{"id":"01KFE0CV08MSHF5PKTECC8BHAS","cid":"bafkreigahl7hoh3ar43qfehc6b2a3ygfyuwjtlz4bwe4y4goj3yh4n7z7u","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreib7gjh5f4i3wjffrnne4fdeq452tcry27jac4rtbpglvyc734crrm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0142.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922966654-bpvzv0u04cw","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0142.jpg","page_number":142,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":211194,"text":"134 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nman and who has more opportunity than any one else for study-\ning human nature — how can you fail to see the character of\nthe man in the whole story? Don't you see at once that the an-\nswers hehas given in the examination are the holy truth? They\ncame into his hand precisely as he has told us — he stepped on\nthe box and picked it up.\"\n\"The holy truth! But didn't he own himself that he told a\nlie at first?\"\n\"Listen to me, listen attentively. The porter and Koch and\nPeitryakov and the other porter and the wife of the first porter\nand the woman who was sitting in the porter's lodge and the\nman Kryukov, who had just got out of a cab at that minute and\nwent in at the entry with a lady on his arm, that is eight or ten\nwitnesses, agree that Nikolay had Dmitri on the ground, was\nlying on him beating him, while Dmitri hung on to his hair,\nbeating him, too. They lay right across the way, blocking the\nthoroughfare. They were sworn at on all sides while they 'like\nchildren' (the very words of the witnesses) were falling over\none another, squealing, fighting and laughing with the funniest\nfaces, and, chasing one another like children, they ran into the\nstreet. Now take careful note. The bodies upstairs were warm,\nyou understand, warm when they found them! If they, or\nNikolay alone, had murdered them and broken open the boxes,\nor simply taken part in the robbery, allow me to ask you one\nquestion: do their state of mind, their squeals and giggles and\nchildish scuffling at the gate fit in with axes, bloodshed, fiendish\ncunning, robbery? They'd just killed them, not five or ten\nminutes before, for the bodies were still warm, and at once, leav-\ning the flat open, knowing that people would go there at once,\nflinging away their booty, they rolled about like children, laugh-\ning and attracting general attention. And there are a dozen\nwitnesses to swear to that!\"\n\"Of course it is strange! It's impossible, indeed, but . . .\"\n\"No, brother, no huts. And if the ear-rings' being found in\nNikolay's hands at the very day and hour of the murder con-\nstitutes animportant piece of circumstantial evidence against\nhim — although the explanation given by him accounts for it,\nand therefore it does not tell seriously against him — one must\ntake into consideration the facts which prove him innocent,\nespecially as they are facts that cannot be denied. And do you","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:29:26.654Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:29:27.301Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:29:28.297Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}