"There are two storeys of rooms, let by a merchant called Yushin; I've been there." "Yes, rooms..." "A disgusting place--filthy, stinking and, what's more, of doubtful character.

Things have happened there, and there are all sorts of queer people living there.

And I went there about a scandalous business.

It's cheap, though..." "I could not, of course, find out so much about it, for I am a stranger in Petersburg myself," Pyotr Petrovitch replied huffily.

"However, the two rooms are exceedingly clean, and as it is for so short a time...
I have already taken a permanent, that is, our future flat," he said, addressing Raskolnikov, "and I am having it done up.