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"A fashion book is a lot of pictures, coloured, and they come to

the tailors here every Saturday, by post from abroad, to show

folks how to dress, the male sex as well as the female. They're

pictures. The gentlemen are generally wearing fur coats and for

the ladies' fluffles, they're beyond anything you can fancy."

"There's nothing you can't find in Petersburg," the younger cried

enthusiastically, "except father and mother, there's everything!"

"Except them, there's everything to be found, my boy," the elder

declared sententiously.

Raskolnikov got up and walked into the other room where the

strong box, the bed, and the chest of drawers had been; the room

seemed to him very tiny without furniture in it. The paper was

the same; the paper in the corner showed where the case of ikons

had stood. He looked at it and went to the window. The elder

workman looked at him askance.

"What do you want?" he asked suddenly.