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- 242 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
you for half an hour with such triviaHties," he said turning to
Porfiry Petrovitch, with trembUng lips. "We are boring you,
aren't we?"
"Oh no, quite the contrary, quite the contrary! If only you
knew how you interest me! It's interesting to look on and listen
. . . and I am really glad you have come forward at last."
"But you might give us some tea! My throat's dry," criedRazumihin.
"Capital idea! Perhaps we will all keep you company.
Wouldn't you like . . . something more essential before tea?"
"Get along with you!"
Porfiry Petrovitch went out to order tea.
Raskolnikov's thoughts were in a whirl. He was in terrible
exasp>eration.
"The worst of it is they don't disguise it; they don't care to
stand on ceremony! And how if you didn't know me at all, did
you come to talk to Nikodim Fomitch about me? So they didn't
care to hide that they are tracking me like a pack of dogs.
They simply spit in my face." He was shaking with rage.
"Come, strike me openly, don't play with me like a cat with
a mouse. It's hardly civil, Porfiry Petrovitch, but perhaps I
won't allow it! I shall get up and throw the whole truth in your
ugly faces, and you'll see how I despise you." He could hardly
breathe. "And what if it's only my fancy? What if I am mis-
taken, and through inexperience I get angry and don't keep up
my nasty part? Perhaps it's all unintentional. All their phrases
are the usual ones, but there is something about them. ... It all
might be said, but there is something. Why did he say bluntly,
'With her'? Why did Zametov add that I spoke artfully? Why
do they speak in that tone? Yes, the tone. . . . Razumihin is
sitting here, why does he see nothing? That innocent blockhead
never does see anything! Feverish again! Did Porfiry wink at me
just now? Of course it's nonsense! What could he wink for? Are
they trying to upset my nerves or are they teasing me? Either
it's all fancy or they know! Even Zametov is rude. ... Is
Zametov rude? Zametov has changed his mind. I foresaw he
would change his mind! He is at home here, while it's my first
visit. Porfiry does not consider him a visitor; sits with his back
to him. They're as thick as thieves, no doubt, over me! Not a
doubt they were talking about me before we came. Do they
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