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In the same way the upholsterers refused to return a single

rouble of the instalment paid for the furniture purchased but not

yet removed to the flat.

"Am I to get married simply for the sake of the furniture?" Pyotr

Petrovitch ground his teeth and at the same time once more he had

a gleam of desperate hope. "Can all that be really so irrevocably

over? Is it no use to make another effort?" The thought of Dounia

sent a voluptuous pang through his heart. He endured anguish at

that moment, and if it had been possible to slay Raskolnikov

instantly by wishing it, Pyotr Petrovitch would promptly have

uttered the wish.