1 For that will be the tone after marriage, it's a foretaste of it.
2 But I must tell you, for it's an interesting story, my marriage, in its own way.
3 When the deception is open, as in a free marriage, then it does not exist, it's unthinkable.
4 For many years he had had voluptuous dreams of marriage, but he had gone on waiting and amassing money.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER III 5 Do you hear, sister," he repeated after them, making a last effort, "I am not delirious; this marriage is--an infamy.
6 I only learned that the marriage, which only failed to take place through the girl's death, was not at all to Praskovya Pavlovna's liking.
7 The first time, two months after our marriage, immediately after we arrived in the country, and the last time was that of which we are speaking.
8 It's not that I detest him so much, but it was through him I quarrelled with Marfa Petrovna when I learned that she had dished up this marriage.
9 Pulcheria Alexandrovna was delighted to give her blessing to Dounia's marriage with Razumihin; but after the marriage she became even more melancholy and anxious.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 10 "Because I don't want in your free marriage to be made a fool of and to bring up another man's children, that's why I want legal marriage," Luzhin replied in order to make some answer.
11 herself, she wrote to her father and mother that she wouldn't go on living conventionally and was entering on a free marriage and it was said that that was too harsh, that she might have spared them and have written more kindly.
12 He was particularly irritated by the owner of the flat which had been taken in view of his approaching marriage and was being redecorated at his own expense; the owner, a rich German tradesman, would not entertain the idea of breaking the contract which had just been signed and insisted on the full forfeit money, though Pyotr Petrovitch would be giving him back the flat practically redecorated.