1 And she was proud, too, excessively proud.
2 So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right.
3 Yes, yes, she is a lady of spirit, proud and determined.
4 But, seeing a number of people on the landing, she grew bolder, and opened the door wide.
5 but the certificate of merit is in her trunk still and not long ago she showed it to our landlady.
6 Her colourless, somewhat grizzled hair was thickly smeared with oil, and she wore no kerchief over it.
7 Granted, granted, I am a scoundrel, but she is a woman of a noble heart, full of sentiments, refined by education.
8 "Perhaps she is always like that though, only I did not notice it the other time," he thought with an uneasy feeling.
9 You can judge the extremity of her calamities, that she, a woman of education and culture and distinguished family, should have consented to be my wife.
10 And although she is most continually on bad terms with the landlady, yet she wanted to tell someone or other of her past honours and of the happy days that are gone.
11 And meanwhile my daughter by my first wife has grown up; and what my daughter has had to put up with from her step-mother whilst she was growing up, I won't speak of.
12 That's why she would not overlook Mr. Lebeziatnikov's rudeness to her, and so when he gave her a beating for it, she took to her bed more from the hurt to her feelings than from the blows.
13 We have three little children and Katerina Ivanovna is at work from morning till night; she is scrubbing and cleaning and washing the children, for she's been used to cleanliness from a child.
14 Know then that my wife was educated in a high-class school for the daughters of noblemen, and on leaving she danced the shawl dance before the governor and other personages for which she was presented with a gold medal and a certificate of merit.
15 And yet, although I realise that when she pulls my hair she only does it out of pity--for I repeat without being ashamed, she pulls my hair, young man," he declared with redoubled dignity, hearing the sniggering again--"but, my God, if she would but once.
16 And she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort, I don't feel equal to describing it even.
17 He used to beat her at the end: and although she paid him back, of which I have authentic documentary evidence, to this day she speaks of him with tears and she throws him up to me; and I am glad, I am glad that, though only in imagination, she should think of herself as having once been happy.
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