Pagina 431 di 1294

Meanwhile the room had become so full of people that you couldn't

have dropped a pin. The policemen left, all except one, who

remained for a time, trying to drive out the people who came in

from the stairs. Almost all Madame Lippevechsel's lodgers had

streamed in from the inner rooms of the flat; at first they were

squeezed together in the doorway, but afterwards they overflowed

into the room. Katerina Ivanovna flew into a fury.

"You might let him die in peace, at least," she shouted at the

crowd, "is it a spectacle for you to gape at? With cigarettes!

(Cough, cough, cough!) You might as well keep your hats on....

And there is one in his hat!... Get away! You should respect the

dead, at least!"