1 He dreamt he was back in his childhood in the little town of his birth.
2 It was as stifling as before, but he eagerly drank in the stinking, dusty town air.
3 And the day before yesterday they arrested Nikolay in a tavern at the end of the town.
4 In that quarter of the town, however, scarcely any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.
5 A family who had come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling their household goods and clothes, all women's things.
6 The greenness and freshness were at first restful to his weary eyes after the dust of the town and the huge houses that hemmed him in and weighed upon him.
7 And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, insulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 8 In this way she was busy for several days in driving about the whole town, because some people had taken offence through precedence having been given to others.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 9 The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
10 The head clerk began dictating to him the usual form of declaration, that he could not pay, that he undertook to do so at a future date, that he would not leave the town, nor sell his property, and so on.
11 By degrees he passed to the conviction that if the summer garden were extended to the field of Mars, and perhaps joined to the garden of the Mihailovsky Palace, it would be a splendid thing and a great benefit to the town.
12 For a whole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal, and it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go to church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and even remarks made aloud about us.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 13 The same morning without any delay, she went round to all the houses in the town and everywhere, shedding tears, she asserted in the most flattering terms Dounia's innocence and the nobility of her feelings and her behavior.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 14 The insufferable stench from the pot-houses, which are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed the revolting misery of the picture.
15 Then he was interested by the question why in all great towns men are not simply driven by necessity, but in some peculiar way inclined to live in those parts of the town where there are no gardens nor fountains; where there is most dirt and smell and all sorts of nastiness.
16 The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer--all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
17 She knows everyone in the neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming into the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossiping about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to all and each of her husband--which is not at all right--so in a short time she had spread her story not only in the town, but over the whole surrounding district.
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