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Crime and Punishment

CHAPTER III
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"I did not go empty-handed--they took the size from this monster.

We all did our best.
And as to your linen, your landlady has seen to that.

Here, to begin with are three shirts, hempen but with a fashionable front....

Well now then, eighty copecks the cap, two roubles twenty-five copecks the suit--together three roubles five copecks--a rouble and a half for the boots--for, you see, they are very good--and that makes four roubles fifty-five copecks; five roubles for the underclothes--they were bought in the lo--which makes exactly nine roubles fifty-five copecks.
Forty-five copecks change in coppers.

Will you take it?
And so, Rodya, you are set up with a complete new rig-out, for your overcoat will serve, and even has a style of its own.


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