1 And you could not have judged all the facts without being on the spot.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 2 Lizaveta was younger than the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of a different mother.
3 He struck me, for instance, at first, as rather abrupt, but that may well come from his being an outspoken man, and that is no doubt how it is.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 4 "No, I am studying," answered the young man, somewhat surprised at the grandiloquent style of the speaker and also at being so directly addressed.
5 Far as he was from being capable of rational reflection at that moment, he felt that no one would behave like that with a person who was going to be arrested.
6 Possibly he was ashamed and horrified himself at his own flighty hopes, considering his years and his being the father of a family; and that made him angry with Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 7 I kissed the dust at his feet--in thought only, for in reality he would not have allowed me to do it, being a statesman and a man of modern political and enlightened ideas.
8 He remembered however, that on coming out on to the canal bank, he was alarmed at finding few people there and so being more conspicuous, and he had thought of turning back.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 9 The very next day, being Sunday, she went straight to the Cathedral, knelt down and prayed with tears to Our Lady to give her strength to bear this new trial and to do her duty.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 10 The girl seemed hardly to know what she was doing; she crossed one leg over the other, lifting it indecorously, and showed every sign of being unconscious that she was in the street.
11 And then, honoured sir, and then, I, being at the time a widower, with a daughter of fourteen left me by my first wife, offered her my hand, for I could not bear the sight of such suffering.
12 He thought of nothing and was incapable of thinking; but he felt suddenly in his whole being that he had no more freedom of thought, no will, and that everything was suddenly and irrevocably decided.
13 In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.
14 Fearing the old woman would be frightened by their being alone, and not hoping that the sight of him would disarm her suspicions, he took hold of the door and drew it towards him to prevent the old woman from attempting to shut it again.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 15 And yet, although I realise that when she pulls my hair she only does it out of pity--for I repeat without being ashamed, she pulls my hair, young man," he declared with redoubled dignity, hearing the sniggering again--"but, my God, if she would but once.
16 What made it all so difficult was that Dounia received a hundred roubles in advance when she took the place as governess in their family, on condition of part of her salary being deducted every month, and so it was impossible to throw up the situation without repaying the debt.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 17 And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: "Hey there, German hatter" bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him--the young man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat.
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