“What am I to do now, Kuzma Kuzmitch?” he muttered, with a pale smile. “I
again Alyosha gave no answer.
the door after him.
and the drivers stood round him bargaining over the journey of twelve
be sure of that.”
ceased to go. He snatched it up and carried it to a Jewish watchmaker who
do it at all. You won’t go and inform against me then, will you?”
half of the money, but should have taken it as I did the other half!’ A
invented that little bag on the inspiration of the moment, because he had
hast exalted above everything. Yet in this question lies hid the great
murdering him, eh?”
you may be sure, it will make her mouth water.’ And so he tears open the
“I don’t want him, I don’t want him!” cried Ilusha, with a mournful break
fragments and form a general idea from all the agonizing and conflicting
only too well. I break off all relations with you from this moment and
he burst into tears. Alyosha found him crying.
called Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov. This young man was preparing to enter the
“The famous French writer, Piron. We were all drinking then, a big party
wait on one another.”
that we have facts, witnesses, and his own words. I confess, gentlemen of
himself, observe—that but for that envelope, but for its being left on the
long time, and now something seemed to snap in his soul.) “You almost
“There’s no pleasing you! And I thought I should fascinate you by my
wouldn’t believe, Alexey, how I want to live now, what a thirst for
interesting man in his house. This individual was not precisely a
“Though I don’t know you and it’s the first time I’ve seen you,” Alyosha
accommodating and ready to assume any amiable expression as occasion might
it to me. It was a very thick bundle, all rainbow‐colored notes. And
inexperience and vanity—vexation at having failed to express himself,
whom Smerdyakov had once sung his songs and played on the guitar, was now
fifteen hundred roubles which were on his breast, just below the neck, and
slightly prominent lower lip was at least twice as full, and looked
begging for his father, appealing to every one to defend him, while every
no resisting it; as though I should act like a bug, like a venomous
“Oh, no; there are people of deep feeling who have been somehow crushed.
would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil‐doing, no real
Here Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov’s manuscript ends. I repeat, it is
yet it was she who had betrayed him. “Perhaps because she feels how she’s
every one in the town went to it. It was the same this time. After dinner
“I know it’s the other side of the copse,” observed Fyodor Pavlovitch,
would be different.”
the prosecutor answered at once, with evident alacrity. “We have, so far,
“Prisoner, do you plead guilty?”
in surprise, “that is, that up to the last hour you were still
they all arrived together. Snegiryov opened the door hurriedly and called
heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not
against an unjustly oppressive force. Society cuts him off completely by a
enough, do you hear, enough. I mean even if I don’t go away to‐morrow (I
all the criminal wants, and to‐morrow it will be seen how much he is
hundred roubles. Five hours later he was arrested, and, except fifteen
the secretary); “that’s my personal life, gentlemen, that doesn’t concern
was very ill. He was very weak; he spoke slowly, seeming to move his
last understood this. He subsided into gloomy silence and hurriedly
“Did you send him a letter?”
twenty‐five thousand, he might say twenty‐eight thousand, in fact,
upon the eye, and though one may be so busy with work or conversation that
And such love won’t do for me.
‘Will you preach this in your reviews?’ I asked him. ‘Oh, well, if I did
his desires, accidentally betrayed and always vaguely expressed.
did it alone. If he had killed him it must have been with some object, for
Nikolay Parfenovitch immediately acted upon this hint. He again dismissed
“Give orders for the market‐place to be swept to‐morrow, and perhaps
“You are a wench with brains,” he said to her, when he gave her eight
heard them. Honor, self‐sacrifice were shown there, and I will be silent.
he wouldn’t take my presents. Besides, what motive had he for murdering
altogether a thief, or I should not have brought back what was left, but
devil’s tail he was ready and eager to believe, and not only in the
were to say to him, ‘I am yours, I won’t have Fyodor Pavlovitch,’ then he
to pray for the peace of a living soul? And his own mother too! It’s a
evil feelings. But it only proved that, in his love for the woman, there
surprising desires; for instance, after midnight he suddenly had an
haste—‘if not I’—the animal cunning, the naïveté, the Karamazov impatience
hardly live in rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me yourself, I
childhood brought back our monastery, to which his mother may have taken
afraid of me all at once. Am I going to eat him? Why doesn’t he want to
“One may say with certainty, gentlemen of the jury,” the prosecutor
was ill. Fenya and her grandmother, the cook, did not turn him out, but
Mitya was reduced to silence. He flushed all over. A moment later he felt
“You’re anathema accursed, as it is,” Grigory suddenly burst out, “and how
“Yes, even if every one is like that. You be the only one not like it. You
and delivers it from sin. And I shall pray for the peace of your child’s
Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you again, not only my
“Yes, Dmitri Fyodorovitch is non‐existent as yet.”
every one of us! Love children especially, for they too are sinless like
felt Ivan Fyodorovitch to be an enigmatic figure, and thought his visit
believe that you didn’t care for me to make it—easier for you.”
would he could not control it. “When it grows up, you’ll have to keep it
to sensual lust; and, above all, to the love of money. And close your
never happened, recall everything, forget nothing, add something of her
Chapter I. In The Servants’ Quarters
“Oh, to keep off dogs.... Oh, because it was dark.... In case anything
to him, ‘_De ideabus non est disputandum_.’ Isn’t that rather good? I can
the Pole with the pipe observed to Maximov.
was a man of good heart, perhaps,” he thought, “who had come to grief from
“Then she is not angry at my being jealous?” he exclaimed. “She is a
police; “look at him: drunk, at this time of night, in the company of a
From the hall they could hear Grushenka leap up from the sofa and cry out
tragic? And if only one such stood at the head of the whole army ‘filled
that doesn’t matter because—”
“You’ll live many days yet,” the doctor would answer, “and months and
conversation with you, beloved of my heart. I shall look once more on your
“In what sense did they found it?” he deigned to comment at last. “And
have to suffer for it. Why not accept such an interpretation of the facts?
kids” who were sitting over the book, as he had bidden them. Every time he
Grushenka had insulted her. Then, parting from Alyosha, Mitya had rushed
Lise seemed extraordinarily impressed and for half a minute she was
“And you didn’t even think of washing your hands at Perhotin’s? You were
soon as the statement of Smerdyakov’s death was made, he cried out aloud
about, and I am even staying on here perhaps on that account.”
heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would
own there were many among the men, too, who were convinced that an
“Dmitri Fyodorovitch, your honor! Do I see you again?”
after that four thousand. She’ll pay it back to the last farthing. I don’t
that’s as clear as daylight now,” Mitya exclaimed more and more
“How was it you came just now, eh? Have you walked in!... I was
of mind to the most savage. All the feelings that had subsided and died
once. He answered, laughed, got up and went away.”
expression, as he watched him walk away, seemed to suggest to the public
and thought them over, he suddenly realized that he had met a new and
_(e) The Russian Monk and his possible Significance_
come!”
“Why? It’s absurd to ask. Because I had condemned myself to die at five
“I gave it to the monastery,” I answered; “we live in common.”
ashamed. His forebodings were coming true.
“Alexey Fyodorovitch,” she wrote, “I am writing to you without any one’s
Volovya station. He wrote to me, too, about the business of the copse,
depth and force. And so Our Lady, shocked and weeping, falls before the
“Damn it all, if I hadn’t pulled him away perhaps he’d have murdered him.
about something, some sudden irregularity. He was shouting angrily. He
painful effort, shifted his position in bed, but he was not the first to
by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don’t want millions,
the room to receive his guests. He was a tall, thin, but still vigorous
“How do you know? How can you speak so confidently?” Alyosha asked
tortures you and makes you angry, that’s why you are so vindictive.’ He
Your preaching has brought him to this; for the last month he was always
continually, get in his way and worry him. Oh, no! I will go away to
“Stay! You knew it! And I see you understand it all at once. But be quiet,
of him. He had never imagined that he would see such a wasted, yellow
looked as black as night. I could see that Pyotr Ilyitch was in the way,
happened suddenly and that I must see him, and he will open to me so that
as soon as the elder touched the sick woman with the stole.
of evidence may have been incorrect also. The prosecutor will not, dare
cherry jam when you were little?”
unexpectedly and accidentally, and by that time very likely he did not
he tells another person—and a person most closely interested, that is, the
brother, you pious and humble novice? Do you understand why this infamy
lost for ever?”
agree with her, he almost always appealed to Kolya Krassotkin, and his
river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to
Book XII. A Judicial Error
made against him, had brought forward nothing in his defense, while the
were lusterless; he raised them and looked slowly round the court. Alyosha
strange exclamations were all that came from his lips. The Pole gazed
the universal happiness of man. But Thou mightest have taken even then the
are, indeed, essential to the soul of the criminal at such moments, as its
with dignity and said that he had no more questions to ask of the witness.
called Ilya, had lost everything and lived many years as a workman with
“Of my love, if you like. I fell in love with the young lady, I worried
had meanwhile developed. There were rumors that she had been at seventeen
harmony, what have children to do with it, tell me, please? It’s beyond
yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death....
Mitya’s head was burning. He went outside to the wooden balcony which ran
cost!” cried Mitya.
“I am not guilty. I am guilty of the blood of another old man but not of
how much I give Grushenka if she comes. They are all scoundrels! But I
was afraid, I ran for fear of meeting him.”
young lady on the subject was different, perfectly different. In the
himself, still unable to bring himself to the point. He made my heart
It was a bright, clear day, and many of the visitors were thronging about
disgusting and unworthy of love, they have a compensation—they’ve eaten
to beat me cruelly. He lay ill; I thought looking at him, if he were to
talking to you, Rakitin, while a prince like this is standing here. Such a
within these peeling walls, but I haven’t said a word about what matters
in the soul, throbs incessantly in the mind, and poisons the heart unto
son. And besides that, there is still preserved, though only in thought,
“Not at all,” answered a man’s voice politely, but with emphatic dignity.
When Fetyukovitch had to cross‐examine him, he scarcely tried to refute
misunderstood me. I was talking of the gold‐mines. It’s true I promised
I’ll say no more. I am taking my revenge for my youth, for all the
prayer, the salvation of Russia will come perhaps once more! For they are
betrothed and all eyes are fixed on him, can’t restrain his
Smerdyakov, were standing by. Both the gentlemen and the servants seemed
the place is holy. Where I stand will be at once the foremost place ...
“I say,” the old man bent down to whisper in Mitya’s ear. “That girl
“Now, let’s go.”
hysterically. “How dare you, sir, how could you venture to disturb a lady
The lady was weeping.
concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in
God!’ ”
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Kirillovitch described how he had questioned and tortured him at Mokroe,
attentively and respectfully Ivan went on, addressing the elder with
unconscious man to be carried to her house, disregarding the inevitable
farthest corner at the back of the gallery came a piercing shriek—it was
off to Mokroe to meet her first lover.”
called so, as he would be grievously offended at the name, and that he
fashion is a great power in society. I began to regard my mysterious
So this Smerdyakov became Fyodor Pavlovitch’s second servant, and was
she smiled coquettishly; “but that will do later, too. The important thing
sentence and forgot the end of it. Pyotr Ilyitch found himself obliged to
apologetically, stopped him to get the last word. The poor fellow looked
at me and bit my finger badly, I don’t know why.”
himself that the woman was not there, have made off, post‐haste, without
who had died seventy years before at the age of a hundred and five. He had
baby. There were contradictions in him, too: he was proud, but he was
gently asked by the President whether she had recovered sufficiently,
could not endure ingratitude. You have revealed me to myself. You have
established ritual. As is well known, the bodies of dead monks and hermits
“I didn’t know what thoughts were in your mind then,” said Smerdyakov
signals on the table, and when Nikolay Parfenovitch said that he supposed
The first to be called in the capacity of expert was Doctor Herzenstube.
them.”
Kolya stared at him. He could not recall when he could have had a row with
have learnt that it’s not only impossible to live a scoundrel, but
But one grief is weighing on me.
knocked down at the fence! Let this fearful cup pass from me! Lord, thou
Ivan, with a malignant smile.
“Again, though he ran to see whether the witness was alive, he left
Himself, even if He did make the Tatar responsible, when he dies would
“Ah, Misha, that’s just what will really happen, every word of it,” cried
What ought to horrify us is that we are so accustomed to it, and not this
crimes. And here we have a man of that type who had really been driven to
sad even to dejection?” and immediately grasped with surprise that his
a twentieth part of what I say is true—even so it’s awful! Look how our
don’t know ... don’t let her go away like this!”
before the Lord to feel at that instant that, for him too, there is one to
more: ‘If I repay Katerina Ivanovna, where can I find the means to go off
people of more use than me.”
The moments of contemplating that animal fear, when the criminal sees that
but sometimes, when he was alone with any one, he became talkative and
After touching upon what had come out in the proceedings concerning the
away, and there’ll be no more of him. I will commemorate my day of joy on
meeting. Can you really have thought about me, too? You said just now that
real. That may be so, but answer me one question: what motive had he for
and having considered that the accused, not pleading guilty to the charges
“Father, I will stay here with a light, and seize the favorable moment. As
love, for my earthly life is over, and Abraham will not come even with a
to Mitya perfectly right and not to be questioned. In his mood of doglike
doubt only at that moment of angry silence, the fiction of the little bag
“Not a step, not a word! Don’t speak, don’t answer her. She’ll go
detail. At the same time he was in a hurry to get it over. But as he gave
Moscow, but to Tchermashnya, that I wanted to have you nearer, for
“What object? No object. I just picked it up and ran off.”
“Loves his having killed his father?”
verdict was regarded as infallible by both of them. This time the “kids’”
Chapter II. The Alarm
of her exquisite lips there was something with which his brother might
“There was a dispute about three thousand roubles, I think, which you
and familiar. He often complained of headache too.
“But what if he did not kill him, but only knocked him down?”
Chapter VIII. The Scandalous Scene
scoundrel again to the other directly,” was his feeling then, as he
But she fell at once into a sound, sweet sleep.
an aquarium in the window. It was twilight and rather dark. Alyosha made
you, and I will save you. I will save you as I did Belmesov. What do you
accept by faith, or, better to say, _on faith_, like many other things
“All right, all right....”
comes to see a youngster like me and treats me as his equal.” And I
the sight of Alyosha’s wound.
cheating him. Yes, I admit it was hard to bear! It might well drive a man
Strange to say, during those days it never occurred to him to think of the
you, I’ve run all the way.” She seemed perfectly crazy, Alyosha reported,
immortality, or, as you say, the same questions turned inside out, come
“If I were able to play such a trick, that is, pretend to have a fit—and
myself and believed it, but when I’d finished speaking I left off
me. Anyway it’s easier going to the other world if one knows what there is
Pavlovitch protested.
Chapter VI. The First Interview With Smerdyakov
faudrait les inventer_, those hooks, on purpose for me alone, for, if you
shan’t pull up. I shall carry out my base plan, and you can bear witness
you, if you decline to give it for one reason or another. That is entirely
they are ugly (I fancy, though, children never are ugly). The second
He had a strange dream, utterly out of keeping with the place and the
cherished in my soul. Five months later she married an official and left
imagine, he believes I did it. I see it. ‘In that case,’ I asked him, ‘why
ties. It was a new and surprising experience for him, who had till then
pity they dragged the valet in. That was simply an absurd theory! If I’d
Let him read them about Abraham and Sarah, about Isaac and Rebecca, of how
afterwards he was sometimes able to get up and walk about the room and
the jury,” he added, “that till to‐day I have been uncertain whether to
he had looked for. When he came across any of the monks who displayed this
episode, which occurred before the final speeches, and undoubtedly
“Gentlemen of the jury, there are moments in the execution of our duties
itself! For they will remember only too well that in old days, without our
thrashed.”
“Why are you sad? I see you’re sad.... Yes, I see it,” she added, looking
“Come, kiddies,” said Kolya, stepping into the room. “You’re terrible
highly prizing his flat, dull and always gleefully complacent German wit.
questions was so justly divined and foretold, and has been so truly
and see his brother Dmitri before that fateful interview. Without showing
and are not pretending, so as to throw your guilt on me to my very face,
sitting by him one night and he suddenly told me: ‘Father, when my grave
now, when you were telling your story, I thought, as I watched you, that
“I shall be at the Hohlakovs’ to‐morrow,” answered Alyosha, “I may be at
even on earth.... You have a generous heart ... you must see that, you
honor. Such gentlemen of accommodating temper and dependent position, who
“But if Smerdyakov also knew of these signals and you absolutely deny all
fingers holding them were covered with blood.
with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional terms imposed
immediately, “but that I can’t tell for certain whether she is or not.”
hands and feet and on the knees, and that is enough.” All this was done by
one saw and heard you run out of the next room and cry out: ‘It’s all my
going, is leaving the earth! If you knew, Lise, how bound up in soul I am
“But what for? I suppose you tease him.”
vindictively. He was dressed in a rather shabby old overcoat, which he had
“I came in from the back‐alley, over the fence, and went straight to the
capricious, though always friendly. Sometimes there was something fixed
Father Païssy. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction
I fully believe in the explanation of the murder I have just put forward.
“I tell you, you’ve nothing to be afraid of. I won’t say anything about
been the only person in the world with whom she was so. Of late, when
added, putting in the bullet and driving it home with the ramrod. “Pyotr
“He is a beast, he stabbed Krassotkin in class the other day with a
tell any one, in fact. He came secretly.”
couldn’t have seen the door open because it was shut. He’s lying!”
“What? Went away?” cried Mitya. “When did she go?”
After thinking a little Samsonov told the lad to take the visitor to the
“Drive on, Andrey! Whip them up! Look alive!” he cried, beside himself.
waked up, no doubt roused by a fearful epileptic scream from Smerdyakov,
apiary, and had been greatly impressed and overawed by the visit. This
namely, the charge of robbery, and the complete impossibility of proving
The word “lacerating,” which Madame Hohlakov had just uttered, almost made
everything and blaming nothing.” Moreover, Alyosha brought with him
know that the ages will pass, and humanity will proclaim by the lips of
they had all met there, had still not appeared. But he seemed almost to be
both of us depressed. ‘Well, my boy,’ said I, ‘how about our setting off
something very important he had not understood till then. His voice was
she’s sitting down below now, Grushenka. I carried her off here to Mokroe
“but we don’t remember the way. It is a long time since we’ve been here.”
“And do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their
“But you’ve seen for yourself that she hasn’t come,” cried Ivan.
repent of one’s sins. While you have denied your faith to your enemies
evidence.”
cash‐box without telling him? Note, that according to Smerdyakov’s story
gates of heaven would be opened to him and he’ll be forgiven—”
further, but from Ippolit Kirillovitch’s eyes he saw that he had not given
unless—unless all men are to be enemies on earth! But there are brothers
A sudden impulse seemed to come into his soul. With a serious and earnest
simply paternal, and that this had been so for a long time.
Ivanovna with three thousand roubles to send off by post. But the question
Siberia, somewhere on the Chinese frontier, some puny little beggar of a
He was asked to go back to the “other room.” Mitya went in, scowling with
somewhat taken aback.
“Why, why could nothing better have happened?” cried Lise, looking with
“Shall I order you fish, soup or anything. You don’t live on tea alone, I
rich again—they’ve got heaps of money.”
mother till I come back, or she’ll be sure to think it’s gunpowder, and
that could be got in a Petersburg shop, grocery of all sort, wines
entirely forgotten everything that he did not even hear the men coming to
the court usher to arrange for medical aid for Ivan. The doctor announced
run; but he had not run five steps before he turned completely round and
that’s as clear as daylight now,” Mitya exclaimed more and more
give it up to any one!”
What I have in my mind is this: there is an overwhelming chain of evidence
“I un—der—stand!”
submissiveness and the effect of this humility, they will attain at last,
dark night resounding with the shout ‘Parricide!’ and the old man falling
out into the portico to wait for the elder, but in a separate part of it
listeners. They all spoke of it, not laughing, but with a strange gravity.
marked, though he answered rationally. To many questions he answered that
times tried. Only I am in doubt.... Oh, you light of ours! is it true or
immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. That’s not all. He
fools to reason. And the gold and the silver that would flow into the
talk, for what brought us here. Why do you look so surprised? Answer: why
“Yes, he does believe in it,” said Lise, with flashing eyes.
that is, his fixed idea about the three thousand. Yet I think one might
noble birth and high rank in the service, who was at that time away at the
“At the first temptation—for instance, to entertain the woman with whom he
his might. The child let go at last and retreated to his former distance.
eyes, you won’t find out anything from his eyes, he is a deep one, a
Is it possible? By their being avenged? But what do I care for avenging
and could have him locked up at once for what he did yesterday.”
national and individual, only then the aim of our seclusion is attained.
the battle ... but how could you understand that? Even in _vieilles
strong,” as was rumored in his class, and soon proved to be the fact; he
something else, something more important. I wondered what the tragedy was.
show and the eternal verity are brought together in it. In the face of the
“Ah, young lady, how good and generous you are compared with me! Now
the genuineness of Ivan’s horror struck him.
more ancient than before. Though the day was just as fine as yesterday, it
confident, “for all the year round, even at Easter, you take nothing but
quietly praying, but he soon felt that he was praying almost mechanically.
kitchen garden. She used at least once a week to turn up “at home,” that
tried to make him get up, soothing and persuading him.
piece of narrow pink ribbon, with which the envelope had been tied up.
dried, but where Dmitri Fyodorovitch had run with the pestle, or rather,
“Why didn’t you go away just now, after the ‘courteously kissing’? Why did
For, even if the rival did disappear next day, he would invent another one
only one of Fyodor Pavlovitch’s three sons who grew up in the belief that
But Mitya did not hear. He was frantically praying and muttering to
the background that the fatal end might still be far off, that not till
To his ancient Mother Earth.
old noodle for turning him out of the house. And he had written this
moment flew by like a spark. The horses galloped on, “devouring space,”
Chapter VI. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches Of Character
change—”
no one else ever bought me a pound of nuts; you are the only one that ever
hast caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems.
“I shall love you, and ... do you know, Katya,” Mitya began, drawing a
Mitya was indescribably agitated. He turned pale.
though in a fever. Grushenka was called.
He was rather courteous than open, as Frenchmen know how to be courteous,
even to tell Alyosha, my brother, about that fifteen hundred: I felt I was
you everything. I’ll only tell you the idea, without details, and you keep
poor fellow had consented to be made happy.
about here would testify that they had heard the sum of three thousand
what I did. You did not see it, Ivan Fyodorovitch, he did. What he thought
through the copse he made one observation however—that the Father Superior
too funny. Ah, Alyosha, if you only knew how light my heart is now! Would
schoolboys jeered at him, shouting the nickname “wisp of tow.”
“Don’t you make me angry, Rakitin.” Grushenka caught him up hotly. “This
blood.
roubles to them just now.”
“The kiss glows in his heart, but the old man adheres to his idea.”
“Madam, I am so touched. I don’t know how to thank you, indeed ... for
appearing in the figure of a retired general who had served in the
suddenly went back to the entrance.
implicit faith in his words.
glasses.
tore it off that I became a downright thief, a thief and a dishonest man
“It’s the babe,” answered the driver, “the babe weeping.”
looked steadily at the President, turning her eyes neither to the right
later by God’s grace I entered upon the safe and blessed path, praising
amused her and the fits would pass off, especially as I wanted to refuse
not consented to be looked after. “He was certainly not in a normal state
“There’s no time for oysters,” said Mitya. “And I’m not hungry. Do you
mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first
“Where ... is Zhutchka?” Ilusha asked in a broken voice.
the speaker; but the latter did not flinch.
“and I am a poor hand at making one. You see, my action takes place in the
the fact was established that three or four hours before a certain event,
a weak son, would have submitted, have felt ashamed of his father, sir,
all men. For some they are impossible. These are my thoughts about it, if
help loving her. Thou seest my whole heart.... I shall gallop up, I shall
slightest idea that Kolya Krassotkin was coming, though he had long wished
one before you.”
presented. The news of Smerdyakov’s death produced a sudden stir and
Chapter X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
give away all this super‐stellar life, all the ranks and honors, simply to
craving for _community_ of worship is the chief misery of every man
give away all this super‐stellar life, all the ranks and honors, simply to
“Now, there’s one little point presents itself. Can you inform us,”
your cleverness. I am not offended that he is jealous of a girl like me. I
thought of him, and would not under any circumstances have given him
“What led you to be so liberal to Mr. Rakitin?” Fetyukovitch asked, in
Glory be to God in me....
instigator, and Smerdyakov is only a passive accomplice, and not even an
reckless, unbridled natures as the sense of their lofty generosity.’ And
grin. Something like joy was springing up in his heart. He was conscious
come and see me. Though this is not the moment now, I am awfully glad to
straight out to Governor Schultz not long ago: ‘_Credo_, but I don’t know
when you come out of the monastery? What sort of suit? Don’t laugh, don’t
staying in the monastery. Of both of them Father Païssy felt for some
“That’s right. Fenya, Fenya, coffee,” cried Grushenka. “It’s been made a
monster! I only received that letter the next evening: it was brought me
It had begun to get dusk when Rakitin, crossing the pine copse from the
great sorrow!”
genuine confession on the part of the murderer. That’s what I call
Suddenly he was overtaken by the maid.
and come to me there with Krassotkin in the evening ... and Perezvon ... I
“No, I swear I didn’t!” shouted Ivan, grinding his teeth.
and throws it on the floor. We are even told what he said while engaged in
himself that he had learnt something he had not till then been willing to
were ill. Thinks I, I’ll go and see him for myself. Now I see you, and
who sulked for three days and nights in the belly of the whale, and you
take his revenge. But I don’t know whether it was true. All this was only
“Yes, I shall be told, but he was carousing that night, squandering money;
“Why, you’re laughing at me at this moment, gentlemen!” he broke off
And would cause me many a tear.
go to the cupboard, the second shelf on the right. Here are the keys. Look
put before Samsonov, the latter’s decision, his own hopes for the future,
“There’s a book here in which I read about the trial of a Jew, who took a
rapid, direct, confiding, but she was greatly excited.
calf,” shouted several voices.
hate the monster! I don’t want to save the monster. Let him rot in
the most important things.”
another ... I cried when I heard. Well, did you give him the money and how
and I took it, although I could not at that time foresee that I should
different woman, perverse and shameless.”
know that diabolical good and evil when it costs so much? Why, the whole
up from his chair.
she suddenly had a fit, screaming, shrieking, hysterics! Why is it I never
hotly.
feeling. “I am absurd and small, but you, you! Listen, Alexey
“It’s all very well when you are firing at some one, but when he is firing
frivolous crowd so inferior to him. Even had there been no miracles, had
“I shan’t ask him about the wisp of tow, for I expect you tease him with
sentiments and his success, of which he was, of course, conscious, he went
fingers. Grigory was so crushed by this, that he was not only silent till
pinkish‐gray horses, a long way behind Miüsov’s carriage, came Fyodor
and hidden half in the town. It’s just this consideration that has led the
Him, sing, and cry hosannah. ‘It is He—it is He!’ all repeat. ‘It must be
the good‐humored stage, and was far from being completely drunk.
shame, I want to suffer and by suffering I shall be purified. Perhaps I
the greatest importance both to you and to us, that has been given us by
society, and did not once allow himself to call her Grushenka. In spite of
They must appreciate you, they must understand you. If there’s anything I
not understood.
shallow brothers who disliked the institution. He was, besides, a
bearings. He was fretted, too, by all sorts of strange and almost
nuts I bought you in your childhood.’ And I embraced him and blessed him.
naked, and strange to say, when he was undressed he felt somehow guilty in
jealous, jealous of me all the time, jealous eating and sleeping! He even
On a bench in the gateway the valet Smerdyakov was sitting enjoying the
It makes me laugh all over. I’m so fond of him. Alyosha, let me give you
the Superior’s I saw one hiding from me behind the door, and a big one, a
matter, write me a line; give it to the priest and he’ll send it on to me
till after the trial!”
“It was even better last time,” observed the woman’s voice. “You sang ‘If
as Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it—nothing of the kind had happened. But it
and you are his flesh and blood, and therefore you are bound to love him.’
everywhere he was listening, on all sides he was whispering with a
and that, if there had been any love on earth hitherto, it was not owing
“Oh, yes, that’s what I say,” he went on stubbornly. “One head is good,
the future. When it is God’s will to call me, leave the monastery. Go away
gentleman, “I am convinced that you believe in me.”
even disliked by their schoolfellows. He was dreamy, for instance, and
“He is up, taking his coffee,” Marfa answered somewhat dryly.
had expected. And, crushed as he was by his own sorrow, his eyes
Chapter IX. The Sensualists
house, and promised to let him know when Agrafena Alexandrovna comes.”
house.... You know all that story, don’t you?”
there. That’s why I let you go, because I hope for that. You’ve got all
He seemed to have given up all idea of going to bed that night; but he
completely by doing so, for who would be likely to be such a criminal, if
how she has pity on me? I came here to find a wicked soul—I felt drawn to
like. But that’s foolishness, a moment’s foolishness. Now that’s done,” he
hers are as sincere as a heavenly angel’s. That’s the tragedy of it—that I
has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than
and Alyosha’s from forty to sixty thousand roubles. He determined to
difficulty, and I was not mistaken. Grushenka has explained everything to
Lise, the young daughter of Madame Hohlakov, who had laughed at him before
you know. Say that you won’t beat me, and will let me do anything I
a mathematical certainty, that this was his last hope, that if this broke
stretched as far as the eye could see.
that creature, too. So he murdered his father, but he didn’t repay me, and
astonished.
presidents always do in such cases. The audience, too, was uneasy. The
Kolya subsided into dignified silence. Smurov, too, was silent. Smurov, of
“You know Mitya wants to marry her, to marry her.”
them, but judged it unfitting to go over to the new faith. His habit of
At last it struck eleven and he made up his mind, once for all, that if
“That’s right; but let me tell you I am ready to give in to you not only
sorts. You will help the poor, and they will bless you. This is the age of
with extraordinary softness.
to him. Ivan looked with indignation on Katerina Ivanovna’s love for his
fairly clean white pillows. Smerdyakov was sitting on the sofa, wearing
murder me and ... he dashed away! But what shall we do, what must we do
you see, three thousand, do you see?”
apparently angry about something. His friend, the other stranger, struck
Sobakevitch, Nozdryov, Tchitchikov, it could reach no rational goal,
timid smile, seeming suddenly convinced from Mitya’s face that he was not
A man’s voice suddenly began singing in a sugary falsetto, accompanying
mournfully, but others did not even care to conceal the delight which
the carriage. And what good is it all to us now? My Nikita has begun
only vouchsafed to the righteous man. Fear not the great nor the mighty,
of the prisoner having committed robbery! ‘I shall beg from every one, and
feel sorry for him? What then?”
almost shrieked. He, too, leapt to his feet. Mitya was seized by the men
him which made one feel at once (and it was so all his life afterwards)
very likely to come to the summer‐house. Alyosha did not, however, give
it myself in the works of their theologians. ‘Hast Thou the right to
notes, looking inquiringly at Pyotr Ilyitch as though it were for him to
It was at this time that the meeting, or, rather gathering of the members
“He aimed it at you, he meant it for you. You are Karamazov, Karamazov!”
and don’t wake up again, and that’s all. You can pray for my soul if you
little property. She’d only let me look at it from a distance, boasting of
ready to bless God and His creation directly, but ... I must kill one
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questions about Grushenka, and carried away by the loftiness of his own
the dark, and I used to brood over it; I used to tear my heart on purpose
“Hurrah for Karamazov!” Kolya shouted ecstatically.
them see how beautifully I dance....”
“Why, Fenya threw herself at your feet just now, and begged you not to
Then Fyodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with
crimes. And here we have a man of that type who had really been driven to
It was a warm, bright day at the end of August. The interview with the
“Yes, it is better.”
prisoner had to face this terrible ordeal the next day?
really deserve it?”
Ivan stepped up to the table, took up the roll of paper and began
trinkets and letters made them ponder, they decided that even if they did
Persevere.’ And I signed myself, ‘A Mother.’ I thought of signing myself
remained standing with his mouth and eyes wide open, apparently
vigor in pot‐house debauchery, and to set off to Siberia to the gold‐
frenzy of the luckless man worn out with jealousy and nervous exhaustion,
continually asking himself, why was it that on that last night in Fyodor
in the envelope, was the servant, Smerdyakov. He had spoken of it to the
almost savage creature. A surface polish of courtesy and society manners I
certainly been spent on the first carousal at Mokroe, and, though she had
conviction. Listen, I carry the money about me a whole month, I may make
Father Superior, apologize for me, personally, Miüsov, to his reverence,
“So that’s who it is you want.” Grushenka laughed. “Stay with me a minute.
“Why, they’re poor people, burnt out. They’ve no bread. They’re begging
Fyodorovitch would shoot himself before daybreak, that he had resolved to
for I believe you are genuinely sincere.”
he added, turning to Fyodor Pavlovitch with a good‐humored face. He went
gazing at him in silence. Her eyes besought him, but she seemed afraid to
laborer, brings here the farthing earned by his horny hand, wringing it
‘This is my happiest day. I am going to the Lord.’ ‘Yes,’ cry the pastors
Smerdyakov smiled contemptuously.
It was assumed, of course, that all this was done freely, and in good
They know what I had then.”
dispersed, hastening to service. Father Païssy let Father Iosif read in
before Alyosha’s arrival; his visitors had gathered together in his cell
be truly remorseful for having laughed at you to‐day and yesterday, though
and begged me, and his son Ivan Fyodorovitch, to convey to you his
was a regular snowstorm. There were scarcely any lamp‐posts in the part of
feared, but with modesty and reserve, with evident goodwill and apparently
“Send for them. Certainly send for them!” cried Mitya. “And you can get
“And you clearly, confidently remember that he struck himself just on this
shall not void the remaining provisions.
“That is certainly wonderful, madam,” observed Mitya, sitting down limply,
uttered a cry and waked up.
“Well, you are a fellow,” Fyodor Pavlovitch said again.
a repulsive mug, though, hasn’t he? I can’t endure medicine!”
could be seen that it would be so.
“I’ve been coveting this thing for a long while; it’s for you, old man,
cannot agree with him. I have visited Smerdyakov, I have seen him and
“Boys, we shall soon part. I shall be for some time with my two brothers,
take Ilusha from school and send him to beg in the streets? That’s what it
“Yes, it is better.”
head is enough to create the actual leading idea of the Roman Church with
“Why is it impossible? I’ve read it myself.”
performance was going on, the door opened and Agafya, Madame Krassotkin’s
his parents to associate with Krassotkin, who was well known to be a
“Bah!” Dmitri frowned fiercely, and struck his forehead with his hand. He
his ears. He was listening, still expecting other words, but suddenly he
Very shortly after getting his four‐year‐old Mitya off his hands Fyodor
harder than ours. And if he does not go to church, it’s because he knows
“What do you mean? Either they thrashed you or they didn’t.”
disrespectful to the servant Grigory and his wife, who had cared for him
evidently in the background, and his remarks were treated with neglect,
choose, and perhaps I will marry you.’ She laughed, and she’s laughing
“Me, me frighten you?” cried Mitya, flinging up his hands. “Oh, pass me
preparing to throw. He wore an air of solemnity.
she smiled coquettishly; “but that will do later, too. The important thing
“Nothing but saffron? Don’t you remember any other ingredient?”
expected, he was horribly angry at our having anticipated him and caught
purpose in my life. And I only said so then to boast to you. It was just
“It’s from the Bible. ‘If I forget thee, Jerusalem,’ that is, if I forget
“Why, why, had he gone forth? Why had he sent him into the world? Here was
again, but stopped short at once, realizing the uselessness of his
“You’ll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to
And, behold, soon after midday there were signs of something, at first
with a radiant smile of delight. At the same instant a servant brought in
I loved you.... When you fell down and were carried out ... All my life!
didst? By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to
ideas,” Alyosha answered serenely and modestly, but Kolya interrupted him
parade. The servants are summoned for their edification, and in front of
worthy old man, and what dignity!) had suggested this course, then ...
“Well, why are you blushing?”
clever man comes to visit him, it would be better still, for then there
witnesses, so‐and‐so, and so‐and‐so, and the circumstances such‐and‐such
irresistible.
up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one
on Ilusha’s bed, or here on the bench. You are welcome, we’ve been hoping
joyful. It wore an expression of gayety, kindness and cordiality. “Maybe I
to introduce her to you. She is a heavenly angel incarnate ... who has
“Every time I come to you, you look at me so inquisitively as though to
are.”
So Fetyukovitch began.
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