his elbows resting on the table, looking
aside. Thus the reading continued till the thirty-second verse.

"Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore saw
her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her,
he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, Where
have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him. And
some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes
of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have
died?"

Raskolnikoff turned towards her and looked at her with agitation. His
suspicion was a correct one. She was trembling in all her limbs, a
prey to fever. He had expected this. She was getting to the miraculous
story, and a feeling of triumph was taking possession of her. Her
voice, strengthened by joy, had a metallic ring. The lines became
misty to her troubled eyes, but fortunately she knew the passage by
heart. At the last line, "Could not this man, which opened the eyes of
the blind--" she lowered her voice, emphasizing passionately the
doubt, the blame, the reproach of these unbelieving and blind Jews,
who a moment after fell as if struck by lightning on their knees, to
sob and to believe. "Yes," thought she, deeply affected by this
joyful hope, "yes, he--he who is blind, who dares not believe--he also
will hear--will believe in an instant, immediately, now, this very
moment!"

"Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the
grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said,
Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was
dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he
hath been dead four days."

She strongly emphasized the word _four_.

"Jesus saith unto her. Said I not unto thee, that if thou
wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God? Then
they took away the stone from the place where the dead was
laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I
thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou
hearest me always; but because of the people which stand by
I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And
when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,
Lazarus, come for