{"id":"01KFE0BT3J8CMWG03A25GYF0HM","cid":"bafkreiacewzphx6woc5qfm6vqpltx2uzadhzizpppufbxelzmm5ou7aipq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicxqaejudkkpgi7fxayyuusdi5yhtu2oezq27sx4neuaaif4bixty","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0037.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922932938-zxf7ekk0y6","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0037.jpg","page_number":37,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":217625,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 29\nsloping handwriting, so dear and familiar, of the mother who\nhad once taught him to read and write. He delayed; he seemed\nalmost afraid of something. At last he opened it ; it was a thick\nheavy letter, weighing over two ounces, two large sheets of\nnote paper were covered with very small handwriting.\n\"My dear Rodya,\" wrote his mother — \"it's two months since\nI !?«*■ ^ad a talk with you by letter which has distressed me and\neven t me awake at night, thinking. But I am sure you will\nnot blame me for my inevitable silence. You know how I love\nyou; you are all we have to look to, Dounia and I, you are our\nall, our one hope, our one stay. What a grief it was to me when\nI heard that you had given up the university some months ago,\nfor want of means to keep yourself and that you had lost your\nlessons and your other work! How could I help you out of my\nhundred ^nd twenty roubles a year pension? The fifteen roubles\nI sent you four months ago I borrowed, as you know, on secur-\nity of my pension, from Vassily Ivanovitch Vahrushin a mer-\nchant ofthis town. He is a kind-hearted man and was a friend\nof your father's too. But having given him the right to receive\nthe pension, I had to wait till the debt was paid off and that is\nonly just done, so that I've been unable tts-tend you anything\nall this time. But now, thank God, I believe I shall be able to\nsend you something more and in fact we may congratulate our-\nselves on our good fortune now, of which I hasten to inform you.\nIn the first place, would you have guessed, dear Rodya, thar\nyour sister has been living with me for the last six weeks and\nwe shall not be separated in the future. Thank God, her suffer-\nings are over, but I will tell you everything in order, so that\nyou may know just how everything has happened and all that\nwe have hitherto concealed from you. When you wrote to me\ntwo months ago that you had heard that Dounia had a great\ndeal to put up with in the Svidrigailovs' house, when you wrote\nthat and asked me to tell you all about it — what could I write in\nanswer to you? If I had written the whole truth to you, I dare\nsay you would have thrown up everything and have come to\nus, even if you had to walk all the way, for I know your char-\nacter and your iFeelings, and you would not let your sister be\ninsulted. I was in despair myself, but what could I do? And,\nbesides, I did not know the whole truth myself then. What made\nit all so di£^uk was that Dounia received i hundred roubles in","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:52.938Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:28:53.572Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:54.670Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}