{"id":"01KFE0BT4MTR1EDC2WJTJSM9R2","cid":"bafkreiakxemnecmcxeimwmyaistcdslye56jak6e4emurhn2jlr25sgbzq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihtfjcjip5rs2emfnmgynn3ajnnvzs44qdrmzefzvgshsv2r5fs44","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0069.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922932948-0suxsd3sdqxc","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0069.jpg","page_number":69,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":199897,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 61\ndangerous inquiries and investigations, that next day at a certain\ntime an old woman, on whose hf e an attempt was contemplated,\nwould be at home and entirely alone.\nCHAPTER VI\nLater on, Raskolnikov happened to find out why the huckster\nand his wife had invited Lizaveta. It was a very ordinary mat-\nter and there was nothing exceptional about it. A family who\nhad come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling\ntheir household goods and clothes, all women's things. As the\nthings would have fetched little in the market, they were look-\ning for a dealer. This was Lizaveta's business. She undertook\nsuch jobs and was -frequently employed, as she was very honest\nand always fixed a fair price and stuck to it. She spoke as a rule\nlittle and, as we have said already, she was very submissive and\ntimid.\nBut Raskolnikov had become superstitious of late. The traces\nof superstition remained in him long after, and were almost\nineradicable. And in all this he was always afterwards disposed\nto see something strange and mysterious, as it were the pres-\nence of some peculiar influences and coincidences. In the pre-\nvious winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left\nfor Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the\naddress of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he\nmight want to pawn anything. For a long while he did not go\nto her, for he had lessons and managed to get along somehow.\nSix weeks ago he had remembered the address; he had two\narticles that could be pawned: his father's old silver watch and\na little gold ring with three red stones, a present from his sister\nat parting. He decided to take the ring. When he found the old\nwoman he had felt an insurmountable repulsion for her at the\nfirst glance, though he knew nothing special about her. He got\ntwo roubles from her and went into a miserable little tavern on\nhis way home. He asked for tea, sat down and sank into deep\nthought. A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken\nin the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.\nAlmost beside him at the next table there was sitting a\nstudent, whom he did not know and had never seen, and with","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:52.948Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:28:53.602Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:54.908Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}