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We have now part of a room at Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel's;

and what we live upon and what we pay our rent with, I could not

say. There are a lot of people living there besides ourselves.

Dirt and disorder, a perfect Bedlam... hm... yes... And meanwhile

my daughter by my first wife has grown up; and what my daughter

has had to put up with from her step-mother whilst she was

growing up, I won't speak of. For, though Katerina Ivanovna is

full of generous feelings, she is a spirited lady, irritable and

short-tempered.... Yes. But it's no use going over that! Sonia,

as you may well fancy, has had no education. I did make an effort

four years ago to give her a course of geography and universal

history, but as I was not very well up in those subjects myself

and we had no suitable books, and what books we had... hm, anyway

we have not even those now, so all our instruction came to an

end. We stopped at Cyrus of Persia.