[Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky]@TWC D-Link bookCrime and Punishment CHAPTER II 11/52
Why, I ask you, should he give it to me? And yet though I know beforehand that he won't, I set off to him and..." "Why do you go ?" put in Raskolnikov. "Well, when one has no one, nowhere else one can go! For every man must have somewhere to go.
Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere! When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go...
(for my daughter has a yellow passport)," he added in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man. "No matter, sir, no matter!" he went on hurriedly and with apparent composure when both the boys at the counter guffawed and even the innkeeper smiled--"No matter, I am not confounded by the wagging of their heads; for everyone knows everything about it already, and all that is secret is made open.
And I accept it all, not with contempt, but with humility.
So be it! So be it! 'Behold the man!' Excuse me, young man, can you....
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