CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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it, tried to say something, but could not; only incoherent sounds were audible.
"You are feeling ill, a chair! Here, sit down! Some water!"
Raskolnikov dropped on to a chair, but he kept his eyes fixed on the face of Ilya Petrovitch, which expressed unpleasant surprise. Both looked at one another for a minute and waited. Water was brought.
"It was I . . ." began Raskolnikov.
"Drink some water."
Raskolnikov refused the water with his hand, and softly and brokenly, but distinctly said:
"It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them."
Ilya Petrovitch opened his mouth. People ran up on all sides.
Raskolnikov repeated his statement.
