[Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky]@TWC D-Link bookCrime and Punishment CHAPTER III 3/31
Nastasya, the cook and only servant, was rather pleased at the lodger's mood and had entirely given up sweeping and doing his room, only once a week or so she would stray into his room with a broom.
She waked him up that day. "Get up, why are you asleep ?" she called to him.
"It's past nine, I have brought you some tea; will you have a cup? I should think you're fairly starving ?" Raskolnikov opened his eyes, started and recognised Nastasya. "From the landlady, eh ?" he asked, slowly and with a sickly face sitting up on the sofa. "From the landlady, indeed!" She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it. "Here, Nastasya, take it please," he said, fumbling in his pocket (for he had slept in his clothes) and taking out a handful of coppers--"run and buy me a loaf.
And get me a little sausage, the cheapest, at the pork-butcher's." "The loaf I'll fetch you this very minute, but wouldn't you rather have some cabbage soup instead of sausage? It's capital soup, yesterday's.
I saved it for you yesterday, but you came in late.
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