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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 203
"And Porfiry."
"What does that matter?"
"And, by the way, have you any influence on them, hismother and sister? Tell them to be more careful with him
to-day. ..."
"They'll get on all right!" Razumihin answered reluctantly.
"Why is he so set against this Luzhin? A man with money
and she doesn't seem to dislike him . . . and they haven't a
farthing I suppose? eh?"
"But what business is it of yours?" Razumihin cried with
annoyance. "How can I tell whether they've a farthing? Ask
them yourself and perhaps you'll find out. . . ."
"Foo, what an ass you are sometimes! Last night's wine has
not gone off yet. . . . Good-bye; thank your Praskovya Pav-
lovna from me for my night's lodging. She locked herself in,
made no reply to my honjour through the door; she was up at
seven o'clock, the samovar was taken in to her from the kitchen.
I was not vouchsafed a personal interview. . . ."
At nine o'clock precisely Razumihin reached the lodgings
at Bakaleyev's house. Both ladies were waiting for him with
nervous impatience. They had risen at seven o'clock or earlier.
He entered looking as black as night, bowed awkwardly and
was at once furious with himself for it. He had reckoned with-
out his host: Pulcheria Alexandrovna fairly rushed at him,
seized him by both hands and was almost kissing them. He
glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud coun-
tenance wore at that moment an expression of such gratitude
and friendliness, such complete and unlooked-for respect (in
place of the sneering looks and ill-disguised contempt he had
expected) , that it threw him into greater confusion than if he
had been met with abuse. Fortunately there was a subject for
conversation, and he made haste to snatch at it.
Hearing that everything was going well and that Rodya had
not yet waked, Pulcheria Alexandrovna declared that she was
glad to hear it, because "she had something which it was very,
very necessary to talk over beforehand." Then followed an
inquiry about breakfast and an invitation to have it with them;
they had waited to have it with him. Avdotya Romanovna
rang the bell: it was answered by a ragged dirty waiter, and
they asked him to bring tea which was served at last, but in such
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