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- 212 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
tantly, as though performing a duty, and there was a restlessness
in his movements.
He only wanted a sling on his arm or a bandage on his finger
to complete the impression of a man with a painful abscess or a
broken arm. The pale, sombre face lighted up for a moment
when his mother and sister entered, but this only gave it a look
of more intense suffering, in place of its listless dejection. The
light soon died away, but the look of suffering remained, and
Zossimov, watching and studying his patient with all the zest
of a young doctor beginning to practise, noticed in him no joy
at the arrival of his mother and sister, but a sort of bitter, hid-
den determination to bear another hour or two of inevitable
torture. He saw later that almost every word of the following .
conversation seemed to touch on some sore place and irritate it.
But at the same time he marvelled at the power of controlling
himself and hidilig his feelings in a patient who the previous
day had, like a monomaniac, fallen into a frenzy at the slightest
word.
"Yes, I see myself now that I am almost well," said Raskol-
nikov, giving his mother and sister a kiss of welcome which
made Pulcheria Alexandrovna radiant at once. "And I don't
say this as I did yesterday," he said addressing Razumihin,
with a friendly pressure of his hand.
"Yes, indeed, I am quite surprised at him to-day," began
Zossimov, much delighted at the ladies' entrance, for he had
not succeeded in keeping up a conversation with his patient for
ten minutes. "In another three or four days, if he goes on like
this, he will be just as before, that is, as he was a month ago, or
two ... or perhaps even three. This has been coming on for a
long while. . . . eh? Confess, now, that it has been perhaps your
own fault?" he added, with a tentative smile, as though still
afraid of irritating him.
"It is very possible;" answered Raskolnikov coldly.
"I should say, too," continued Zossimov with zest, "that yovir
complete recovery depends solely on yourself. Now that one can
talk to you, I should like to impress upon you that it is essential
to avoid the elementary, so to speak, fundamental causes tending
to produce your morbid condition: in that case you will be
cured, if not, it will go from bad to worse. These fundamental
causes I don't know, but they must be known to you. You are
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