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- 196 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
sincere warmth of heart to old age. We may add in parenthesis
that to preserve all this is the only means of retaining beauty to
old age. Her hair had begun to grow grey and thin, there had
long been little crow's foot wrinkles round her eyes, her cheeks
were hollow and sunken from anxiety and grief, and yet it was
a handsome face. She was Dounia over again, twenty years older,
but without the projecting underlip. Pulcheria Alexandrovna
was emotional, but not sentimental, timid and yielding, but only
to a certain point. She could give way and accept a great deal
even of what was contrary to her convictions, but there was a
certain barrier fixed by honesty, principle and the deepest con-
ā 'ictions which nothing would induce her to cross.
Exactly twenty minutes after Razumihin's departure, therecame two subdued but hurried knocks at the door: he had come
back.
"I won't come in, I haven't time," he hastened to say when
the door was opened. "He sleeps like a top, soundly, quietly,
and God grant he may sleep .ten hours. Nastasya's with him; I
told her not to leave till I came. Now I am, fetching Zossimov,
he will report to you and then you'd better turn in; I can see
you are too tired to do anything. . . ."And he ran off down the corridor.
"What a very competent and . . . devoted young man!" cried
Pulcheria Alexandrovna exceedingly delighted.
"He seems a splendid person!" Avdotya Romanovna replied
with some warmth, resuming her walk up and down the room.
It was nearly an hour later when they heard footsteps in the
corridor and another knock at the door. Both women waited
this time completely relying on Razumihin's promise; he actu-
ally had succeeded in bringing Zossimov. Zossimov had agreed at
once to desert the drinking party to go to Raskolnikov's, but he
came reluctantly and with the greatest suspicion to see the
ladies, mistrusting Razumihin in his exhilarated condition. But
his vanity was at once reassured and flattered; he saw that they
w^ere really expecting him as an oracle. He stayed just ten min-
iates and succeeded in completely convincing and comforting
Pulcheria Alexandrovna. He spoke with marked sympathy, but
with the reserve and extreme seriousness of a young doctor at
an important consultation. He did not utter a word on any
Other subject and did not display the slightest desire to enter
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