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Crime and Punishment

CHAPTER VI
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"Have you just come out of a hospital ?" "They're all generals' daughters, it seems, but they have all snub noses," interposed a tipsy peasant with a sly smile on his face, wearing a loose coat.

"See how jolly they are." "Go along with you!" "I'll go, sweetie!" And he darted down into the saloon below.

Raskolnikov moved on.
"I say, sir," the girl shouted after him.
"What is it ?" She hesitated.
"I'll always be pleased to spend an hour with you, kind gentleman, but now I feel shy.

Give me six copecks for a drink, there's a nice young man!" Raskolnikov gave her what came first--fifteen copecks.
"Ah, what a good-natured gentleman!" "What's your name ?" "Ask for Duclida." "Well, that's too much," one of the women observed, shaking her head at Duclida.

"I don't know how you can ask like that.


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