{"id":"01KFE0BT399X8ETPMK70M0YB0C","cid":"bafkreidfvzwh63wlbfzkvooi6tzti6h2lfftmc4555zkxnt6qv4zhhyzhy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibwvryfi54qd3wdykgmz3fndio332aqr6uzgww3q53qrxbzyh2cta","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0075.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922932950-rmelh4ngelh","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0075.jpg","page_number":75,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":205867,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 67\ncould hold the end of the handle all the way, so that it did not\nswing; and as the coat was very full, a regular sack in fact, it\ncould not be seen from outside that he was holding something\nwith the hand that was in the pocket. This noose, too, he had\ndesigned a fortnight before.\n\"When he had finished with this, he thrust his hand into a\nlittle opening between his sofa and the floor, fumbled in the\nleft corner and drew out the pledge, which he had got ready\nlong before and hidden there. This pledge was, however, only\na smoothly planed piece of wood the size and thickness of a\nsilver cigarette case. He picked up this piece of wood in one of\nhis wanderings in a courtyard where there was some sort of a\nworkshop. Afterwards he had added to the wood a thin smooth\npiece of iron, which he had also picked up at the same time in\nthe street. Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on\nthe piece of wood, he fastened them very firmly, crossing and\nrecrossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully\nand daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that\nit would be very difficult to untie it. This was in order to divert\nthe attention of the old woman for a time, while she was trying\nto undo the knot, and so to gain a moment. The iron strip was^\nadded to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the\nfirst minute that the \"thing\" was made of wood. All this had\nbeen stored by him beforehand under the sofa. He had only just\ngot the pledge out when he heard some one suddenly about iu\nthe yard.\n\"It struck six long ago.\"\n\"Long ago! My God!\"\nHe rushed to the door, listened, caught up his hat and begar.\nto descend his thirteen steps cautiously, noiselessly, like a cat.\nHe had still the most important thing to do^to steal the axe\nfrom the kitchen. That the deed must be done with an axe he\nhad decided long ago. He had also a pocket pruning-knife, but\nhe could not rely on the knife and still less on his own strength,\nand so resolved finally on the axe. We may note in passing, one\npeculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him\nin the matter; they had one strange characteristic; the more\nfinal they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at\nonce became in his eyes. In spite of all his agonising inward","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:52.950Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:28:53.581Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:54.760Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}