1 He could hear her unlocking the chest of drawers.
2 But no words, no exclamations, could express his agitation.
3 Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror for him.
4 And you could not have judged all the facts without being on the spot.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 5 She was trying to comfort him, whispering something to him, and doing all she could to keep him from whimpering again.
6 He walked towards it as fast he could; but on the way he met with a little adventure which absorbed all his attention.
7 There were various other reasons owing to which Dounia could not hope to escape from that awful house for another six weeks.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 8 We have now part of a room at Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel's; and what we live upon and what we pay our rent with, I could not say.
9 Further in could be seen figures in dressing gowns flung open, in costumes of unseemly scantiness, some of them with cards in their hands.
10 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.
11 To suit his own arrangements he is anxious to have the ceremony as soon as possible, even before the fast of Our Lady, if it could be managed, or if that is too soon to be ready, immediately after.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 12 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.
13 This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds--tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc.
14 The young man took it, and was so angry that he was on the point of going away; but checked himself at once, remembering that there was nowhere else he could go, and that he had had another object also in coming.
15 When Dounia spoke to him with enthusiasm about you, he answered that one could never judge of a man without seeing him close, for oneself, and that he looked forward to forming his own opinion when he makes your acquaintance.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 16 So, Rodya dear, he may be of the greatest use to you, in every way indeed, and Dounia and I have agreed that from this very day you could definitely enter upon your career and might consider that your future is marked out and assured for you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 17 I hasten to tell you all about the matter, and though it has been arranged without asking your consent, I think you will not be aggrieved with me or with your sister on that account, for you will see that we could not wait and put off our decision till we heard from you.
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