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"Yes, and you maintained that the perpetration of a crime is

always accompanied by illness. Very, very original, but... it was

not that part of your article that interested me so much, but an

idea at the end of the article which I regret to say you merely

suggested without working it out clearly. There is, if you

recollect, a suggestion that there are certain persons who can...

that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right to

commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is not

for them."

Raskolnikov smiled at the exaggerated and intentional distortion

of his idea.

"What? What do you mean? A right to crime? But not because of the

influence of environment?" Razumihin inquired with some alarm

even.