{"id":"01KFE0G1ZAM96YH6VNQCZWGTZQ","cid":"bafkreidlceiqukb2ikcndcy2t5apt6yutd43taulufs5tcllujyex6l37e","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifudcmurc3jlpcn2zjdhsjubub7bfj6q547tw2q2tm4pnxo6vhgau","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0496.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071995-brs4xmi60u","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0496.jpg","page_number":496,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":197007,"text":"488 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\n\"Pride, Rodya.\"\nThere was a gleam of fire in his lustreless eyes; he seemed to\nbe glad to think that he was still proud.\n\"You don't think, sister, that I was simply afraid of the\nwater?\" he asked, looking into her face with a sinister smile.\n\"Oh, Rodya, hush!\" cried Dounia bitterly. Silence lasted for\ntwo minutes. He sat with his eyes fixed on the floor; Dounia\nstood at the other end of the table and looked at him with an-\nguish. Suddenly he got up.\n\"It's late, it's time to go! I am going at once to give myself\nup. But I don't know why I am going to give myself up.\"\nBig tears fell down her cheeks.\n\"You are crying, sister, but can you hold out your hand to\nme?\"\"You doubted it?\"\nShe threw her arms round him.\n\"Aren't you half expiating your crime by facing the suflfer-\ning!\" she cried, holding him close and kissing him.\n\"Crime? What crime?\" he cried in sudden fury. \"That I\nkilled a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to\nno one! . . . Killing her was atonement for forty sins. She was\nsucking the life out of poor people. Was that a crime? I am not\nthinking of it and I am not thinking of expiating it, and why\nare you all rubbing it in on all sides? 'A crime! a crime!' Only\nnow I see clearly the imbecility of my cowardice, now that I\nhave decided to face this superfluous disgrace. It's simply because\nI am contemptible and have nothing in me that I have decided\nto, perhaps too for my advantage, as that . . . Porfiry . . . sug-\ngested!\"\n\"Brother, brother, what are you saying! Why, you have shed\nblood!\" cried Dounia in despair.\n\"Which all men shed,\" he put in almost frantically, \"which\nflows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like cham-\npagne, and for which men are crowned in the Capitol and are\ncalled afterwards benefactors of mankind. Look into it more\ncarefully and understand it! I too wanted to do good to men\nand would have done hundreds, thousands of good deeds to make\nup for that one piece of stupidity, not stupidity even, simply\nclumsiness, for the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems\nnow that it has failed. . . . (Everything seems stupid when it","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.995Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.793Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:14.012Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}