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- 2i6 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"But what, what does he want to propose to Dounia?" cried
Pulcheria Alexandrovna in a fright. "Did he tell you?"
"Yes."
"What was it?"
"I'll tell you afterwards."
Raskolnikov ceased speaking and turned his attention to
his tea.
Pyotr Petrovitch looked at his watch.
"I am compelled to keep a business engagement, and so I shall
not be in your way," he added with an air of some pique and
he began getting up.
"Don't go, Pyotr Petrovitch," said Dounia, "you intended to
spend the evening. Besides, you wrote yovu-self that you wanted
to have an explanation with mother."
"Precisely so, Avdotya Ramonovna," Pyotr Petrovitch an-
swered impressively, sitting down again, but still holding his
hat. "I certainly desired an explanation with you and your
honoured mother upon a very important point indeed. But as
your brother cannot speak openly in my presence to some pro-
posals ofMr. Svidrigailov, I, too, do not desire and am not
able to speak openly ... in the presence of others ... of certain
matters of the greatest gravity. Moreover, my most weighty
and urgent request has been disregarded. . . ."
Assuming an aggrieved air, Luzhin relapsed into dignified
silence.
"Your request that my brother should not be present at our
meeting was disregarded solely at my instance," said Dounia.
"You wrote that you had been insulted by my brother; I think
that this must be explained at once, and you must be reconciled.
And if Rodya reallv has insulted you, then he should and ivHl
apologise."Pyotr Petrovitch took a stronger line.
"There are insults, Avdotya Romanovna, which no good-will
can make us forget. There is a line in everything which it is
dangerous to overstep ; and when it has been overstepped, there
is no return."
"That wasn't what I was speaking of exactly, Pyotr Petro-
vitch," Dounia interrupted with some impatience. "Please
understand that our whole future depends now on wheth/er all
this is explained and set right as soon as possible. I tell you
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