[Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky]@TWC D-Link bookCrime and Punishment CHAPTER VII 11/52
The children were terrified.
Little Lida screamed, rushed to Polenka and clutched at her, trembling all over. Having laid Marmeladov down, Raskolnikov flew to Katerina Ivanovna. "For God's sake be calm, don't be frightened!" he said, speaking quickly, "he was crossing the road and was run over by a carriage, don't be frightened, he will come to, I told them bring him here...
I've been here already, you remember? He will come to; I'll pay!" "He's done it this time!" Katerina Ivanovna cried despairingly and she rushed to her husband. Raskolnikov noticed at once that she was not one of those women who swoon easily.
She instantly placed under the luckless man's head a pillow, which no one had thought of and began undressing and examining him.
She kept her head, forgetting herself, biting her trembling lips and stifling the screams which were ready to break from her. Raskolnikov meanwhile induced someone to run for a doctor.
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