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"Oh, you've heard that, too, then? You'd be sure to, though....

But as for your question, I really don't know what to say, though

my own conscience is quite at rest on that score. Don't suppose

that I am in any apprehension about it. All was regular and in

order; the medical inquiry diagnosed apoplexy due to bathing

immediately after a heavy dinner and a bottle of wine, and indeed

it could have proved nothing else. But I'll tell you what I have

been thinking to myself of late, on my way here in the train,

especially: didn't I contribute to all that... calamity, morally,

in a way, by irritation or something of the sort. But I came to

the conclusion that that, too, was quite out of the question."

Raskolnikov laughed.

"I wonder you trouble yourself about it!"