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And seizing Dounia by the arm so that he almost dislocated it, he

made her bend down to see that "he is all right again." The

mother and sister looked on him with emotion and gratitude, as

their Providence. They had heard already from Nastasya all that

had been done for their Rodya during his illness, by this "very

competent young man," as Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov

called him that evening in conversation with Dounia.

PART III

CHAPTER I

Raskolnikov got up, and sat down on the sofa. He waved his hand

weakly to Razumihin to cut short the flow of warm and incoherent

consolations he was addressing to his mother and sister, took

them both by the hand and for a minute or two gazed from one to

the other without speaking. His mother was alarmed by his

expression. It revealed an emotion agonisingly poignant, and at

the same time something immovable, almost insane. Pulcheria

Alexandrovna began to cry.

Avdotya Romanovna was pale; her hand trembled in her brother's.