Crime and Punishment

for a while only the old woman's apartment will be left occupied. That's good... just in case...”

Whereas now, a month later, he was beginning to look at them differently and, despite all those taunting monologues about his own powerlessness and indecision, had grown used, even somehow involuntarily, to regarding the “ugly” dream as a real undertaking, though he still did not believe himself. Now he was even going to make a trial of his undertaking, and at every step his excitement grew stronger and stronger.

the young man felt some painful and cowardly sensation, which made him wince with shame. He was over his head in debt to the landlady and was afraid of meeting her.

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General Adviser
Keith Carabine

half-dilapidated cabbies.

might blurt out some foolishness . . .”

sought objections on all sides,

alone.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken

she has a lofty heart and is full of sentiments ennobled by good breeding.