{"id":"01KFE0G1XT3ZBS08SNBYWCY6X2","cid":"bafkreibnu74ju2idkbhsqetewm64i44t7gygt74s7nqrwvlukssxcmw3au","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibbac5qtnr62edo3srh2zrnr4b7y6cilfwfdwruin5belmpbqgwda","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0453.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071969-z40j2t4kkx","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0453.jpg","page_number":453,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":195369,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 445\nvoman was your sister. May I tell you? It will help to spend\nthe time.\"\n\"Tell me, but I trust that you . . .\"\n\"Oh, don't be uneasy. Besides, even in a worthless low fellow\nlike me, Avdotya Romanovna can only excite the deepest\nrespect.\"\nCHAPTER IV\n\"You know perhaps — ^yes, I told you myself,\" began Svidrigai-\nlov, \"that I was in the debtors' prison here, for an immense sum,\nand had not any expectation of being able to pay it. There's no\nneed to go into particulars of how Marfa Petrovna bought me\nout; do you know to what a point of insanity a woman can\nsometimes love? She was an honest woman, and very sensible,\nalthough completely uneducated. \"Would you believe that this\nhonest and jealous woman, after many scenes of hysterics and\nreproaches, condescended to enter into a kind of contract with\nme which she kept throughout our married life. She was con-\nsiderably older than I, and besides, she always kept a clove or\nsomething in her mouth. There was so much swinishness in my\nsoul and honesty too, of a sort, as to tell her straight out that I\ncouldn't be absolutely faithful to her. This confession drove her\nto frenzy, but yet she seems in a way to have liked my brutal\nfrankness. She thought it showed I was unwilling to deceive\nher if I warned her like this beforehand and for a jealous woman,\nyou know, that's the first consideration. After many tears an\nimwritten contract was drawn up between us: first, that I\nwould never leave Marfa Petrovna and would always be her\nhusband; secondly, that I would never absent myself without\nher permission; thirdly, that I would never set up a permanent\nmistress; fourthly, in return for this, Marfa Petrovna gave me\na free hand with the maid servants, but only with her secret\nknowledge; fifthly, God forbid my falling in love with a woman\nof our class; sixthly, in case I— which God forbid — should be\nvisited by a great serious passion I was bound to reveal it to\nMarfa Petrovna. On this last score, however, Marfa Petrovna\nwas fairly at ease. She was a sensible woman and so she could\nnot help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of\nreal love. But a sensible woman and a jealous woman are two","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.969Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.710Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.834Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}