{"id":"01KFE0EZG825XW0YXQ84ER6HJ6","cid":"bafkreihx2tcnuqkourp7wr2igjanlvwwjyz6y7mi7ytnrx5yjgs2sun3xi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiecshokwjgz3xrfgj7to2xhleaab5spmyh4l7ttaaw5eaa2i5yify","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0385.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923036578-7j03k48a8v","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0385.jpg","page_number":385,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":215908,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 377\nbenevolence, which effects no radical cure. Well, I decided that\nyou really were ashamed of giving such a large sum before me.\nPerhaps, too, I thought, he wants to give her a surprise, when\nshe finds a whole hundred-rouble note in her pocket. (For I\nknow some benevolent people are very fond of decking out\ntheir charitable actions in that way.) Then the idea struck me,\ntoo, that you wanted to test her, to see whether, when she\nfound it, she would come to thank you. Then, too, that you\nwanted to avoid thanks and that, as the saying is, your right\nhand should not know . . . something of that sort, in fact. I\nthought of so many possibilities that I put off considering it,\nbut still thought it indelicate to show you I knew your secret.\nBut another idea struck me again that Sof ya Semyonovna might\neasily lose the money before she noticed it, that was why 1\ndecided to come in here to call her out of the room and to\ntell her that you put a hundred roubles in her pocket. But on\nmy way I went first to Madame Kobilatnikov's to take them the\n'General Treatise on the Positive Method' and especially to\nrecommend Piderit's article (and also Wagner's) ; then I come\non here and what a state of things I find! Now could I, could\nI, have all these ideas and reflections, if I had not seen you\nput the hundred-rouble note in her pocket?\"\nWhen Lebeziatnikov finished his long-winded harangue with\nthe logical deduction at the end, he was quite tired, and the\nperspiration streamed from his face. He could not, alas, even\nexpress himself correctly in Russian, though he knew no other\nlanguage, so that he was quite exhausted, almost emaciated after\nthis heroic exploit. But his speech produced a powerful effect.\nHe had spoken with such vehemence, with such conviction that\nevery one obviously believed him. Pyotr Petrovitch felt that\nthings were going badly with him,\n\"What is it to do with me if silly ideas did occur to you?'*\nhe shouted, \"that's no evidence. You may have dreamt it, that's\nall! And I tell you, you are lying, sir. You are lying and slander-\ning from some spite against me, simply from pique, because I\ndid not agree with your freethinking, godless, social propo-\nsitions!\"\nBut this retort did not benefit Pyotr Petrovitch. Murmurs of\ndisapproval were heard on all sides.\n\"Ah, that's your line now. is it!\" cried Lebeziatnikov, \"that's","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:30:36.578Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:30:37.469Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:30:39.124Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}