I am a poor hand at describing feelings, so I'll pass them over; but some of that dirty lot took to jeering at her once, and it made her sad.

They always had laughed at her, but she did not seem to notice it before.

She wasn't quite right in her head even then, but very different from what she is now.

There's reason to believe that in her childhood she received something like an education through the kindness of a benevolent lady.

Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch had never taken the slightest notice of her.