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- 60 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
sensation as it were of intense astonishment, though there was
nothing astonishing about this meeting,
"You could make up your mind for yourself, Lizaveta
Ivanovna," the huckster was saying aloud. "Come round to-
morrow about seven. They will be here too,"
"To-morrow?"
said
Lizaveta slowly
and
thoughtfully,
as
though
unable
to
make
up
her
mind,
"Upon my word, what a fright you are in of Alyona Ivan-
ovna," gabbled the huckster's wife, a lively little woman. "I
look at you, you are like some little babe. And she is not your
own sister either — nothing but a stepsister and what a hand she
keeps over you!"
"But this time don't say a word to Alyona Ivanovna," her
husband interrupted; "that's my advice, but come round to
us without asking. It will be worth your while. Later on your
oister herself may have a notion."
"Am I to come?"
"About seven o'clock to-morrow. And they will be here.
You will be able to decide for yourself."
"And we'll have a cup of tea," added his wife.
"All right, I'll come," said Lizaveta, still pondering, and she
began slowly moving away.
Raskolnikov had just passed and heard no more. He passed
loftly, unnoticed, trying not to miss a word. His first amaze-
ment was followed by a thrill of horror, like a shiver running
down his spine. He had learnt, he had suddenly quite unex-
pectedly learnt, that the next day at seven o'clock Lizaveta, the
old woman's sister and only companion, would be away from
home and that therefore at seven o'clock precisely the old
woman would be lejt alone.
He was only a few steps from his lodging. He went in like a
man condemned to death. He thought of nothing and was
incapable of thinking; but he felt suddenly in his whole being
that he had no more freedom of thought, no will, and that
everything was suddenly and irrevocably decided.
Certainly, if he had to wait whole years for a suitable oppor-
tunity, hecould not reckon on a more certain step towards the
success of the plan than that which had just presented itself. In
any case, it would have been difficult to find out beforehand and
with certainty, with greater exactness and less risk, and without
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