my hero to the reader wearing the cassock of a novice. Yes, he had been
1.E.
confidant (we have his own word for it) and he frightened him into
an arm‐chair, thinking. This had become a habit with him. He often slept
money, you understand, Alexey Fyodorovitch, I can get medicines for the
“Here’s the note!” she turned quickly to Pyotr Ilyitch. “Go, save him.
“Gentlemen, allow me,” cried Mitya suddenly, “allow me to say one word to
The captain ran eagerly to meet Kolya.
aside half the money and sewn it up in a little bag. That’s not his
If necessary, tell them I’ll never abandon them.... Now leave me, leave
“Ilusha is dying. I think that’s certain,” answered Alyosha, mournfully.
any of the following which you do or cause to occur: (a) distribution of
poor “crazy” mother had held him up still acted upon his imagination.
then?” He moved closer so that his knees positively knocked against
certain moral convictions so natural in a brother.
“Well?” said the investigating lawyer. “You pulled out the weapon and ...
two days previously, before Alyosha, the last time he saw him in the dark,
to share with all men and all creation his joy and ecstasy, and once more
Kalganov, who had suddenly darted out. Running up to the cart he held out
She listened to everything.
you to such a sentiment of hatred for your parent?”
“They’ll think I am an accomplice, because I let him know the signals as a
would venture to try something else. The invalid was taken to the lodge,
suddenly. On the contrary, his friends, as I observed already, seeing him
your nose pulled for the rest of your life, your desire has already been
“Truly,” I answered him, “all things are good and fair, because all is
get away from her for ever. These spoilt fine ladies, if they set their
“Of course he will,” “a mastiff,” “large,” “like this,” “as big as a
must be struck by a characteristic peculiarity in the present case,
five who was hated by her father and mother, ‘most worthy and respectable
coldness. There was even a supercilious note in his voice.
significant and touching. My heart is full of tenderness, and I look at my
now we’ve no children, our dear ones have all gone. I buried the first
his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But
They began asking him questions. He answered, as it were, reluctantly,
if you repine as you repined just now, declaring you’d be glad to have
endure what the strong have endured? How is the weak soul to blame that it
“Yes, he is first rate at it.”
seventy feet away, Mitya jumped up at once, and with his long, military
“Oh, all right. Ugh, my head aches. Take away the brandy, Ivan. It’s the
“And have you told them every word of our conversation at the gate?”
that he hated him, but just _because he was the murderer of his father_.
railway incident his behavior in this respect also was changed; he did not
decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may
the books, and that we had to restore them and to invent them anew, and to
later (and it did, in fact, it did). It was repeated all over the town
nothing better could have happened.”
or for the sunrise as I meant at first, but should have killed myself
They both recognize it and revel in it. I’ve been watching for you! I’ve
ground, and the new woman will have appeared.”
sentimental.
removed.”
now!” cried Ivan. He rushed to the window and opened the movable pane.
Fyodorovitch. You don’t know in what need he is,” Smerdyakov explained,
service, and to‐day I have come to you.”
“Ah, so would I,” said Alyosha.
his soul passed into quite a new phase, perhaps the most terrible phase
up. If something happens later on, it’ll be: ‘Ah, the holy man foresaw it,
its long slanting rays and the soft, tender, gentle memories that come
“Look here, let’s first settle that business of the pistols. Give them
indeed; but yet that was not it, that was not it either. “I feel sick with
“The elder is one of those modern young men of brilliant education and
to think, only to think that a man’s life should be ruined for the sake of
Grushenka he did not understand. For him the whole tormenting question lay
might injure our reputation. As a joke, if you like.’ But I thought as a
tongue with difficulty; he was much thinner and sallower. Throughout the
sent for posting‐horses to take him to the Volovya station. This was how
“I had a different object once, but now that’s over, this is not the
“Just so, hurrah! You are a prophet. Oh, we shall get on together,
babe—that is, about some child. ‘Why is the babe poor?’ he said. ‘It’s for
will reach him every time just as though it were read over his grave.”
not lie on the ground, but was whirled about by the wind, and soon there
Moscow, later.
just. Something of the same sort had happened to Fyodor Pavlovitch on
struck by the fact that there was a pillow under his head, which hadn’t
never been able to read that sacred tale without tears. And how much that
fancied besides that his brother was looking at him ironically. “How does
startled by his sudden laugh, which bore witness to mirthful and light‐
premeditated questions, but what his object was he did not explain, and
To his ancient Mother Earth.
punished for their fathers, who have eaten the apple; but that reasoning
and steam myself with merchants and priests. What I dream of is becoming
directly. He did not belong to any one!” he explained, turning quickly to
soft, round hat, and his hair had been cropped short. All this was very
honor will do for you now.” This phrase Rakitin finished to himself in a
as she looked at it she began shaking with sobs, hiding her eyes with her
evidently he knew the garden better; the flying figure went towards the
a shindy. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to retire. I won’t tell you
crimson, his eyes glowed, his lips quivered. The old sot had gone
thrashed out long ago, and flung aside like a dead carcass—you present to
brandy away from you, anyway.”
away. Lise, for mercy’s sake, don’t scream! Oh, yes; you are not
patrician of the decadent period.” He seemed proud of it.
despair. The peasant still stroked his beard, and suddenly screwed up his
And he ran out of the room.
joke.”
would restore the stolen money. I’d give it back; I’d get it somehow....
went through the ceremony in the most simple‐hearted and complete manner,
Chapter I. The Fatal Day
much!”
I must add that he spoke Russian readily, but every phrase was formed in
old Matryona by an unexpected action. On the table stood a brass mortar,
left‐handed boy, needed no telling, and at once revenged himself; he threw
beard shakes you know he is in earnest.”
for that poor man by dissecting his soul—that was the question of a
strained in this practice. Yet the older and more experienced of the monks
Only after several reproofs from Mihail Makarovitch himself, they grasped
doctors made their appearance, one after another, to be examined.
shall I do with your eyes? I’m afraid your eyes will tell me your
sake of the children, because they couldn’t think of anything to do by
that’s only Euclidian nonsense, I know that, and I can’t consent to live
that that’s why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals
hold your tongue.”
if it meant not getting back to the monastery that day.
people, and had heard him say so when they were alone.
He got up and looked cheerfully at a healthy peasant woman with a tiny
them not nor they you. How touching it must be to a soul standing in dread
Lise had in fact been occupied in mocking at him all the time. She had
last she liked them so much that, if the boys had given up coming, she
headache from it. So, if Marfa Ignatyevna carries out her intention to‐
that you are to blame for every one and for all things. But throwing your
but it may have passed off quite naturally, and the sick man may have
At ten o’clock the three judges arrived—the President, one honorary
He was not kept long. At last it was Grushenka’s turn. Nikolay
was just by looking straight before him that he showed his perfectly
restaurant.
“_Panie_ Kalganov, in gentlemanly society one doesn’t say such things.”
have longed to embrace and to forgive his father! And what awaited him? He
possible, that always happens at such moments with criminals. On one point
“Know whom?”
irritated him.
“You’re a _lajdak_ yourself! You’re a little scoundrel, that’s what you
trouble came from the fact that he was of great faith. But still the
was also surrounded with flowers.
modern realism and can’t stand anything fantastic. If you like it to be a
Smerdyakov.’ It’s not his doing, gentlemen.”
blamed himself for his outbursts of temper with his father on several
at least, have taken the precaution of arming himself beforehand. The
how she has pity on me? I came here to find a wicked soul—I felt drawn to
scrupulously twice a day invariably, and was very fond of cleaning his
delighted at the invitation. “And, believe me, we’ve all given our word to
you.” But Ivan did not follow this judicious advice and did not take to
believe me, Katerina Ivanovna, you really love him. And the more he
old man wants, so that Grushenka can come while he’s away.”
prison, and expounded the Gospel to him. They exhorted him, worked upon
There was a general burst of laughter. Alyosha looked at them, and they at
perhaps Katya longed for nothing more than that, but Mitya’s faithlessness
I spent a long time, almost eight years, in the military cadet school at
“Look, your coat’s covered with blood, too!”
that on purpose, one of the fiercest breed, and his parents are huge and
she smiled coquettishly; “but that will do later, too. The important thing
“No, I can’t admit it. Brother,” said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing
shamming a fit: should I have told you beforehand that I could sham one,
in Geneva. He drank what he earned, he lived like a brute, and finished by
who takes no notice of her and does not care for her, and may marry Ivan
1.D.
to share your joy with me—”
“Of course he will,” “a mastiff,” “large,” “like this,” “as big as a
‘monks’ wives,’ and two hundred monks. They’re honest. They keep the
this conclusion from his knowledge of Grushenka and her character. That
mete it shall be measured to you again,’ or how does it go? Anyhow, it
dreams and, later on, in waking moments, by visions of evil spirits. When
nothing but an impudent satirical burlesque. I mention this incident
for a moment I persuaded myself. While I was giving evidence I persuaded
younger, a person of no consequence, and of inferior rank. I learned
disrespectful to the servant Grigory and his wife, who had cared for him
house and there to open an inquiry on the spot, according to the regular
his brother had taken the first step towards him, and that he had
boys, seeing I’d given him up, set on him and taunted him, shouting, ‘Wisp
Fetyukovitch was a little taken aback, and the President intervened,
“He certainly would have accepted it,” Mitya declared warmly. “Why, look
that she received Dmitri Fyodorovitch simply from fear because “he
Smerdyakov took the rag from his eyes. Every line of his puckered face
almost heathen in character into a single universal and all‐powerful
“Is it possible,” I cried, clasping my hands, “that such a trivial
“And can one observe that one’s going mad oneself?”
brought close to those who have loved when he has despised their love. For
on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an unworthy father
gentry about here when I was young. I heard your aunt, Pyotr
the widow Morozov. The house was a large stone building of two stories,
“Dear little Alyosha, see me home! I’ve got a pretty little story to tell
“Fool!” Ivan snapped out.
trinkets and letters made them ponder, they decided that even if they did
worrying me to death. ‘Why hasn’t she come? Will she come soon?’ And he,
“That’s enough, mamma, enough about Herzenstube,” Lise laughed gayly.
capricious and tearful and insane! And now I can get a servant with this
“If I didn’t kill Fenya then, gentlemen, it was only because I hadn’t
face had looked very different when he entered the room an hour before.
set fire to the house, Alyosha, to our house; you still don’t believe me?”
found by the tyrannical old lady who had brought up their mother. She was
trying to steal his beautiful Katerina Ivanovna for the last three months?
door opened, and facing me in the room stood Katerina Ivanovna.
hunting and hunting—I do believe you did it on purpose.”
him come to the house again.’ I was struck dumb at these amazing words,
“_Panie, panie!_” yelled Mitya, “she’s pure and shining, and I have never
prone to continual and morbid self‐reproach. They worry over their
and then take a little bread and water and drink a single cup of wine. On
of premeditated robbery, but he ran suddenly, spontaneously, in a jealous
on,” putting off their proper breakfast until a more favorable
“And that unforeseen circumstance, of course, is myself,” Fyodor
communication, will you allow me to inquire as to another little fact of
you were angry with me, because of the day before yesterday, because of
anxious as he was to‐day, he wanted at once to turn aside to talk to them.
interest for him; he saw very little there, and took scarcely any notice
I come back or till your mother comes, for she ought to have been back
his leading ideas.... ‘There’s no living without joy,’ Mitya says.... Yes,
Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
rather solitary. From his earliest childhood he was fond of creeping into
however bitter the moments before the looking‐glass were to him, he
fatal coincidence, for they both lost their hearts to her simultaneously,
the common complaint. He is a liar. Sometimes he tells such lies that you
the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1
which they had just come.
there was a vindictive note in her voice.
by looking through the window,’ the prosecutor objects. But why couldn’t
was sitting here, on that sofa. When you knocked at the window, I threw a
Fyodor Pavlovitch skipped up, and imprinted a rapid kiss on the elder’s
my prayer to this day, the servant of God, Mihail, who suffered so
was already a glass too much.
Though Nikolay Parfenovitch did insert this in the protocol, he showed the
eternal life?”
conversation with Smerdyakov, every syllable of it. He couldn’t be calmed,
where the old man hid the envelope. It’s Smerdyakov, that’s clear, now!”
Ivanovna was greatly excited, though she looked resolute. At the moment
his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and
Kirillovitch began.) “The first person who cried out that Smerdyakov had
Poles stated, that he had been excited at the time, and might indeed have
now. Afterwards, perhaps. But now I’m going to Grushenka. I don’t care
name of our little town. I had hitherto kept it concealed.) It was brief,
himself with fury, Dmitri struck out, and hit Grigory with all his might.
each—that is, ten thousand in all—to the chief town of the province to be
tears and complaints, and turning his house into a sink of debauchery, a
by every sort of vileness. Although the old man told lies about my
“That third is God Himself—Providence. He is the third beside us now. Only
painful effort, shifted his position in bed, but he was not the first to
“Alyosha! Alyosha! What do you say to that! Ah, you casuist! He must have
strange exclamations were all that came from his lips. The Pole gazed
to know what had been said, but he was again afraid to ask. Something
A carriage belonging to Madame Hohlakov drove up to the gate. The captain,
his own words he turned over two or three of the topmost ones.
insufferably strained. Fyodor Pavlovitch seems to have been the first to
his good name, his reputation!
believe it yourself. Believe me, this dream, as you call it, will come to
stabbed with a penknife by the boy already known to the reader as the son
moment he reached it, Grushenka was on her way to Mokroe. It was not more
if not one romance on the top of another? All that was lacking was poetry.
He is a pig, a regular pig, but he’s very arch, the rascal! And he really
observation struck every one as very queer.
quite different institutions.”
to Count Mattei in Milan. He sent me a book and some drops, bless him,
Be patient, humble, hold thy peace.
younger, a person of no consequence, and of inferior rank. I learned
fish and kasha with the cabbage soup. From Monday till Saturday evening,
to go to Tchermashnya? What did you mean by that? If I go away, you see
Peter the Great. But besides plays there were all sorts of legends and
kind to him, that she had forgiven him, and made him sit by her. He was
that he was unworthy of his betrothed, Katya, but that his brother Ivan,
present use, eighty thousand roubles, as a marriage portion, to do what
thought, God knows why, occurred to him, “surely I can.” He did in fact
Karamazov; I want to hear both sides. What makes you ask?”
Chapter II. Children
straight to the police captain, but if she admitted having given him the
doubt that he will live, so the doctor says, at least.”
“You should have asked me like that from the beginning,” cried Mitya,
Kolbasnikov, was particularly shocked about it, but Dardanelov got me off
shady one, with old trees in it which were coming into bud. The first
concerned.—TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
I wanted to take him in my arms and kiss him, but I did not dare—his face
“No; perhaps you will love her for ever. But perhaps you won’t always be
mountain move into the sea, it will move without the least delay at your
“Have you come from far?”
of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Alexandrovitch
she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest
of common worship they’ve slain each other with the sword. They have set
powers. His head ached and he was giddy. A feeling of hatred was rankling
word of Grushenka’s, he had gathered further that the old man would
and I haven’t a minute, a minute to spare.”
quivered.
his face before.
been a good thing.” Alyosha smiled brightly.
that I was afraid you would betray me (I never even thought of that), but
continued, “that outraged nature and the criminal heart bring their own
from Paris. He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that
white with anger. “You say that yourself, and all the while I’ve been
running about bare‐foot. Don’t be afraid of bare‐footed wenches—don’t
too!’ That’s how the real Dmitri Karamazov, as we know him, would have
And Alyosha told him briefly about the paragraph in _Gossip_.
have abandoned the charge against Smerdyakov at once in shame and have
Marfa, only perhaps more respectfully. It was impossible to make him
village, and I’d planned to do it at five o’clock in the morning. And I
he harassed and tormented them in love. He left them at last not able to
“Excuse me, excuse me, I’ll catch you. When you flew out at Alyosha under
laughing at him.”
boots were no good. I could never walk properly in them.’ He fancied it
things that had nothing to do with his position. On Mitya’s left side, in
anxious air inquired where was Maximov?
“I wasn’t there, but Dmitri Fyodorovitch was; and I heard him tell it with
undeveloped, intelligence, he was, above all, a moneylender, who grew
forester, “for the night’s lodging, too; you’ll remember Dmitri Karamazov.
questions with: “I don’t know. Ah, I can’t say. How can I tell?” and so
Both the lawyers laughed aloud.
her handkerchief and sobbed violently.
listened and looked at him blankly, but his face gradually relaxed into a
of course, that I should jump at that, catch at your prompting, and shout
was also surrounded with flowers.
“Afanasy,” I said, “I gave you two blows on the face yesterday, forgive
know nothing about timber, but you’ve got an eye. All that is wanted is to
... that some one is hunting me, some one I’m awfully afraid of ... that
had happened, the court usher came in for a reprimand, though he very
man “to be depended upon.” And he believed not only that he would not
believing, especially material proofs. Thomas believed, not because he saw
Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be homesick for the
Buffoonery in them is a form of resentful irony against those to whom they
from the gait, Dmitri Fyodorovitch? Science supports the idea. I’m all for
from that. On his return from Moscow, he abandoned himself hopelessly to
Alyosha listened to him in silence.
“You’ll be the last, the last of all to go!” Fyodor Pavlovitch delivered
responded in a quivering voice.
in his, Alyosha’s place, the man would not have spoken so openly and would
“Come here, Alexey Fyodorovitch,” Lise went on, flushing redder and
gone to Irkutsk in Siberia. He had written twice from there, but now a
had taken their seats. I remember how the jurymen walked into the court.
here yesterday? From whom did you first hear it?”
examination, the President asked the prisoner if he had anything to say,
anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Gutenberg™
offend many people during his stay in the town. Some of the visitors were,
greater spiritual agony would be forgotten for a moment. Moreover, that
“To be sure!”
Nothing but yesterday’s insult.” Madame Hohlakov obviously had not
though he’s an atheist, and he admits it’s a fraud himself—that’s your
position, shaking with fear, that I suspected every one. I resolved to
“Gentlemen of the jury, there are moments in the execution of our duties
with him, of such gravity that he dare not defer it for a moment, and
followed like a drunken man.
for ever. I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only
showing us just how you moved your arm, and in what direction?”
already? There’s no fear of Rakitin’s forgetting to look after himself.
whose house had been burnt down lately, and who after the fire had gone
be angry, it’s very, very important to me.”
down, I beg you. All this, too, is deceitful posturing....”
“Naturally I was whipped. But why do you ask? Have you stolen something?”
shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!”
you afterwards. Stay, where did I break off? Oh, yes! I caught cold then,
his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But
might injure our reputation. As a joke, if you like.’ But I thought as a
impossible. And, how could I tell her myself?”
Street, in the house of a woman called Kalmikov.... For God’s sake, Alexey
do with most Project Gutenberg™ electronic works even without complying
will be a turning into another street and only at the end of that street
it, _panie_,’ says the banker, and pulling out the drawer he gives him a
walls, but will live like a monk in the world. You will have many enemies,
by Alyosha’s evidence on the public was most disappointing. There had been
hopelessly and incurably. He stared at him for a moment with wide opened
especially about God, whether He exists or not. All such questions are
of its success, but he must not delay acting upon it. Mitya resolved to
of Trifon Borissovitch, whose face appeared, for some reason, in the
“You’d gone away, then I fell into the cellar.”
Him, sing, and cry hosannah. ‘It is He—it is He!’ all repeat. ‘It must be
“No doubt. Let us leave that,” she snapped. “Listen: I can’t go with you
candle. It was only a note, a few lines. She read it in one instant.
begun to build their tower of Babel without us, they will end, of course,
to pass to laughter and rejoicing, to happy mirth and childish song. Yes,
gentlemen. You’ve guessed right. You’ll never know,” said Mitya, chipping
Smerdyakov must have been, for there is no other alternative, no one else
Alyosha’s right, quite right, in not wanting to come and see such a
through snow and sleet. He was cold, it was early in November, and the
you quite made up your mind? Answer yes or no.”
and leave the traces of your foulness after you—alas, it is true of almost
the founders of Troy in Smaragdov, whose history was among the books in
that it was difficult to judge at a glance, but that it might have been
him in such a guise and position; it made him shed tears.
it again.”
INDEMNITY — You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the trademark
“Just so, hurrah! You are a prophet. Oh, we shall get on together,
upon me without some object. Unless you come simply to complain of the
you? If you won’t, I am glad to see you ...”
been jealous at once, and would perhaps have stained his fierce hands with
in fact, allowed some latitude of speech. This was the first occasion on
Smerdyakov never hinted at their complicity, though the actual murderer
your love for humanity more simply and directly by that, than by
captain broke into loud sobs at the thought of how Ilusha had given up his
was a man of good heart, perhaps,” he thought, “who had come to grief from
coffin and his unhappy, sinful father, and how boldly he stood up for him
distinction flocked, for instance, to the elders of our monastery to
going to make a scene. She was watching him with intense curiosity and
“What truth?” cried Katerina Ivanovna, and there was an hysterical ring in
impelling her to confess it to him, to him, Alyosha, with tears and cries
been meaning for the last two years to come here on purpose to ask and to
went up to the table, poured out half a glass of brandy from a decanter
“But do you know, Karamazov, you must admit that you are a little ashamed
Yes, he came up to him, to him, he, the little, thin old man, with tiny
love if you like. And now you go to the right and I to the left. And it’s
“I say this in case we become bad,” Alyosha went on, “but there’s no
conversation; and turning sharply to the right he strode quickly on his
In the first place, this Mitya, or rather Dmitri Fyodorovitch, was the
always sent them small sums. And now that day Mitya had taken it into his
doing this. You’re too impulsive. How could you do such a thing? You don’t
Alyosha stood rooted to the spot, watching the scene in silence.
“Yes,” Mitya admitted. “She won’t come this morning.” He looked timidly at
stolidly, and the boys strode towards the market‐place.
“Why ask him to come out?” Smurov protested. “You go in; they will be
“What reproach?”
Mitya was reduced to silence. He flushed all over. A moment later he felt
Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom and seated him on his bed. It
disreputable woman, with the blood of his father on his hands.... It’s
have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to
“Oh, that’s all nonsense about Troy, a trivial matter. I consider this an
buildings, flung down, as it were, in the vast plain. The village of
parted with Alyosha two days before, and threw his thoughts into a tangle
out! He was gnashing his teeth!”
national and individual, only then the aim of our seclusion is attained.
Kolya could not be restrained. He hurriedly shouted to Smurov, “Open the
till the end of the conversation. “You still mean that Tchermashnya? Stay,
“Where?” whispered Alyosha, looking about him and finding himself in a
colonel’s second daughter, a great beauty, who had just left a fashionable
Alyosha murmured, crossing himself, and falling into peaceful sleep.
“To be sure!” Madame Hohlakov skipped, delighted, to her bureau. “And you
his brother should be convicted, as that would increase his inheritance
“That boy, Nikolay Parfenovitch, to whom I was talking nonsense about
for that as well—you hear—she laughed at you as she described it. So here
“But I was married to a Polish lady myself,” tittered Maximov.
evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only
have waked Smerdyakov whose sleep may have been less sound at the moment:
come here with Maximov by chance, and he met the Poles here at the inn for
“I know. So you say there are a lot of them? How’s that? Who are they?”
which are even a greater menace to Russia than the premature decay, due to
“Excuse me,” Dmitri cried suddenly; “if I’ve heard aright, crime must not
it before you went.”
better he has come now, at such a moment, and not the day before
“Here we see in excess a love of effect, a romantic despair and
companions. Oh, he, too, can be good and noble, but only when all goes
“You’ve come at last!” she cried, flinging down the cards and joyfully
them to‐day?”
humbly begs forgiveness for his presumption.” As the monk had given the
making for the door, but he stopped short and said suddenly, addressing
live in the Fedotovs’ back‐yard. Though he made his home there, they did
talk about Smerdyakov before the trial; some one had heard something, some
smile.
there was an unhealthy sallowness in their color. His rather large,
family. Another personage closely connected with the case died here by his
“No; it’s not your business.”
whole life, my whole life I punish!”
the same warmth. “You know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, we’re fanciful, we’re
was brought together and set in a strong and significant light, and I took
Grushenka lifted her head from the pillow and looked at Alyosha with a
everywhere, seen everything, talked to everybody, knew every detail of the
to this unhappy man, gentlemen? In your presence, gentlemen, in your
with angry contempt. “He was always coming to me for money: he used to get
slur on his honor. And three weeks ago, Dmitri seized him by the beard in
one felt that something revolting, grotesque, positively scandalous, was
myself to remarking that this was his attitude at the moment. All this may
“You are talking nonsense, I see, and I don’t quite understand you,” he
every hour they get angrier and angrier, so that I sometimes think I shall
I lay there waiting, my heart beating; I couldn’t bear it. I got up at
won’t answer at the trial at all.... And I seem to have such strength in
He seemed completely transformed in a moment. His whole bearing was
to come. There’s no need to build halls for this, let him take them into
but what else?”
censorship of the day. For if the troika were drawn by his heroes,
respected by all, rich and had a reputation for benevolence. He subscribed
Ivan shook. “Get away, miserable idiot. What have I to do with you?” was
Karamazov cannot be called a father and does not deserve to be. Filial
“I am Alexey Karamazov,” Alyosha began in reply.
again, with a bleeding heart, I have learnt a great deal this night. I
the living as though they were dead was a kind of sorcery. He afterwards
course), tried from delicacy of feeling to pretend that he was pleased.
exercise‐book lying on the table.
monks decided. “We stick to the old doctrine, there are all sorts of
Smerdyakov was dead! It was such a shock that it drove him out of his mind
schoolboys between the ages of nine and twelve, at the bridge. They were
thinking it his duty to show his respect and good intentions.
and they refuse forgiveness, they curse God Who calls them. They cannot
and shaking the drops of tea off himself. “He remembers Luther’s inkstand!
“They laid me on the bed. I knew I’d be the other side of the partition,
“Why are your fits getting worse?” asked Fyodor Pavlovitch, looking
“But to return to the eldest son,” Ippolit Kirillovitch went on. “He is
resolved with all the fervor of his passion that when once Grushenka told
relieved?” he said, glaring defiantly at the lawyers.
the People! There was in those days a general of aristocratic connections,
discharged from the army, but not publicly, not by court‐martial, with no
respectfully of Dardanelov before his mother, which the sensitive woman at
“Tell me now, what game have you been up to? Have you been fighting with
holds out its little hands to the pistol, and he pulls the trigger in the
natural to him, eh? Don’t you think so? Some people are low from self‐
you, I should have been ruined by that murder even if I had not confessed
hysterics she even lost her reason. Yet she bore Fyodor Pavlovitch two
“Why, why could nothing better have happened?” cried Lise, looking with
they all arrived together. Snegiryov opened the door hurriedly and called
“I don’t know her, but I’ve heard of her and seen her. Did she really give
because he could never enter a tavern without making a disturbance. It is
frenzied hatred, the same look that he had fixed on him at their last
were simply dejected, not wanting him to be acquitted. Fetyukovitch
too, and used to look after him sometimes almost like a tutor, Fyodor
were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are
me?”
in the soul, throbs incessantly in the mind, and poisons the heart unto
seemed about to jump up and cry out, but controlled himself and only
“You see how I’ve thought of everything. There’s only one thing I can’t
his temper at last.
yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little
of good family, education and feelings, and, though leading a life of
sideways to them and gazed at the wall, struggling against a feeling of
Alyosha. “One way or another he is bound to come to it. He must escape.
spite of an uneasy movement on the part of the President.
“In your pocket, or on the table here. They won’t be lost.”
“He will beg your forgiveness, he will bow down at your feet in the middle
my account would be to some extent superfluous, because in the speeches
“You are upset about something?”
“He had no business to make a thrust at the Petersburg man like that;
“She has saved you, it seems,” laughed Rakitin spitefully. “And she meant
“Run, run away from the rails,” the boys cried to Kolya from the bushes,
seemed grumbling. Rakitin did not like meeting Alyosha, especially of
the career of an archimandrite in the immediate future and don’t become a
The prosecutor positively smiled at the “innocence of this subterfuge.”
on the two lawyers. They were delighted with this new mode of reckoning;
him to take his name up, it was evident that they were already aware of
was lying on the bed, he had his hands stretched out to her and he had so
intense hatred, and for some unknown reason his curly hair particularly
went off into a roar of laughter. “Would you like to go to the mines,
been capable of feeling for any one before.
Rakitin wondered at their enthusiasm. He was aggrieved and annoyed, though
Grigory know beforehand; he will be sure not to let him in.”
priest listened attentively, but gave little advice. He turned off Mitya’s
locusts and roots—and Thou mayest indeed point with pride at those
would have got the remaining two thousand three hundred roubles, since he
9 Gogol is meant.
that remote past of Grushenka’s, though she had never loved him, and who
“That’s a lie. You did it from spite, from simple spite against me. You
served to recall to his little heart the thought of the unhappy dog he had
“But I am not fibbing, it’s all the truth; the truth is unhappily hardly
long list. Four of the witnesses were not present—Miüsov, who had given
any fees or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a
required to prepare) your periodic tax returns. Royalty payments
always silent. It’s God that’s worrying me. That’s the only thing that’s
“Can you really have put off coming all this time simply to train the
Let him gather round him once a week, some hour in the evening, if only
out his hand to her too. Lise assumed an important air.
himself in broken Russian:
But he broke off every time at the second line and began swearing again;
“Why, that’s the chief part of what the old man must say.
Father Zossima was accompanied by a novice, and by Alyosha. The two monks
told me, and how he hated him, perhaps, at the same moment. And I heard
space. Yet there have been and still are geometricians and philosophers,
house. He walked on, and not knowing what he was doing, wiped away his
they went to pay visits. But next morning they would get up at dawn, as
must therefore have been a man of great strength, coolness, decision and
yellow; the pistol loaded by Mitya at Perhotin’s with a view to suicide,
Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm
guess there was some mischief brewing on your part ... only you are lying,
“Yes, I did.”
this only to you. I am not at all anxious to fall into the clutches of the
it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course they
minutes.”
shortly from his father the three thousand roubles that he reckoned was
You’re a quiet one, Alyosha, you’re a saint, I know, but the devil only
fifty for vodka ... for your readiness, for your love.... Remember
“It’s hot here,” he said, still standing, and unbuttoned his overcoat.
Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—"Heels Up"
ladies, too, for they’ll take it greedily, that must be admitted, and be
“I am extraordinarily better to‐day. But I know that it’s only for a
several years. He made the acquaintance at first, in his own words, “of a
words and actions, confirmed by witnesses, and the picture made a terrible
finger when he, Alyosha, asked him what he had done to hurt him. Now
sister. The aunt was simple and illiterate; the niece was simple but
irritably, his eyes somehow did not follow his mood, but betrayed
that it’s all nonsense, all nonsense.”
left‐handed boy, though it was well and vigorously thrown by the boy
man, what could he give her now, what could he offer her?
shall have a long time to wait,” she ended suddenly. “Tell me rather why
“Yes,” answered Mitya mechanically. He looked carelessly at his hands and
“One may say with certainty, gentlemen of the jury,” the prosecutor
trembled with fear. For a whole hour afterwards, the old man was shaking
recollected every farthing and included it in the reckoning. Nikolay
to clink glasses with the Pole whom he had so solemnly invited to drink to
eleven thousand. It’s as good as picking up three thousand; it’s not so
And here, at Mokroe, too, every one reckoned it was three thousand. Yet I
on the road to the monastery, Mitya had struck himself on the breast, “the
and his disciples, to the marriage._”
to say. Alyosha knew that this actually happened sometimes. He knew, too,
from his seat, awaited the answer to his foolish proposal. At the last
Alyosha could have hugged him, he was so pleased. But glancing at him he
as the authorities were satisfied.
she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest
Mitya uttered his sudden monologue as though he were determined to be
could not but turn towards that ideal, even to the forgetting at the
and simple‐hearted unity might in due time become universal among the
said I, “don’t worry about my resigning my commission, for I have done so
lawyers listened now with a sort of awful reserve, looked coldly at him,
a full figure, and beautiful eyes, though a rather coarse face. She had
“Thank God! At last you have come too! I’ve been simply praying for you
man was too hateful to him at that moment; but such an unceremonious
unexpectedly and accidentally, and by that time very likely he did not
handkerchief; the handkerchief itself, stiff with blood and by now quite
that an heiress, who was also a beauty, and moreover one of those
it all on me. ‘You were with your Pole before me, so I can’t be blamed for
account of the agonies of jealousy he endured on Grushenka’s account.
was at liberty to refuse to answer questions, if he thought it to his
But we must pause to say a few words about him now. He was brought up by
give him something to eat. All that day he sat in the same place, almost
“Eh, that’s enough! That’s all stupid, I don’t want to listen. I thought
play such pranks again. And the fellow kept blubbering like a woman. ‘It
of confusion. This is how it was he pitched first on a perfectly wild
parts? No, no, that’s not the chief thing—of that later. Forgive me for
good‐by!”
So this Smerdyakov became Fyodor Pavlovitch’s second servant, and was
soft, one might even say sugary, feminine voice.
state he was in! Well, it can’t be helped: it was stupid of me not to come
“Bravo, my darling! He’ll have some coffee. Does it want warming? No, it’s
give her the sacred name of mother? Let us be bold, gentlemen, let us be
It was quite late (days are short in November) when Alyosha rang at the
going, scapegrace?”
“Who is a _chevalier_?” asked Miüsov.
Suddenly he jerked up his head, listened a moment, and hearing nothing
the most part he would utter some one strange saying which was a complete
alone. The lodge was a roomy and solid building in the yard. Fyodor
Christian, it inevitably happened that, by becoming Christian, it included
“Speak, please, speak.”
do not dispute that he was very strange even at that time, and had been so
know him! But he’s gone, Father, he’s gone, and I shall never hear him
begin a new life! That I can’t do!” So Mitya decided, grinding his teeth,
to study at the university). But the half‐imbecile mother was greatly
him. But she rarely did so, for every one in the town was ready to look
“It was a joke.... I don’t see of what interest that can be to you.... I
“What! Undress? Ugh! Damn it! Won’t you search me as I am! Can’t you?”
A minute later Alyosha was sitting beside his brother. Ivan was alone
President reminded her, though very politely, that she must answer the
and there was nothing surprising at his feeling so at such a moment, when
that terrible day, he had entirely forgotten his brother Dmitri, about
“Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I
serfdom with them as masters—that’s all they stand for. They don’t even
contemptible creature like that can worry me so much?” he wondered, with
and cottage dance’; as we had it last time,” she kept exclaiming. She was
Chapter II. Smerdyakov With A Guitar
But God will save Russia, for though the peasants are corrupted and cannot
“Drink some water,” said the investigating lawyer softly, for the tenth
“I did not write it for publication ... it was published afterwards,”
And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking
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“No, I don’t,” said Alyosha. He looked at Mitya and listened to him with
I forgive him! You know it’s— Do you know who it is? It’s your friend
where I got that money yesterday....”
his betrothed, could not, we are told, have set aside half and sewn it up,
Chapter II. The Old Buffoon
evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only
farthest corner at the back of the gallery came a piercing shriek—it was
expected. Nothing could have been farther from his dreams than help from
ask you, do you think me like Dmitri capable of shedding Æsop’s blood,
something important had happened. Katerina Ivanovna’s hysterics had ended
must be and is permitted? Without it, I am told, man could not have
Came no fruits to deck the feasts,
dressed. It was a rather warm night in May. As he went down the steps, he
ready to do to get it when he is in great need of it. But all this later,
devilishly interesting in every woman that you wouldn’t find in any other.
of prosperity! But he had at home an old silver watch which had long
her room, waiting. She was unconscious now, and what if it turned to brain
little white rose in Ilusha’s hand had caught her fancy or that she wanted
bragged aloud before every one that he’d go and take his property from
Remember them in your prayers thus: Save, O Lord, all those who have none
can think for myself.... I am not opposed to Christ, if you like. He was a
had already squandered half the money—he would have unpicked his little
say.”
to himself. Yes, but he talked about it before he had formed a plan, when
in the town who had known the Karamazov family for years, he furnished
“I’ve seen his portrait. It’s not the features, but something indefinable.
President reminded her, though very politely, that she must answer the
explanation would fill a volume, even a very large one. And so I trust I
On her and on me!
“Now I am condemned!”
that he had jumped back from pity, and standing over the prostrate figure
“Never mind!” he murmured softly to him to cheer him up, or perhaps not
dream in myself. Do you hear this, Porfiry?” he turned to the novice who
there, and meanwhile ... meanwhile.... The difficulty was that he had to
reply.
fully intended to murder his father before that incident. Yet the idea had
taken out a hundred, and so would have spent it all in a month. All this,
Alyosha went in. Lise looked rather embarrassed, and at once flushed
had already squandered half the money—he would have unpicked his little
in reverence, but I thought at once that he would take it only for my joy
The first of these things was at the house of Madame Hohlakov, and he
There turned out to be on the coat, especially on the left side at the
believe, that it was based upon jealousy?”
worth!”
all, mends and washes, sweeps the floor, puts mamma to bed. And mamma is
She is at home with toothache. He he he!”
time how he has wounded you, the first time in his life; he had never
“They’re angry and offended,” he thought. “Well, bother them!”
mild sheep—why, I thought she would have knocked me down for that blow.
own request, as he had powerful friends.
“Finish what you were saying, Misha. I’ll tell you my idea after.”
bruises and scars, which had not yet disappeared.
Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm
In brief there was every appearance of gentility on straitened means. It
drink.”
off, would not be so bold. And if anything had happened, you might have
looking tenderly and happily at him.
take place. This, of course, is only an old legend. But here is a recent
won’t! No, I am not like that. I don’t know whether you are, Misha, but I
middle‐class tombs. To Alyosha’s amazement this tomb turned out to be
significant and touching. My heart is full of tenderness, and I look at my
with latent indignation.
gentlemanly person and live as I can, trying to make myself agreeable. I
dress. He was a divinity student, living under the protection of the
almost cordial. The Pole on the sofa had lighted another pipe and was
on his knee like this at such a moment!” She started up as though in
said just now—that one reptile will devour the other? In that case let me
that he did not know what to do with it. Kalganov took it from him and
of a shake—he was awfully crazy about her—and he leaned right out of the
And again she cried bitterly.
hands, and he felt fearfully ashamed again. “Though I acted quite
“No, not about Diderot. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies
the course of years to expiate his cowardice.”
the dog, Krassotkin flew into a violent rage. “I’m not such an ass as to
dance. To‐morrow to the nunnery, but to‐day we’ll dance. I want to play
now!” cried Ivan. He rushed to the window and opened the movable pane.
greatly.
in his excitement told them on the spot that his fate would be decided
they’ll both come to grief.”
of that ‘babe’ at such a moment? ‘Why is the babe so poor?’ That was a
now you’ll leave me to face this night alone!”
forms, which I will not go into here. The district doctor, a zealous man,
Then it happened that Ivan went out, and only when he had gone a dozen
at last they have vanquished freedom and have done so to make men happy.
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doctor appeared on the scene. I believe the President had previously sent
you’ve been a long time coming here.”
“Then you have said all that in your evidence?” said Ivan, somewhat taken
“It’s mine, mine!” cried Mitya. “I shouldn’t have written it, if I hadn’t
moaned softly, almost in a whisper:
a pack and you hid it. You played with marked cards! I could send you to
And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking
so that it’s almost more difficult for me to hold my tongue than to talk,
himself and punished himself. I could not believe in his insanity.
you’re bored?” Grushenka flew at him with evident intention of finding
brother. If even you are a sensualist at heart, what of your brother,
All at once there came up a bald‐headed, elderly man with ingratiating
though I cried a good deal at his funeral. I was young then, a child, but
“But that’s only for the moment. And what does this moment stand for?
in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. Brothers, love is a
punished by my sufferings for the blood I shed. And I shan’t be believed,
tired. It was a wretched morning, the whole sky was overcast, and the rain
torture that debt has been to him!” Alyosha exclaimed in conclusion.
“You must understand, Mr. Karamazov, that it is of vital importance for us
But that’s only natural.”
he wants you, but only that you would go and show yourself at his door. So
detected every meaning underlining it. “If he hadn’t been drunk, he
“Oh, while I think of it, I have a letter for you,” said Alyosha timidly,
was frivolous, unruly, of violent passions, impatient, and dissipated, and
fact down as a secondary confirmation of the circumstance that he had
gone.... I had a silly idea in my head when I told you to come to‐day; I
maintain that nothing need be destroyed, that we only need to destroy the
Anna Order on his breast. He compromised the girl by his promise of
such affairs. Are you in the service here? I’m delighted to think that
the watch. I’ll explain later on, but, knowing it’s a secret, I began
Father Iosif walked away, grieving the more since he had put forward his
“But I do love you!” answered Alyosha warmly.
say. I have it in my heart to say something more to you, for I feel that
three thousand roubles to resign his claims, seven hundred roubles down,
lines of poetry in my life. But I made up this poem in prose and I
Chapter I. Plans For Mitya’s Escape
pale, she seemed to be cold, and wrapped herself closely in her
before such attacks, and his lips were white. But he evidently did not
“She’s a tigress!” yelled Katerina Ivanovna. “Why did you hold me, Alexey
“No, not that.... There was nothing like that, Mitya. There—I found them
in the district at the time, caught eagerly at the idea. A Liberal of the
believe, that it was based upon jealousy?”
it, so now I shall send some! Ah, here’s Fenya with a letter! Yes, it’s
Section 2.
that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and
then he got up and went on.”
measure, that’s simply why it has been introduced into our schools.” By
Samsonov.
does now, but on the contrary, will long with his whole heart to be the
“For money? To ask her for money?”
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