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"What's to be done? Break what must be broken, once for all,

that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. What, you don't

understand? You'll understand later.... Freedom and power, and

above all, power! Over all trembling creation and all the

ant-heap!... That's the goal, remember that! That's my farewell

message. Perhaps it's the last time I shall speak to you. If I

don't come to-morrow, you'll hear of it all, and then remember

these words. And some day later on, in years to come, you'll

understand perhaps what they meant. If I come to-morrow, I'll

tell you who killed Lizaveta.... Good-bye."

Sonia started with terror.

"Why, do you know who killed her?" she asked, chilled with

horror, looking wildly at him.