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"For God's sake be calm, don't be frightened!" he said, speaking

quickly, "he was crossing the road and was run over by a

carriage, don't be frightened, he will come to, I told them bring

him here... I've been here already, you remember? He will come

to; I'll pay!"

"He's done it this time!" Katerina Ivanovna cried despairingly

and she rushed to her husband.

Raskolnikov noticed at once that she was not one of those women

who swoon easily. She instantly placed under the luckless man's

head a pillow, which no one had thought of and began undressing

and examining him. She kept her head, forgetting herself, biting

her trembling lips and stifling the screams which were ready to

break from her.

Raskolnikov meanwhile induced someone to run for a doctor. There

was a doctor, it appeared, next door but one.