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He was only asked out of kindness and because he was sharing the

same room with Pyotr Petrovitch and was a friend of his, so that

it would have been awkward not to invite him."

Among those who failed to appear were "the genteel lady and her

old-maidish daughter," who had only been lodgers in the house for

the last fortnight, but had several times complained of the noise

and uproar in Katerina Ivanovna's room, especially when

Marmeladov had come back drunk. Katerina Ivanovna heard this from

Amalia Ivanovna who, quarrelling with Katerina Ivanovna, and

threatening to turn the whole family out of doors, had shouted at

her that they "were not worth the foot" of the honourable lodgers

whom they were disturbing. Katerina Ivanovna determined now to

invite this lady and her daughter, "whose foot she was not

worth," and who had turned away haughtily when she casually met

them, so that they might know that "she was more noble in her

thoughts and feelings and did not harbour malice," and might see

that she was not accustomed to her way of living.