{"id":"01KFE0G1YAYX8GZXF2BHQ79WHS","cid":"bafkreieswnowwnudk2rsujaa5co6r6txnetbhlx52lcrhv4idr3z3pirgi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreic7b3dyn2i5bwnruvoh7tnuq4oz45lb4ytmn36rif65ranef5zofm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0450.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071968-3ey22cw17ov","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0450.jpg","page_number":450,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":192027,"text":"442 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nnew. Isn't that so? Isn't that so?\" persisted Svidrigailov with\na sly smile, \"Well, can't you fancy then that I, too, on my way\nhere in the train was reckoning on you, on your telling me some-\nthing new, and on my making some profit out of you! You see\nwhat rich men we are!\"\n\"What profit could you make?\"\n\"How can I tell you? How do I know? You see in what a\ntavern I spend all my time and it's my enjoyment, that's to say\nit's no great enjoyment, but one must sit somewhere; that poor\nKatia now — you saw her? ... If only I had been a glutton now,\na club gourmand, but you see I can eat this.\"\nHe pointed to a little table in the corner where the remnants\nof a terrible looking beef-steak and potatoes lay on a tin dish.\n\"Have you dined, by the way? I've had something and want\nnothing more. I don't drink, for instance, at all. Except for\nchampagne I never touch anything, and not more than a glass\nof that all the evening, and even that is enough to make my\nhead ache. I ordered it just now to wind myself up, for I am\njust going off somewhere and you see me in a peculiar state of\nmind. That was why I hid myself just now like a schoolboy,\nfor I was afraid you would hinder me. But I believe,\" he pulled\nout his watch, \"I can spend an hour with you. It's half-past four\nnow. If only I'd been something, a landowner, a father, a\ncavalry oflScer, a photographer, a journalist ... I am nothing, no\nspecialty, and sometimes I am positively bored. I really thought\nyou would tell me something new.\"\n\"But what are you, and why have you come here?\"\n\"What am I? You know, a gentleman, I served for two years\nin the cavalry, then I knocked about here in Petersburg, then\nI married Marfa Petrovna and lived in the country. There you\nhave my biography!\"\n\"You are a gambler, I believe?\"\n\"No, a poor sort of gambler. A cird-sharper — not a gambler.\"\n\"You have been a card-sharper then?\"\n**Yes, I've been a card-sharper too.\"\n\"Didn't you get thrashed sometimes?\"\n\"It did happen. Why?\"\n\"Why, you might have challenged them . . . altogether it\nmust have been lively.\"\n\"I won't contradict you and besides I am no hand at phi-","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.968Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.589Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.669Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}