{"id":"01KFE0G1XFTVG1GVZR05KQ1SQ4","cid":"bafkreielmrgdpw5sufkbuz5h3x4u4bv7vv3oxtxuxnsl7pi6tylx7n3pya","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihloe4outzefs2pvsmzz63yzooicdfww75lmmvdygbrz44zkut63a","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0470.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071975-o04zd9z93mb","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0470.jpg","page_number":470,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":201950,"text":"462 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nsecret. But she has had no share by word or deed in the murder;\nshe was as horrified at it as you are now. Don't be anxious, she\nwon't betray him.\"\n\"It cannot be,\" muttered Dounia, with white Hps. She gasped\nfor breath. \"It cannot be. There was not the sHghtest cause, no\nsort of ground. . . . It's a lie, a He!\"\n\"He robbed her, that was the cause, he took money and\nthings. It's true that by his own admission he made no use of the\nmoney or things, but hid them under a stone, where they are\nnow. But that was because he dared not make use of them.\"\n\"But how could he steal, rob? How could he dream of it?\"\ncried Dounia, and she jumped up from the chair. \"Why, you\nknow him, and you've seen him, can he be a thief?\"\nShe seemed to be imploring Svidrigailov; she had entirely for-\ngotten her fear.\n\"There are thousands and millions of combinations and pos-\nsibilities, Avdotya Romanovna. A thief steals and knows he\nis a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open\nthe mail. Who knows, very likely he thought he was doing a\ngentlemanly thing! Of course I should not have believed it\nmyself if I'd been told of it as you have, but I believe my own\nears. He explained all the causes of it to Sof ya Semyonovna too,\nbut she did not believe her ears at first, yet she believed her\nown eyes at last.\"\n\"What . . . were the causes?\"\n\"It's a long story, Avdotya Romanovna. Here's . . . how\nshall I tell you? — A theory of a sort, the same one by which I\nfor instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the\nprincipal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hundreds of\ngood deeds! It's galling too, of course, for a young man of gifts\nand overweening pride to know that if he had, for instance, a\npaltry three thousand, his whole career, his whole future would\nbe differently shaped and yet not to have that three thousand.\nAdd to that, nervous irritability from hunger, from lodging in\na hole, from rags, from a vivid sense of the charm of his social\nposition and his sister's and mother's position too. Above all,\nvanity, pride and vanity, though goodness knows he may have\ngood qualities too. ... I am not blaming him, please don't think\nit; besides, it's not my business. A special little theory came\nin too — a theory of a sort — dividing mankind, you see, into","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.975Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.814Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:14.039Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}