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Crime and Punishment

CHAPTER II
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Razumihin gazed after him in astonishment.
But when Raskolnikov was in the next street, he turned back, mounted the stairs to Razumihin's again and laying on the table the German article and the three roubles, went out again, still without uttering a word.
"Are you raving, or what ?" Razumihin shouted, roused to fury at last.
"What farce is this?
You'll drive me crazy too...

what did you come to see me for, damn you ?" "I don't want...

translation," muttered Raskolnikov from the stairs.
"Then what the devil do you want ?" shouted Razumihin from above.
Raskolnikov continued descending the staircase in silence.
"Hey, there! Where are you living ?" No answer.
"Well, confound you then!" But Raskolnikov was already stepping into the street.

On the Nikolaevsky Bridge he was roused to full consciousness again by an unpleasant incident.

A coachman, after shouting at him two or three times, gave him a violent lash on the back with his whip, for having almost fallen under his horses' hoofs.


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