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And he fell to running about again and kept hitting himself on

the chest, and getting angry and running about, and when you were

announced he told me to go into the next room. 'Sit there a bit,'

he said. 'Don't move, whatever you may hear.' And he set a chair

there for me and locked me in. 'Perhaps,' he said, 'I may call

you.' And when Nikolay'd been brought he let me out as soon as

you were gone. 'I shall send for you again and question you,' he

said."

"And did he question Nikolay while you were there?"

"He got rid of me as he did of you, before he spoke to Nikolay."

The man stood still, and again suddenly bowed down, touching the

ground with his finger.

"Forgive me for my evil thoughts, and my slander."

"May God forgive you," answered Raskolnikov.

And as he said this, the man bowed down again, but not to the

ground, turned slowly and went out of the room.

"It all cuts both ways, now it all cuts both ways," repeated

Raskolnikov, and he went out more confident than ever.