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Leaving at once the keys and the drawers, he hastened to the corpse, seized the hatchet, and prepared to strike another blow at his victim, but he found there was no necessity to do so. Alena Ivanovna was dead beyond all doubt. Leaning over her again to examine her closer, Raskolnikoff saw that the skull was shattered.
"I shall betray myself!" thought he; but he suddenly recovered his presence of mind as the unknown broke the silence. "Are they both asleep, or has some one strangled them? The thrice- confounded creatures!" growled the visitor in a guttural voice. "Hi! Alena Ivanovna, you old sorceress! Elizabeth Ivanovna, you indescribable beauty! open! Oh! the witches! can they be asleep?"
"What are you saying, Kseniya?" he asked in a low, grave, pained tone. "I have told you what I want. Give me a child and then go anywhere back to your Alena! I have not forgotten that June and July." "I cannot," Polunin replied firmly; "I love Alena." "I do not want love," she persisted; "I have no need of it. Indeed I have not, for I do not even love you!"
Francis d'Assisi, of the Arkhipovs who had lost faith and yet were seeking the law, of Alena and their household. The house was wrapped in utter silence, and he soon fell into that sound, healthy sleep to which he was now accustomed, in contrast to his former nights of insomnia. The faint moon drifted over the silent fields, and the pines shone tipped with silver.
Alena came in, made some remark about the house, then went out to singe the pig for Christmas. The library-clock struck eleven; a clock in the hall answered. Then there came a sudden ring on the telephone; it sounded strange and piercing in the empty stillness. "Is that you, Dmitri Vladimirovich?
Raskolnikoff knew something of Alena Ivanovna's habits. He therefore placed his ear to the door. Had the circumstances amid which he was placed strangely developed his power of hearing, which, in general, is difficult to admit, or was the sound really easily perceptible? Anyhow, he suddenly became aware that a hand was being cautiously placed on the lock, and that a dress rustled against the door.
He stabled his horses; then found Alena waiting up for him in the kitchen, her expression was composed but sad. Polunin took her in his arms and kissed her. "Do not be anxious or afraid; I love only you, no one else. I know why you are unhappy." Alena looked up at him in loving gratitude, and shyly smiled. "You do not understand that it is possible to love one only.
You are always alone is your sister never with you?" asked he with as indifferent an air as he could assume, as he entered the anteroom. "What have you to do with my sister, batuchka?" "Nothing. I had no reason for asking. You will well, good-by, Alena Ivanovna." Raskolnikoff made his exit in a perturbed state of mind.
He met her in the spring, and quickly and simply became intimate with her, begetting a child, for he found that the instinct of fatherhood had replaced that of passion within him. Alena entered his house at evening, without any wedding-ceremony, placed her trunk on a bench in the kitchen, and passing quickly through into the study, said quietly: "Here I am, I have come."
"Perhaps I may be bringing you some other article soon, Alena Ivanovna, a very pretty cigar case a silver one when I get it back from the friend to whom I have lent it." These words were uttered with much embarrassment. "Well, we can talk about it then, batuchka." "Good-by.
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