1 "Maybe he's not at home," said a man's voice.
2 I'll fetch you a cab and take you home myself.
3 The old woman was, of course, at home, but she was suspicious and alone.
4 He got two roubles from her and went into a miserable little tavern on his way home.
5 They, too, had got up to go home, but were lingering in conversation with a friend, who had just come up to them.
6 It is true that it happened to him dozens of times to return home without noticing what streets he passed through.
7 Though he was almost falling from fatigue, he went a long way round so as to get home from quite a different direction.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 8 It had happened to him many times going home not to notice the road by which he was going, and he was accustomed to walk like that.
9 This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept in order at home.
10 But it all happened fortunately, the door of the porter's room was closed but not locked, so that it seemed most likely that the porter was at home.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 11 But again the porter was not at home, and he succeeded in putting the axe back under the bench, and even covering it with the chunk of wood as before.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 12 "You don't say there's no one at home," the new-comer cried in a cheerful, ringing voice, addressing the first visitor, who still went on pulling the bell.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 13 But what was his amazement when he suddenly saw that Nastasya was not only at home in the kitchen, but was occupied there, taking linen out of a basket and hanging it on a line.
14 At the tables and the barrows, at the booths and the shops, all the market people were closing their establishments or clearing away and packing up their wares and, like their customers, were going home.
15 He could never understand and explain to himself why, when he was tired and worn out, when it would have been more convenient for him to go home by the shortest and most direct way, he had returned by the Hay Market where he had no need to go.
16 "Honoured sir, honoured sir," cried Marmeladov recovering himself--"Oh, sir, perhaps all this seems a laughing matter to you, as it does to others, and perhaps I am only worrying you with the stupidity of all the trivial details of my home life, but it is not a laughing matter to me.
17 In any case, it would have been difficult to find out beforehand and with certainty, with greater exactness and less risk, and without dangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain time an old woman, on whose life an attempt was contemplated, would be at home and entirely alone.
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