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Crime and Punishment

CHAPTER VII
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He drew deep, slow, painful breaths; blood oozed at the corners of his mouth and drops of perspiration came out on his forehead.

Not recognising Raskolnikov, he began looking round uneasily.

Katerina Ivanovna looked at him with a sad but stern face, and tears trickled from her eyes.
"My God! His whole chest is crushed! How he is bleeding," she said in despair.

"We must take off his clothes.

Turn a little, Semyon Zaharovitch, if you can," she cried to him.
Marmeladov recognised her.
"A priest," he articulated huskily.
Katerina Ivanovna walked to the window, laid her head against the window frame and exclaimed in despair: "Oh, cursed life!" "A priest," the dying man said again after a moment's silence.
"They've gone for him," Katerina Ivanovna shouted to him, he obeyed her shout and was silent.


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