{"id":"01KFE0DWYYA4A2JB3DATPJKNJK","cid":"bafkreibiuuzsh5iif6sbx63cwx63ldgp7n2l2nqqx56oaabvemdp4f6mya","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibqzrovgyivq7ny7jyyh3heqbla6xsihfehvv4fcmp7s6bg6u5kiy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0300.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923001334-qrpyh5987g","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0300.jpg","page_number":300,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":209797,"text":"292 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nCHAPTER III\nThe fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected\nsuch an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never\ndreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could\nescape from his control. This conviction was strengthened by\nhis vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity. Pyotr\nPetrovitch, who had made his way up from insignificance,\nwas morbidly given to self -admiration, had the highest opinion\nof his intelligence and capacities, and sometimes even gloated\nin solitude over his image in the glass. But what he loved and\nvalued above all was the money he had amassed by his labour,\nand by all sorts of devices: that money made him the equal\nof all who had been his superiors.\nWhen he had bitterly reminded Dounia that he had decided\nto take her in spite of evil report, Pyotr Petrovitch had spoken\nwith perfect sincerity and had, indeed, felt genuinely indignant\nat such \"black ingratitude.\" And yet, when he made Dounia\nhis offer, he was fully aware of the groundlessness of all the\ngossip. The story had been everywhere contradicted by Marfa\nPetrovna, and was by then disbelieved by all the townspeople^\nwho were warm in Dounia's defence. And he would not have\ndenied that he knew all that at the time. Yet he still thought\nhighly of his own resolution in lifting Dounia to his level and\nregarded it as something heroic. In speaking of it to Dounia,\nhe had let out the secret feeling he cherished and admired, and\nhe could not understand that others should fail to admire it\ntoo. He had called on Raskolnikov with the feelings of a bene-\nfactor who is about to reap the fruits of his good deeds and to\nhear agreeable flattery. And as he went downstairs now, he con-\nsidered himself most undeservedly injured and unrecognised.\nDounia was simply essential to him; to do without her was\nunthinkable. For many years he had voluptuous dreams of mar-\nriage, but he had gone on waiting and amassing money. He\nbrooded with relish, in profound secret, over the image of a\ngirl — virtuous, poor (she rnust be poor) , very young, very\npretty, of good birth and education, very timid, one who had\nsuffered much, and was completely humbled before him, one\nwho would all her life look on him as her savioiur, worship him.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:01.334Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:01.940Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:02.992Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}