1 A grimy little door at the very top of the stairs stood ajar.
2 The inner door was thrown wide open and inquisitive faces were peering in at it.
3 But, seeing a number of people on the landing, she grew bolder, and opened the door wide.
4 He crept on tiptoe to the door, stealthily opened it and began listening on the staircase.
5 From the inner rooms clouds of tobacco smoke floated in, she kept coughing, but did not close the door.
6 At that instant two drunken men came out at the door, and abusing and supporting one another, they mounted the steps.
7 Marmeladov did not enter the door, but dropped on his knees in the very doorway, pushing Raskolnikov in front of him.
8 He rushed to the door, listened, caught up his hat and began to descend his thirteen steps cautiously, noiselessly, like a cat.
9 The young man was very glad to meet none of them, and at once slipped unnoticed through the door on the right, and up the staircase.
10 The room was close, but she had not opened the window; a stench rose from the staircase, but the door on to the stairs was not closed.
11 Nastasya was continually out of the house, especially in the evenings; she would run in to the neighbours or to a shop, and always left the door ajar.
12 Taking no further notice of him, she walked towards the outer door to close it and uttered a sudden scream on seeing her husband on his knees in the doorway.
13 The door leading to the other rooms, or rather cupboards, into which Amalia Lippevechsel's flat was divided stood half open, and there was shouting, uproar and laughter within.
14 The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open.
15 In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
16 When he reached the landlady's kitchen, the door of which was open as usual, he glanced cautiously in to see whether, in Nastasya's absence, the landlady herself was there, or if not, whether the door to her own room was closed, so that she might not peep out when he went in for the axe.
17 "It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness," Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.
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