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- 342 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
paid for the furniture purchased but not yet removed to the flat.
"Am I to get married simply for the sake of the furniture?"
Pyotr Petrovitch ground his teeth and at the same time once
more he had a gleam of desperate hope. "Can all that be really
so irrevocably over? Is it no use to make another effort?" The
thought of Dounia sent a voluptuous pang through his heart.
He endured anguish at that moment, and if it had been possible
to slay Raskolnikov instantly by wishing it, Pyotr Petrovitch
would promptly have uttered the wish.
"It was my mistake, too, not to have given them money,"
he thought, as he returned dejectedly to Lebeziatnikov's room,
"and why on earth was I such a Jew? It was false economy! I
meant to keep them without a penny so that they should turn
to me as their providence, and look at them! foo! If I'd spentsome fifteen hundred roubles on them for the trousseau and
presents, on knick-knacks, dressing-cases, jewellery, materials,
and all that sort of trash from Knopp's and the English shop,
my position would have been better and . . . stronger! They
could not have refused me so easily! They are the sort of people
that would feel bound to return money and presents if they
broke it off; and they would find it hard to do it! And their con-
sciences would prick them: how can we dismiss a man who has
hitherto been so generous and delicate? . . . H'm! I've made a
blunder."
And grinding his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovitch called himself
a fool — but not aloud, of course.
He returned home, twice as irritated and angry as before.
The preparations for the funeral dinner at Katerina Ivanovna's
excited his curiosity as he passed. He had heard about it the day
before; he fancied, indeed, that he had been invited, but ab-
sorbed inhis own cares he had paid no attention. Inquiring of
Madame Lippevechsel who was busy laying the table while
Katerina Ivanovna was away at the cemetery, he heard that the
entertainment was to be a great afifair, that all the lodgers had
been invited, among them some who had not known the dead
man, that even Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov was in-
vited inspite of his previous quarrel with Katerina Ivanovna,
that he, Pyotr Petrovitch, was not only invited, but was eagerly
expected as he was the most important of the lodgers. Amalia
Ivanovna herself had been invited with great ceremony in spite
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