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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 245
V'orthy gravity; "a crime of that natiire may be very well
ascribed to the influence of environment."
Razumihin was almost in a frenzy. "Oh, if you like," he
roared, "I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very
well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two
hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly,
progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency! I undertake
to! Will you bet on it?"
"Done! Let's hear, please, how he will prove it!"
"He is always humbugging, confound him," cried Razixmi-
hin, jumping up and gesticulating. "What's the use of talking
to you! He does all that on purpose; you don't know him,
Rodion! He took their side yesterday, simply to make fools of
them. And the things he said yesterday! And they were de-
lighted! He can keep it up for a fortnight together. Last year
he persuaded us that he was going into a monastery: he stuck
to it for two months. Not long ago he took it into his head to
declare he was going to get married, that he had everything
ready for the wedding. He ordered new clothes indeed. We all
began to congratulate him. There was no bride, nothing, all
pure fantasy!"
"Ah, you are wrong! I got the clothes before. It was the new
clothes in fact that made me think of taking you in."
"Are you such a good dissembler?" Raskolnikov asked care-
lessly.
"You wouldn't have supposed it, eh? Wait a bit, I shall take
you in, too. Ha-ha-ha! No, I'll tell you the truth. All these
questions about crime, environment, children, recall to my mind
an article of yours which interested me at the time. 'On Crime'
... or something of the sort, I forget the title, I read it with
pleasure two months ago in the Periodical Review."
"My article? In the Periodical Review?" Raskolnikov asked
in astonishment. "I certainly did write an article upon a book
six months ago when I left the university, but I sent it to the
Weekly Review."
"But it came out in the Periodical.'*
"And the Weekly Review ceased to exist, so that's why it
wasn't printed at the time."
"That's true; but when it ceased to exist, the Weekly Review
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