as compromising too much, but both were concerned that

too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the

funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the

cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most

insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of

them not quite sober. The older and more respectable of them all, as

if by common consent, stayed away. 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