{"id":"01KFE0EZARYJJW1HE7JECVK7K4","cid":"bafkreihgvcq4dkqklykr6rfunk24uhmmdkncwroahhp6zp3n2jurxbs4v4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreic2ugewec6fhsf4umbm5ow7smcqlhjidowo6jbc4ptbneqzniriam","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0316.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923036553-0zrve91ppf3","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0316.jpg","page_number":316,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":193644,"text":"308 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nthought, have killed her at the first step on that revolting\npath. What held her up — surely not depravity? All that infamy\nhad obviously only touched her mechanically, not one drop\nof real depravity had penetrated to her heart; he saw that. He\nsaw through her as she stood before him. . . .\n\"There are three ways before her,\" he thought, \"the canal,\nthe madhouse, or ... at last to sink into depravity which\nobscures the mind and turns the heart to stone.\"\nThe last idea was the most revolting, but he was a sceptic,,\nhe was young, abstract, and therefore cruel, and so he could not\nhelp believing that the last end was the most likely.\n\"But can that be true?\" he cried to himself. \"Can that crea-\nture who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be con-\nsciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?\nCan the process already have begun? Can it be that she has only\nbeen able to bear it till now, because vice has begun to be less\nloathsome to her? No, no, that cannot be!\" he cried, as Sonia\nhad just before. \"No, what has kept her from the canal till now\nis the idea of sin and they, the children. . . . And if she has not\ngone out of her mind . . . but who says she has not gone out of\nher mind? Is she in her senses? Can one talk, can one reason as\nshe does? How can she sit on the edge of the abyss of loathsome-\nness into which she is slipping and refuse to listen when she is\ntold of danger? Does she expect a miracle? No doubt she does.\nDoesn't that all mean madness?\"\nHe stayed obstinately at that thought. He liked that ex-\nplanation indeed better than any other. He began looking more\nintently at her.\n\"So you pray to God a great deal, Sonia?\" he asked her.\nSonia did not speak; he stood beside her waiting for an\nanswer.\n\"What should I be without God?\" she whispered rapidly,\nforcibly, glancing at him with suddenly flashing eyes, and\nsqueezing his hand.\n\"Ah, so that is it!\" he thought.\n\"And what does God do for you?\" he asked, probing her\nfurther.\nSonia was silent a long while, as though she could not answw.\nHer weak chest kept heaving with emotion.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:36.553Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:37.353Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:38.369Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}