{"id":"01KFE0JG1190BR14KYE4PD05S0","cid":"bafkreidnk3gnjrflk7sccdmza46aowr4d35ck6puv443jalyj7udn34iqi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigxucdvsw6ohr5zztgrfmlnhhulhe43yrpfr66kdn3ajwi2vltoea","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0330.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923151896-zbaci09nuyn","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0330.jpg","page_number":330,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":210816,"text":"322 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nquicker, looking at the ground, with his right hand behind his\nback, while with his left making gesticulations that were ex-\ntraordinarily incongruous with his words. Raskolnikov suddenly\nnoticed that as he ran about the room he seemed twice to stop\nfor a moment near the door, as though he were listening.\n\"Is he expecting anything?\"\n\"You are certainly quite right about it^\" Porfiry begain gaily,\nlooking with extraordinary simplicity at Raskolnikov (which\nstartled him and instantly put him on his guard) \"certainly\nquite right in laughing so wittily at our legal forms, he-he!\nSome of these elaborate psychological methods are exceedingly\nridiculous and perhaps useless, if one adheres too closely to the\nforms. Yes ... I am talking of forms again. Well, if I recognise,\nor more strictly speaking, if I suspect some one or other to be\na criminal in any case entrusted to me . . . you're reading for the\nlaw, of course, Rodion Romanovitch?\"\n\"Yes, I was . . .\"\n\"Well, then it is a precedent for you for the future — though\ndon't suppose I should venture to instruct you after the articles\nyou publish about crime! No, I simply make bold to state it by\nway of fact, if I took this man or that for a criminal, why, I ask,\nshould I worry him prematurely, even though I had evidence\nagainst him? In one case I may be bound, for instance, to arrest\na man at once, but another may be in quite a diflFerent position,\nyou know, so why shouldn't I let him walk about the town a\nbit, he-he-he! But I see you don't quite understand, so I'll give\nyou a clearer example. If I put him in prison too soon, I may\nvery likely give him, so to speak, moral support, he-he! You're\nlaughing?\"\nRaskolnikov had no idea of laughing. He was sitting with\ncompressed lips, his feverish eyes fixed on Porfiry Petrovitch's.\n\"Yet that is the case, with some types especially, for men are\nso different. You say evidence. Well, there may be evidence. But\nevidence, you know, can generally be taken two ways. I am an\nexamining lawyer and a weak man I confess it. I should like to\nmake a proof, so to say, mathematically clear, I should like to\nmake a chain of evidence such as twice two are four, it ought\nto be a direct, irrefutable proof! And if I shut him*up too soon\n— even though I might be convinced he was the man, I should\nvery likely be depriving myself of the means of getting further","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:32:31.896Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:32:32.659Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:32:33.924Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}