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- }46 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
what I think about all such ceremonies. And she invited you
too, I heard. You were talking to her yesterday . . ."
"I should never have expected that beggarly fool would have
spent on this feast all the money she got from that other fool,
Raskolnikov. I was surprised just now as I came through at the
preparations there, the wines! Several people are invited. It's
beyond everything!" continued Pyotr Petrovitch, who seemed
to have some object in pursuing the conversation. "What? You
say I am asked too? When was that? I don't remember. But I
shan't go. Why should I? I only said a word to her in passing
yesterday of the possibility of her obtaining a year's salary as a
destitute widow of a government clerk. I suppose she has invited
me on that accovmt, hasn't she? He-he-he!"
"I don't intend to go either," said Lebeziatnikov.
"I should think not, after giving her a thrashing! You might
well hesitate, he-he!"
"Who thrashed? Whom?" cried Lebeziatnikov, flustered and
blushing.
"Why, you thrashed Katerina Ivanovna a month ago. I heard
so yesterday ... so that's what your convictions amount to . . .
and the woman question, too, wasn't quite sound, he-he-he!"
and Pyotr Petrovitch, as though comforted, went back to click-
ing his beads.
"It's all slander and nonsense!" cried Lebeziatnikov, who was
always afraid of allusions to the subject. "It was not like that
at all, it was quite different. You've heard it wrong; it's a libel.
I was simply defending myself. She rushed at me first with her
nails, she pulled out all my whiskers. . . . It's permissible for any
one I should hope to defend himself and I never allow any
one to use violence to me on principle, for it's an act of despot-
ism. What was I to do? I simply pushed her back."
"He-he-he!" Luzhin went on laughing maliciously.
"You keep on like that because you are out of humour your-
self. .. . But that's nonsense and it has nothing, nothing what-
ever to do with the woman question! You don't understand;
I used to think, indeed, that if women are equal to men in all
respects even in strength (as is maintained now) there ought
to be equality in that, too. Of course, I reflected afterwards that
such a question ought not really to arise, for there ought not
to be fighting and in the future society, fighting is unthinkable
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