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- 386 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Struggling to utter something. A pang of terror passed through
Soma's heart.
"What's
the
matter?"
she repeated,
drawing
a
little
awayfrom
him.
"Nothing, Sonia, don't be frightened. . . . It's nonsense. It
really is nonsense, if you think of it," he muttered, like a man in
delirium. "Why have I come to torture you?" he added sud-
denly, looking at her. "Why, really? I keep asking myself that
question, Sonia. . . ."
He had perhaps been asking himself that question a quarter of
an hour before, but now he spoke helplessly, hardly knowing
what he said and feeling a continual tremor all over.
"Oh, how you are suffering!" she muttered in distress, look-
ing intently at him.
"It's all nonsense. . . . Listen, Sonia." He suddenly smiled, a
pale helpless smile for two seconds. "You remember what I
meant to tell you yesterday?"
Sonia waited uneasily.
"I said as I went away that perhaps I was saying good-bye
for ever, but that if I came to-day I would tell you who . . . who
killed Lizaveta."
She began trembling all over.
"Well, here I've come to tell you."
"Then you really meant it yesterday?" she whispered with
diflSculty. "How do you know?" she asked quickly, as though
suddenly regaining her reason.
Sonia's face grew paler and paler, and she breathed painfully.
"I know."
She paused a minute.
"Have they found him?" she asked timidly.
"No."
"Then how do you know about //.''" she asked again, hardly
..udibly and again after a minute's pause.
He turned to her and looked very intently at her.
"Guess," he said, with the same distorted helpless smile.
A shudder passed over her.
"But you . . . why do you frighten me like this?" she said,
smiling like a child.
"I must be a great friend of his . . . since I know," Raskol-
nikov went on, still gazing into her face, as though he could not
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