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Amalia Ivanovna herself had been invited with great ceremony in

spite of the recent unpleasantness, and so she was very busy with

preparations and was taking a positive pleasure in them; she was

moreover dressed up to the nines, all in new black silk, and she

was proud of it. All this suggested an idea to Pyotr Petrovitch

and he went into his room, or rather Lebeziatnikov's, somewhat

thoughtful. He had learnt that Raskolnikov was to be one of the

guests.