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"What is there strange? It's an everyday social question,"

Raskolnikov answered casually.

"The question wasn't put quite like that," observed Porfiry.

"Not quite, that's true," Razumihin agreed at once, getting warm

and hurried as usual. "Listen, Rodion, and tell us your opinion,

I want to hear it. I was fighting tooth and nail with them and

wanted you to help me. I told them you were coming.... It began

with the socialist doctrine. You know their doctrine; crime is a

protest against the abnormality of the social organisation and

nothing more, and nothing more; no other causes admitted!..."

"You are wrong there," cried Porfiry Petrovitch; he was

noticeably animated and kept laughing as he looked at Razumihin,

which made him more excited than ever.

"Nothing is admitted," Razumihin interrupted with heat.