{"id":"01KFE0G1YBWEHX8HYWVBSMWVM9","cid":"bafkreiexwvvp2ddpgsqzj4fwm45lk6f66zwppdkmgwrr2qylfwtlbx7iyi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiahbhiginurh4yhi2uarnnpm3g5k32pjylxtggyqakmwbhj4umqma","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0405.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071937-f1d3q7ckyde","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0405.jpg","page_number":405,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":197498,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 397\nto themrThat's only a phantom. . . . They destroy men by\nmillions themselves and look on it as a virtue. They are knaves\nand scoundrels, Sonia! I am not going to them. And what should\nI say to them — that I murdered her, but did not dare to take\nthe money and hid it under a stone?\" he added with a bitter\nsmile. \"Why, they would laugh at me, and would call me a fool\nfor not getting it. A coward and a fool! They wouldn't under-\nstand and they don't deserve to understand. Why should I go to\nthem? I won't. Don't be a child, Sonia. . . .\"\n\"It will be too much for you to bear, too much!\" she re-\npeated, holding out her hands in despairing supplication.\n\"Perhaps I've been unfair to myself,\" he observed gloomily,\npondering, \"perhaps after all I am a man and not a louse and\nI've been in too great a hurry to condemn myself. I'll make\nanother fight for it.\"\nA haughty smile appeared on his lips.\n\"What a burden to bear! And your whole life, your whole\nlife!\"\n\"I shall get used to it,\" he said grimly and thoughtfully.\n\"Listen,\" he began a minute later, \"stop crying, it's time to\ntalk of the facts: I've come to tell you that the police are after\nme, on my track. . . .\"\n\"Ach!\" Sonia cried in terror.\n\"Well, why do you cry out? You want me to go to Siberia\nand now you are frightened? But let me tell you: I shall not\ngive myself up. I shall make a struggle for it and they won't\ndo anything to me. They've no real evidence. Yesterday I was\nin great danger and believed I was lost; but to-day things are\ngoing better. All the facts they know can be explained two\nways, that's to say I can turn their accusations to my credit, do\nyou understand? And I shall, for I've learnt my lesson. But they\nwill certainly arrest me. If it had not been for something that\nhappened, they would have done so to-day for certain; per-\nhaps even now they will arrest me to-day. . . . But that's no\nmatter, Sonia; they'll let me out again . . . for there isn't any real\nproof against me, and there won't be, I give you my word for\nit. And they can't convict a man on what they have against me.\nEnough. ... I only tell you that you may know. ... I will try\nto manage somehow to put it to my mother and sister so that\nthey won't be frightened. . . . My sister's future is secur«, how-","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.937Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.512Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.664Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}