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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 377
benevolence, which effects no radical cure. Well, I decided that
you really were ashamed of giving such a large sum before me.
Perhaps, too, I thought, he wants to give her a surprise, when
she finds a whole hundred-rouble note in her pocket. (For I
know some benevolent people are very fond of decking out
their charitable actions in that way.) Then the idea struck me,
too, that you wanted to test her, to see whether, when she
found it, she would come to thank you. Then, too, that you
wanted to avoid thanks and that, as the saying is, your right
hand should not know . . . something of that sort, in fact. I
thought of so many possibilities that I put off considering it,
but still thought it indelicate to show you I knew your secret.
But another idea struck me again that Sof ya Semyonovna might
easily lose the money before she noticed it, that was why 1
decided to come in here to call her out of the room and to
tell her that you put a hundred roubles in her pocket. But on
my way I went first to Madame Kobilatnikov's to take them the
'General Treatise on the Positive Method' and especially to
recommend Piderit's article (and also Wagner's) ; then I come
on here and what a state of things I find! Now could I, could
I, have all these ideas and reflections, if I had not seen you
put the hundred-rouble note in her pocket?"
When Lebeziatnikov finished his long-winded harangue with
the logical deduction at the end, he was quite tired, and the
perspiration streamed from his face. He could not, alas, even
express himself correctly in Russian, though he knew no other
language, so that he was quite exhausted, almost emaciated after
this heroic exploit. But his speech produced a powerful effect.
He had spoken with such vehemence, with such conviction that
every one obviously believed him. Pyotr Petrovitch felt that
things were going badly with him,
"What is it to do with me if silly ideas did occur to you?'*
he shouted, "that's no evidence. You may have dreamt it, that's
all! And I tell you, you are lying, sir. You are lying and slander-
ing from some spite against me, simply from pique, because I
did not agree with your freethinking, godless, social propo-
sitions!"
But this retort did not benefit Pyotr Petrovitch. Murmurs of
disapproval were heard on all sides.
"Ah, that's your line now. is it!" cried Lebeziatnikov, "that's
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