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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 61
dangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain
time an old woman, on whose hf e an attempt was contemplated,
would be at home and entirely alone.
CHAPTER VI
Later on, Raskolnikov happened to find out why the huckster
and his wife had invited Lizaveta. It was a very ordinary mat-
ter and there was nothing exceptional about it. A family who
had come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling
their household goods and clothes, all women's things. As the
things would have fetched little in the market, they were look-
ing for a dealer. This was Lizaveta's business. She undertook
such jobs and was -frequently employed, as she was very honest
and always fixed a fair price and stuck to it. She spoke as a rule
little and, as we have said already, she was very submissive and
timid.
But Raskolnikov had become superstitious of late. The traces
of superstition remained in him long after, and were almost
ineradicable. And in all this he was always afterwards disposed
to see something strange and mysterious, as it were the pres-
ence of some peculiar influences and coincidences. In the pre-
vious winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left
for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the
address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he
might want to pawn anything. For a long while he did not go
to her, for he had lessons and managed to get along somehow.
Six weeks ago he had remembered the address; he had two
articles that could be pawned: his father's old silver watch and
a little gold ring with three red stones, a present from his sister
at parting. He decided to take the ring. When he found the old
woman he had felt an insurmountable repulsion for her at the
first glance, though he knew nothing special about her. He got
two roubles from her and went into a miserable little tavern on
his way home. He asked for tea, sat down and sank into deep
thought. A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken
in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.
Almost beside him at the next table there was sitting a
student, whom he did not know and had never seen, and with
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