- cid
- bafkreigdyeymmooyjx3sj745b637rnxqkziow7lvknsmcv4we7mcjoopzi
- content_type
- image/jpeg
- filename
- crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0386.jpg
- key
- pdf-page-1768923036578-4exfwgsyn1n
- page_number
- 386
- pdf_type
- born_digital
- size
- 212702
- text
- 378 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
nonsense! Call the police and I'll take my oath! There's only one
thing I can't understand: what made him risk such a contemp-
tible action. Oh, pitiful, despicable man!"
"I can explain why he risked such an action, and if necessary,
I, too, will swear to it," Raskolnikov said at last in a firm voice,
and he stepj>ed forward.
He appeared to be firm and composed. Every one felt clearly,
from the very look of him that he really knew about it and that
the mystery would be solved.
"Now I can explain it all to myself," said Raskolnikov, ad-
dressing Lebeziatnikov. "From the very beginning of the busi-
ness, Isuspected that there was some scoundrelly intrigue at
the bottom of it. I began to suspect it from some special cir-
cumstances known to me only, which I will explain at once to
every one: they account for everything. Your valuable evidence
has finally made everything clear to me. I beg all, all to listen.
This gentleman (he pointed to Luzhin) was recently engaged
to be married to a young lady — my sister, Avdotya Romanovna
Raskolnikov. But coming to Petersburg he quarrelled with me,
the day before yesterday, at our first meeting and I drove him
out of my room — I have two witnesses to prove it. He is a very
spiteful man. . . . The day before yesterday I did not know
that he was staying here, in your room, and that consequently
on the very day we quarrelled — the day before yesterday — he
saw me give Katerina Ivanovna some money for the funeral, as
a friend of the late Mr. Marmeladov. He at once wrote a note
to my mother and informed her that I had given away all my
money, not to Katerina Ivanovna, but to Sofya Semyonovna,
and referred in a most contemptible way to the . . . character of
Sofya Semyonovna, that is, hinted at the character of my atti-
tude to Sofya Semyonovna. All this you understand was with
the object of dividing me from my mother and sister, by in-
sinuating that I was squandering on unworthy objects the
money which they had sent me and which was all they had.
Yesterday evening, before my mother and sister and in his
presence, I declared that I had given the money to Katerina
Ivanovna for the funeral and not to Sofya Semyonovna and that
I had no acquaintance with Sofya Semyonovna and had never
seen her before, indeed. At the same time I added that he, Pyotr
Petrovitch Luzhin, with all his virtues was not worth Sofya
- text_extracted_at
- 2026-01-20T15:30:36.578Z
- text_extracted_by
- pdf-processor
- text_has_content
- true
- text_source
- born_digital
- uploaded
- true