I must add that he expressed it more nicely and politely than I have done, for I have forgotten his actual phrases and only remember the meaning.

And, besides, it was obviously not said of design, but slipped out in the heat of conversation, so that he tried afterwards to correct himself and smooth it over, but all the same it did strike me as somewhat rude, and I said so afterwards to Dounia.

But Dounia was vexed, and answered that 'words are not deeds,' and that, of course, is perfectly true.

Dounia did not sleep all night before she made up her mind, and, thinking that I was asleep, she got out of bed and was walking up and down the room all night; at last she knelt down before the ikon and prayed long and fervently and in the morning she told me that she had decided.
"I have mentioned already that Pyotr Petrovitch is just setting off for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of business, and he wants to open a legal bureau.

He has been occupied for many years in conducting civil and commercial litigation, and only the other day he won an important case.