The Supremacy of Wives Raised From Destitution and Owing Everything to Their Husbands Bounty

Dounia was not that sort when i knew her, and she is still the same, of course. Yes, there's no denying the svidrigailovs are a bitter pill. It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for 200 roubles. But i know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation, or a let with a german master than degrade her moral dignity by binding herself forever to a man whom she does not respect. For some one else, she will sell herself. That's what it all amounts to. In such cases, we overcome our moral feeling if necessary, freedom, peace, conscience, even all

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