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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 359
lodgers, did not appear, though Katerina Ivanovna had the
evening before told all the world, that is Amalia Ivanovna, Po-
lenka, Sonia and the Pole, that he was the most generous, noble-
hearted man with a large property and vast connections, who
had been a friend of her first husband's, and a guest in her
father's house, and that he had promised to use all his influence
to secure her a considerable pension. It must be noted that when
Katerina Ivanovna exalted any one's connections and fortune,
it was without any ulterior motive, quite disinterestedly, for the ,
mere pleasure of adding to the consequence of the person praised.
Probably "taking his cue" from Luzhin, "that contemptible
wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up either. What did he
fancy himself? He was only asked out of kindness and because
he was sharing the same room with Pyotr Petrovitch and was a
friend of his, so that it would have been awkward not to invite
him."
Among those who failed to appear were "the genteel lady and
her old-maidish daughter," who had only been lodgers in the
house for the last fortnight, but had several times complained of
the noise and uproar in Katerina Ivanovna's room, especiallywhen Marmeladov had come back drunk. Katerina Ivanovna
heard this from Amalia Ivanovna who, quarrelling with Kater-
ina Ivanovna, and threatening to turn the whole family out of
doors, had shouted at her that they "were not worth the foot'"
of the honourable lodgers whom they were disturbing. Katerina
Ivanovna determined now to invite this lady and her daughter,
"whose foot she was not worth," and who had turned away
haughtily when she casually met them, so that they might know
that "she was more noble in her thoughts and "feelings and did
not harbour malice," and might see that she was not accustomed
to her way of living. She had proposed to make this clear to them
at dinner with allusions to her late father's governorship, and
also at the same time to hint that it was exceedingly stupid of
them to turn away on meeting her. The fat colonel-major (he
was really a discharged ofiicer of low rank) was also absent, but
it appeared that he had been "not himself" for the last two days.
The party consisted of th« Pole, a wretched looking clerk with
a spotty face and a greasy coat, who had not a word to say for
himself, and smelt abominably, a deaf and almost blind old man
who had once been in the post ofiSce and who had been from im-
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