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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 369
have a word with your stepdaughter, Sof ya . . . Ivanovna, I think
it is? Allow me to pass."
Pyotr Petrovitch, edging by her, went to the opposite corner
where Sonia was.
Katerina Ivanovna remained standing where she was, as
though thunderstruck. She could not understand how Pyotf
Petrovitch could deny having enjoyed her father's hospitality-
Though she had invented it herself, she believed in it firmly by
this time. She was struck too by the businesslike, dry and even
contemptuously menacing tone of Pyotr Petrovitch. All the
clamour gradually died away at his entrance. Not only was thi*
"serious business man" strikingly incongruous with the rest of
the party, but it was evident, too, that he had come upon some
matter of consequence, that some exceptional cause must have
brought him and that therefore something was going to happen.
Raskolnikov, standing beside Sonia, moved aside to let him pass;
Pyotr Petrovitch did not seem to notice him. A minute later
Lebeziatnikov, too, appeared in the doorway; he did not come
in, but stood still, listening with marked interest, almost won-
der, and seemed for a time perplexed.
"Excuse me for possibly interrupting you, but it's a matter of
some importance," Pyotr Petrovitch observed, addressing the
company generally. "I am glad indeed to find other p>ersons
present. Amalia Ivanovna, I humbly beg you as mistress of the
house to pay careful attention to what I have to say to Sofya
Ivanovna. Sofya Ivanovna," he went on, addressing Sonia, who
was very much surprised and already alarmed, "immediately
after your visit I found that a himdred-rouble note was missing
from my table, in the room of my friend Mr. Lebeziatnikov. If
in any way whatever you know and will tell us where it is now,
I assure you on my word of honour and call all present to witness
that the matter shall end there. In the opposite case I shall be
compelled to have recourse to very serious measures and then . . .
you must blame yourself."
Complete silence reigned in the room. Even the crying chil-
dren were still. Sonia stood deadly pale, staring at Luzhin and
unable to say a word. She seemed not to understand. Some sec-
onds passed.
"Well, how is it to be then?" asked Luzhin, looking intentlyat her.
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