1 And taking the policeman by the hand he drew him towards the seat.
2 He could stand it no longer, he slowly put out his hand to the bell and rang.
3 He was about to feel it with his finger, but drew back his hand and indeed it was evident without that.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 4 And if hidden under his coat he would still have had to support it with his hand, which would have been noticeable.
5 One woman seized him by the hand and would have taken him away, but he tore himself from her and ran back to the mare.
6 Anyway, he suddenly heard something like the cautious touch of a hand on the lock and the rustle of a skirt at the very door.
7 He unbuttoned his coat and freed the axe from the noose, but did not yet take it out altogether, simply holding it in his right hand under the coat.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 8 The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
9 And now he dreamt that he was walking with his father past the tavern on the way to the graveyard; he was holding his father's hand and looking with dread at the tavern.
10 Seeing him run out of the bedroom, she began faintly quivering all over, like a leaf, a shudder ran down her face; she lifted her hand, opened her mouth, but still did not scream.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 11 But reflecting that it would be impossible to take it back now and that in any case he would not have taken it, he dismissed it with a wave of his hand and went back to his lodging.
12 And then, honoured sir, and then, I, being at the time a widower, with a daughter of fourteen left me by my first wife, offered her my hand, for I could not bear the sight of such suffering.
13 As he went out, Raskolnikov had time to put his hand into his pocket, to snatch up the coppers he had received in exchange for his rouble in the tavern and to lay them unnoticed on the window.
14 Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throbbing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.
15 And this hapless Lizaveta was so simple and had been so thoroughly crushed and scared that she did not even raise a hand to guard her face, though that was the most necessary and natural action at the moment, for the axe was raised over her face.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 16 Putting his hand in his coat pocket, he could hold the end of the handle all the way, so that it did not swing; and as the coat was very full, a regular sack in fact, it could not be seen from outside that he was holding something with the hand that was in the pocket.
17 In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, after two minutes' hurried effort, he cut the string and took it off without touching the body with the axe; he was not mistaken--it was a purse.
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