{"id":"01KFE0G1XFQPYDQ6QV9B5FJCY9","cid":"bafkreiae73jmm2fzvkxoo3q7zwqtm5qaemewmmraxb7sej7jixj3jm2bie","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibw42kk6gecnvwwsctvssx25iptamz2jge3ucxiivflcyvg6jabzy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0454.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071970-2h88096el2l","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0454.jpg","page_number":454,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":211708,"text":"446 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nvery diflferent things, and that's where the trouble came in. But\nto judge some people impartially we must renounce certain pre-\nconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary\npeople about us. I have reason to have faith in your judgment\nrather than in any one's. Perhaps you have already heard a greatdeal that was ridiculous and absurd about Marfa Petrovna. She\ncertainly had some very ridiculous ways, but I tell you frankly\nthat I feel really sorry for the innumerable woes of which I was\nthe cause. Well, and that's enough, I think, by way of a decorous\noraison funebre for the most tender wife of a most tender hus-\nband. When we quarrelled, I usually held my tongue and did not\nirritate her and that gentlemanly conduct rarely failed to attain\nits object, it influenced her, it pleased her, indeed. There were\ntimes when she was positively proud of me. But your sister she\ncouldn't put up with, anyway. And however she came to risk\ntaking such a beautiful creature into her house as a governess.\nMy explanation is that Marfa Petrovna was an ardent and im-\npressionable woman and simply fell in love herself — literally fell\nin love — with your sister. Well, little wonder — look at Avdotya\nRomanovna! I saw the danger at the first glance and what do\nyou think, I resolved not to look at her even. But Avdotya Ro-\nmanovna herself made the first step, would you believe it?\nWould you believe it too that Marfa Petrovna was positively\nangry with me at first for my persistent silence about your\nsister, for my careless reception of her continual adoring praises\nof Avdotya Romanovna. I don't know what it was she wanted!\nWell, of course, Marfa Petrovna told Avdotya Romanovna\nevery detail about me. She had the unfortunate habit of telling\nliterally every one all our family secrets and continually com-\nplaining ofme; how could she fail to confide in such a delightful\nnew friend? I expect they talked of nothing else but me and no\ndoubt Avdotya Romanovna heard all those dark mysterious\nrumours that were current about me. ... I don't mind betting\nthat you too have heard something of the sort already?\"\n\"I have. Luzhin charged you with having caused the death\nof a child. Is that true?\"\n\"Don't refer to those vulgar tales, I beg,\" said Svidrigailov\nwith disgust and annoyance. \"If you insist on wanting to know\nabout all that idiocy, I will tell you one day, but now . . .\"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.970Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.676Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.804Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}