1 I gave three copecks of my own to the postman for it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 2 They all live in one room, but Sonia has her own, partitioned off.
3 Thirty copecks she gave me with her own hands, her last, all she had, as I saw.
4 He, too, would apparently have liked to approach the girl with some object of his own.
5 And now may I venture to address you, honoured sir, on my own account with a private question.
6 She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 7 But why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving.
8 Besides he is a man of great prudence and he will see, to be sure, of himself, that his own happiness will be the more secure, the happier Dounia is with him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 9 Possibly he was ashamed and horrified himself at his own flighty hopes, considering his years and his being the father of a family; and that made him angry with Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 10 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 11 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 12 Now, a month later, he had begun to look upon them differently, and, in spite of the monologues in which he jeered at his own impotence and indecision, he had involuntarily come to regard this "hideous" dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still did not realise this himself.
13 At the other persons in the room, including the tavern-keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.
14 I have noticed more than once in my life that husbands don't quite get on with their mothers-in-law, and I don't want to be the least bit in anyone's way, and for my own sake, too, would rather be quite independent, so long as I have a crust of bread of my own, and such children as you and Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 15 And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family.
16 They even began to come into the room; at last a sinister shrill outcry was heard: this came from Amalia Lippevechsel herself pushing her way amongst them and trying to restore order after her own fashion and for the hundredth time to frighten the poor woman by ordering her with coarse abuse to clear out of the room next day.
17 And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she arrived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.
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