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- 6 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
drawers and into which he had never looked before. These two
rooms made up the whole flat.
"What
do
you
want?"
the old
woman
said
severely,
coming
into the
room
and,
as
before,
standing
in
front
of
him
so
as
to
look
him
straight
in
the
face.
"I've brought something to pawn here," and he drew out of
his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of
which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
"But the time is up for your last pledge. The month was up
the day before yesterday."
"I will bring you the interest for another month; wait a
little."
"But that's for me to do as I please, my good sir, to wait or
to sell your pledge at once."
"How much will you give me for the watch, Alyona Iva-
novna?"
"You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth
anything. I gave you two roubles last time for your ring and one
could buy it quite new at a jeweller's for a rouble and a half."
"Give me four roubles for it, I shall redeem it, it was my
father's. I shall be getting some money soon."
"A rouble and a half, and interest in advance, if you like!"
"A rouble and a half!" cried the young man.
"Please yourself" — and the old woman handed him back the
watch. The young man took it, and was so angry that he was
on the point of going away; but checked himself at once, re-
membering that there was nowhere else he could go, and that he
had had another object also in coming.
"Hand it over," he said roughly.
The old woman fumbled in her pocket for her keys, and dis-
appeared behind the curtain into the other room. The young
man, left standing alone in the middle of the room, listened
inqixisitively, thinking. He could hear her unlocking the chest
of drawers.
"It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the
keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on a steel ring.
. . . And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others,
with deep notches ; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers
. . . then there must be some other chest or strong-box . . . that's
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