{"id":"01KFE0BEPY3K5X2Y4BJW99WYRF","cid":"bafkreifoq67utet2ud4nixcktun6supruaphilvqmifous5v63i62vlcce","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifwpdiqfvk2vnlf63fjq3nw5y6ohhagu6lft6yqv3hug6hrywyade","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0024.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922919372-3cvs3ex0nkh","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0024.jpg","page_number":24,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":219926,"text":"1^ CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nStopped at Cyrus of Persia. Since she has attained years of ma-\nturity, she has read other books of romantic tendency and of\nlate she has read with great interest a book she got through Mr.\nLebeziatnikov, Lewes' Physiology — do you know it? — and even\nrecounted extracts from it to us: and that's the whole of her\neducation. And now may I venture to address you, honoured sir,\non my own account with a private question. Do you suppose\nthat a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work? Not\nfifteen farthings a day can she earn, if she is respectable and has\nno special talent and that without putting her work down for\nan instant! And what's more, Ivan Ivanitch Klopstock the civil\ncounsellor — have you heard of him? — has not to this day paid\nher for the half-dozen linen shirts she made him and drove her\nroughly away, stamping and reviling her, on the pretext that\nthe shirt collars were not made like the pattern and were put in\naskew. And there are the little ones hungry. . . . And Katerina\nIvanovna walking up and down and wringing her hands, her\ncheeks flushed red, as they always are in that disease: 'Here you\nlive with us,' says she, 'you eat and drink and are kept warm and\nyou do nothing to help.' And much she gets to eat and drink\nwhen there is not a crust for the little ones for three days! I was\nlying at the time . . . well, what of it! I was lying drunk and\nI heard my Sonia speaking (she is a gentle creature with a soft\nlittle voice . . . fair hair and such a pale, thin little face). She\nsaid: 'Katerina Ivanovna, am I really to do a thing like that?\"\nAnd Darya Frantsovna, a woman of evil character and very\nwell known to the police, had two or three times tried to get\nat her through the landlady. 'And why not?' said Katerina\nIvanovna with a jeer, 'you are something mighty precious to be\nso careful of!' But don't blame her, don't blame her, honoured\nsir, don't blame her! She was not herself when she spoke, but\ndriven to distraction by her illness and the crying of the hungry\nchildren; and it was said more to wound her than anything else.\n. . . For that's Katerina Ivanovna's character, and when children\ncry, even from hunger, she falls to beating them at once. At six\no'clock I saw Sonia get up, put on her kerchief and her cape, and\ngo out of the room and about nine o'clock she came back. She\nwalked straight up to Katerina Ivanovna and she laid thirty\nroubles on the table before her in silence. She did not utter a\nword, she did not even look at her, she simply picked up our","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:39.372Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:42.028Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:43.405Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}