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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 367
look after the linen, and secondly that the young ladies must
not novels at night read."
Katerina Ivanovna, who certainly was upset and very tired,
as well as heartily sick of the dinner, at once cut short Amalia
Ivanovna, saying "she knew nothing about it and was talking
nonsense, that it was the business of the laundry maid, and not
of the directress of a high-class boarding-school to look after
die Wasche, and as for novel reading, that was simply rudeness,
and she begged her to be silent." Amalia Ivanovna fired up and
getting angry observed that she only "meant her good," and
that "she had meant her very good," and that "it was long since
she had paid her gold for the lodgings."
Katerina Ivanovna at once "set her down," saying that it
was a lie to say she wished her good, because only yesterday
when her dead husband was lying on the table, she had worried
her about the lodgings. To this Amalia Ivanovna very appro-
priately observed that she had invited those ladies, but "those
ladies had not come, because those ladies are ladies and cannot
come to a lady who is not a lady." Katerina Ivanovna at once
pointed out to her, that as she was a slut she could not judge what
made one really a lady. Amalia Ivanovna at once declared that
her "vater aus Berlin-was a very, very important man, and both
hands in pockets went, and always used to say: poof! poof!" and
she leapt up from the table to represent her father, sticking her
hands in her pockets, puffing her cheeks, and uttering vague
sounds resembHng "poof! poof!" amid loud laughter from all
the lodgers, who purposely encouraged Amalia Ivanovna, hop-
ing for a fight.
But this was too much for Katerina Ivanovna, and she at once
declared, so that all could hear, that Amalia Ivanovna probably
never had a father, but was simply a drunken Petersburg Finn,
and had certainly once been a cook and probably something
worse. Amalia Ivanovna turned as red as a lobster and squealed
that perhaps Katerina Ivanovna never had a father, "but she
had a vater aus Berlin and that he wore a long coat and always
said poof-poof-poof!"
Katerina Ivanovna observed contemptuously that all knew
what her family was and that on that very certificate of honour
it was stated in print that her father was a colonel, while
Amalia Ivanovna 's father — if she really had one — was probabjy
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