{"id":"01KFE0G21VPC5S3QH0870KQM4C","cid":"bafkreides75wuqabyvuqhgoaq2nouzj4isoe4gaaqjbeizpeivkksrwlri","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifhb7nfvazfclt4ebx33fyj6jdmxycgqon3ai7ewmd22yfwuklyqu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0456.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071970-ot89pg6vv9l","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0456.jpg","page_number":456,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":222652,"text":"448 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nhe's said to be a sensible fellow; his surname suggests it, indeed.\nHe's probably a divinity student. Well, he'd better look after\nyour sister! I believe I understand her, and I am proud of it.\nBut at the beginning of an acquaintance, as you know, one is apt\nto be more heedless and stupid. One doesn't see clearly. Hang\nit all, why is she so handsome? It's not my fault. In fact, it began\non my side with a most irresistible physical desire. Avdotya\nRomanovna is awfully chaste, incredibly and phenomenally so.\nTake note, I tell you this about your sister as a fact. She is\nalmost morbidly chaste, in spite of her broad intelligence, and it\nwill stand in her way. There happened to be a girl in the house\nthen, Parasha, a black-eyed wench, whom I had never seen be-\nfore— she had just come from another village — very pretty, but\nincredibly stupid: she burst into tears, wailed so that she could\nbe heard all over the place and caused scandal. One day after\ndinner Avdotya Romanovna followed me into an avenue in the\ngarden and with flashing eyes insisted on my leaving poor\nParasha alone. It was almost our first conversation by ourselves.\nI, of course, was only too pleased to obey her wishes, tried to\nappear disconcerted, embarrassed, in fact played my part not\nbadly. Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhor-\ntations, entreaties, supplications, even tears — would you believe\nit, even tears? Think what the passion for propaganda will bring\nsome girls to! I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed\nas hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the\nmost powerful weapon in the subjection of the female heart, a\nweapon which never fails one. It's the well-known resource —\nflattery. Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth\nand nothing easier than flattery. If there's the hundredth part\nof a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and\nthat leads to trouble. But if all, to the last note, is false in flat-\ntery, itis just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction.\nIt may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And\nhowever coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem\ntrue. That's so for ?11 stages of development and classes of so-\nciety, Avestal virgin might be seduced by flattery. I can never\nremember without laughter how I once seduced a lady who was\ndevoted to her husband, her children, and her principles. What\nfun it was and how Httle trouble! And the lady really had\nprinciples, of her owu, anvway. All my tactics lay in simply","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.970Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.916Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:14.399Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}