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"Well, you see... I really don't know how to express it

properly.... It's a playful, psychological idea.... When you were

writing your article, surely you couldn't have helped, he-he!

fancying yourself... just a little, an 'extraordinary' man,

uttering a new word in your sense.... That's so, isn't it?"

"Quite possibly," Raskolnikov answered contemptuously.

Razumihin made a movement.

"And, if so, could you bring yourself in case of worldly

difficulties and hardship or for some service to humanity--to

overstep obstacles?... For instance, to rob and murder?"

And again he winked with his left eye, and laughed noiselessly

just as before.

"If I did I certainly should not tell you," Raskolnikov answered

with defiant and haughty contempt.

"No, I was only interested on account of your article, from a

literary point of view..."

"Foo! how obvious and insolent that is!" Raskolnikov thought with

repulsion.