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something terrible and immoral should happen. And he
tries to persuade us of that, us, who understand his char-
acter, who know his state of mind at the moment, and that
he knew the signals by which he could at once enter the
house.’ At this point Ippolit Kirillovitch broke off to discuss
exhaustively the suspected connection of Smerdyakov with
the murder. He did this very circumstantially, and everyone
realised that, although he professed to despise that suspi-
cion, he thought the subject of great importance.