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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT S9
returned by the Hay Market where he had no need to go. It was
obviously and quite unnecessarily out of his way, though not
much so. It is true that it happened to him dozens of times to
return home without noticing what streets he passed through.
But why, he was always asking himself, why had such an im-
portant, such a decisive and at the same time such an abso-
lutely chance meeting happened in the Hay Market (where he
had moreover no reason to go) at the very hour, the very
minute of his life when he was just in the very mood and in
the very circumstances in which that meeting was able te
exert the gravest and most decisive influence on his whole
destiny? As though it had been lying in wait for him on
purpose!
It was about nine o'clock when he crossed the Hay Market.
At the tables and the barrows, at the booths and the shops, all
the market people were closing their establishments or clearing
away and packing up their wares and, like their customers, were
going home. Rag pickers and costermongers of all kinds were
crowding round the taverns in the dirty and stinking court-
yards of the Hay Market. Raskolnikov particularly liked this
place and the neighbouring alleys, when he wandered aimlessly
in the streets. Here his rags did not attract contemptuous atten-
tion, and one could walk about in any attire without scandalis-
ing people. At the corner of an alley a huckster and his wife had
two tables set out with tapes, thread, cotton handkerchiefs, &c.
They, too, had got up to go home, but were lingering in con-
versation with a friend, who had just come up to them. This
friend was Lizaveta Ivanovna, or, as every one called her, Liza-
veta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, Alyona Iva-
novna, whom Raskolnikov had visited the previous day to pawn
his watch and make his experiment. . . . He already knew all
about Lizaveta and she knew him a little too. She was a single
woman of about thirty-five, tall, clumsy, timid, submissive and
almost idiotic. She was a complete slave and went in fear and
trembling of her sister, who made her work day and night, and
even beat her. She was standing with a bundle before the huck-
ster and his wife, listening earnestly and doubtfully. They were
talking of something with special warmth. The moment Ras-
kolnikov caught sight of her, he was overcome by a strangt
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