{"id":"01KFE0DX49PBN179XVDD838N9B","cid":"bafkreid2rvxp3kinzaezobr363y7s7skujdiapupof2yeupu4rqh64jktm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreid4ksqrbxplx7yjmdr2z4ilbpwkmjr7wtfszivfte4jx5olayjgsm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0292.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923001331-cn6or712d2","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0292.jpg","page_number":292,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":209424,"text":"284 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nway. Solely by her exertions and sacrifices, a criminal charge,\ninvolving an element of fantastic and homicidal brutality for\nwhich he might well have been sentenced to Siberia, was hushed\nup. That's the sort of man he is, if you care to know.\"\n\"Good heavens!\" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna. Raskolnikov\nlistened attentively.\n\"Are you speaking the truth when you say that you have\ngood evidence of this?\" Dounia asked sternly and emphatically.\n\"I only repeat what I was told in secret by Marfa Petrovna.\nI must observe that from the legal p>oint of view the case was\nfar from clear. There was, and I believe still is, living here a\nwoman called Resslich, a foreigner, who lent small sums of\nmoney at interest, and did other commissions, and with this\nwoman Svidrigailov had for a long while close and mysterious\nrelations. She had a relation, a niece I believe, living with her,\na deaf and dumb girl of fifteen, or perhaps not more than four-\nteen. Resslich hated this girl, and grudged her every crust; she\nused to beat her mercilessly. One day the girl was found hanging\nin the garret. At the inquest the verdict was suicide. After the\nusual proceedings the matter ended, but, later on, information\nwas given that the child had been . . . cruelly outraged by Svi-\ndrigailov. Itis true, this was not clearly established, the in-\nformation was given by another German woman of loose\ncharacter whose word could not be trusted; no statement was\nactually made to the police, thanks to Marfa Petrovna's money\nand exertions; it did not get beyond gossip. And yet the story is\na very significant one. You heard, no doubt, Avdotya Roma-\nnovna, when you were with them the story of the servant Philip\nwho died of ill treatment he received six years ago, before the\nabolition of serfdom.\"\n\"I heard on the contrary that this Philip hanged himself.\"\n\"Quite so, but what drove him, or rather perhaps disposed\nhim, to suicide, was the systematic persecution and severity of\nMr. Svidrigailov.\"\n\"I don't know that,\" answered Dounia, drily. \"I only heard\na queer story that Philip was a sort of hypochondriac, a sort of\ndomestic philosopher, the servants vised to say, 'he read him-\nself silly,* and that he hanged himself partly on account of Mr.\nSvidrigailov's mockery of him and not his blows. When I was\nthere he behaved well to the servants, and they were actually","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:01.331Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:02.354Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:03.770Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}