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- 62 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
him a young officer. They had played a game of billiards and
began drinking tea. All at once he heard the student mention
to the officer the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and give him
her address. This of itself seemed strange to Raskolnikov; he
had just come from her and here at once heard her name. Of
course it was a chance, but he could not shake off a very extraor-
dinary impression, and here some one seemed to be speaking
expressly for him; the student began telling his friend various
details about Alyona Ivanovna.
"She is first rate," he said. "You can always get money from
her. She is as rich as a Jew, she can give you five thousand
roubles at a time and she is not above taking a pledge for a
rouble. Lots of our fellows have had dealings with her. But she
is an awful old harpy. ..."
And he began describing how spiteful and uncertain she was,
how if you were only a day late with your interest the pledge
was lost; how she gave a quarter of the value of an article and
took five and even seven per cent, a month on it and so on. Thr
student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta,
whom the wretched little creature was continually beating,
and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Liza-
veta was at least six feet high.
"There's a phenomenon for you," cried the student and he
laughed.
They began talking about Lizaveta. The student spoke about
her with a peculiar relish and was continually laughing and the
officer listened with great interest and asked him to send Liza-
veta todo some mending for him. Raskolnikov did not miss a
word and learned everything about her. Lizaveta was younger
than the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of
a different mother. She was thirty-five. She worked day and
night for her sister, and besides doing the cooking and the
washing, she did sewing and worked as a charwoman and gave
her sister all she earned. She did not dare to accept an order or
job of any kind without her sister's permission. The old woman
had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this
will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables,
chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the
province of N , that prayers might be said for her in per-
petuity. Lizaveta was of lower rank than her sister, unmarried
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