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"Well, Pyotr Petrovitch, you keep blaming Rodion, but you

yourself have just written what was false about him," Pulcheria

Alexandrovna added, gaining courage.

"I don't remember writing anything false."

"You wrote," Raskolnikov said sharply, not turning to Luzhin,

"that I gave money yesterday not to the widow of the man who was

killed, as was the fact, but to his daughter (whom I had never

seen till yesterday). You wrote this to make dissension between

me and my family, and for that object added coarse expressions

about the conduct of a girl whom you don't know. All that is mean

slander."