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- 372 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Amalia Ivanovna, to remember your words which have been
uttered before witnesses."
There was a buzz of loud conversation on all sides. All were
in movement.
"What!" cried Katerina Ivanovna, suddenly realising the
position, and she rushed at Luzhin. "What! You accuse her of
stealing? Sonia? Ah, the wretches, the wretches!"
And running to Sonia she flung her wasted arms round her
and held her as in a vise.
"Sonia! how dared you take ten roubles from him? Foolish
girl! Give it to me! Give me the ten roubles at once — here!"
And snatching the note from Sonia, Katerina Ivanovna
crumpled it up and flung it straight into Luzhin's face. It hit
him in the eye and fell on the ground. Amalia Ivanovna hastened
to pick it up. Pyotr Petrovitch lost his temper.
"Hold that mad woman!" he shouted.
At that moment several other persons, besides Lebeziatnikov,
appeared in the doorway, among them the two ladies.
"What! Mad? Am I mad? Idiot!" shrieked Katerina Iva-
novna. "You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base
man! Sonia, Sonia take his money! Sonia a thief! Why, she'd
give away her last penny!" and Katerina Ivanovna broke into
hysterical laughter. "Did you ever see such an idiot?" she
turned from side to side. "And you too?" she suddenly saw the
landlady, "and you too, sausage eater, you declare that she is
a thief, you trashy Prussian hen's leg in a crinoline! She hasn't
been out of this room: she came straight from you, you wretch,
and sat down beside me, every one saw her. She sat here, by
Rodion Romanovitch. Search her! Since she's not left the room,
the money would have to be on her! Search her, search her! But
if you don't find it, then excuse me, my dear fellow, you'll
answer for it! I'll go to our Sovereign, to our Sovereign, to our
gracious Tsar himself, and throw myself at his feet, to-day, this
minute! I am alone in the world! They would let me in! Do you
think they wouldn't? You're wrong, I will get in! I will get in!
You reckoned on her meekness! You relied upon that! But I am
not so submissive, let me tell you! You've gone too far your-
self. Search her, search her!"
And Katerina Ivanovna in a frenzy shook Luzhin and dragged
him towards Sonia.
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