Crime and Punishment Part 1 Chapter 6

In which the young and troubled Raskolnikov becomes intimately acquainted with the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta, a meek and enduring woman, through overheard conversations that ignite his own dark and restless meditations. Haunted by a feverish lethargy and fateful design, he prepares with trembling precision for an action whose gravity weighs heavily upon his reason and spirit, leading him at last to stand upon the precipice of irrevocable consequence.