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"Why, why should we let our chance slip when we have one of the

chief means of success--money of our own!" cried Razumihin

warmly. "Of course there will be a lot of work, but we will work,

you, Avdotya Romanovna, I, Rodion.... You get a splendid profit

on some books nowadays! And the great point of the business is

that we shall know just what wants translating, and we shall be

translating, publishing, learning all at once. I can be of use

because I have experience. For nearly two years I've been

scuttling about among the publishers, and now I know every detail

of their business. You need not be a saint to make pots, believe

me! And why, why should we let our chance slip! Why, I know--and

I kept the secret--two or three books which one might get a

hundred roubles simply for thinking of translating and

publishing. Indeed, and I would not take five hundred for the

very idea of one of them. And what do you think?