{"id":"01KFE0BT58CWX7Q0XN6GQJZ32F","cid":"bafkreihz55dizac7bz6ot7kv3kmxceo5rd3ahjphodqaxcxfazrpqzjtpi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreielhxp37ei3w3gfhfahkdwdijdwth4sv4rhoeyyrzipv6tbezvxsq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0039.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922932938-i4n8lrrujeq","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0039.jpg","page_number":39,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":221110,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 31\neven In the most difficult cases she has the fortitude to maintain\nher firmness. She did not even write to me about everything for\nfear of upsetting me, although we were constantly in communi-\ncation. Itall ended very unexpectedly. Marfa Petrovna acci-\ndentally overheard her husband imploring Dounia in the garden,\nand, putting quite a wrong interpretation on the position, threw\nthe blame upon her, believing her to be the cause of it all. An\nawful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden;\nMarfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear\nanything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then\ngave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a\nplain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her\nlinen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and\npacking it. And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and\nDounia, insulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant\nin an open cart all the seventeen versts into town. Only think\nnow what answer could I have sent to the letter I received from\nyou two months ago and what could I have written? I was in\ndespair; I dared not write to you the truth because you would\nhave been very unhappy, mortified and indignant, and yet what\ncould you do? You could only perhaps ruin yourself, and, be-\nsides, Dounia would not allow it; and fill up my letter with\ntrifles when my heart was so full of sorrow, I could not. For a\nwhole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal,\nand it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go\nto church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and\neven remarks made aloud about us. All our acquaintances\navoided us, nobody even bowed to us in the street, and I learnt\nthat some shopmen and clerks were intending to insult us in a\nshameful way, smearing the gates of our house with pitch, so\nthat the landlord began to tell us we must leave. All this was\nset going by Marfa Petrovna, who managed to slander Dounia\nand throw dirt at her in every family. She knows every one in\nthe neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming\ninto the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossip-\ning about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to\nall and each of her husband — which is not at all right — so in a\nshort time she had spread her story not only in the town, but\nover the whole surrounding district. It made me ill, but Dounia\nbore it better than I did, and if only you could have seen how","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":"2026-01-20T15:28:53.679Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:54.775Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}