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- 376 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Luzhin turned pale.
"What lies!" he cried impudently, "why, how could you,
standing by the window, see the note! You fancied it with your
shortsighted eyes. You are raving!"
"No, I didn't fancy it. And though I was standing some
way off, I saw it all. And though it certainly would be hard to
distinguish a note from the window, — that's true — I knew for
certain that it was a hundred-rouble note, because, when you
were going to give Sofya Semyonovna ten roubles, you took up
from the table a hundred-rouble note (I saw it because I was
standing near then, and an idea struck me at once, so that I did
not forget you had it in your hand) . You folded it and kept it
in your hand all the time. I didn't think of it again until, when
you were getting up, you changed it from your right hand to
your left and nearly dropped it! I noticed it because the same
idea struck me again, that you meant to do her a kindness
without my seeing. You can fancy how I watched you and I
saw how you succeeded in slipping it into her pocket. I saw it,
I saw it, I'll take my oath."Lebeziatnikov was almost breathless. Exclamations arose on
all hands chiefly expressive of wonder, but some were menacing
in tone. They all crowded round Pyotr Petrovitch. Katerina
Ivanovna flew to Lebeziatnikov.
"I was mistaken in you! Protect her! You are the only one
to take her part! She is an orphan. God has sent you!"
Katerina Ivanovna, hardly knowing what she was doing, sank
on her knees before him.
"A pack of nonsense!" yelled Luzhin, roused to fury, "it's
all nonsense you've been talking! 'An idea struck you, you
didn't think, you noticed' — what does it amount to? So I gave
it to her on the sly on purpose? What for? With what object?
What have I to do with this . . . ?"
"What for? That's what I can't understand, but that what
I am telling you is the fact, that's certain! So far from my being
mistaken, you infamous, criminal man, I remember how, on
account of it, a question occurred to me at once, just when I was
thanking you and pressing your hand. What made you put it
secretly in her pocket? Why you did it secretly, I mean? Could
it be simply to conceal it from me, knowing that my convic-
tions are opposed to yours and that I do not approve of private
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