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- J04 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
son's sudden departure; she told them with tears how he had
come to say good-bye to her, hinting that she alone knew many
mysicrious and important facts, and that Rodya had many very
powerful enemies, so that it was necessary for him to be in hid-
ing. As for his future career, she had no doubt that it would be
brilliant when certain sinister influences could be removed. She
assured Razumihin that her son would be one day a great states-
man, that his article and brilliant literary talent proved it. This
article she was continually reading, she even read it aloud,
almost took it to bed with her, but scarcely asked where Rodya
was, though the subject was obviously avoided by the others,
which might have been enough to awaken her suspicions.
They began to be frightened at last at Pulcheria Alexan-
drovna's strange silence on certain subjects. She did not, for
instance, complain of getting no letters from him, though in
previous years she had only lived on the hope of letters from her
beloved Rodya. This was the cause of great uneasiness to
Dounia; the idea occurred to her that her mother suspected
that there was something terrible in her son's fate and was afraid
to ask, for fear of hearing something still more awful. In any
case, Dounia saw clearly that her mother was not in full pos-
session ofher faculties.
It happened once or twice, however, that Pulcheria Alex-
androvna gave such a turn to the conversation that it was im-
possible to answer her without mentioning where Rodya was,
and on receiving unsatisfactory and suspicious answers she be-
came at once gloomy and silent, and this mood lasted for a long
time. Dounia saw at last that it was hard to deceive her and
came to the conclusion that it was better to be absolutely silent
on certain points; but it became more and more evident that the
poor mother suspected something terrible. Dounia remembered
her brother's telling her that her mother had overheard her
tajking in her sleep on the night after her interview with Svid-
riga'ilov and before the fatal day of the confession: had not she
made out something from that? Sometimes days and even weeks
of gloomy silence and tears would be succeeded by a period of
feysterical animation, and the invalid would begin to talk almost
incessantly of her son, of her hopes of his future. . . . Her fancies
V/ere sometimes very strange. They humoured her, pretended to
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