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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 259
"You were inquiring for me ... of the porter?" Raskolnikov
said at last, but in a curiously quiet voice.
The man made no answer; he didn't even look at him. Again
they were both silent.
"Why do you . . . come and ask for me . . . and say nothing.
. . . What's the meaning of it?"
Raskolnikov's voice broke and he seemed unable to articulate
the words clearly.
The man raised his eyes this time and turned a gloomy sinister
look at Raskolnikov.
"Miurderer!" he said suddenly in a quiet but clear and distinctvoice.
Raskolnikov went on walking beside him. His legs felt sud-
denly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart
seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throb-
bing as though it were set free. So they walked for about a
hundred paces, side by side in silence.
The man did not look at him.
"What do you mean . . . what is. . . . Who is the murderer?"
muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly.
"You are a murderer," the man answered still more articu- •
lately and emphatically, with a smile of triumphant hatred, and
again he looked straight into Raskolnikov's pale face and
stricken eyes.
They had just reached the cross roads. The man turned to
the left without looking behind him. Raskolnikov remained
standing, gazing after him. He saw him turn rovmd fifty paces
away and look back at him still standing there. Raskolnikov
could not see clearly, but he fancied that he was again smiling
the same smile of cold hatred and triumph.
With slow faltering steps, with shaking knees, Raskolnikov
made his way back to his little garret, feeling chilled all over.
He took off his cap and put it on the table, and for ten minutes
he stood without moving. Then he sank exhausted on the sofa
and with a weak moan of pain he stretched himself on it. So he
lay for half an hour.
He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of
thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated be-
fore his mind — faces of people he had seen in his childhood or
met somewhere once, whom he would never have recalled, the
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