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- 336 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
God's hands, but as a matter of form there are some questions
I shall have to ask you ... so we shall meet again, shan't we?"
And Porfiry stood still, facing him with a smile.
"Shan't
we?"
he
added
again.
,
He seemed to want to say something more, but could not
speak out.
"You must forgive me, Porfiry Petrovitch, for what has just
passed ... I lost my temper," began Raskolnikov, who had so
far regained his courage that he felt irresistibly inclined to dis-
play his coolness.
"Don't mention it, don't mention it," Porfiry replied, almost
gleefully. "I myself, too ... I have a wicked temper, I admit it!
But we shall meet again. If it's Good's will, we may see a great
deal of one another."
"And will get to know each other through and through?"added Raskolnikov.
"Yes; know each other through and through," assented Por-
firy Petrovitch, and he screwed up his eyes, looking earnestly
at Raskolnikov. "Now you're going to a birthday party?"
"To a funeral."
"Of course, the funeral! Take care of yourself, and get well."
"I don't know what to wish you," said Raskolnikov, who
had begun to descend the stairs, but looked back again. "I should
like to wish you success, but your office is such a comical one."
"Why comical?" Porfiry Petrovitch had turned to go, but he
seemed to prick up his ears at this.
"Why, how you must have been torturing and harassing that
poor Nikolay psychologically, after your fashion, till he con-
fessed! You must have been at him day and night, proving to
him that he was the murderer, and now that he has confessed,
you'll begin vivisecting him again. 'You are lying,' you'll say.
'You are not the murderer! You can't be! It's not your own
tale you are telling!' You must admit it's a comical business!"
"He-he-he! You noticed then that I said to Nikolay just now
that it was not his own tale he was telling?"
"How could I help noticing it!"
"He-he! You are quick-witted. You notice everything!
You've really a playful mind! And you always fasten on the
comic side . . . he-he! They say that was the marked character-
istic ofGogol, among the writers."
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