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1  Porfiry, too, wants to make your acquaintance.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
2  So laughing, they entered Porfiry Petrovitch's flat.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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3  Porfiry Petrovitch did not once take his eyes off him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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4  Porfiry and you have sniffed each other out without me.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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5  On the way to Porfiry's, Razumihin was obviously excited.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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6  Porfiry Petrovitch, the head of the Investigation Department here.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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7  He was alarmed, too, by what Razumihin had just said about Porfiry.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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8  Certainly to Porfiry, Razumihin shouted in extraordinary excitement.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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9  The most important thing, does Porfiry know that I was at the old hag's flat yesterday.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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10  Porfiry Petrovitch was wearing a dressing-gown, very clean linen, and trodden-down slippers.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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11  Porfiry Petrovitch laughed and was ready to go on laughing, but obviously looked for explanations.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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12  "There must have been very grave grounds for it, if he is so furious at the word," Porfiry laughed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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13  Raskolnikov, not waiting for an introduction, bowed to Porfiry Petrovitch, who stood in the middle of the room looking inquiringly at them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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14  Raskolnikov was still laughing, with his hand in Porfiry Petrovitch's, but anxious not to overdo it, awaited the right moment to put a natural end to it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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15  But in brief and coherent phrases Raskolnikov explained his business clearly and exactly, and was so well satisfied with himself that he even succeeded in taking a good look at Porfiry.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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16  That's no matter," answered Porfiry Petrovitch, receiving his explanation of his pecuniary position coldly, "but you can, if you prefer, write straight to me, to say, that having been informed of the matter, and claiming such and such as your property, you beg.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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17  You have to give information to the police," Porfiry replied, with a most businesslike air, "that having learnt of this incident, that is of the murder, you beg to inform the lawyer in charge of the case that such and such things belong to you, and that you desire to redeem them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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