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none at all, but she got herself up as though she were going on a

visit; and not that she'd anything to do it with, she smartened

herself up with nothing at all, she'd done her hair nicely, put

on a clean collar of some sort, cuffs, and there she was, quite a

different person, she was younger and better looking. Sonia, my

little darling, had only helped with money 'for the time,' she

said, 'it won't do for me to come and see you too often. After

dark maybe when no one can see.' Do you hear, do you hear? I lay

down for a nap after dinner and what do you think: though

Katerina Ivanovna had quarrelled to the last degree with our

landlady Amalia Fyodorovna only a week before, she could not

resist then asking her in to coffee. For two hours they were

sitting, whispering together.