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Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, for instance, who might be said to be

the most respectable of all the lodgers, did not appear, though

Katerina Ivanovna had the evening before told all the world, that

is Amalia Ivanovna, Polenka, Sonia and the Pole, that he was the

most generous, noble-hearted man with a large property and vast

connections, who had been a friend of her first husband's, and a

guest in her father's house, and that he had promised to use all

his influence to secure her a considerable pension. It must be

noted that when Katerina Ivanovna exalted anyone's connections

and fortune, it was without any ulterior motive, quite

disinterestedly, for the mere pleasure of adding to the

consequence of the person praised. Probably "taking his cue" from

Luzhin, "that contemptible wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up

either. What did he fancy himself?