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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 343
of the recent unpleasantness, and so she was very busy with
preparations and was taking a positive pleasure in them; she
was moreover dressed up to the nines, all in new black silk, and
she was proud of it. All this suggested an idea to Pyotr Petro-
vitch and he went into his room, or rather Lebeziatnikov's,
somewhat thoughtful. He had learnt that Raskolnikov was to
be one of the guests.
Andrey Semyonovitch had been at home all the morning.
The attitude of Pyotr Petrovitch to this gentleman was strange,
though perhaps natural. Pyotr Petrovitch had despised and
hated him from the day he came to stay with him and at the
same time he seemed somewhat afraid of him. He had not
come to stay with him on his arrival in Petersburg simply from
parsimony, though that had been perhaps his chief object. He
had heard of Andrey Semyonovitch, who had once been his
ward, as a leading young progressive who was taking an im-
portant part in certain interesting circles, the doings of which
were a legend in the provinces. It had impressed Pyotr Petro-
vitch. These powerful omniscient circles who despised every
one and showed every one up had long inspired in him a peculiar
but quite vague alarm. He had not, of course, been able to form
even an approximate notion of what they meant. He, like every
one, had heard that there were, especially in Petersburg, pro-
gressives ofsome sort, nihilists and so on, and, like many people,
he exaggerated and distorted the significance of those words
to an absurd degree. What for many years past he had feared
more than anything was being shown up and this was the chief
ground for his continual uneasiness at the thought of trans-
ferring hisbusiness to Petersburg. He was afraid of this as Httle
children are sometimes panic-stricken. Some years before, when
he was just entering on his own career, he had come upon two
cases in which rather important personages in the province,
patrons of his, had been cruelly shown up. One instance had
ended in great scandal for the person attacked and the other
had very nearly ended in serious trouble. For this reason Pyotr
Petrovich intended to go into the subject as soon as he reached
Petersburg and, if necessary, to anticipate contingencies by
seeking the favour of "our younger generation." He relied on
Andrey Semyonovitch for this and before his visit to Raskolni-
kov he had succeeded in picking up some current phrases. He
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