{"id":"01KFE0G26H3EKYJG75825ZV8S5","cid":"bafkreib4gqp44smwhebvc75ipahxkmk6ccwgxtkp3pivjxdcuh2th67z3i","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibd7zu3fmvrmdh4j7a5q5y5ndlwshm4lj4qx5f534t2ph2uihb2pu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0444.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071966-ssw3jo64yvo","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0444.jpg","page_number":444,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":209951,"text":"436 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nabout his immediate future. Another, much more important\nanxiety tormented him — it concerned himself, but in a different,\nmore vital way. Moreover, he was conscious of immense moral\nfatigue, though his mind was working better that morning than\nit had done of late.\nAnd was it worth while, after all that had happened, to con-\ntend with these new trivial difficulties? Was it worth while, for\ninstance, to manoeuvre that Svidrigailov should not go to Por-\nfiry's? Was it worth while to investigate, to ascertain the facts,\nto waste time over any one like Svidrigailov?\nOh how sick he was of it all!\nAnd yet he was hastening to Svidrigailov; could he be ex-\npecting something new from him, information, or means of\nescape? Men will catch at straws! Was it destiny or some instinct\nbringing them together? Perhaps it was only fatigue, despair;\nperhaps it was not Svidrigailov but some other whom he needed,\nand Svidrigailov had simply presented himself by chance. Sonia?\nBut what should he go to Sonia for now? To beg her tears again?\nHe was afraid of Sonia, too. Sonia stood before him as an irrev-\nocable sentence. He must go his own way or hers. At that\nmoment especially he did not feel equal to seeing her. No,\nwould it not be better to try Svidrigailov? And he could not\nhelp inwardly owning that he had long felt that he must see\nhim for some reason.\nBut what could they have in common? Their very evil-\ndoing could not be of the same kind. The man, moreover, was\nvery unpleasant, evidently depraved, undoubtedly cunning and\ndeceitful, possibly malignant. Such stories were told about him.\nIt is true he was befriending Katerina Ivanovna's children, butwho could tell with what motive and what it meant? The man\nalways had some design, some project.\nThere was another thought which had been continually\nhovering of late about Raskolnikov's mind, and causing him\ngreat uneasiness. It was so painful that he made distinct etforts\nto get rid of it. He sometimes thought that Sivdrigailov was\ndogging his footsteps. Svidrigailov had found out his secret\nand had had designs on Dounia. What if he had them still?\nWasn't it practically certain that he had? And what if, having\nlearnt his secret and so having gained power over him, he were\nto use it as a weapon against Dounia?","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.966Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.985Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:14.317Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}