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"The coffin will be plain, of course... and everything will be

plain, so it won't cost much. Katerina Ivanovna and I have

reckoned it all out, so that there will be enough left... and

Katerina Ivanovna was very anxious it should be so. You know one

can't... it's a comfort to her... she is like that, you know...."

"I understand, I understand... of course... why do you look at my

room like that? My mother has just said it is like a tomb."

"You gave us everything yesterday," Sonia said suddenly, in

reply, in a loud rapid whisper; and again she looked down in

confusion. Her lips and chin were trembling once more. She had

been struck at once by Raskolnikov's poor surroundings, and now

these words broke out spontaneously. A silence followed. There

was a light in Dounia's eyes, and even Pulcheria Alexandrovna

looked kindly at Sonia.