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"Yea, Lord: I believe that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God

Which should come into the world."

She stopped and looked up quickly at him, but controlling herself

went on reading. Raskolnikov sat without moving, his elbows on

the table and his eyes turned away. She read to the thirty-second

verse.

"Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell

down at His feet, saying unto Him, Lord if Thou hadst been here,

my brother had not died.

"When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping

which came with her, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

"And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto Him, Lord, come

and see.

"Jesus wept.

"Then said the Jews, behold how He loved him!

"And some of them said, could not this Man which opened the eyes

of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have

died?"