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And when you have finished the signature there will be another

three roubles for you. And please don't think I am doing you a

service; quite the contrary, as soon as you came in, I saw how

you could help me; to begin with, I am weak in spelling, and

secondly, I am sometimes utterly adrift in German, so that I make

it up as I go along for the most part. The only comfort is, that

it's bound to be a change for the better. Though who can tell,

maybe it's sometimes for the worse. Will you take it?"

Raskolnikov took the German sheets in silence, took the three

roubles and without a word went out. Razumihin gazed after him in

astonishment. But when Raskolnikov was in the next street, he

turned back, mounted the stairs to Razumihin's again and laying

on the table the German article and the three roubles, went out

again, still without uttering a word.