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1  And Marfa Petrovna and I scarcely ever fought.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
2  "It was a present from Marfa Petrovna," answered Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
3  Do you know, Dounia, when I dozed a little this morning I dreamed of Marfa Petrovna.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
4  "Do you know, Rodya, Marfa Petrovna is dead," Pulcheria Alexandrovna suddenly blurted out.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
5  "Marfa Petrovna is pleased to visit me," he said, twisting his mouth into a strange smile.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
6  I looked up and there was suddenly Marfa Petrovna sitting beside me with a pack of cards in her hands.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
7  All this was set going by Marfa Petrovna who managed to slander Dounia and throw dirt at her in every family.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
8  In my opinion a great deal, a very great deal of all this was unnecessary; but that's Marfa Petrovna's character.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
9  Marfa Petrovna herself invited me to go abroad, seeing I was bored, but I've been abroad before, and always felt sick there.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
10  Marfa Petrovna was completely taken aback, and 'again crushed' as she said herself to us, but she was completely convinced of Dounia's innocence.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
11  He is already of the rank of a counsellor, Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, and is distantly related to Marfa Petrovna, who has been very active in bringing the match about.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
12  The story of your sister had been wrung out to the last drop; for the last three days Marfa Petrovna had been forced to sit at home; she had nothing to show herself with in the town.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
13  It was my own doing, not leaving the country, and nearly a year ago Marfa Petrovna gave me back the document on my name-day and made me a present of a considerable sum of money, too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
14  don't regard me as a cynic, please; I am perfectly aware how atrocious it was of me and all that; but I know for certain, too, that Marfa Petrovna was very likely pleased at my, so to say, warmth.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
15  Marfa Petrovna accidentally overheard her husband imploring Dounia in the garden, and, putting quite a wrong interpretation on the position, threw the blame upon her, believing her to be the cause of it all.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
16  In that letter she reproached him with great heat and indignation for the baseness of his behaviour in regard to Marfa Petrovna, reminding him that he was the father and head of a family and telling him how infamous it was of him to torment and make unhappy a defenceless girl, unhappy enough already.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
17  And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she arrived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
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