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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 375
"What vileness!" Lebeziatnikov repeated, staring him
straight in the face.
Pyotr Petrovitch gave a positive start — all noticed it and
recalled it afterwards. Lebeziatnikov strode into the room,
"And you dared to call me as witness?" he said, going up
to Pyotr Petrovitch.
"What do you mean? What are you talking about?" mut-tered Luzhin.
"I mean that you . . . are a slanderer, that's what my words
mean!" Lebeziatnikov said hotly, looking sternly at him with
his shortsighted eyes.
He was extremely angry. Raskolnikov gazed intently at him,
as though seizing and weighing each word. Again there was
a silence. Pyotr Petrovitch indeed seemed almost dumbfounded
for the first moment.
"If you mean that for me, . . ." he began, stammering. "But
what's the matter with you? Are you out of your mind?"
"I'm in my mind, but you are a scoundred! Ah, how vile! I
have heard everything. I kept waiting on purpose to understand
it, for I must own even now it is not quite logical. . . . What
you have done it all for I can't understand."
"Why, what have I done then? Give over talking in your
nonsensical riddles! Or maybe you are drunk!"
"You may be a dnmkard, perhaps, vile man, but I am not!
I never touch vodka, for it's against my convictions. Would you
believe it, he, he himself, with his own hands gave Sofya Sem-
yonovna that hundred-rouble note — I saw it, I was a witness,
I'll take my oath! He did it, he!" repeated Lebeziatnikov, ad-
dressing all.
"Are you crazy, milksop?" squealed Luzhin. "She is herself
before you, — she herself here declared just now before every one
that I gave her only ten roubles. How could I have given it
to her?"
"I saw it, I saw it," Lebeziatnikov repeated, "and although it
is against my principles, I am ready this very minute to take any
oath you like before the court, for I saw how you slipped it in
her pocket. Only like a fool I thought you did it out of kind-
ness! When you were saying good-bye to her at the door, while
you held her hand in one hand, with the other, the left, you
slipped the note into her pocket. I saw it, I saw it!"
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