{"id":"01KFE0DWZYX2WJRS3CMWTR2CK7","cid":"bafkreiflm4ei54tnzqnlmhv52cnembbnoiazc2wxbgn4ymoh6dake5z7eu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiapxad7d37pkkdxg6jvpy3xcwrprn6fbuxwscswurtq4v5rkbo4zq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0295.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923001332-51a7uu1obuk","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0295.jpg","page_number":295,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":208427,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 287\nfrankly at the start that I cannot look at it in any other light,\nand if you have the least regard for me, all this business must\nbe ended to-day, however hard that may be. I repeat that if my\nbrother is to blame he will ask your forgiveness.\"\n\"I am surprised at your putting the question like that,\" said\nLuzhin, getting more and more irritated. \"Esteeming, and so to\nsay, adoring you, I may at the same time, very well indeed, be\nable to dislike some member of your family. Though I lay claim\nto the happiness of your hand, I cannot accept duties incom-\npatible with . . .\"\n\"Ah, don't be so ready to take offence, Pyotr Petrovitch,\"\nDounia interrupted with feeling, \"and be the sensible and gen-\nerous man I have always considered, and wish to consider, you to\nbe. I've given you a great promise, I am your betrothed. Trust\nme in this matter and, believe me, I shall be capable of judging\nimpartially. My assuming the part of judge is as much a sur-\nprise for my brother as for you. When I insisted on his coming\nto our interview to-day after your letter, I told him nothing of\nwhat I meant to do. Understand that, if you are not reconciled,\nI must choose between you — it must be either you or he. That is\nhow the question rests on your side and on his. I don't want to\nbe mistaken in my choice, and I must not be. For your sake I\nmust break off with my brother, for my brother's sake I must\nbreak off with you. I can find out for certain now whether he\nis a brother to me, and I want to know it; and of you, whether\nI am dear to you, whether you esteem me, whether you are the\nhusband for me.\"\n\"Avdotya Romanovna,\" Luzhin declared huflSly, \"youi\nwords are of too much consequence to me; I will say more, they\nare offensive in view of the position I have the honour to\noccupy in relation to you. To say nothing of your strange and\noffensive setting me on a level with an imf>ertinent boy, you\nadmit the p)ossibility of breaking your promise to me. You say\n'you or he,' showing thereby of how little consequence I am in\nyour eyes ... I cannot let this pass considering the relationship\nand . . .the obligations existing between us.\"\n\"What!\" cried Dounia, flushing. \"I set your interest beside all\nthat has hitherto been most precious in my life, what has made\nup the whole of my life, and here you are offended at my\nmaking too little account of you.\"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:01.332Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:02.150Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:03.643Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}