Coppers on the Window – Crime and Punishment

They even began to come into the room; at last a sinister shrill outcry was heard.

This came from Amalia Lippevechsel herself pushing her way amongst them and trying to restore order, after her own fashion, and for the hundredth time, to frighten the poor woman by ordering her with coarse abuse to clear out of the room the next day.

As he went out, Raskolnikov had time to put his hand into his pocket, to snatch up the coppers he had received in exchange for his trouble in the tavern and to lay them unnoticed on the window.