1 I saw it lying there wrapped up in paper.
2 The head clerk took the paper, and turned to attend to others.
3 "A notice from the office," he announced, as he gave him the paper.
4 The paper had come off the bottom of the wall and hung there in tatters.
5 Raskolnikov made no response and held the paper in his hands, without opening it.
6 I took off the paper, saw some little hooks, undid them, and in the box were the ear-rings.
7 The needle and thread he had got ready long before and they lay on his table in a piece of paper.
8 But Raskolnikov was not listening now; he had eagerly clutched at the paper, in haste to find an explanation.
9 He rushed to the corner, slipped his hand under the paper, pulled the things out and lined his pockets with them.
10 The paper fell out of Raskolnikov's hands, and he looked wildly at the smart lady who was so unceremoniously treated.
11 He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
12 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 13 Suddenly, as though recalling something, he rushed to the corner where there was a hole under the paper, began examining it, put his hand into the hole, fumbled--but that was not it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 14 The little room into which the young man walked, with yellow paper on the walls, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was brightly lighted up at that moment by the setting sun.
15 Raskolnikov turned to the wall where in the dirty, yellow paper he picked out one clumsy, white flower with brown lines on it and began examining how many petals there were in it, how many scallops in the petals and how many lines on them.
16 It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls, and it was so low-pitched that a man of more than average height was ill at ease in it and felt every moment that he would knock his head against the ceiling.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 17 Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on the piece of wood, he fastened them very firmly, crossing and re-crossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully and daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that it would be very difficult to untie it.
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