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- 358 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
and she would pass in an instant from the brightest hopes and
fancies to cursing her fate and raving, and knocking her head
against the wall.
Amalia Ivanovna, too, suddenly acquired extraordinary im-
portance inKaterina Ivanovna's eyes and was treated by her
with extraordinary respect, probably only because Amalia Ivan-
ovna had thrown herself heart and soul into the preparations.
She had undertaken to lay the table, to provide the linen, crock-
ery, &c., and to cook the dishes in her kitchen, and Katerina
Ivanovna had left it all in her hands and gone herself to the
cemetery. Everything had been well done. Even the tablecloth
was nearly clean; the crockery, knives, forks and glasses were,
of course, of all shapes and patterns, lent by different lodgers,
but the table was properly laid at the time fixed, and Amalia
Ivanovna, feeling she had done her work well, had put on a black
silk dress and a cap with new mourning ribbons and met the
returning party with some pride. This pride, though justifiable,
displeased Katerina Ivanovna for some reason: "as though the
table could not have been laid except by Amalia Ivanovna!"
She disliked the cap with new ribbons, too. "Could she be stuck
up, the stupid German, because she was mistress of the house,
and had consented as a favour to help her poor lodgers! As a
favour! Fancy that! Katerina Ivanovna's father who had been
a colonel and almost a governor had sometimes had the table set
for forty persons, and then any one like Amalia Ivanovna, or
rather Ludwigovna, would not have been allowed into the
kitchen."
Katerina Ivanovna, however, put oflf expressing her feelings
for the time and contented herself with treating her coldly,
though she decided inwardly that she would certainly have to
put Amalia Ivanovna down and set her in her proper place, for
goodness only knew what she was fancying herself. Katerina
Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the
lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who
had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the me-
morial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had
tvu-ned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite
sober. The older and more respectable of them all, as if by com-
mon consent, stayed away. Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, for in-
stance, who might be said to be the most respectable of all the
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