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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 347
. . . and that it would be a queer thing to seek for equality in
fighting. I am not so stupid . . . though, of course, there is
fighting . . . there won't be later, but at present there is . . .
confound it! How muddled one gets with you! It's not on that
account that I am not going. I am not going on principle, not
to take part in the revolting convention of memorial dinners,
that's why! Though, of course, one might go to laugh at it. . . .
I am sorry there won't be any priests at it. I should certainly go
if there were."
"Then you would sit down at another man's table and insult
it and those who invited you. Eh?"
"Certainly not insult, but protest. I should do it with a good
object. I might indirectly assist the cause of enlightenment and
propaganda. It's a duty pf every man to work for enlighten-
ment and propaganda and the more harshly, perhaps, the better.
I might drop a seed, an idea. . . . And something might grow
up from that seed. How should I be insulting them? They might
be offended at first, but afterwards they'd see I'd done them a
service. You know, Terebyeva (who is in the community now)
was blamed because when she left her family and . . . devoted
. . . herself, she wrote to her father and mother that she wouln't
go on living conventionally and was entering on a free marriage
and it was said that that was too harsh, that she might have
spared them and have written more kindly. I think that's all
nonsense and there's no need of softness, on the contrary, what's
wanted is protest. Varents had been married seven years, she
abandoned her two children, she told her husband straight out in
a letter: 'I have realised that I cannot be happy with you. I can
never forgive you that you have deceived me by concealing from
me that there is another organisation of society by means of the
communities. I have only lately learned it from a great-hearted
man to whom I have given myself and with whom I am estab-
lishing acommunity. I sp>eak plainly because I consider it dis-
honest todeceive you. Do as you think best. Do not hope to get
me back, you are too late. I hope you will be happy.' That's how
letters like that ought to be written!"
"Is that Terebyeva the one you said had made a third free
marriage?"
"No, it's only the second, really! But what if it were the
fourth, what if it were the fifteenth, that's all nonsense! And
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