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- 360 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
memorial ages maintained by some one at Amalia Ivanovna's.
A retired clerk of the commissariat department, came, too;
he was drunk, had a loud and most unseemly laugh and only
fancy — was without a waistcoat! One of the visitors sat straight
down to the table without even greeting Katerina Ivanovna.
Finally one person having no suit appeared in his dressing gown,
but this was too much, and the efforts of Amalia Ivanovna and
the Pole succeeded in removing him. The Pole brought with him,
however, two other Poles who did not live at Amalia Ivanovna's
and whom no one had seen here before. All this irritated Kater-
ina Ivnanovna intensely. "For whom had they made all these
preparations then?" To make room for the visitors the children
had not even been laid for at the table; but the two little ones
were sitting on a bench in the furthest corner with their dinner
laid on a box, while Polenka as a big girl had to look after them,
feed them, and keep their noses wiped like well-bred children's.
Katerina Ivanovna, in fact, could hardly help meeting her
guests with increased dignity, and even haughtiness. She stared
at some of them with special severity, and loftily invited them
to take their seats. Rushing to the conclusion that Amalia Ivan-
ovna must be responsible for those who were absent, she began
treating her with extreme nonchalance, which the latter
promptly observed and resented. Such a beginning was no good
omen for the end. All were seated at last.
Raskolnikov came in almost at the moment of their return
from the cemetery. Katerina Ivanovna was greatly delighted
to see him, in the first place, because he was the one "educated
visitor, and, as every one knew, was in two years to take a
professorship in the vmiversity," and secondly because he im-
mediately and respectfully apologised for havfng been unable
to be at the funeral. She positively pounced upon him, and made
him sit on her left hand (Amalia Ivanovna was on her right).
In spite of her continual anxiety that the dishes should be
passed round correctly and that every one should taste them,
in spite of the agonising cough which interrupted her every
minute and seemed to have grown worse during the last few
days she hastened to pour out in a half whisper to Raskolnikov
all her suppressed feelings and her just indignation at the failure
of the dinner, interspersing her remarks with lively and uncon-
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