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- 366 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
that Katerina Ivanovna, his wife, had danced the shawl dance
before the governor and other great personages on leaving
school. This certificate of honour was obviously intended now
to prove Katerina Ivanovna's right to open a boarding-school;
but she had armed herself with it chiefly with the object of over-
whelming "those two stuck-up draggletails" if they came to the
dinner, and proving incontestably that Katerina Ivanovna was
of the most noble, "she might even say aristocratic family, a
colonel's daughter and was far superior to certain adventuresses
who have been so much to the fore of late." The certificate of
honour immediately passed into the hands of the drunken guests,
and Katerina Ivanovna did not try to retain it, for it actually
contained the statement en toutes lettres, that her father was of
the rank of a major, and also a companion of an order, so that
she really was almost the daughter of a colonel.
Warming up, Katerina Ivanovna proceeded to enlarge on the
peaceful and happy life they would lead in T , on the gym-
nasium teachers whom she would engage to give lessons in her
boarding-school, one a most respectable old Frenchman, one
Mangot, who had taught Katerina Ivanovna hersdf in old days
and was still living in T , and would no doubt teach in her
school on moderate terms. Next she spoke of Sonia who would
go with her to T and help her in all her plans. At this some
one at the further end of the table gave a sudden guffaw.
Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdain-
fully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once
speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist
her, of "her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good
education," tapping Sonia on the cheek and kissing her warmly
twice. Sonia flushed crimson, and Katerina Ivanovna suddenly
burst into tears, immediately observing, that she was "nervous
and silly, that she was too much upset, that it was time to fin-
ish, and as the dinner was over, it was time to hand round the
tea."At that moment, Amalia Ivanovna, deeply aggrieved at
taking no part in the conversation, and not being listened to,
made one last effort, and with secret misgivings ventured on an
exceedingly deep and weighty observation, that "in the future
boarding-school she would have to pay particular attention to
die Wasche, and that there certainly must be a good dame to
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