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Solely by her exertions and sacrifices, a criminal charge,

involving an element of fantastic and homicidal brutality for

which he might well have been sentenced to Siberia, was hushed

up. That's the sort of man he is, if you care to know."

"Good heavens!" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna. Raskolnikov

listened attentively.

"Are you speaking the truth when you say that you have good

evidence of this?" Dounia asked sternly and emphatically.