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- 208 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
and he sent a message that he would be here himself this morn-
ing. But this morning this note came from him. You'd better
read it yourself; there is one point in it which worries me very
much . . . you will soon see what that is, and . . . tell me your
candid opinion, Dmitri Prokofitch! You know Rodya's charac-
ter better than any one and no one can advise us better than you
can. Dounia, I must tell you, made her decision at once, but I
still don't feel sure how to act and I . . . I've been waiting for
your opinion."
Razumihin opened the note which was dated the previous
evening and read as follows:
"Dear Madam, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, I have the honour
to inform you that owing to unforeseen obstacles I was rendered
unable to meet you at the railway station; I sent a very com-
petent person with the same object in view. I likewise shall be
deprived of the honour of an interview with you to-morrow
morning by business in the Senate that does not admit of delay,
and also that I may not intrude on your family circle while you
are meeting your son, and Avdotya Romanovna her brother.
I shall have the honour of visiting you and paying you my
respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at
eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my
earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Roman-
ovitch may not be present at our interview — as he offered me
a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit
to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from
you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation
upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your
own interpretation. I have the honour to inform you, in antici-
pation, that if, in spite of my request, I meet Rodion Romano-
vitch, I shall be compelled to withdraw immediately and then
you have only yourself to blame. I write on the assumption
that Rodion Romanovitch who appeared so ill at my visit,
suddenly recovered two hours later and so, being able to leave
the house, may visit you also. I was confirmed in that belief by
the testimony of my own eyes in the lodging of a drunken man
who was run over and has since died, to whose daughter, a
young woman of notorious behaviour, he gave twenty-five
roubles on the pretext of the fvmeral, which gravely surprised
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