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- 406 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
must sing something far more genteel. . . . Well, have you
thought of anything, Polenka? If only you'd help your mother!
My memory's quite gone, or I should have thought of some-
thing. We really can't sing "An Hussar.' Ah, let us sing in
French, 'Cinq sous,' I have taught it you, I have taught it you.
And as it is in French, people will see at once that you are chil-
dren ofgood family, and that will be much more touching. . . .
You might sing 'Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre,' for that's
quite a child's song and is sung as a lullaby in all the aristocratichouses.
Marlborough s'en va-te-cn guerre
Ne salt quand reviendra . . ."
she began singing. "But no, better sing 'Cinq sous.' Now, Kolya,
your hands on your hips, make haste, and you, Lida, keep turn-
ing the other way, and Polenka and I will sing and clap our
hands!
Cinq sous, cinq sous
Pour monter notre menage.
(Cough-cough-cough!) Set your dress straight, Polenka, it's
slipped down on your shoulders," she observed, panting from
coughing. "Now it's particularly necessary to behave nicely and
genteelly, that all may see that you are well-born children. I
said at the time that the bodice should be cut longer, and made
of two widths. It was your fault, Sonia, with your advice to
make it shorter, and now you see the child is quite deformed by
it. . . . Why, you're all crying again! What's the matter,
stupids? Come, Kolya, begin. Make haste, make haste! Oh, what
an imbearable child!
Cinq sous, cinq sous.
A policeman again! What do you want?"
A policeman was indeed forcing his way through the crowd.
But at that moment a gentleman in civilian uniform and an
overcoat — a solid-looking oflEcial of about fifty with a decora-
tion on his neck (which delighted Katerina Ivanovna and had
its effect on the policeman) — approached and without a word
handed her a green three-rouble note. His face wore a look of
genuine sympathy. Katerina Ivanovna took it and gave him a
polite, even ceremonious, bow.
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