1 The old woman coughed and groaned at every instant.
2 "Please yourself"--and the old woman handed him back the watch.
3 The old woman stood facing him in silence and looking inquiringly at him.
4 "That's a good thing anyway," he thought to himself, as he rang the bell of the old woman's flat.
5 Lizaveta was younger than the old woman and was her half-sister, being the child of a different mother.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VI 6 She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose.
7 The old woman fumbled in her pocket for her keys, and disappeared behind the curtain into the other room.
8 I am again on the same errand, Raskolnikov continued, a little disconcerted and surprised at the old woman's mistrust.
9 This German was moving out then, and so the fourth floor on this staircase would be untenanted except by the old woman.
10 When he found the old woman he had felt an insurmountable repulsion for her at the first glance, though he knew nothing special about her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VI 11 "I remember, my good sir, I remember quite well your coming here," the old woman said distinctly, still keeping her inquiring eyes on his face.
12 He looked at the old woman, and was in no hurry to get away, as though there was still something he wanted to say or to do, but he did not himself quite know what.
13 In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
14 The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretchedness.
15 The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N----, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VI 16 "It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness," Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.
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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