{"id":"01KFE0BERAVAG1HFMAX693HYV1","cid":"bafkreic27us5sckp24rkkvjowxl2v24bq6hbvzakix73fgxwaccnzkoyju","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicrs66ngqnwbaa46ffhlw5zg3ugo3mpslp7fj25xvc4egsrtl7zg4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0043.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922919378-8aum2n8whcb","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0043.jpg","page_number":43,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":223256,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 35\nman ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is bettef\nfor a wife to look upon her husband as her benefactor. I must\nadd that he expressed it more nicely and politely than I have\ndone, for I have forgotten his actual phrases and only remember\nthe meaning. And, besides, it was obviously not said of design,\nbut slipped out in the heat of conversation, so that he tried\nafterwards to correct himself and smooth it over, but all the\nsame it did strike me as somewhat rude, and I said so afterwards\nto Dounia. But Dounia was vexed, and answered that 'words\nare not deeds,' and that, of course, is perfectly true. Dounia did\nnot sleep all night before she made up her mind, and, thinking\nthat I was asleep, she got out of bed and was walking up and\ndown the room all night; at last she knelt down before the ikon\nand pj-ayed long and fervently and in the morning she told me\nthat she had decided.\n\"I have mentioned already that Pyotr Petrovitch is just setting\nofif for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of business, and he\nwants to open a legal bureau. He has been occupied for many\nyears in conducting civil and commercial litigation, and only\nthe other day he won an important case. He has to be in Peters-\nburg because he has an important case before the Senate. So,\nRodya dear, he may be of the greatest use to you, in every way\nindeed, and Dounia and I have agreed that from this very day\nyou could definitely enter upon your career and might consider\nthat your future is marked out and assured for you. Oh, if only\nthis comes to pass! This would be such a benefit that we could\nonly look upon it as a providential blessing. Dounia is dreaming\nof nothing else. We have even .ventured already to drop a few\nwords on the subject to Pyotr Petrovitch. He was cautious in\nhis answer, and said that, of course, as he could not get on\nwithout a secretary, it would be better to be paying a salary to a\nrelation than to a stranger, if only the former were fitted for the\nduties (as though there could be doubt of your being fitted!)\nbut then he expressed doubts whether your studies at the uni-\nversity would leave you time for work at his office. The matter\ndropped for the time, but Dounia is thinking of nothing else\nnow. She has been in a sort of fever for the last few days, and\nhas already made a regular plan for your becoming in the end an\nassociate and even a partner in Pyotr Petrovitch's legal business,\nwhich might well be, seeing that you are a stulent of law. I am","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:39.378Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:28:42.012Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:42.951Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}