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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 355
only fails to eradicate the evil but even promotes it, yet I must
admit that I saw your action with pleasure — yes, yes, I like it."
"That's all nonsense," muttered Pyotr Petrovitch, somewhat
disconcerted, looking carefully at Lebeziatnikov.
"No, it's not nonsense! A man who has suffered distress and
annoyance as you did yesterday and who yet can sympathise
with the misery of others, such a man . . . even though he is
making a social mistake — is still deserving of respect! I did not
expect it indeed of you, Pyotr Petrovitch, especially as accord-
ing to your ideas . . . oh, what a drawback your ideas are to you!
How distressed you are for instance by your ill luck yester-
day," cried the simple-hearted Lebeziatnikov, who felt a return
of affection for Pyotr Petrovitch. "And what do you want with
marriage, with legal marriage, my dear, noble Pyotr Petrovitch?
"Why do you cling to this legality of marriage? "Well, you may
beat me if you like, but I am glad, positively glad it hasn't come
off, that you are free, that you are not quite lost for humanity.
. . . You see, I've spoken my mind!"
"Because I don't want in your free marriage to be made a
fool of and to bring up another man's children, that's why I
want legal marriage," Luzhin replied in order to make someanswer.
He seemtd preoccupied by something.
"Children? You referred to children," Lebeziatnikov started
off like a warhorse at the trumpet call. "Children are a social
question and a question of first importance, I agree; but the
question of children has another solution. Some refuse to have
children altogether, because they suggest the institution of the
family. "We'll speak of children later, but now as to the question
of honour, I confess that's my weak point. That horrid, military,
Pushkin expression is unthinkable in the dictionary of the fu-
ture. "What does it mean indeed? It's nonsense, there will be no
deception in a free marriage! That is only the natural conse-
quence ofa legal marriage, so to say, its corrective, a protest.
So that indeed it's not humiliating . . . and if I ever, to suppose
an absurdity, were to be legally married, I should be positively
glad of it. I should say to my wife: 'My dear, hitherto I have
loved you, now I respect you, for you've shown you can protest!'
You laugh! That's because you are incapable of getting away
from prejudices. Confound it all! I understand now where the
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