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- 224 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
"N-no," answered Dounia, with more animation. "I saw
clearly that it was too naively expressed, and that jjerhaps he
simply has no skill in writing . . . that is a true criticism,
brother. I did not expect, indeed . . ."
"It is expressed in legal style, and sounds coarser than perhaps
he intended. But I must disillusion you a Httle. There is one ex-
pression inthe letter, one slander about me, and rather a con-
temptible one. I gave the money last night to the widow, a
woman in consumption, crushed with trouble, and not 'on the
pretext of the funeral,' but simply to pay for the funeral, and
not to the daughter — a young woman, as he writes, of notorious
feehaviour (whom I saw last night for the first time in my life)
— but to the widow. In all this I see a too hasty desire to slander
me and to raise dissension between us. It is expressed again in
legal jargon, that is to say, with a too obvous display of the aim,
and with a very nai've eagerness He is a man of intelligence, but
to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough. It all shows the man
and ... I don't think he has a great esteem for you. I tell you
this simply to warn you, because I sincerely wish for your
good . . ."Dounia did not reply. Her resolution had been taken. She was
only awaiting the evening.
"Then, what is your decision, Rodya?" asked Pulcheria Alex-
androvna, who was more uneasy than ever at the sudden, new
businesclike tone of his tllk.
"What decision?"
"You see Pyotr Petrovitch writes that you are not to be with
us this evening, and *hjit he will go away if you come. So will
you . . . come?"
"That, of course, is not for me to decide, but for you first,
if you are not offended by such a request; and secondly, by
Dounia, if she, too, is not offended. I will do what you think
best," he added, drily.
"Dounia h?,s already decided, and I fully agree with her,"Pulcheria Alexandrovna hastened to declare.
"I decided to ask you, Rodya, to urge you not to fail to be
•vrith us at this interview," said Dounia. "Will you come?"
"Yes."
"I will ask you, too, to be with us at eight o'clock," she
said, addressing Razvimihin. "Mother, I am inviting him, too."
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