1 But why, my good sir, all of a minute.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 2 But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.
3 You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth anything.
4 Know, sir, that such blows are not a pain to me, but even an enjoyment.
5 That was the day before yesterday, I venture to say, if you please, sir.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 6 "Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity.
7 Honoured sir," he began almost with solemnity, "poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying.
8 And now may I venture to address you, honoured sir, on my own account with a private question.
9 "Let us go, sir," said Marmeladov all at once, raising his head and addressing Raskolnikov--"come along with me.
10 Here, sir: as we say ten copecks the rouble a month, so I must take fifteen copecks from a rouble and a half for the month in advance.
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 "Why am I not at my duty, honoured sir," Marmeladov went on, addressing himself exclusively to Raskolnikov, as though it had been he who put that question to him.
13 And then, honoured sir, and then, I, being at the time a widower, with a daughter of fourteen left me by my first wife, offered her my hand, for I could not bear the sight of such suffering.
14 Let me tell you, sir," he began deliberately, doing his utmost to restrain himself but breathing hard, "at the first moment I saw you you were ill-disposed to me, but I remained here on purpose to find out more.
15 "Nobody asks you for these personal details, sir, we've no time to waste," Ilya Petrovitch interposed roughly and with a note of triumph; but Raskolnikov stopped him hotly, though he suddenly found it exceedingly difficult to speak.
16 "Honoured sir, honoured sir," cried Marmeladov recovering himself--"Oh, sir, perhaps all this seems a laughing matter to you, as it does to others, and perhaps I am only worrying you with the stupidity of all the trivial details of my home life, but it is not a laughing matter to me.
17 "Since then, sir," he went on after a brief pause--"Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through information given by evil-intentioned persons--in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect--since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yellow ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
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