mischief as for creating a sensation, inventing something, something
which had somewhat softened his anxiety at being drawn into such an
The maid, gazing at him in amazement, went to take his message again.
yellow, and strangely emasculate. In character he seemed almost exactly
gave the peasants champagne to drink the other day, e—ech!”
took it all in and noted it at once—most of all the look in Smerdyakov’s
“Love one another, Fathers,” said Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could
I’m a man of base desires, I’m honest. And at that very second some voice
with a bow he went back and sat down again on his little sofa.
carriage, and two paces from her stood an old monk, not one of our
all—don’t lie.”
It’s hard for her, you know,” Alyosha looked timidly at his brother.
“We shall see greater things!” broke from him.
Fyodor Pavlovitch began to regard him rather differently. His fits were
“Have you heard our news?” said the mother, pointing at her daughters.
going to her? You wouldn’t be going except for that?”
them, our splendid Russian people, so simple in their greatness!”
Karamazov about Ilusha.
point. I will insist on his knowing me and confiding entirely in me,
“It’s here, sir, here, sir,” he muttered cringingly; “it’s here, you’ve
with three horses harnessed abreast with bells, and with Andrey, the
he made friends with a political exile who had been banished from Moscow
tirade from the gentle Alyosha.
teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire,
follows effect simply and directly, and that I know it?—I must have
every day.
they may be wonderful at machinery, every one of them, damn them, they are
mistress here. I know myself that Samsonov, her merchant, was laughing
russian!”
dirty linen, she promptly gave Grigory, too, a box on the ear, and
course carry all before him.”
Lise grieves me so! I believe she’s quite mad. Why did she send for you?
it is my duty to care. While I’ve been playing the fool, I have been
But the carriage had already driven away. Ivan made no reply.
voice, but it soon gained strength and filled the court to the end of his
and we talked of the beauty of this world of God’s and of the great
it’s true that Dmitri Fyodorovitch has been here, was the thought that
more than ten, perhaps. I told every one so, shouted it at them. But I
Chapter VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov
perhaps you won’t understand what I am saying to you, because I often
old sinner, who can never draw the line—if they both let themselves go,
Grushenka.
he sees clearly and says to himself, “Now I have understanding, and though
off your coat.”
“I understand, I understand, _c’est noble, c’est charmant_, you are going
afterwards, with his loathsome snigger. In a man so depraved this might,
did you hear?” he turned to Ilusha.
talking of aberration. This doctor has come. You know a doctor has come?
was not from any special lack of intelligence, but from carelessness, for
they laughingly congratulated him on his find. The prosecutor and the
undertaken. The elder had sent Porfiry the evening before to a widow,
to get to know the investigating lawyer, though he had met him and talked
faltering and uncertain. “I have heard you are a mystic and have been in
“Couldn’t you, without abandoning your resolution to be silent about the
answered with the utmost composure that I hadn’t egged him on, that I
“You should wait, Grigory Vassilyevitch, if only a short time, and listen,
he really did shoot himself.
Alyosha’s question, “How can you say you’ll kill our father?” “I don’t
“Andrey! What if they’re asleep?”
gazed enchanted at the toy. The sensation was even greater when Kolya
effect, simply and directly; that everything flows and finds its level—but
hardly live in rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me yourself, I
criticism, if it is examined separately. As I followed the case more
voice. “She is a child; you are insulting a child! She is ill; she is very
fro with a lantern. Three fresh horses were being led in at the open gate.
have exaggerated much? Yes, she may well have exaggerated, in particular,
making much of him, but he seemed somehow to be unmoved by it. He was a
possible. And that I am doing. It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha,
“Was I then so eager, was I?” Ivan snarled again.
more than anything in the world. We are in a regular plot to bring it
horses, and galloped to Volovya. “Why is it worth while speaking to a
happening to the boy. Alyosha gazed for half a minute at the coffin, at
unapproachable fortress for everybody, just like a legal wife—for she is
which had been built long ago for another great ascetic, Father Iona, who
“And did you understand it?”
before the ikon and wept for him before the Holy Mother of God, our swift
driving off then with Grushenka to Mokroe, he had “spent three thousand in
me.... I like her for that!” she added, in an unnatural voice, and her
But the night was dark, Fyodor Pavlovitch’s gates were strong, and he
suspense, Kuzma Kuzmitch pronounced at last in the most positive and
it I forgot? How could I have forgotten it? And what made it come back to
But Father Zossima, on entering the portico, went first straight to the
“The three thousand you promised me ... that you so generously—”
present.
with those of little faith?” he added mournfully.
He went straight to the point, and began by saying that although he
to add hurriedly.
1.F.
I’m always like that, always like that. Always injuring myself with my
“What did he ask you to tell me?”
“Do you?” he asked sarcastically.
that she, too, should go abroad with Dmitri!” Katerina Ivanovna exclaimed
was his own, for he’d told the whole town he meant to before, and had even
father might be contemplating some piece of buffoonery. Though he said
him, and taking him by the shoulders began shaking him violently. “Do you
Pavlovitch’s but to Madame Hohlakov’s. He decided that if she denied
This was how Fetyukovitch concluded his speech, and the enthusiasm of the
Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria through fear of a general
“Smerdyakov always pokes himself in now, after dinner. It’s you he’s so
ninety, over‐excited by the _auto da fé_ of a hundred heretics the day
than the mastiff pup. Wait a bit, Karamazov, you will know something in a
“There he is shaking all over, as though he is in convulsions!” Varvara
depths to which they have voluntarily sunk.
before at the table, not reading but warmly disputing about something. The
to go in. He had not seen Katerina Ivanovna for more than a week. But now
road. And they did not speak again all the way home.
flock of sheep, grateful and obedient, though for ever trembling, lest
could have taken place, the charge of robbery falls to the ground; if
“I don’t know her, but I’ve heard of her and seen her. Did she really give
considering my absolute innocence? and who would believe you? Only if you
Sohn!”
Gentlemen, only fancy; there’s a poor but honorable man living here,
certainly would not be for such as they. It is prophesied that Thou wilt
that moment ‘What lies beyond,’ and whether Karamazov could, like Hamlet,
was utterly impossible, from the facts known, to determine which was in
“I am a widow these three years,” she began in a half‐whisper, with a sort
shouting so rudely at a visitor in my house?’ And, would you believe it, I
her little Lizaveta in her arms, wished me yesterday. God bless the mother
troika to pass. That may be, they may stand aside, respectfully or no, but
somehow. But what’s the good of my galloping over, if it’s all a notion of
show them I don’t care what they think—that’s all!”
without design. It was a great consolation to Ilusha in his suffering. He
Chapter VII. Ilusha
form such an insane plan.
fiery thirst of spiritual love which burns in me now, though I despised it
the cause of humanity.”
continually tormented at the same time by remorse for having deserted
“Do you?” he asked sarcastically.
From afar off, Father, from afar off!” the woman began in a sing‐song
“Yes, you’ve been depressed a long time, I’ve noticed it.”
The first to be called in the capacity of expert was Doctor Herzenstube.
the heart. It had a double row of windows, a gallery, marbled walls, and
a noteworthy character, miserly and hard as flint. Though Grushenka’s hold
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earth there is some one holy and exalted. He has the truth; he knows the
prediction” to the Superior and all the brotherhood. “All, all, ought to
“You know nothing about it,” she snapped irritably. “Perhaps she has a
not entered your head before. So I don’t repeat your ideas, yet I am only
“What’s it to do with me? Throw away your money, since it’s cost you
moments, else you know I am an ill‐natured man.”
“Then you don’t mean to take proceedings?”
from her invalid chair, anxiously watched him putting the bed tidy. The
Sometimes an extraordinary agitation would come over him, and almost
beard was all white with frost.
“Lise, I have a real sorrow! I’ll be back directly, but I have a great,
mankind in our age have split up into units, they all keep apart, each in
wail from an old woman whom he had almost knocked down.
streamed in at the little window. I was stirred by the sight, and for the
words first about Grushenka.
old Matryona by an unexpected action. On the table stood a brass mortar,
I know about it? What can I tell about such things?” he repeated to
purposely used these words instead of “intentionally”) consulted a lawyer
you will stake.”
out—am I going to wake up the household and make a scandal? Fooh! damn it,
passage, looking sternly at Alyosha and Kolya as he did so. Alyosha waved
“Forgive me, for goodness’ sake, I had no idea ... besides ... how can you
unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our
must see that you could puzzle God Himself with such questions. ‘How did
of that, there was such brightness in her face, such faith in the future.
all, mends and washes, sweeps the floor, puts mamma to bed. And mamma is
Chapter IV. The Second Ordeal
The priest, a shy and amiable looking little man, informed him at once
Mitya told him how he had got the sleeve stained with blood looking after
but now ‘the dagger in the heart’! That’s how women are.”
criticism?’ Without criticism it would be nothing but one ‘hosannah.’ But
“I think one of the stones must have hurt you badly,” observed Alyosha.
doing him the greatest service. For I know as a fact that Mitya only last
returned to our town only three years before Alyosha’s arrival. His former
“It’s Trifon Nikititch’s business, not yours.”
as he writes in his peculiar language, ‘and if they won’t give it to me,
Instead of answering, the boy broke into a loud tearful wail and ran away.
“Well, but if they did thrash him!” he cried, laughing.
drink to my freedom. Ah, if only you knew how glad I am!”
are, how can you be so long! And here’s Yulia with the ice!”
rich again—they’ve got heaps of money.”
about five o’clock on the security of your pistols, from your friend,
it and say that they’ve met, but still I won’t accept it. That’s what’s at
blamed himself for his outbursts of temper with his father on several
like a highwayman, and to urge his companions to join him he asserts that
hospitable, rich and fond of entertainments. I met with a cordial
“Good Lord!” I thought to myself, “he is thinking of other people’s
even? To‐morrow he’ll be tried, you know. Tell me, how will he be tried?
believers some of them rejoiced even more than the unbelievers, for “men
at once the rank of angels. Therefore,’ said the saint, ‘thou, too, O
a fortnight after his first visit to him, he began to be haunted by the
that she, too, should go abroad with Dmitri!” Katerina Ivanovna exclaimed
Alyosha felt at once that he had gravely wronged her in his thoughts. He
stood a young girl, rather plain, with scanty reddish hair, poorly but
“Well, it was you who murdered him, if that’s it,” he whispered furiously.
But humanity awaits him with the same faith and with the same love. Oh,
of unbounded resolution; he would make an end of the wavering that had so
smile, and turning his face to Ivan again, he stared at him with a look of
mental condition, at the same time I maintain that he would naturally not
Then he sat rigid in his place, with his teeth clenched and his arms
nor less. A profound silence reigned in the court as soon as the public
“Well, perhaps I am talking nonsense, I agree. I am awfully childish
But with his delicate health he had failed to make his mark at the outset
eat it, it will do you good. It’s first‐rate soup, they know how to make
in spite of his excellent disposition and his grateful and sensitive
to give you a second opportunity to receive the work electronically in
“You low harlot!”
only nine. I am alone in the world, and if I die, what will become of all
has only just heard that you are here, Alexey Fyodorovitch, she simply
father has something to say to me alone, why should I go in unseen? Most
see now, Alyosha, what a violent, vindictive creature I am? I have shown
hesitation, he opened the envelope. In it was a letter to him, signed by
Ivanovna that he would go away next day to Moscow, something had whispered
informed the police not only of the exact sum stolen, but even of the
admit that until to‐day he hesitated to accuse the prisoner of a full and
pressed his forehead to the stone floor and lay so for a long while.
of allegory in Gogol, for he’s made all the names have a meaning. Nozdryov
“At him!” shouted the old man. “Help!”
again, evidently taking him for the most important person present.) “I
down, I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.’ ”
It was at this moment that Fyodor Pavlovitch played his last prank. It
doesn’t come (for very likely she does not mean to come at all) then he
which would have done credit to a more intelligent observer, and that is,
“Not worthy! She’s not worthy of it!” Katerina Ivanovna cried again with
God bless youth! And I prayed for him as I went to sleep. Lord, send peace
of the head, replied:
tormented by it? From habit. From the universal habit of mankind for the
universal and everlasting craving of humanity—to find some one to worship.
decent man. We made a mistake then. It’s all the fault of that murderer
“By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbor actively
imperiously, and she stamped her foot on the floor. Her face glowed, her
Ilusha,’ I said, ‘there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.’
“On the question who founded Troy? We heard of it, Ilusha told me about it
can tell a story, take a hand at cards, and who have a distinct aversion
off! Don’t cry, Grigory. Go to Marfa. She’ll comfort you and put you to
squandered the money he had stolen after the murder of his father. And a
will not regret it. At the same time you will destroy in him the
“Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head—that is, these nerves are
wasn’t guilty, I believed him at once, and I believe him now and always
“I was led to do so by my brother Dmitri’s words. I was told what took
scaffold? Yes, yes, so she ought. That’s just what I think; she ought to
discharged from the army, but not publicly, not by court‐martial, with no
“Nonsense! It’s absurd! I’d no idea it was under the pillow. And perhaps
due to yesterday’s impression and would be only a moment. But with
But I will not detail the evidence of the other witnesses, who only
caused the fit in Smerdyakov, who was known to be liable to them. They
his face. He was in evening dress and white tie.
remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is
locusts and roots—and Thou mayest indeed point with pride at those
“I don’t know her, but I’ve heard of her and seen her. Did she really give
“I ask you for the second time—need I take off my shirt or not?” he said,
even than duty. I am conscious of this irresistible feeling in my heart,
stones flew at the boy. One struck the boy on the head and he fell down,
and not good—that’s what I am. And you hush, Rakitin, because you are
punishing me for it.’ He can’t get that idea out of his head. And if the
might have done it. And, what’s more, I went out of my way to tell you of
to a room next to Grigory’s and Marfa Ignatyevna’s.
“Wait, dear. I haven’t told you the chief, the final decision I came to
it’s nonsense I’m talking now, let me finish, and you, gentlemen, being
the words of mockery and blame, proud words, “How could God give up the
whole evening a week with him making up his accounts. We lock ourselves in
articulate the last phrase. Then the judges proceeded to put the questions
been cheated of by his father, and that, indifferent as he was to money as
“I was so eager to see you, because I can learn from you the whole
haven’t suffered, simply that I, my crimes and my sufferings, may manure
tribune, gentlemen of the jury, ought to be a school of true and sound
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doesn’t care for you or me, the monster,” Grigory used to say to Marfa,
respectfulness.
hundred that he had, and every one knew that he was without money before
us drink to life, dear brother. What can be more precious than life?
Gospels, and constantly talked over his impressions with his young friend.
and Alyosha’s fall “from the saints to the sinners,” over which he was
hitherto.
theory that only fifteen hundred had been spent and the rest had been put
things that had nothing to do with his position. On Mitya’s left side, in
not meanness!” cried Lise, firing up. “You may be sure, Alexey
“Nonsense! It’s absurd! I’d no idea it was under the pillow. And perhaps
another victim out of pity; then he would have felt differently; his
with even greater energy.
wouldn’t have the character, that he wouldn’t have the will‐power to do
he stood in the way to prevent me passing. ‘Where is she? Where is she?’
her aunts, I and all of us, Lise, even—have been hoping and praying for
“Tell Perezvon to pretend to be dead!” Kostya begged.
formalities, etc., in the house of Fyodor Pavlovitch. It all took time and
finished his studies, and so on. That he did not finish his studies is
“Oh, I am ready to approve of you now,” said he; “will you shake hands?
“_Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled
did not turn his face to Father Païssy, who watched him attentively.
“Why should He forbid?” Ivan went on in the same whisper, with a malignant
“But I shall be asked: What about the envelope on the floor? Yes, it’s
to take a wife, too. You will have to bear _all_ before you come back.
house was built for a large family; there was room for five times as many,
“This is a mortal insult!” The little Pole turned as red as a crab, and he
for any duties that may be forced upon them, are usually solitary
mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly. As
in making a free decision for themselves. And all will be happy, all the
It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.”
stood still in perplexity, wondering at himself. He realized that what he
do, it’s worth doing it well. But in my soul I have a profound contempt
The President asked Mitya what he had to say to the last witness’s
unhappy! Though it’s such nonsense, it’s a great blow to me. I feel like
Book V. Pro And Contra
him by the arm. Father Zossima moved towards Dmitri and reaching him sank
yourself. As soon as my tongue runs away with me, you just say ‘the
should I?”
his left leg from under the table, he began turning up his trouser leg. He
looked extraordinarily old for his age. His face had grown wrinkled,
“Well, our peasants have stood firm.”
women,’ for that is what you are secretly longing for. You’ll dine on
stinking, but they don’t see, they don’t smell it. It’s a year since I
wagons from the country and a great number of live fowls. The market women
men amongst us are the greatest drunkards. I lay down and I don’t remember
our conversation. I found that out afterwards. She didn’t keep it back,
Of course, all these nasty little suspicions as to the truth of her story
“Yes, of course, if you are not joking now.”
“That was to propitiate the liberals. He is afraid of them.”
unlike the loving tones of a moment before.
He ceased speaking suddenly, as though checking himself. After listening
what I like, to become superstitious. I adopt all your habits here: I’ve
It’s all come to me here, here, within these peeling walls. There are
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form of that vanity and entered into the whole generation; it’s simply the
When with an anxious and aching heart Alyosha went into his elder’s cell,
that those three questions of the dread spirit had perished utterly from
laughing aloud, “and, if you like, we won’t begin from yesterday, but from
“Then even you don’t believe in God?” said Ivan, with a smile of hatred.
light the lamp before the holy image, my dear.” And once he would not have
self‐willed, but proudest of the proud in our little heart. We’re noble,
the monks betrayed their secret motives in entering the cell. They went
perfect mass of fruitful activity open to us. That’s what I answered.”
come to stay with them as Marya Kondratyevna’s betrothed, and was living
scoundrel.”
with an intent, almost uncanny fixity. An expression of wonder, almost of
forest somehow, however, and a vista of fields, bare after the harvest,
“What do you mean?”
shouts! Oh! this has so much influence, it can so bias the mind; but,
preliminary inquiry. Karamazov’s triumph over his rival was complete and
handkerchief with which he had provided himself for his visit to Madame
complaint ever since her marriage, and respected him for his spiritual
deception, and lead men consciously to death and destruction, and yet
mournfully, but others did not even care to conceal the delight which
big, hard, clumsy sofa, with a mahogany back. The sofa was covered with
open, the air was fresh and cool. “So the smell must have become stronger,
“Ilusha is dying. I think that’s certain,” answered Alyosha, mournfully.
fingers through which the tears flowed in a sudden stream.
and put business in her way.
“Thanks, my dear, thanks! You are a good woman. I love you. I will do so
speak in this introduction. Yet I must give some preliminary account of
Nothing! To life, and to one queen of queens!”
with a broken head. And then the mass of phrases, statements, gestures,
do her ‘duty’ to the end, whatever the strain!” Mitya smiled bitterly.
of your dream, for I have my dream, too. I curse you, and disown you
that, much that soldiers have no knowledge or conception of is familiar to
at him joyfully and held out his hand.
Ivanovna.
driver, ready waiting for Mitya at the entrance. In the shop they had
him in the garden. Forty paces in front of him a man seemed to be running
fond of.”
in the fullest detail. Then they let the Poles go. The incident of the
that this might lead to his arrest and prosecution afterwards. But there
is there. Alyosha, my angel, all these philosophies are the death of me.
followed next day by another in which Pan Mussyalovitch begged her for a
looking fervently at me. We did not talk for long, his wife kept peeping
exercise of independent thought.
yourself, now.... I see it by your eyes.” Kolya smiled with a sort of sly
won’t say very honest, but ... it’s an axiom generally accepted in society
take such consequences sometimes? I know, of course, there’s a secret in
hands, flung herself on the sofa pillows, and sobbed like a little child.
don’t leave anything out!”
There was a bright moon in the sky. A nightmare of ideas and sensations
passage. They went into that room and lighted a tallow candle. The hut was
me.
suspected it was because of that! Oh, he is a brute! He was always
“I am drunk! I’m drunk as it is ... drunk with you ... and now I’ll be
I am afraid, oh, I am afraid she will tell how she bowed to the ground
of being read to by her. Krassotkin could, of course, have provided more
different with you.”
corner‐stone of the building.”
drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a sharp look‐out on
“Don’t talk of Alyosha! How dare you, you flunkey!” Ivan laughed again.
as any one says a word from the heart to her—it makes her forget
everywhere that Smerdyakov had done it), ‘perhaps I too am guilty, for
my heart! If I choose to tear off my finery, I’ll tear it off at once,
from detection. Oh! these sudden and irresistible impulses come so often
to him, that the crowd immediately makes way for the guards, and in the
He sat down. I stood over him.
amusing. Another thing, one could never think of her as a young lady. She
anxiety:
earthly mind, and how could I solve problems that are not of this world?
“Well then you can go to the devil,” said Kolya, cutting short the
French dictionary). Then I showed it her in silence, folded it, handed it
Of course, I don’t deny that there is sin in the peasants too. And the
like? I like wit.”
time we were loving that poor boy, better perhaps than we are. My little
attached to a fine house that belonged to a well‐to‐do lady, the widow of
“What do you know?”
moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s
bodies, but that had caused no scandal nor even the slightest excitement.
can do, believe me ... oh, I love young people! I’m in love with young
been in the army in early youth, and served in the Caucasus as an officer.
very likely to come to the summer‐house. Alyosha did not, however, give
hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. Why was it I dreamed
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decide some spiritual problem or crisis. So that such buffoonery amazed
“Good heavens!” cried Mitya. “If only you knew how important it is to me
moment. She spoke softly but clearly, so that she was heard all over the
more as a captive than as a convict. And what would become of the
of his soul, seeking for immediate action, and ready to sacrifice
written about Grushenka, for instance.... And about Katya, too.... H’m!”
“Oh, of course, there is the other meaning, there is the other
Father Zossima’s earliest youth. Of his teaching and opinions we find
very anxious to be back at the monastery as soon as I can.”
“And what then?”
Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors
institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the
his eyes away again and again looked on the ground. He stood sideways and
step leading to so many consequences, I never fully explained to myself.
gasp” as they said in the town, and he did, in fact, die a week after
Alyosha. His lips were strangely compressed like a thread.
one for the three thousand.” It was half‐past seven when he rang at the
“Among us there is sin, injustice, and temptation, but yet, somewhere on
the table, leaned his head on his hands and pronounced this strange
excepting Alyosha and Ivan, but he obtained no exact information from any
buffet. It was very late, almost one o’clock in the night, but nobody went
they’ll begin crying in a minute.”
eyes shone and he looked down.
“Likely I should refuse it,” boomed Rakitin, obviously abashed, but
“But what makes you affirm so confidently and emphatically that it’s not
long! I am suffering! Forgive me! I am suffering!”
A loud, persistent knocking was suddenly heard at the window. Ivan jumped
“They’re two gentlemen from the town.... They’ve come back from Tcherny,
crossed one leg over the other. Mitya’s eye was caught by his huge greased
that paltry three thousand!” he cried, contemptuously. “I’ll settle it to‐
magnificent in her own line! So she ran home? I’ll go—ah—I’ll run to her!
“Ach, Vanka’s gone to Petersburg;
to share your joy with me—”
By that time Smerdyakov had been discharged from the hospital. Ivan knew
talked like that, but would have drawn your saber to defend all Russia.”
he at once gave his answer, with his habitual composure and deliberation.
endurance, one must be merciful.”
split up all the gallery, I am told. He is seeking treasure all the
men that he had committed murder. For three years this dream had pursued
went before. Dmitri has asked you to go to her and say that he—well, in
“In the market‐place, in the market‐place! The devil knows whereabouts.
enough for a man to know all happiness. My dear ones, why do we quarrel,
looks at you with questioning and suffering eyes, studies you, your face,
thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn’t have brought you back this
though all of them, like Smurov, were prepared to deny that it was Alyosha
in the orphans. He became especially fond of the younger, Alexey, who
tenderly stroking her face; taking the dinner‐napkin, he began wiping away
gold studs peeped out under the collar of the dressing‐gown. On his head
first room from the entrance with a buffet along the wall. Waiters were
myself, perhaps there would have been no criminal standing before me. If
had already squandered half the money—he would have unpicked his little
Good heavens, can you have come here to see me! To tell you the truth, I
he became attached with all the warm first love of his ardent heart. But I
have taken the money, too, oh, I should have taken it; I should have taken
the year 1826(5)—and my jeer was, so people said, clever and effective.
Kalvanov was positively indignant.
understood. But Ivan soon saw that, though the sun, moon, and stars might
seemed as though God had in this case let the minority get the upper hand
him. He stands in the doorway and for a minute or two gazes into His face.
‘wickedness,’ they are tormented by pangs of conscience, often entirely
firmly persuaded that in higher spheres he had not been properly
boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it. The Russian
turn to me before any one!”
analysis of reason and common sense. And so they set up before us a false
decisions of the most precise and phlegmatic people. Pyotr Ilyitch was by
one could make out what he meant, and he stopped suddenly. Then he was
“Not for one minute,” cried Ivan furiously. “But I should like to believe
iron bedstead, with a strip of felt for a mattress. In the corner, under
For one whole week she was unconscious. She was very much changed—thinner
dark, the room was lighted up by the lamps and the candles before the
come. And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give an account of
penetrate their hearts with these simple tales. Give one hour a week to it
himself that everything had been done and the bread had been crumbled, he
not tell you anything about money—about three thousand roubles?”
“He must be out there, poor dear,” she thought. She went up to the gate
he cried suddenly again. He suddenly stopped and taking Alyosha by the
aberration?”
She was in a very paroxysm of self‐castigation, and, concluding, she
“If you’ll be so kind,” answered Nikolay Parfenovitch.
remembered perfectly that when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina
out—am I going to wake up the household and make a scandal? Fooh! damn it,
“I don’t deserve your kindness. I am a worthless creature,” said Maximov,
something nice in that!” laughed Alyosha. “Well, let us go! And now we go
Rakitin as a most religious and devout young man. He was particularly
workings of his little mind have been during these two days; he must have
angry, and he too, no doubt, has made some plan. Oh, I must succeed in
undressing.
“You again?... On the contrary, I’m just going.”
“To Grushenka, then!” Alyosha exclaimed mournfully, clasping his hands.
“That’s interesting. But in what sense?” Father Zossima asked Ivan.
one else knew that he was being watched. The box with the pistols had been
and brothers, that I cannot express this clearly. But woe to those who
fact, that is, that when Dmitri Fyodorovitch had run out to look for
gentlemen, but I declare that we must have mutual confidence, you in me
in the goodness of my heart. I needn’t have told you. I made you a present
and did not condescend to talk except in his own circle of the officials
come into collision, the precious father and son, on that path! But
his life! That’s my decision. Ivan Fyodorovitch fully approves me.”
split up all the gallery, I am told. He is seeking treasure all the
gentlemen, isn’t it too base of you to say that to my face? It’s base,
means a bad one, belonging to some rich merchants. They kept everything
“I can’t help it, I am not God!” the doctor answered offhand, though with
consciously unfair attitude. It is worse if we are carried away by the
so it be, if all the rest have no faith, will God curse all the rest? that
object of which was Grushenka, scarcely any one understood what really
children themselves in that sense. It’s just their defenselessness that
purpose,” said Alyosha.
between them! They will be convinced, too, that they can never be free,
her hope?” Alyosha went on, with timid reproach. “I know that you’ve given
staggering. “Mitya, don’t give me any more wine—if I ask you, don’t give
“We will continue,” interposed Nikolay Parfenovitch. “So what was it that
that at this moment you are in a temple of justice. Remember that you are
his turn came to question him. It must be noted that Grigory entered the
“The young lady forgot to give you this letter from Madame Hohlakov; it’s
when he had finished, he suddenly smiled.
his mistrustfulness.
drop in that evening at Mihail Makarovitch’s, so to speak casually, so as
three thousand at once, and I could only give him seven hundred straight
one else. But you didn’t do it: you are mistaken: you are not the
but I see that you are absolutely genuine and, therefore, you are right.”
“Alyosha, is there immortality?”
throws all the blame on Smerdyakov, not accusing him of being his
“Nonsense! Decide at once. My dear fellow, decide! If you settle the
rapid, direct, confiding, but she was greatly excited.
the world’s opinion; but perhaps that one stupid thing may be the saving
“Mamma, take him away quickly. Alexey Fyodorovitch, don’t trouble to come
“Did he say it to you alone once, or several times?” inquired the
“Well, look here, _panie_, I won’t keep you long. There’s money for you,”
brother, for there has been no presence in my life more precious, more
Mitya, of course, was pulled up again for the intemperance of his
but, looking for something to cover up the notes that she might not see
“Stay, Trifon Borissovitch,” began Mitya, “first and foremost, where is
“What I put up with from you! Listen, scoundrel, if I had reckoned on any
“Well, how would it be if you began your story with a systematic
just. Something of the same sort had happened to Fyodor Pavlovitch on
“I can’t behave to her as I ought—break off altogether and tell her so
road, sighing and shaking our heads, no doubt, and yet smiling joyfully in
how can you? No, that’s just what you are going away for, to join them ...
“Well, how would it be if you began your story with a systematic
against his ugly face.”
looks at you with questioning and suffering eyes, studies you, your face,
“She does not deserve to be loved. I have seen her naughtiness all along,”
“He is a chicken to you, Rakitin ... because you’ve no conscience, that’s
that they are within a hair’s‐breadth of being ‘turned upside down,’ as
children and for ever! And what a memory, what a memory of me I shall
time. He left off dragging me by my beard and released me: ‘You are an
important things. Even if you don’t agree with me, I shall do my duty in
on and on.
that there was anything to be stolen. We are told that money was
Alyosha? That’s the Russian faith all over, isn’t it?”
“I’ll trouble you, sir, to learn how to speak to me if you’ve never been
“You’ve spoken of that already,” Mitya observed musingly.
away from it till I had drained it! At thirty, though, I shall be sure to
“Surely you don’t want to go, Alyosha!” she cried, in mournful surprise.
shall be having hysterics, and not she!”
“What o’clock is it, _panie_?” the Pole, with the pipe, asked his tall
poverty that they went every day to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s kitchen for soup
are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal
“He means the three thousand,” thought Mitya.
heart needs? He needs sunshine, childish play, good examples all about
“No, I don’t believe,” whispered Smerdyakov.
“Whatever do you want to go picking quarrels with every one for? ... Just
he was beside himself. I was aghast, realizing with my heart as well as my
“Let me have soup, and tea afterwards, I am hungry,” said Alyosha gayly.
I thought, “I feel it’s not that. Can it be that I am afraid of death,
your family,” answered the elder, in a faint, exhausted voice. He was
He addressed Grigory with obvious satisfaction, though he was really
on the loan. But this time (I heard all about it quite by chance from
much thought to the details of his plan, but resolved to act upon it, even
“I wasn’t there, but Dmitri Fyodorovitch was; and I heard him tell it with
“Most pious and holy elder,” he cried, pointing to Ivan, “that is my son,
I have mentioned already that Grigory had detested Adelaïda Ivanovna, the
Alyosha suddenly recollected that on coming out of the summer‐house the
Her one hope.... Oh, go, go!...”
despise me? Did he despise me? Tell me, tell me, Alyosha, did he despise
up with Miüsov and a distant relative of his, a young man of twenty,
Seeing his blood‐stained face, Mitya started and scowled wrathfully.
said Nikolay Parfenovitch in conclusion. “And now allow me to request you
wings, but have shown myself in such a modest form. You are wounded, in
simply paternal, and that this had been so for a long time.
centuries ago. He came down to the ‘hot pavements’ of the southern town in
Volovya, Mitya at once ordered posting‐horses to drive to the town, and
how I dare to say all this, but somebody must tell the truth ... for
sympathy for the unhappy wife had become something sacred to him, so that
same time there was fear. He looked like a man who had long been kept in
friend. I have the honor to be his only friend!” she cried suddenly with a
them. We know what we know!”
“You defend me very kindly, dear young lady. You are in a great hurry
guess there was some mischief brewing on your part ... only you are lying,
“charming, chivalrously refined Ivan, who had such excellent manners.”
bed, they’ll take it away,” he added as though alarmed that they really
“Why so?”
heard a great deal about you,” Kolya muttered, a little breathless.
door,” the prosecutor pronounced deliberately, as though chiseling out
suddenly very cold. The rain had ceased, but the dull sky was still
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“I plead guilty to drunkenness and dissipation,” he exclaimed, again in a
discreditably, if you prefer, ‘disgracefully,’ appropriated? Your taking
“Ah! You wanted to be sure? Well, what then?”
The figure of the young officer, frivolous and profligate, doing homage to
first occurred to him. No doubt he was conscious himself of the
heart. No doubt a youth who received impressions cautiously, whose love
“I know. So you say there are a lot of them? How’s that? Who are they?”
diverted and laughed heartily when her husband began capering about or
But do make haste,” she finished nervously. She was quite frightened at
“Why ask him to come out?” Smurov protested. “You go in; they will be
Mitya’s betrothed. That’s what he is staying here for,” he added
It is, of course, perfectly evident that there was even more likelihood of
children won’t lose their rank and property, they’ll be a convict’s
“Don’t worry yourself so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” observed the prosecutor,
“I’ll bring everything in a minute, Lise, only don’t scream and don’t
expected. Nothing could have been farther from his dreams than help from
repeated a “certain prayer” over him, after which he had gone to bed.
billion years to walk it?”
to happen grew stronger in Alyosha’s mind with every hour. What that
that he was going to dance the “sabotière.”
remember that clearly?’ ‘No, I don’t.’ And he was angry, very angry, and
shall keep quiet and I’ll go on talking, for the time has come. But on
was not the same, and had never been in any envelope. By strict
just at the toe there was a big hole in the leather, carefully blackened
often quite a trifling and ridiculous one—some article left about in the
‘Uncle, _Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn_,’ and he had only forgotten ‘_Gott
would be bitterer still for the unhappy creatures. For even if the
tease you. They told me how they tease you, but I don’t want to tease you.
It was by now seven o’clock, and it was getting dark as Alyosha entered
has done wrong, been punished, and forgiven. He seemed to have forgotten
screen as he came out of his bedroom—Karamazov was positively crushed. My
natural science,” said Kolya. He was showing off and he stole a glance at
“This is unendurable!” was heard on all sides in the cell.
he may lightheartedly overstep all the barriers of the old morality of the
reason, smiled, “And on that question at least I am quite of one mind with
shoulder made him stop too.
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before the ikon and wept for him before the Holy Mother of God, our swift
through the rooms, came into the hall, the dog shook his head and gave two
holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She
reverence. Being in a subordinate and dependent position, and so not on an
“Well, it was you who murdered him, if that’s it,” he whispered furiously.
listeners. They all spoke of it, not laughing, but with a strange gravity.
kill himself just because ‘his mother’s prayers had saved him,’ and he was
been for his eyes, which, in themselves small and inexpressive, were set
Mitya suddenly crimsoned.
lukewarm attitude to such deeds, to such signs of the times, ominous of an
neck and took out the money.”
come into collision, the precious father and son, on that path! But
there, a great‐coat, a fur coat? I’ll bring it out to you. They’ll get the
my secret heart I believe that we may pray even for them. Love can never
He raised himself in the bed and looked intently at Kolya. Kolya had not
had the thought of Smerdyakov in my mind. I’ve been sitting here, shouting
to be taking part in this shameful foolery. I made a mistake in believing
scandal. Why he wants it only he can tell. He always has some motive. But
pup, with a black nose, to‐day. He thinks that would comfort Ilusha; but I
religiously.’
conscious, but his breathing! His breathing’s gone wrong. The other day he
hundred I sewed into a little bag. That’s how it was, gentlemen. That’s
last. He had abandoned his cassock and was wearing now a well‐cut coat, a
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added by Fyodor Pavlovitch, “For my little chicken.” There were three
“That’s true, that’s true,” cried Madame Hohlakov.
their sinless life. Yonder,” said I, “in the forest wanders the dreadful
he did not add one softening phrase.
“If you want to talk to me, please change the subject,” he said suddenly.
attracted all the young men of fashion to their grandfather’s house.
table. The lawyers read it with curiosity, and, as is usual, added it to
solve all his difficulties, yet, as he drew near Volovya station, he
dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us. If we were
“Have you ever seen it, you, who were for so many years in close
it, he saw with an aching heart that his father was an object of contempt,
even now the law does not allow you to drag your old father about by the
the coffin and only hindered the bearers, at another he ran alongside and
angry, I assure you; on the contrary, he is surprised that you could
preliminary inquiry, he told me with hysterical tears how the young Ivan
there would have been, to my thinking, no sin in it if he had on such an
equality with the guests, he did not greet them with a bow.
“As though he would! I know he won’t. Do you know the meaning of despair,
clasped his hands.
“Who will be murdered?”
Thy work and have founded it upon _miracle_, _mystery_ and _authority_.
suddenly appeared in our town, and went straight to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s
morrow, so I’ll make merry till I die!’ ”
“Father, don’t cry, and when I die get a good boy, another one ... choose
The most direct and the easiest thing for him to do would have been to go
contempt for him, or perhaps from his cool common sense, which told him
caused by lack of mental freedom. She wanted, perhaps, to show her
The boys went on.
Alyosha went up to Ilusha and began setting his pillows straight. Nina,
nervously.
fitted him out with new clothes and linen. But he returned half the money
believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, “My Lord and my God!”
Though Mitya spoke sullenly, it was evident that he was trying more than
The arrival of his two brothers, whom he had not known till then, seemed
resentfully; “and so I stopped you then at the gate to sound you on that
could arrange it—”
“You’re raving, not making puns!”
saw all those who took part in the first resurrection and that there were
but would never have come to the surface, if it hadn’t been for this blow
of what might happen and of Krassotkin’s somehow putting him to shame over
Suddenly a man in a violent rage darted out from the arcade of shops close
Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
“Ah, my porch, my new porch!” Grushenka flung back her head, half opened
finished his studies, and so on. That he did not finish his studies is
small boy,” not fit to associate with them, and that was an unendurable
something in your destiny! Understand, Alexey, that if you return to the
Neither in drunken debauchery in taverns, nor when he was flying into the
vain and some of these suitors had been forced to beat an undignified and
his master was fond of him and honored him with his confidence, he would,
at me and his eyes shine. Alyosha doesn’t despise me. Alexey, you mustn’t
There is a low tavern here, and in it he met that discharged officer, that
was all. He just asks and says no more. His father will go out of his mind
What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome.
right hand happened to be stained with blood. He declared that his nose
on her knees.
astounded that he failed to assist him when he got up again. There was a
stony heartlessness ascribed to him by the prosecutor is inconsistent with
happened on that fatal, accursed day! ‘You brought your beauty for sale,
at her.
He certainly was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before. He had
held up their children to him and brought him the sick “possessed with
“Do you want me to bow down to you, monk?” said Father Ferapont. “Get up!”
of his mouth quivered. Ilusha smiled a pitiful little smile, still unable
fetch some one....”
perhaps, was still dictated by lofty and generous motives. He, he, the
recollection seemed to come back to him for an instant.
talking of things that don’t matter, about this trial, but I haven’t said
“What does Ivan say? Alyosha, my dear, my only son, I’m afraid of Ivan.
tears, for I love the Bible. Let him too weep, the priest of God, and be
“But what if he did not kill him, but only knocked him down?”
Katerina have a baby when she isn’t married?”
and must be thinking much of what the ladies are saying of him now,” the
“Trifon Borissovitch,” Mitya began nervously, “has pulled his whole inn to
completely did they take possession of him again. It was just after
a Church over the whole world—which is the complete opposite of
like a little child, but you think like a martyr.”
nature: you see what sunshine, how clear the sky is, the leaves are all
is far more foolishness among us. That’s Rakitin’s idea—a remarkable idea.
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