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- 334 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Several persons crowded inquisitively into the doorway. Some
of them tried to get in. All this took place almost instanta-
neously.
"Go away, it's too soon! Wait till you are sent for! . . . "Why
have you brought him so soon?" Porfiry Petrovitch muttered,
extremely annoyed, and as it were thrown out of his reckoning.
But Nikolay suddenly knelt down.
"What's the matter?" cried Porfiry, surprised.
"I am guilty! Mine is the sin! I am the murderer," Nikolay
articulated suddenly, rather breathless, but speaking fairly
loudly.
For ten seconds there was silence as though all had been
struck dumb; even the warder stepped back, mechanically re-
treated tothe door, and stood immovable.
"What is it?" cried Porfiry Petrovitch, recovering from his
momentary stupefaction.
"I . . . am the murderer," repeated Nikolay, after a brief
pause. '
"What . . . you . . . what . . . whom did you kill?" Porfiry
Petrovitch was obviously bewildered.
Nikolay again was silent for a moment.
"Alyona Ivanovna and her hister Lizaveta Ivanovna, I . . .
killed . . . with an axe. Darkness came over me," he added sud-
denly, and was again silent.
He still remained on his knees. Porfiry Petrovitch stood for
some moments as though meditating, but suddenly roused him-
self and waved back the uninvited spectators. They instantly
vanished and closed the door. Then he looked towards Raskolni-
kov, who was standing in the corner, staring wildly at Nikolay,
and moved towards him, but stopped short, looked from Niko-
lay to Raskolnikov and then again at Nikolay, and seeming
unable to restrain himself darted at the latter.
"You're in too great a hurry," he shouted at him, almost
angrily. "I didn't ask you what came over you. . . . Speak, did
you kill them?"
"I am the murderer. ... I want to give evidence," Nikolay
pronounced.
"Ach! What did you kill them with?"
"An axe. I had it ready."
"Ach, he is in a hurry! Alone?"
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