at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

nose at him." Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar "poor

man's pride," which compels many poor people to spend their last

savings on some traditional social ceremony, simply in order to do

"like other people," and not to "be looked down upon." It is very

probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at

the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by every one, to show those

"wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how

to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she