I don't condemn her for it, I don't blame her, for the one thing left her is recollection of the past, and all the rest is dust and ashes.

Yes, yes, she is a lady of spirit, proud and determined.

She scrubs the floors herself and has nothing but black bread to eat, but won't allow herself to be treated with disrespect.

That's why she would not overlook Mr.Lebeziatnikov's rudeness to her, and so when he gave her a beating for it, she took to her bed more from the hurt to her feelings than from the blows.

She was a widow when I married her, with three children, one smaller than the other.