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- 164 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
were papering the walls with a new white paper covered with
lilac flowers, instead of the old, dirty, yellow one. Raskolnikov
for some reason felt horribly annoyed by this. He looked at the
new paper with dislike, as though he felt sorry to have it all so
changed. The workmen had obviously stayed beyond their time
and now they were hurriedly rolling up their paper and getting
ready to go home. They took no notice of Raskolnikov's com-
ing in; they were talking. Raskolnikov folded his arms and
listened.
"She comes to me in the morning," said the elder to the
younger, "very early, all dressed up. 'Why are you preening
and prinking?' says I. T am ready to do anything to please
you. Tit Vassilitch!' That's a way of going on! And she.dressed
up like a regular fashion book!"
"And what is a fashion book?" the younger one asked. He
obviously regarded the other as an authority.
"A fashion book is a lot of pictures, coloured, and they come
to the tailors here every Saturday, by post from abroad, to
show folks how to dress, the male sex as well as the female.
They're pictures. The gentlemen are generally wearing fur coats
and as for the ladies' fluffles, they're beyond anything you can
fancy."
"There's nothing you can't find in Petersburg," the younger
cried enthusiastically, "except father and mother, there's every-
thing!"
"Except them, there's everything to be found, my boy," the
elder declared sententiously.
Raskolnikov got up and walked into the other room where
the strong box, the bed, and the chest of drawers had been;
the room seemed to him very tiny without furniture in it. The
paper was the same; the paper in the corner showed where the
case of ikons had stood. He looked at it and went to the window.
The elder workman looked at him askance.
"What do you want?" he asked suddenly.
Instead of answering Raskolnikov went into the passage and
pulled the bell. The same bell, the same cracked note. He rang
it a second and a third time; he listened and remembered.
The hideous and agonisingly fearful sensation he had felt then
began to come back more and more vividly. He shuddered at
every ring and it gave him more and more satisfaction.
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