1 My mother herself is almost a beggar.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 2 Her mother made her kneel beside her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 3 'There can be no question of love,' mother writes.
4 Now his mother's letter had burst on him like a thunderclap.
5 And you must be aware that her mother has to raise money on her pension for the journey.
6 And mother never used to say anything, but we knew that she liked it and father knew it, too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 7 Lizaveta was younger than the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of a different mother.
8 The good man has no doubt let slip something on that subject also, though mother would deny it: 'I shall refuse,' says she.
9 At the same time her large dark eyes, which looked larger still from the thinness of her frightened face, were watching her mother with alarm.
10 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.
11 He was listening to what his mother was saying to his sister, sitting perfectly still with pouting lips and wide-open eyes, just as all good little boys have to sit when they are undressed to go to bed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 12 And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them that he almost cried, and his mother always used to take him away from the window.
13 When Nastasya had gone out, he lifted it quickly to his lips and kissed it; then he gazed intently at the address, the small, sloping handwriting, so dear and familiar, of the mother who had once taught him to read and write.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 14 No, Dounia, I see it all and I know what you want to say to me; and I know too what you were thinking about, when you walked up and down all night, and what your prayers were like before the Holy Mother of Kazan who stands in mother's bedroom.
15 In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.
16 And now mother and she have taken it into their heads that she can put up with Mr. Luzhin, who propounds the theory of the superiority of wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband's bounty--who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview.
17 Of late she had begun to talk more than ever to her eldest girl, Polenka, a child of ten, who, though there was much she did not understand, understood very well that her mother needed her, and so always watched her with her big clever eyes and strove her utmost to appear to understand.
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