to the closing: Yes, David committed a terrible sin and

IT WOULD be difficult to explain exactly what could have

originated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina Ivanovna's

disordered brain. Nearly ten of the twenty roubles, given by

Raskolnikov for Marmeladov's funeral, were wasted upon it. Possibly

Katerina Ivanovna felt obliged to honour the memory of the deceased

"suitably," that all the lodgers, and still more Amalia Ivanovna,

might know "that he was in no way their inferior, and perhaps very

much their superior," and that no one had the right "to turn up his