{"id":"01KFE0DX2QZAY33MN5AC8Y3KEW","cid":"bafkreihxehym4vxikjasqphqctzpgwlzzxwtjrkwodvm4yrvoyn76abnja","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiaz56mx3zrskxf6stcmiqi6pjk2feahletj5kx4psut3ggpzvy6ra","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0229.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923001308-3q2pemr0pcu","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0229.jpg","page_number":229,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":204672,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 221\ntomb,\" said Pulcheria Alexandrovna, suddenly breaking the\noppressive silence, \"I am sure it's quite half through your lodg-\ning you have become so melancholy.\"\n\"My lodging,\" he answered, listlessly. \"Yes, the lodging had\na great deal to do with it. ... I thought that, too. ... If only\nyou knew, though, what a strange thing you said just now,\nmother,\" he said, laughing strangely.\nA little more, and their companionship, this mother and this\nsister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of\nconversation, in face of the utter impossibility of really speak-\ning about anything, would have been beyond his power of en-\ndurance. But there was one urgent matter which must be set-\ntled one way or the other that day — so he had decided when he\nwoke. Now he was glad to remember it, as a means of escape.\n\"Listen, Dounia,\" he began, gravely and drily, \"of course\nI beg your pardon for yesterday, but I consider it my duty to\ntell you again that I do not withdraw from my chief point.\nIt is me or Luzhin. If I am a scoundrel, you must not be. One\nis enough. If you marry Luzhin, I cease at once to look on you\nas a sister.\"\n\"Rodya, Rodya! It is the same as yesterday again,\" Pul-\ncheria Alexandrovna cried, mournfully. \"And why do you call\nyourself a scoundrel? I can't bear it. You said the same yes-\nterday.\"\n\"Brother,\" Dounia answered firmly and with the same dry-\nness. \"In all this there is a mistake on your part. I thought it\nover at night, and found out the mistake. It is all because you\nseem to fancy I am sacrificing myself to some one and for some\none. That is not the case at all. I am simply marrying for my\nown sake, because things are hard for me. Though, of course, I\nshall be glad if I succeed in being useful to my family. But that\nis not the chief motive for my decision. . . .\"\n\"She is lying,\" he thought to himself, biting his nails vindic-\ntively. \"Proud creature! She won't admit she wants to do it\nout of charity! Too haughty! Oh, base characters! They even\nlove as though they hate. . . . Oh, how I . . . hate them all!\"\n\"In fact,\" continued Dounia, \"I am marrying Pyotr Petro-\nvitch because of two evils I choose the less. I intend to do\nhonestly all he expects of me, so I am not deceiving him. . . .","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:01.308Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:02.315Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:03.759Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}