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The woman seeing a stranger stopped indifferently facing him,

coming to herself for a moment and apparently wondering what he

had come for. But evidently she decided that he was going into

the next room, as he had to pass through hers to get there.

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.