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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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PART I
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CHAPTER I
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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of
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the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though
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in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
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He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase. His
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garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was more
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like a cupboard than a room. The landlady who provided him with garret,
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dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time
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he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which
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invariably stood open. And each time he passed, the young man had a
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sick, frightened feeling, which made him scowl and feel ashamed. He was
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hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.
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This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but
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for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition,
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verging on hypochondria. He had become so completely absorbed in
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himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not
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only his landlady, but anyone at all. He was crushed by poverty, but the
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anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him. He had
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given up attending to matters of practical importance; he had lost all
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desire to do so. Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror
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for him. But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her
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trivial, irrelevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats
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and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to prevaricate, to
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lie--no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and
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slip out unseen.
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This evening, however, on coming out into the street, he became acutely
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aware of his fears.
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“I want to attempt a thing _like that_ and am frightened by these
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trifles,” he thought, with an odd smile. “Hm... yes, all is in a man’s
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hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would
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be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new
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step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.... But I am talking
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too much. It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is
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that I chatter because I do nothing. I’ve learned to chatter this
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last month, lying for days together in my den thinking... of Jack the
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Giant-killer. Why am I going there now? Am I capable of _that_? Is
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_that_ serious? It is not serious at all. It’s simply a fantasy to amuse
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myself; a plaything! Yes, maybe it is a plaything.”
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The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle
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and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that
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special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out
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of town in summer--all worked painfully upon the young man’s already
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overwrought nerves. The insufferable stench from the pot-houses, which
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are particularly numerous in that part of the town, and the drunken men
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whom he met continually, although it was a working day, completed
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the revolting misery of the picture. An expression of the profoundest
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disgust gleamed for a moment in the young man’s refined face. He was,
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by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim,
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well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair. Soon he sank
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into deep thought, or more accurately speaking into a complete blankness
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of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring
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to observe it. From time to time, he would mutter something, from the
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habit of talking to himself, to which he had just confessed. At these
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moments he would become conscious that his ideas were sometimes in a
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tangle and that he was very weak; for two days he had scarcely tasted
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food.
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He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would
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have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags. In that quarter
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of the town, however, scarcely any shortcoming in dress would have
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created surprise. Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number
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of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading
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and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the
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heart of Petersburg, types so various were to be seen in the streets
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that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise. But there was
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such accumulated bitterness and contempt in the young man’s heart, that,
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in spite of all the fastidiousness of youth, he minded his rags least
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of all in the street. It was a different matter when he met with
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acquaintances or with former fellow students, whom, indeed, he disliked
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meeting at any time. And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown
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reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy
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dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: “Hey there, German
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hatter” bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him--the young
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man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat. It was a tall
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round hat from Zimmerman’s, but completely worn out, rusty with age, all
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torn and bespattered, brimless and bent on one side in a most unseemly
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fashion. Not shame, however, but quite another feeling akin to terror
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had overtaken him.
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“I knew it,” he muttered in confusion, “I thought so! That’s the worst
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of all! Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might
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spoil the whole plan. Yes, my hat is too noticeable.... It looks absurd
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and that makes it noticeable.... With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any
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sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing. Nobody wears such
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a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered.... What
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