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Raskolnikov turned and looked at her with emotion. Yes, he had

known it! She was trembling in a real physical fever. He had

expected it. She was getting near the story of the greatest

miracle and a feeling of immense triumph came over her. Her voice

rang out like a bell; triumph and joy gave it power. The lines

danced before her eyes, but she knew what she was reading by

heart. At the last verse "Could not this Man which opened the

eyes of the blind..." dropping her voice she passionately

reproduced the doubt, the reproach and censure of the blind

disbelieving Jews, who in another moment would fall at His feet

as though struck by thunder, sobbing and believing.... "And he,

he--too, is blinded and unbelieving, he, too, will hear, he, too,

will believe, yes, yes! At once, now," was what she was dreaming,

and she was quivering with happy anticipation.

"Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself cometh to the grave.

It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.