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Then you lend me another thousand of your three and we have

enough for a start, so we'll go into partnership, and what are we

going to do?"

Then Razumihin began to unfold his project, and he explained at

length that almost all our publishers and booksellers know

nothing at all of what they are selling, and for that reason they

are usually bad publishers, and that any decent publications pay

as a rule and give a profit, sometimes a considerable one.

Razumihin had, indeed, been dreaming of setting up as a

publisher. For the last two years he had been working in

publishers' offices, and knew three European languages well,

though he had told Raskolnikov six days before that he was

"schwach" in German with an object of persuading him to take half

his translation and half the payment for it. He had told a lie

then, and Raskolnikov knew he was lying.