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- 364 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
would sit in a corner and look at me, I used to feel so sorry for
him, I used to want to be kind to him and then would think to
myself: 'be kind to him and he will drink again,* it was only
by severity that you could keep him within bounds."
"Yes, he used to get his hair pulled pretty often," roared the
commissariat clerk again, swallowing another glass of vodka.
"Some fools would be the better for a good drubbing, as well
as having their hair pulled. I am not talking of my late hvisband
now!" Katerina Ivanovna snapped at him.
The flush on her cheeks grew more and more marked, her
chest heaved. In another minute she would have been ready to
make a scene. Many of the visitors were sniggering, evidently
delighted. They began poking the commissariat clerk and whis-
pering something to him. They were evidently trying to egg
him on.
"Allow me to ask what are you alluding to," began the clerk,
"that is to say, whose . . . about whom . . . did you say just now
. . . But I don't care! That's nonsense! Widow! I forgive you.
. . . Pass!"
And he took another drink of vodka.
Raskolnikov sat in silence, listening with disgust. He only
ate from politeness, just tasting the food that Katerina Ivan-
ovna was continually putting on his plate, to avoid hurting her
feelings. He watched Sonia intently. But Sonia became more and
more anxious and distressed; she, too, foresaw that the dinner
would not end peaceably, and saw with terror Katerina Ivan-
ovna's growing irritation. She knew that she, Sonia, was the
chief reason for the 'genteel' ladies' contemptuous treatment of
Katerina Ivanovna's invitation. She had heard from Amalia
Ivanovna that the mother was positively offended at the invita-
tion and had asked the question: "how could she let her daugh-
ter sit down beside that young person}" Sonia had a feeling that
Katerina Ivanovna had already heard this and • an insult to
Sonia meant more to Katerina Ivanovna than an insult to her-
self, her children, or her father, Sonia knew that Katerina
Ivanovna would not be satisfied now, "till she had shown those
draggletails that they were both . . ." To make matters worse
some one passed Sonia, from the other end of the table, a plate
with two hearts pierced with an arrow, cut out of black bread.
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