1 A minute later the letter was brought him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 2 As soon as I had read the letter I came out.
3 And so write a letter before to-morrow, to refuse him.
4 Now his mother's letter had burst on him like a thunderclap.
5 Your mamma had commenced a letter to you while I was sojourning in her neighbourhood.
6 It was a long while since he had received a letter, but another feeling also suddenly stabbed his heart.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 7 I had presumed and calculated," he faltered, "that a letter posted more than ten days, if not a fortnight ago.
8 From his conversation I gather he is going to marry his sister, and that he had received a letter about it just before his illness.
9 Indeed, dear Rodya, the letter was so nobly and touchingly written that I sobbed when I read it and to this day I cannot read it without tears.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 10 At last he opened it; it was a thick heavy letter, weighing over two ounces, two large sheets of note paper were covered with very small handwriting.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 11 "My dear Rodya," wrote his mother--"it's two months since I last had a talk with you by letter which has distressed me and even kept me awake at night, thinking.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 12 His mother's letter had been a torture to him, but as regards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moment's hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter.
13 He was properly received, drank coffee with us and the very next day he sent us a letter in which he very courteously made an offer and begged for a speedy and decided answer.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 14 Almost from the first, while he read the letter, Raskolnikov's face was wet with tears; but when he finished it, his face was pale and distorted and a bitter, wrathful and malignant smile was on his lips.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 15 "Twenty to the policeman, three to Nastasya for the letter, so I must have given forty-seven or fifty to the Marmeladovs yesterday," he thought, reckoning it up for some unknown reason, but he soon forgot with what object he had taken the money out of his pocket.
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 DostoevskyContextHighlight 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.
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