeling of a man and a citizen, the
feeling of humanity and of love for the Almighty. I may be an
official, but I am always bound to feel myself a man and a citi-
zen. .. . You were asking about Zametov. Zametov will make a
scandal in the French style in a house of bad reputation, over a
glass of champagne . . . that's all your Zametov is good for!
While I'm perhaps, so to speak, burning with devotion and lofty
feelings, and besides I have rank, consequence, a post! I am mar-
ried and have children, I fulfil the duties of a man and a citizen,
but who is he, may I ask? I appeal to you as a man ennobled by
education . . . Then these midwives, too, have become extraor-
dinarily numerous."
Raskolnikov raised his eyebrows inquiringly. The words of
Ilya Petrovitch, who had obviously been dining, were for the
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