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Pyotr Petrovitch sniggered as he listened, but without much

merriment. He hardly heard it indeed. He was preoccupied with

something else and even Lebeziatnikov at last noticed it. Pyotr

Petrovitch seemed excited and rubbed his hands. Lebeziatnikov

remembered all this and reflected upon it afterwards.

CHAPTER II

It would be difficult to explain exactly what could have

originated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina

Ivanovna's disordered brain. Nearly ten of the twenty roubles,

given by Raskolnikov for Marmeladov's funeral, were wasted upon

it.