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"How could you--how could you!" Razumihin said, shaking his head

in perplexity.

"Let me alone--let me alone all of you!" Raskolnikov cried in a

frenzy. "Will you ever leave off tormenting me? I am not afraid

of you! I am not afraid of anyone, anyone now! Get away from me!

I want to be alone, alone, alone!"

"Come along," said Zossimov, nodding to Razumihin.

"But we can't leave him like this!"

"Come along," Zossimov repeated insistently, and he went out.

Razumihin thought a minute and ran to overtake him.

"It might be worse not to obey him," said Zossimov on the stairs.

"He mustn't be irritated."

"What's the matter with him?"

"If only he could get some favourable shock, that's what would do

it! At first he was better.... You know he has got something on

his mind! Some fixed idea weighing on him.... I am very much

afraid so; he must have!"