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- 36 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
in complete agreement with her, Rodya, and share all her plans
and hopes, and think there is every probability of realising them.
And in spite of Pyotr Petrovitch's evasiveness, very natural at
present, (since he does not know you) Dounia is firmly per-
suaded that she will gain everything by her good influence over
ner future husband; this she is reckoning up>on. Of course we
a.e careful not to talk of any of these more remote plans to
Pyotr Petrovitch, especially of your becoming his partner. He is
a practical man and might take this very coldly, it might all
seem to him simply a day-dream. Nor has either Dounia or I
breathed a word to him of the great hopes we have of his helping
us to pay for your university studies; we have not spoken of it
in the first place, because it will come to pass of itself, later on,
and he will no doubt without wasting words offer to do it of
himself, (as though he could refuse Dounia that) the more
readily since you may by your own efforts become his right
hand in the office, and receive this assistance not as a charity, but
as a salary earned by your own work. Dounia wants to arrange
it all like this and I quite agree with her. And we have not
spoken of our plans for another reason, that is, because I par-
ticularly wanted you to feel on an equal footing when you first
meet him. When Dounia spoke to him with enthusiasm about
you, he answered that one could never judge of a man without
seeing him close, for oneself, and that he looked forward to
forming his own opinion when he makes your acquaintance.
Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that p>erhaps for some
reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply
for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies) I should
do better to go on living by myself, apart, than with them, after
the wedding. I am convinced that he will be generous and deli-
cate enough to invite me and to urge me to remain with my
daughter for the future, and if he has said nothing about it
hitherto, it is simply because it has been taken for granted; but
I shall refuse. I have noticed more than once in my life that hus-
bands don't quite get on with their mothers-in-law, and I don't
want to be the least bit in any one's way, and for my own
sake, too, would rather be quite independent, so long as I have
a crust of bread of my own, and such children as you and
Dounia. If possible, I would settle somewhere near you, for the
"nost joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end
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