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This pride, though justifiable, displeased Katerina Ivanovna for

some reason: "as though the table could not have been laid except

by Amalia Ivanovna!" She disliked the cap with new ribbons, too.

"Could she be stuck up, the stupid German, because she was

mistress of the house, and had consented as a favour to help her

poor lodgers! As a favour! Fancy that! Katerina Ivanovna's father

who had been a colonel and almost a governor had sometimes had

the table set for forty persons, and then anyone like Amalia

Ivanovna, or rather Ludwigovna, would not have been allowed into

the kitchen."