{"id":"01KFE0JG0FJ2P29WRDCG27A0BP","cid":"bafkreiczde7cv2uknubmlmwhhjy4jq2agacergju2yrdgxpzze4b4kayqq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiesccw4cqfvw4s4acyesumu7rltxdto4xnc5z3d2jxgha5hctrema","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0392.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923151915-ahe7zixnuag","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0392.jpg","page_number":392,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":194063,"text":"3 84 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\n\"This time Luzhin did not want to prosecute you,\" he began,\nnot looking at Sonia, \"but if he had wanted to, if it had suited\nhis plans, he would have sent you to prison if it had not been for\nLebeziatnikov and me. Ah?\"\n\"Yes,\" she assented in a faint voice. \"Yes,\" she repeated,\npreoccupied and distressed.\n\"But I might easily not have been there. And it was quite\nan accident Lebeziatnikov's turning up.\"Sonia was silent.\n\"And if you'd gone to prison, what then? Do you rememlser\nwhat I said yesterday?\"\nAgain she did not ans'yer. He waited.\n\"I thought you would cry out again 'don't speak of it, leave\noff.'\" Raskolnikov gave a laugh, but rather a forced one. \"What,\nsilence again?\" he asked a minute later. \"We must talk about\nsomething, you know. It would be interesting for me to know\nhow you would decide a certain 'problem' as Lebeziatnikov\nwould say.\" (He was beginning to lose the thread.) \"No, really,\nI am serious. Imagine, Sonia, that you had known all Luzhin's\nintentions beforehand. Known, that is, for a fact, that they\nwould be the ruin of Katerina Ivanovna and the children and\nyourself thrown in — since you don't count yourself for any-\nthing— Polenka too . . . for she'll go the same way. Well, if sud-\ndenly it all depended on your decision whether he or they\nshould go on living, that is whether Luzhin should go on living\nand doing wicked things, or Katerina Ivanovna should die?\nHow would you decide which of them was to die? I ask you?\"\nSonia looked uneasily at him. There was something peculiar\nin this hesitating question, which seemed approaching some-\nthing ina roundabout way.\n\"I felt that you were going to ask some question like that,\"\nshe said, looking inquisitively at him.\n\"I dare say you did. But how is it to be answered?\"\n\"Why do you ask about what could not happen?\" said Sonia\nreluctantly.\n\"Then it would be better for Luzhin to go on living and\ndoing 'vicked things? You haven't dared to decide even that!\"\n\"But I can't know the Divine Providence. . . . And why do\nyou ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish\nquestions? How could it happen that it should depend on my","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:32:31.915Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:32:32.640Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:32:33.862Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}