Dounia and I dared not even go to c

ived, and everyone knew that on suc

it, but Dounia explained to me that

his answer, and said that, of cours

don’t know, but very, very soon,

lignant smile was on his lips. He l

seems to be kind, as Dounia herself

ject also, though mother would deny

it! For one she loves, for one she

sister in ten years? What may happe

side. The girl was walking unsteadi

is, she does not look like a profes

out of this scoundrel’s hands! Wh

two or three years—a wreck, and h

had been obliged to give up the uni

And suddenly he realised what he wa

Raskolnikov had a fearful dream. He

tavern a number of big and very dru

do for her!’ ‘What are you abou

all his might he dealt a stunning b

there is no flaw in all that reason

knew all about Lizaveta and she kne

Chapter VI L ater on Raskolnikov ha

so on. The student chattered on, sa

on the right path; dozens of famili

he is always asleep.’ He got up w

amongst the linen stuffed away unde

for a single instant all that time

gives rise to the crime, or whether

avoid awakening suspicion. He scarc

And there was the fourth storey, he

Chapter VII T he door was as before

sounded like the truth; the old wom

senses. Leaving the keys in the che

time to take many…. He suddenly h

where there were spots of blood rub

floor, he suddenly started, and suc

‘What?’ ‘Where she’s gone a

thumping with his heavy boots on th

move. Perspiration ran down him in

Part II 1 Crime and Punishment

himself on the sofa without undress

and the simplest power of reflectio

ing! Open, you stupid, wake up!’

pear that day at half-past nine at

smell and heat. The staircase was c

though not venturing to sit down, t

‘and you’re smoking a cigarette

wildly at the smart lady who was so

author had eaten his dinner and wou

‘Yes, yes. I perfectly agree with

sentenced to be burnt at that momen

too. He must have seized the interv

Chapter II ‘A nd what if there ha

on the way another idea struck him.

whiskered policeman to whom he had

He went up to Razumihin’s room on

into six, we shall make up a gorgeo

ack, he suddenly felt someone thrus

the fighting, wailing and cursing g

speaking to herself. ‘Blood? What

the sun shone into the room at that

egan, addressing Raskolnikov. ‘If

In a couple of minutes Nastasya ret

make him some raspberry tea,’ sai

at first sight?’ ‘No,’ mumble

‘Yes, and you flew into a rage ab

emembered a minute ago.’ He stood

‘Yes, you had a fine sleep, broth

that only because it has been worn.

pillows and for a minute or two sai

looked at them with glittering eyes

of your jokes! Zametov is no more t

the murderers—that was their logi

stayed in the house about ten minut

I was awfully frightened.’ ‘Wha

haven’t a shadow of doubt.’ ‘

‘Oh, I see you are excited! Wait

Chapter V T his was a gentleman no

as though he heard the name of Pyot

Meanwhile Raskolnikov, who had turn

two storeys of rooms, let by a merc

into ridicule…. In a word, we hav

of which you are aware, become clos

of the civilised part of our societ

I saw you you were ill-disposed to

Chapter VI B ut as soon as she went

and his manner seemed strangely out

all had blackened eyes. He felt str

Razumihin was just talking of the P

metov on the shoulder. ‘I am not

‘What do you mean? Understand …

‘Can’t stand that?’ ‘Why, c

words and looks. ‘Very much?’

hysterical sensation, in which ther

‘Stay,’ he roared, as Raskolnik

the middle, and leaning both elbows

‘Very well then!’ he said resol

dressed up like a regular fashion b

‘Of course.’ ‘Is the assistan

cisive word. But no sound came, all

he fell straight under their feet!

to take off his shirt, which had to

Katerina Ivanovna. ‘For God’s s

the crowd, ‘is it a spectacle for

out on his forehead. Not recognisin

All stepped back. The confession wa

‘Perhaps those who have involunta

a faint cry ran up, embraced him an

‘Who sent you?’ ‘Sister Sonia

By the way, Potchinkov’s house is

night. Will you take it? I got it r

to interest you; now it’s clear w

and sister clasped him in their arm

Chapter I R askolnikov got up, and

‘Brother, think what you are sayi

hour earlier, while he was bringing

character! But I am a fool, too!

I am a man because I err! You never

at last, for we are on the right pa

she might be described as really be

en waited this time completely rely

‘Of course, I am an ass,’ he ob

ut just let her see you can’t tea

know the character of the lodgings?

control one’s patients, how is on

At nine o’clock precisely Razumih

of late—and perhaps for a long ti

am sure that he might do something

a word from the moment they began t

my special respect to your estimabl

They came out into the street. ‘D

Chapter III ‘H e is well, quite w

they must be known to you. You are

how delicately he put an end to all

pendent on various morbid impressio

‘A-a-h! Yes, I remember…. So sh

As he said this, he was suddenly ov

nikov. ‘No, he has not made Douni

‘Rodya, Rodya! It is the same as

opening it, he suddenly looked with

he writes, of notorious behaviour (

Chapter IV A t that moment the door

finish his sentence. ‘Please sit

… and Katerina Ivanovna was very

‘Heavens, Dounia,’ Pulcheria Al

‘Then I will tell Katerina Ivanov

‘Why, had you forgotten?’ ‘No

ing rather surprised. In the courty

not able to finish your studies, he

something unheard of! Why, I do bel

the Crown,’ Porfiry Petrovitch qu

down on the sofa and sat down himse

is here,’ he turned suddenly to P

vitch did not seem to catch those s

that tone? Yes, the tone…. Razumi

men will become righteous in one in

new clothes in fact that made me th

‘What do you mean? That can’t b

to be controlled. To my thinking it

arise in the first category, that i

horror, is that you sanction bloods

‘Well, you see … I really don

tion at the very moment he spoke th

Chapter VI ‘I don’t believe it,

to it. Damn them! Don’t be downhe

directly.’ ‘Where are you going

to a level with him, he looked at h

door and stood for some time in the

tive pleasure. ‘In the first plac

distance; his heart was beating; th

and everywhere below there were peo

Part IV Crime and Punishment

sense?’ Raskolnikov continued to

fact that there are cases when wome

not such a bear, you know, as you t

sea—you look at them and it makes

‘No!’ ‘I thought I did. When

your elbow?’ I said. ‘Go away,

‘Kindly allow me,’ Raskolnikov

iage. I want now to see Avdotya Rom

I came here without reckoning on it

Chapter II I t was nearly eight o

should we trouble? Of course if you

een utterly lost. Here, he is! Dmit

‘Are you speaking the truth when

There were exclamations from all, a

er all this is explained and set ri

surname,’ he bowed politely to Ra

discussion of secrets.’ He got up

This last complaint was so characte

Chapter III T he fact was that up t

career and was now entering on a wi

visitations of Marfa Petrovna, wish

commodating and respectable old man

‘Hurrah!’ cried Razumihin. ‘N

sage. ‘I knew you would run after

Chapter IV R askolnikov went straig

standing before her judge and the a

‘Father. I was walking in the str

with me and set up a boarding schoo

And Sonia unconsciously clutched bo

‘You say Katerina Ivanovna’s mi

Of course he knew that Sonia’s po

noticed it every time he paced up a

at the ‘unhappy lunatic.’ ‘Wh

Thou hadst been here, my brother ha

ing together the eternal book. Five

speak to you. If I don’t come to-

Chapter V W hen next morning at ele

‘Ah, my dear fellow! Here you are

he could not resist an ironical and

hurry, it’s all nonsense. Oh, no,

with irrelevant questions (as you s

And if I shut him up too soon—eve

‘It’s a lesson,’ he thought,

lawyer to know where he is, especia

fellow. You’re ill!’ and he was

imposed upon everyone and why? He h

‘What a wily person you are!’ P

and in so doing pushing Porfiry bac

Rodion Romanovitch. You are in a pa

He was dressed like a workman and w

‘I knew it!’ cried Porfiry, wit

well.’ ‘I don’t know what to

would have shown that, too. What wa

could not recall the face of the sp

to the ground, turned slowly and we

Chapter I T he morning that followe

and … stronger! They could not ha

person attacked and the other had v

his future children, or to acquiesc

‘It’s all slander and nonsense!

‘No, it’s only the second, real

me!’ ‘And you, of course, are d

‘What do you mean by ‘more hono

ight…. Of course, I am convinced

patronage … but apparently your l

eturned to Katerina Ivanovna, overw

y considering you incapable of oppo

she might have been killed by circu

table could not have been laid exce

(he was really a discharged officer

wants everyone to consider that she

her, etc., etc. Sonia knew that thi

vere with him,’ she went on, addr

was still more offended, and she re

speaking with conviction of Sonia

her name was Amalia Ivanovna or Ama

too, that he had come upon some mat

something of the nature of a subscr

were in movement. ‘What!’ cried

up the note showing it to everyone.

sides, and Polenka—though she did

once, so that I did not forget you

knew no other language, so that he

let Sofya Semyonovna sit down besid

intimidated. Seeing that his accusa

orphans! Where am I to go?’ waile

elbows on the table and her face in

Ivanovna and the children and yours

sat down on the bed beside him and

ered clearly the expression in Liza

will follow you everywhere. Oh, my

stuff I am talking, eh?’ The thou

‘It was like this: I asked myself

it’s the truth.’ ‘As though t

So it has been till now and so it w

committed a murder again. I wanted

what should I say to them—that I

He did not at first understand the

the children will sing and dance, a

Never, never had he felt himself so

even to touch her hand. ‘Afterwar

what to sing, began explaining to t

you only knew how stupid they are!

nicely and genteelly, that all may

She stumbled as she ran and fell do

away…. Och!’ Once more her parc

woman’s wasted bosom. Polenka thr

Part VI 1 Crime and Punishment

e said to be permanently thinking o

fin; Polenka was weeping. Behind th

determination. ‘Listen,’ he beg

‘About me! But … where can you

ehind him, he suddenly opened it ag

another, as though forgetting the s

‘Perhaps this will mean the end?

‘I’ve come to have it out with

sider it my duty, so to speak. I wa

nary, how could I help being carrie

about your bell-ringing in your ill

seems, he remembered the venerable

elieve his ears. ‘Why, you Rodion

explanation. I don’t want you to

‘The time will be shortened,’ l

not believe my word, perhaps you’

irritable impatience till he calcul

ascertain the facts, to waste time

through which he had come. The whol

obsequious. The door leading to the

thing. Someone may be watching you

intending to talk to you about anyt

‘Quite so,’ Svidrigaïlov smile

‘Upon my word, I am not,’ answe

this, Marfa Petrovna gave me a free

Svidrigaïlov looked at him attenti

exhortations, entreaties, supplicat

what I did then! To what a pitch of

word and annihilate all your suspic

what is called la nature et la vér

seized her and began whirling her r

And he walked to the right towards

tic affair. I’ve put it off till

job you are not fit for. Well, you

‘Let us make haste away,’ Svidr

edroom leads into two perfectly emp

You’ve just seen him yourself. Wh

une théorie comme une autre. Napol

And as for the murder, he will do a

smile did not leave his face. ‘Yo

‘A lie? Well, if you like, it’s

He took it out of the left pocket o

longing to the Vauxhall. It was mis

ter for him. Well, if it turns out

and therefore brought her fifteen t

led him at once to a close and tiny

He took off his coat and, wrapping

it’s a mouse,’ he thought, ‘t

that childish soul, had smirched th

outside in the rain, at last had ma

it. At last, realising that he was

Chapter VII T he same day, about se

that every author experiences the f

Besides, I shouldn’t believe anyo

Rodya, Rodya, you are not going awa

ing to see her. I don’t know why

‘Ah, it’s not picturesque, not

‘I am wicked, I see that,’ he t

less anxious while they were togeth

‘What am I to her? Why does she w

I am becoming a baby, I am showing

had followed him then on his painfu

‘Yes, yes, of course, Rodion Roma

quence, a post! I am married and ha

way upstairs to the police office,

Epilogue Crime and Punishment

had hidden the trinkets and the pur

Raskolnikov was at the university h

exandrovna gave such a turn to the

ing to Dounia’s marriage with Raz

stantly sullen and not ready to tal

II H e was ill a long time. But it

independently, broadly, and uninflu

who were just as contemptuous, a fo

one another. Each thought that he a

fetch a tool; the other began getti

her pale and thin little face. But