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"Hopelessly in the fullest sense, when you know beforehand that

you will get nothing by it. You know, for instance, beforehand

with positive certainty that this man, this most reputable and

exemplary citizen, will on no consideration give you money; and

indeed I ask you why should he? For he knows of course that I

shan't pay it back. From compassion? But Mr. Lebeziatnikov who

keeps up with modern ideas explained the other day that

compassion is forbidden nowadays by science itself, and that

that's what is done now in England, where there is political

economy. Why, I ask you, should he give it to me? And yet though

I know beforehand that he won't, I set off to him and..."

"Why do you go?" put in Raskolnikov.