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Crime and Punishment

CHAPTER II
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Taking no further notice of him, she walked towards the outer door to close it and uttered a sudden scream on seeing her husband on his knees in the doorway.
"Ah!" she cried out in a frenzy, "he has come back! The criminal! the monster!...

And where is the money?
What's in your pocket, show me! And your clothes are all different! Where are your clothes?
Where is the money! Speak!" And she fell to searching him.

Marmeladov submissively and obediently held up both arms to facilitate the search.

Not a farthing was there.
"Where is the money ?" she cried--"Mercy on us, can he have drunk it all?
There were twelve silver roubles left in the chest!" and in a fury she seized him by the hair and dragged him into the room.

Marmeladov seconded her efforts by meekly crawling along on his knees.
"And this is a consolation to me! This does not hurt me, but is a positive con-so-la-tion, ho-nou-red sir," he called out, shaken to and fro by his hair and even once striking the ground with his forehead.
The child asleep on the floor woke up, and began to cry.


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