The Trial of Marfa Petrovna

The letter was so nobly and touchingly written that i sobbed when i read it, and to this day, i cannot read it without tears. Moreover, the evidence of the servants, too, cleared dounia's reputation. Marfa petrovna was completely taken aback and again crushed, but she was completely convinced of dounia’s innocence. She went round to all the houses in the town,. shedding tears, she asserted in the most flattering terms, Dounia's innocence... All of a sudden everyone began to treat her with marked respect. The whole ignominy of this affair rested as an indelible disgrace upon mister svidrigailov

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