and its spread to other nations. We were doing our best

"And you dared to call me as witness?" he said, going up to Pyotr

"What do you mean? What are you talking about?" muttered Luzhin.

"I mean that you... are a slanderer, that's what my words mean!"

Lebeziatnikov said hotly, looking sternly at him with his shortsighted

He was extremely angry. Raskolnikov gazed intently at him, as though

seizing and weighing each word. Again there was a silence. Pyotr

Petrovitch indeed seemed almost dumbfounded for the first moment.

"If you mean that for me,..." he began, stammering. "But what's