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- 354 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
to-day, we will talk it over this evening and lay the foundation
so to speak. Come to me at seven o'clock. Mt. Lebeziatnikov, I
hop>e, will assist us. But there is one circumstance of which I
ought to warn you beforehand and for which I venture to
trouble you, Sofya Semyonovna, to come here. In my opinion
money cannot be, indeed it's unsafe to put it into Katerina Ivan-
ovna's own hands. The dinner to-day is a proof of that. Though
she has not, so to speak, a crust of bread for to-morrow and . . .
well, boots or shoes, or anything; she has bought to-day Jamaica
rum, and even, I believe, Madeira and . . . and coffee. I saw
it as I passed through. To-morrow it will all fall upon you again,
they won't have a crust of bread. It's absurd, really, and so, to
my thinking, a subscription ought to be raised so that the un-
happy widow should not know of the money, but only you, for
instance. Am I right?"
*T don't know . . . this is only to-day, once in her life. . . .
She was so anxious to do honour, to celebrate the memory. . . .
And she is very sensible . . . but just as you think and I shall
be very, very . . . they will all be . . . and God will reward . . .
and the orphans . . ."Sonia burst into tears.
"Very well, then, keep it in mind; and now will you accept
for the benefit of your relation the small surri that I am able to
spare, from me personally. I am very anxious that my name
should not be mentioned in connection with it. Here . . . having
so to speak anxieties of my own, I cannot do more ..."
And Pyotr Petrovitch held out to Sonia a ten rouble note
carefully unfolded. Sonia took it, flushed crimson, jumped up,
muttered something and began taking leave. Pyotr Petrovitch
accompanied her ceremoniously to the door. She got out of the
room at last, agitated and distressed, and returned to Katerina
Ivanovna, overwhelmed with confusion.
All this time Lebeziatnikov had stood at the window or
walked about the room, anxious not to interrupt the conversa-
tion; when Sonia had gone he walked up to' Pyotr Petrovitch and
solemnly held out his hand.
"I heard and saw everything," he said, laying stress on the last
verb. "That is honourable, I mean to say, it's humane! You
wanted to avoid gratitude, I saw! And although I cannot, I
confess, in principle sympathise with private charity, for it not
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