“Yes,” answered Ilusha. He listened to Kolya with immense interest and
And most likely he would have come to me early to‐morrow, and perhaps have
loved him in his last days, and how we have been talking like friends all
do you make of him—a mountebank, a buffoon?”
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is hell?” I maintain that it is the
should have thought that there was no need for a sensible man to speak of
“And I kiss you too, Lise. Listen, Alexey Fyodorovitch,” Madame Hohlakov
in admiration, and were only at a loss to understand what good purpose
afterwards, in spite of every temptation and his extreme need of it!
bearings. He was fretted, too, by all sorts of strange and almost
not, like Ivan, staying with his father, but living apart at the other end
bundle of hundred‐rouble notes in his hand, about two or three thousand
put it?” he cried, thrusting his hands into his pockets.
duty to stay here I never shall understand,” Marfa answered firmly.
Chapter IX. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
what a fine dog your Zhutchka is now!’ Haven’t you a bit of meat? He’ll
at the back of Fyodor Pavlovitch’s garden to keep watch on Grushenka, and
Alyosha, I am not worthy to repeat those lines in my vulgar words and in
The little goose says—ga, ga, ga.
up with Miüsov and a distant relative of his, a young man of twenty,
reminiscences, brother. God bless them, the darlings. I tried to break it
like that again. How dare you be so familiar! Sit in that corner and be
“You are thirteen?” asked Alyosha.
round his head, while they’re all three busy putting ice on it. All at
“No, you are von Sohn. Your reverence, do you know who von Sohn was? It
out, I’d pay him out!’ At night I used to lie sobbing into my pillow in
She gave way to him, oh, she had given way to him for years. The one
huge star like to a torch” (that is, to a church) “fell on the sources of
the most obsequious countenance, when he had an inkling that it was to his
a little one. A more serious one would have chosen another lodging. But
At last the captain made a gesture of despair as though to say, “Take him
“I sincerely deplore his absence. Perhaps at our table he might have
the contrary I’ve been wondering all the time how it was you did not bring
He was conducted however to the drawing‐room at once. It was a large room,
piquant that they were soon taken. This alone showed the young man’s
“I meant the same when I talked to you in the hospital, only I thought
summer he received the wages of the whole office, and pretended to have
him, and with the ease of a man of the world, you know, ‘Mr. Ispravnik,’
“He doesn’t despise any one,” Alyosha went on. “Only he does not believe
“The devil knows. From bravado perhaps ... at having wasted so much
or salt cabbage and wholemeal stirabout. On Saturday white cabbage soup,
burst out crying like a little child a few steps from the Hohlakovs’
“Most illustrious, two words with you.”
“Ah, Alexey Fyodorovitch, dear, let us care for people as we would for the
through snow and sleet. He was cold, it was early in November, and the
“Good‐by, dear fellow! I shan’t forget your generosity,” he cried warmly.
me. Eh, I must confess everything. Listen, Alyosha. I was so anxious to
built. He had reddish hair and a scanty light‐colored beard, very much
was difficult to get him out of the cellar. They asked the neighbors to
faith of the saints.
Alyosha got up and went to Rakitin.
I was referring to the gold‐mines.”
stood before the two and flung up his arms.
agree to accept their happiness on the foundation of the unexpiated blood
him in anger, burning with resentment, as soon as he looked on his hated
help from his father. His father was terribly concerned about him. He even
he made friends with a political exile who had been banished from Moscow
have been an infernal revenge. It would have been worth it all. I’d have
two hundred, then....”
Alyosha’s heart could not endure uncertainty, because his love was always
Fyodorovitch’s betrothed, not from himself.... But you know.... I would go
pigs, which were fattened for sale. But they wouldn’t even give him that,
The forester, scratching himself, went back to his room without a word,
in the utmost terror he confided this to Father Zossima, the elder had
his will was strong enough “in some of the affairs of life,” as he
state of extreme nervous excitement. She greeted Alyosha with cries of
“Gentlemen of the jury, I cannot help dwelling on this unexpected trait in
feet in his verse. Others don’t sing their praises, but they can’t look at
left the town and the only one still among us was an elderly and much
gentlemen. You’ll laugh yourselves at your suspicion!...”
considering my absolute innocence? and who would believe you? Only if you
himself. Once or twice in my life I’ve seen such a look in a man’s face
“If so I’ll go straight to the Father Superior—to the Father Superior,”
hours of sleep he does not remember, he only remembers the moments of
“Ah, that’s lucky,” cried Alyosha. “Then I shall see her here. She told me
you, I beseech you, to hear me. Three weeks before he murdered his father,
disease.”
through pride, still you had a hope that Smerdyakov might be convicted and
expected. Nothing could have been farther from his dreams than help from
preserved in writing. Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov wrote it down from
reply.
“Where was he sending you just now? He shouted ‘Go’ as he ran away.”
impossible. But Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was among them, sprang forward and
“... I am reproached with having woven a romance. But what is this defense
to preach to fathers? No one. But as a man and a citizen I make my
that had to be so watched over, what a love could be worth that needed
looking at him with a strange, wild, fixed stare, and an air of desperate
either. But I do believe—I believe in God, though I have had doubts of
as any one says a word from the heart to her—it makes her forget
punishment, had preferred to murder his father to get the three thousand
schoolboys between the ages of nine and twelve, at the bridge. They were
Father Païssy remembered Alyosha and that he had not seen him for some
“So she wouldn’t kiss her hand! So she didn’t kiss it; so she ran away!”
Fyodorovitch is a beggar, but if he were to challenge the son of the first
silken rags and tattered lace and beg for alms dancing gracefully, then
it was not enough, and on the spot, in my full officer’s uniform, I
Ivan took out the notes and showed them to him. Smerdyakov looked at them
Smerdyakov? But what information can I give? He is not guilty, anyway. On
an unclean Tatar responsible, Grigory Vassilyevitch, even in heaven, for
simply throw it all up ... rather than stay on in such a position,”
“Why are you surprised at me?” Ivan asked abruptly and sullenly, doing his
the town. But Pan Vrublevsky confirmed the statement, and Mitya, after
“Yes; but I don’t think you will be able to go.”
could not take place that day. As a rule every evening after service the
In spite of the thousands of roubles he had saved, Trifon Borissovitch was
Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy
five months. I used to see her in a corner at dances (we were always
my examination to‐morrow.”
Book X. The Boys
to clink glasses with the Pole whom he had so solemnly invited to drink to
some people who are better as foes than friends. I mean Katerina Ivanovna.
“Defend you! Is it for me to defend you? Should I dare to defend you?
soul!”
properly. Remember it. I advise you to control yourself. But, if you begin
good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you
“She ought to be flogged in public on a scaffold!”
wills. Perhaps I shall be your slave entirely and want to do your bidding
Grushenka, has a supple curve all over her body. You can see it in her
him into shape, to make a man of him ... and besides ... no doubt, you
that “consumptive‐looking” trim dandy, “who always has such polished
versts to Tchermashnya. He told them to harness the horses. He went into
“I was in want of ten roubles and pledged my pistols with Perhotin, and
It’s all a matter of money: he’ll pay ten thousand for escape and give me
They went into the hut. The forester lived in one half of the hut, and
disgrace? This wild question clutched at his heart. “To her, to her alone,
barrister ‘a conscience for hire.’ The counsel protests in his client’s
“Now, Alyosha, take a glass, show what you can do! What shall we drink to?
tried to find a place for himself there. A flower fell on the snow and he
fasting and great age, Father Ferapont still looked a vigorous old man. He
with such feelings ... while they were asleep ... she was asleep, perhaps,
fornication, ostentation, boasting and envious rivalry of one with the
“No, I didn’t tell them that either.”
“Listen, Alyosha, I was rude to your elder this morning. But I was
little question for the second time. Has no one, absolutely no one, heard
I remember how his counsel rushed to him, and how the President addressed
and how to knock) the door must be opened at once. She must not be a
But by the end of the third game, Pyotr Ilyitch felt no more desire for
“I don’t know.”
it here. I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here.
even than duty. I am conscious of this irresistible feeling in my heart,
“Who does like it? Three dozen of champagne for peasants, upon my word,
about him, either. I found in him, on the contrary, an extreme
fly through space to reach your earth.... Of course, it took only an
who’s just come with me; he’s always ready to do anything for me—‘whether
But the bell rang, all rushed to their places. Fetyukovitch mounted the
Grushenka.
the sudden suicide. What struck people most was Mitya’s sudden outburst As
morning, in case of emergency, simply not to have it on himself. Two
little temper. We must smoke it out of him.’ And I began to treat him with
live so and perhaps cannot help living so. Are you referring to what I
Katya never had made such confessions to Alyosha before, and he felt that
an inexperienced thief like Karamazov would have left the envelope on the
millions of creatures except the hundred thousand who rule over them. For
contemptuously, striding along the street again.
just one of those children who are distrusted, sometimes ridiculed, and
once found the master’s money in the yard, and, instead of concealing it,
every one in the house, and completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch’s
face. She started, and drew back a little from him on the sofa.
She became prudent and saved money. She grew sarcastic and resentful
Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with
established in Russian monasteries. It is true, perhaps, that this
borrowed three roubles from the people of the house, who loved him so much
with him completely? Why are you so late? I’ve not been simply waiting,
Meanwhile the time was passing; the monastery services and the requiems
everything in the tavern. [Then followed the anecdote about Captain
“Your honor ... sir, what are you doing? Am I worth it?”
as I do in surroundings impossible for the exercise of hospitality?”
here for ever, on my parental authority. Ivan Fyodorovitch, my most
crime. Look, it is written on some sort of bill!” she cried breathlessly.
taught,” of course. But Alyosha had an irresistible attraction for him.
over. I’ll admit I thought I might learn something from you. I’ve come to
purpose in my life. And I only said so then to boast to you. It was just
foretell the day and the hour. How was it you told me the day and the hour
instance, jurisdiction, is, to my thinking, impossible in any real sense.
figurative sense. Besides he had, before visiting the monastery, a strong
come and see me. Though this is not the moment now, I am awfully glad to
that more than anything you showed me what was in your mind. For if you
“You know, I keep thinking of your pistols.”
thousand now—”
with him! And then I shall be left alone.... I shall come to you, Lise....
could you lie still on the line? Is it possible you weren’t the least
startled by his sudden laugh, which bore witness to mirthful and light‐
consent to it. That’s why I needed your consent, so that you couldn’t have
in a hurry, afraid of every sound, as always happens with murderers, or he
think of the gold‐mines, Dmitri Fyodorovitch?”
pleased, in fact, to enjoy a skirmish with her merry young master.
an unclean heathen, from heathen parents. The Lord God can’t surely take a
things. I imagine that he felt something like what criminals feel when
another twenty years yet, as that dear good woman from Vishegorye, with
interesting thoughts on this theme.
point. I will insist on his knowing me and confiding entirely in me,
not listen to those warnings; Thou didst reject the only way by which men
Alyosha looked at her in silence. Her pale, sallow face was suddenly
little. He was fearfully exhausted, physically and mentally. The look of
dirty, took up the big yellow book that Ivan had noticed at first lying on
for half an hour till it’s quite red and swollen, and what’s left in the
engaged in eager conversation. Ivan and the two monks took the leading
now in a whole multitude of such old men, existing not by chance but by
father! The mere sight of the father who had hated him from his childhood,
They drank a glass each. Although Mitya was excited and expansive, yet he
Alexey Fyodorovitch, listen, listen,” he hurried, touching Alyosha with
“I don’t feel differently, but I wish I hadn’t hated him so.”
understand. Stepan and Semyon heard it, and Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov, too,
preceded him. Alyosha gave his evidence modestly and with restraint, but
forget Ilusha and one another. And whatever happens to us later in life,
the place where Maximov had been sitting at the beginning of the evening,
the copse!”
seemed to be deaf. In answer to his repeated inquiry for the captain, one
“Well, go and enjoy yourself ...” she sent him away once more. “Don’t cry,
been so gay, suddenly began frowning. He frowned and gulped brandy, and it
with anger.
absolutely and spontaneously open with the old man, and he seems to have
help it, young man, as I got ready to come to you I did think as a joke of
“Candles ... of course, candles.... Fenya, fetch him a candle.... Well,
at last they learnt that this holy man had broken his vow of obedience and
depressed on the journey? Why, as he reached Moscow, had he said to
till the evening before implicitly believed that Katerina Ivanovna had a
slipped away.... And let me tell you, as I wish to hide nothing from you
sick man and sitting by him day and night. Varvinsky and Herzenstube were
And bending down to Alyosha, he went on in a confidential half‐whisper.
“I told them everything just as it was.”
something and almost fell down. Stopping short, he made out at his feet
captain. But only Alyosha and Grushenka had visited Mitya. Rakitin had
without orders from my master. And as for Grigory Vassilyevitch hearing
“You are more needed there. There is no peace there. You will wait, and be
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
that he may blurt out his cherished ideas in all their simplicity,
bringing.”
preparing to go abroad upon his two thousand roubles, Ivan Fyodorovitch
up on his bones, what was there to decay?”
helpless tears, and lie there shaking till dawn. In the morning I would
buffoonery either (Varvara had been gone for some time past to Petersburg
First of all, Alyosha went to his father. On the way he remembered that
his youth and inexperience, partly from his intense egoism.
the man who has freed himself from the tyranny of material things and
to the steps, and hearing a noise in the garden, he made up his mind to go
pleasant. You’ll be glad to hear it.”
One of the boys observed that it was awkward for him to crumble the bread
assistance of Grigory after he had, in his excitement, knocked him down.
“What Trifon Nikititch?” asked the youth, staring with loutish amazement
he may lightheartedly overstep all the barriers of the old morality of the
rag not worth a farthing.”
fists, and, in another minute, would have flung himself on Smerdyakov. The
reflected the insult he had just received.
two thousand three hundred roubles in cash?”
and, above all, intense excitement. He felt himself that he had lost his
evidence, the celebrated doctor withdrew. The letter produced by Katerina
to come back, I was so enraged by the look of contempt and hatred he
cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of
appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched
This upper floor contained a number of large rooms kept purely for show,
pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second,
educated class of to‐day are reflected in this family picture—only, of
myself.’ ‘And where did you get the linen?’ The prisoner was positively
picture! And Alyosha remembered his mother’s face at that minute. He used
“Oh, dear, no, quite the contrary, he’s very quiet. Only please don’t talk
idiotic remarks, especially when one is not talking to you and doesn’t
table, facing Grushenka. Maximov was laughing violently at something. On
thought.
me that, Alexey. Goodness is one thing with me and another with a
with satisfaction, “I should not have stayed a whole hour to look after
its suffering is due to it. But thank the Creator who has given you a
that he might answer or refuse to answer, but that, of course, he must
champagne. And brandy, too, and red and white wine, and all I had then....
been shown to Mitya, the possibility of his new rival’s visit was very
cheerful to‐day.”
nothing but hosannah is not enough for life, the hosannah must be tried in
“Don’t be anxious, I’ll save him for you!” Katya whispered rapidly, and
describing, often in one word, his own sensations. Dmitri listened in
The doctor looked round the room with a squeamish air once more and threw
“No—I only—”
But the carriage had already driven away. Ivan made no reply.
enemies, ‘No, I’m not a Christian, and I curse my true God,’ then at once,
that instead of gaining freedom they have sunk into slavery, and instead
“And you clearly, confidently remember that he struck himself just on this
do better not to apologize. I will do my best and the reader will see for
turned and walked away. I followed him, shouting, ‘Yes, yes, you are an
captain, terror‐stricken at the thought that his boy might be dying,
“I could have done better than that. I could have known more than that, if
under his pillow, as soon as Ivan had left. ‘As soon as Ivan had gone
childhood, cries out, ‘O Lord, heal me and I shall see Thee!’ and, as it
back‐yard, ‘without boots on his feet and with his little trousers hanging
be truthful and sincere to the end. Let us all be sincere!”
suspicion, a cross and a locket taken from her neck with a portrait of her
the past. I’ve done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news,
at hand.
and said to Thee, “If Thou wouldst know whether Thou art the Son of God
He took this second wife, Sofya Ivanovna, also a very young girl, from
name. But remember that they were only some thousands; and what of the
“I shan’t ask him about the wisp of tow, for I expect you tease him with
his father. He did not stay long with him, and made haste to get away,
another the heart of the little dog Fido. Mine is that of the little dog
the boy a hiding. Catch him, catch him, he was laughing at me!”
him with some one else ... without noticing it. Come, another glass and
at once the rank of angels. Therefore,’ said the saint, ‘thou, too, O
and called him by his name.
absolutely silent for the future. The prosecutor watched him the whole
head ached. It was a long time before he could wake up fully and
“I’ve come to look at you. I have been to you before—or have you
several men, and that she was led out, and that when he recovered himself
months, and so far we have scarcely said a word to each other. To‐morrow I
weak man the prosecutor has made him out to be. I found in him no trace of
come to stay with them as Marya Kondratyevna’s betrothed, and was living
sudden sin, then rejoice for others, rejoice for the righteous man,
exclaiming as he did so:
uneasy she became, the greater were the hopes of Dardanelov. It must be
to say ‘sir.’ It’s the work of a higher power. I see you are interested in
unmoved by the parting, and seemed, in fact, at a loss for something to
childhood in one’s first home. And that is almost always so if there is
“So be it, so be it!” Father Païssy repeated austerely and reverently.
At last Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, too, got into the cart, sat down heavily,
and so on and so on. But again I ask, Mr. Prosecutor, have you not
the wine made up in quantity for what it lacked in quality.
them without that.”
family. Another personage closely connected with the case died here by his
waiting all the time. At last Alyosha raised his gentle eyes and looked at
often quite a trifling and ridiculous one—some article left about in the
and the remaining two thousand three hundred “to be paid next day in the
a whole month.”
bound and sold to him; Satan brought us together, but there has been no
“foolish” ideas into words. For his opinion had struck him as awfully
mechanical!—or else I’ll put out one eye, let my beard grow a yard, and I
owning I am plucky sometimes, Karamazov. I simply looked at him
“What have you stolen?” inquired Pyotr Ilyitch curiously.
As he said this, Mitya suddenly got up.
I was cold, so I kissed you.... But I see it was stupid.”
coming to earth, the power of saying, “I am and I love.” Once, only once,
killed him. Still I mean to fight it out with you. I warn you of that.
mountain, ‘Crush these tormentors,’ and it hadn’t crushed them, how could
That’s so, that’s all so! I tried to conquer him by my love—a love that
their mothers’ eyes. Doing it before the mothers’ eyes was what gave zest
“What’s the use of the counsel? I told him all about it. He’s a soft,
expressive sayings in the whole world. I may remark, too, that in
Smerdyakov was silent again.
All that is nonsense! Rakitin explained it all to me yesterday, brother,
that though I smiled at her lofty sentiments just now, I know that I am a
force yourself upon her to talk of a man who came here, to this very
specially urgent business, and he foresaw how difficult it would be to
“Ilusha, darling, he’s the one who loves his mamma!” she said tenderly,
And he ran out of the room.
distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evil‐doers, shun above all
“If I am like you in my way of thinking, it’s all to my credit,” the
that there was no doubt about it, that there could be really no
down again, and put the wet towel round his head. He sat down beside him.
will find a friend, a sister.... Only a sister, of course, and so for
“Come, that’s enough, Lise, perhaps I really was rather too quick talking
Diderot, your reverence. Did you ever hear, most Holy Father, how Diderot
“It’s not here. Don’t worry yourself. I know where it is—here,” said
“Well, gentlemen, I don’t blame you. I’m ready.... I understand that
was passing outside the cell, he gauged most of it correctly in his heart,
“And you say that to me!” cried Kolya; “and would you believe it, I
coat.
to him. Is it for a monk of strict rule to drink tea?” could be heard
me. He is going to put in a tinge of Socialism, he says. But there, damn
can stand it. Go to her, Alyosha, ask her not to speak of that in the
tried vigorously, but the sleeper did not wake.
eyes. He didn’t seem to believe my word, but as soon as he heard the taps,
was an honorable man, and that, even if I loved his brother, he would not
all that day the mother and son were constantly rushing into each other’s
“_C’est du nouveau, n’est‐ce pas?_ This time I’ll act honestly and explain
sobbing voice he cried:
receipt of the work.
lean, but mettlesome, bay horses. Suddenly Mitya cried out in horrible
Without her, without her gentle word it would be hell among us! She
“The elder, the splendid elder, the elder! The honor and glory of the
Again Alyosha seemed not to hear. Rakitin could not control himself.
Then the prisoner was allowed to speak. Mitya stood up, but said very
them up to the brim._
strange fire in her eyes.
Karamazov had horrified him by his spiritual audacity. ‘Everything in the
“And perhaps I don’t even believe in God.”
“Yes,” Mitya admitted. “She won’t come this morning.” He looked timidly at
in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of equipment
the illegitimate son of Fyodor Pavlovitch (there is evidence of this), he
the immemorial custom established by his master and the kind‐hearted Marfa
from her seat.
addressing Alyosha with an apparently calm and even voice, as though
ice in the cellar, and Marfa Ignatyevna had some brought up. In the
Fyodorovitch. Here Fyodor Pavlovitch will get up directly and begin
back‐yard, ‘without boots on his feet and with his little trousers hanging
brother, Alexey Fyodorovitch. No, sir, I won’t thrash my boy for your
And he did, in fact, begin turning out his pockets.
young man looked as morosely at him as at every one and was always silent.
beat the teacher, Dardanelov, at arithmetic and universal history. Though
friend of the other, as it were, a “bodyguard,” and no doubt the big Pole
“the Christian society now is not ready and is only resting on some seven
you? If you won’t, I am glad to see you ...”
twenty‐four hours, are rarely to be met with, and are of interest to
as I sat with you.... Can’t you, won’t you tell me what you are going to
“You must love him” (Fyodor Pavlovitch was by this time very drunk).
prosecutor to assume that the money is hidden in some crevice at Mokroe.
Ivan from where he stood. But the latter rose from his seat, went up to
them. With my pitiful, earthly, Euclidian understanding, all I know is
fact, we shall be the first to repudiate our charge, we shall hasten to
Katchalnikov, happily described him.
Oh, my God! What is happening to me? Every minute I close my eyes and see
mechanical!—or else I’ll put out one eye, let my beard grow a yard, and I
“Indeed she didn’t. By God I swear she didn’t come back.”
and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and
Fyodorovitch, in its most secret details. I’ll prove it.... Would you
the corner behind the ikons. It would have been absurd to keep it under
and are Christians, but at the same time are socialists. These are the
his master, who would be, of course, glad to see him. His mind sets to
the day and the hour, for the month and the year,” though I knew it not.
up. If something happens later on, it’ll be: ‘Ah, the holy man foresaw it,
simply throw it all up ... rather than stay on in such a position,”
a dream. You are that dream! You are a dream, not a living creature!”
“What’s the matter with him?” Mitya wondered for an instant, and he ran
stood the fatal, insoluble question: How would things end between his
make the acquaintance of the teachers and their wives, even made up to
hurrying then to a diplomatic _soirée_ at the house of a lady of high rank
even disliked by their schoolfellows. He was dreamy, for instance, and
particularly liked listening to me then and they made the men listen.
He remembered afterwards that he was forcibly dragged away from her by
a shindy. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to retire. I won’t tell you
contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for
ones among them, especially in our day—hate not even the wicked ones.
chair close up to her. By degrees he had gained some idea of the two
“Till what happened?” put in Nikolay Parfenovitch inquisitively, but Mitya
that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and
Have you been home and seen your brother?” It seemed strange to Alyosha
slyly to startle the eldest granddaughter, Olga Mihailovna, by showing
contemptuous eyes were fixed upon her, as she finished giving her evidence
“But if you say yourself that it couldn’t be guessed, how could I have
our monasteries the institution was at first resisted almost to
financial relations of father and son, and arguing again and again that it
the bitterest of all his bitter memories was his stabbing Krassotkin, who
whole story, and then I began asking him, ‘Why have you got blood on your
seemed to Mitya.
“Where are you?” cried the old man again; and he thrust his head out
we shall shelter Him underground. One cannot exist in prison without God;
“And what followed? Notes for three thousand roubles were brought into the
his position.... To begin with, he was sore at having been so glad of the
definition and inner essence of him. It’s your father has handed him on
some one else gains possession of his conscience—oh! then he will cast
The nag strains, and then he begins lashing the poor defenseless creature
everywhere alike,” and that the incorruptibility of the bodies of the just
of it. Fyodor Pavlovitch was an obstinate and cunning buffoon, yet, though
drop of living water (that is the gift of earthly active life) to cool the
thinking better of it; “I am here as an old friend and neighbor, and it
meeting was either a trap for him or an unworthy farce.
would say. And every one said something kind to me, they began trying to
learned that you’ve discovered the chemical molecule and protoplasm and
late; it’s irregular. Embrace me quickly. Kiss me! Sign me with the cross,
her tortured child she has no right to forgive; she dare not forgive the
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Samsonov, and he has sent me to you,” Mitya gasped breathlessly.
“And obscure too.”
silence or pass to another subject. But what finally irritated Ivan most
“You’ve spoken of that already,” Mitya observed musingly.
such motive in him beforehand, and every one saw, on the contrary, that
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what it was. His confidence and self‐reliance were unmistakable, however.
me for some reason, Alyosha?”
admit the miraculous also. The Apostle Thomas said that he would not
not (his own words) touch on that story. So be it. I will not touch on it
most of her time in another province where she had an estate, or in
authority. Yet it was perfectly simple and happened quite naturally.
At last he found the house in Lake Street. It was a decrepit little house,
people don’t know that side of me—”
“Finish what you were saying, Misha. I’ll tell you my idea after.”
impatience to hear the new fact. Minutely and diffusely Mitya told them
Karamazov!”
priest and the President, the witnesses were led away and were made to sit
“Your touching tears are but a relief to your spirit and will serve to
Pavlovitch, mimicking him.
was his one anxiety. But these rumors were not quite just. Our prosecutor
blushing for genuine shame. “Good Lord, he’s come to that!”
rigid a fast as Father Ferapont should “see marvels.” His words seemed
once. He was a most estimable old man, and the most careful and
the dread place of execution! I fancy that at the beginning of the journey
what her angel eyes try to express. We wait on her, but she doesn’t like
and the coffin, inside and out, was decked with flowers, which had been
cheered him. He played a second game, and suddenly began telling one of
how bewitching she is, but I know too that she is kind, firm and noble.
“Drive on!” Ivan shouted angrily to the coachman.
had not taken such a tone even at their last interview.
railways, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. You’ll become famous and indispensable to
He felt that whatever might come later, whatever turn things might take,
been serious. Alyosha listened with distress, and was beginning to
life, I confess it, fathers and teachers, and even now I pray for them
“I expected him to kill Fyodor Pavlovitch. I thought that was certain, for
would move to another town, how we would buy a horse and cart. ‘We will
something.”
and not simply for the sake of instructing them, but as though thirsting
happened suddenly and that I must see him, and he will open to me so that
“unfair,” and that he ought “to have paid him several thousand roubles
anything like a weapon that caught his eye. He had realized for a month
“Stay! You knew it! And I see you understand it all at once. But be quiet,
last six thousand was sent him. A letter is in existence in which he
brass pestle he caught up instinctively without knowing why he did it.
Ivan moaned miserably, helpless before his apparition. “I am bored with
rude. On very rare occasions, however, he would talk to visitors, but for
indeed, he is cheerful now—but when he shakes his head like that, you
“He is dying to‐day,” said Alyosha.
conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent
to vent his wrath.
stop them. Every one in the world is good. Every one—even the worst of
stony heartlessness ascribed to him by the prosecutor is inconsistent with
only was he unable to release him, but there was not and could not be on
irritable and exasperated. The object of the prisoner’s continual and
Alyosha did not look at him, but from a slight movement Rakitin at once
for this timorous man, and always treated him with marked respect, though
virtuous, yes, holy Fathers, she is virtuous. Dmitri Fyodorovitch wants to
our teacher Kolbasnikov has said to the whole of the third class.”
he suddenly succeeded in attracting the attention of a far wider circle of
are bound by your office, I quite understand that, but that’s my affair,
“The elder is one of those modern young men of brilliant education and
been lighter. He is weak and vile. What though he is everywhere now
“Do you know, Alyosha,” he peeped inquisitively into his eyes, absorbed in
Lise grieves me so! I believe she’s quite mad. Why did she send for you?
reputation more than anything here was that cursed goose,” he said,
to give you back the letter. It’s very precious to me,” he added suddenly,
“The prisoner, running away in the garden in the dark, climbed over the
They went out, but stopped when they reached the entrance of the
about so much?”
window. I snatched up that iron paper‐weight from his table; do you
you!’ Compliments, his compliments! Just compliments and farewell!
Saying this, Dmitri bowed once more. Then, turning suddenly towards his
knocked his back against the wall and stood up against it, stiff and
joke.”
“You are not a fool,” said Ivan, seeming struck. The blood rushed to his
tell me, I’ll get off,” but he did not answer. But there was nothing in
but would, even if he had done so, have unpicked it every two days and
The usher at once approached him. Alyosha jumped up and cried, “He is ill.
cut off. Is that so or not, Grigory Vassilyevitch?”
charged me to do it, and went away knowing all about it. And so I want to
own heroism, and your own suffering; but in the end that suffering will be
better so; I can simply go away for good. By the way, how is she now? What
of contemplation. Those impressions are dear to him and no doubt he hoards
“Yes, he knows how to torment one. He’s cruel,” Ivan went on, unheeding.
now; but only for a second. Almost at once I thought, ‘No, it’s not
days that he is unique. Another man will not commit the murder, but will
angel. It’s your decision will decide it. Perhaps it’s you that is
“Ah, for shame, young lady! Ah, for shame! That’s unbecoming for you, dear
even now, twenty years after, he could not bear a slighting allusion to
crimson. “Are you mad? You’re out of your mind!”
way, why did you do that—why did you set apart that half, for what
received a month ago from her seducer, and had heard of it from her own
stretched as far as the eye could see.
a period will ever come? If it does, everything is determined and humanity
point, and though he found out nothing conclusive, yet he carried away a
truth and good sense correct the Gospel of our Lord, Whom the counsel for
hath dishonored thee.’ And so will we.”
“Damn it! I’ve nothing to do with you. Just answer my question and I’ll go
loved. Now he had everything to make life happy ... but he could not go on
irritation, though he could speak comparatively lightly of other
To insects—sensual lust.
he!” Maximov ended, tittering.
people, I see.”
their hands. Too, too well will they know the value of complete
forward!”
Smerdyakov said the same. He must be killed! Katya despises me. I’ve seen
to drunkenness—that’s all he’s done for me.... Why am I bound to love him
facing her, pale as death, unable to utter a word, but his eyes showed
to him persuasively. “I’m very glad you’ve come, very glad, Mitya, do you
only quarreled with a shopman in the tavern, because a Karamazov could not
“One doesn’t often stumble upon champagne,” he said, licking his lips.
again, anything that can compare in baseness with the dishonor which I
“I have only seen her once,” Alyosha protested with the same perplexity.
seemed to be insinuating something, Smerdyakov showed himself unchanged.
minus would disappear at once, and good sense would reign supreme
Grushenka by this “escapade” was “permission to kiss her foot, and that
all over the place, in all the corners, under the table, and they open the
woman’s talking nonsense, for every woman is dishonest,” and that they
with a tone of voice that only a shopman could use.
horizon. The fresh, motionless, still night enfolded the earth. The white
come, without any sort of explanation.
what would become of him? But the Church, like a tender, loving mother,
the man who has freed himself from the tyranny of material things and
“Why are you surprised at me?” Ivan asked abruptly and sullenly, doing his
dreams than we. They aim at justice, but, denying Christ, they will end by
flesh of my flesh, the dearest of my flesh! He is my most dutiful Karl
Dmitri, feeling himself dishonored and losing his last hope, might sink to
every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love
extremes, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate
“He keeps talking nonsense, and we were all laughing,” Kalganov began
“Come, I say, for my own amusement! You don’t play horses, do you?”
three thousand, not fifteen hundred, everybody knows that.”
such a path lies open before you! Tears will ease your heart, and later on
“Alyosha, I told you not to come,” he cried fiercely to his brother. “In
share it without charge with others.
way. Alyosha, darling, well, here goes! I’ll tell you our secret!”
a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the
through, note that. Well, let me tell you, I shall carry it through. I
you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could
pointed out to all visitors on their arrival with peculiar respect and
such horror. She was just then expecting the “message,” and was much
though trying to articulate something; no sound came, but still his lips
own expense, after Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom he had often pestered about the
talked like that with God, and God who gave His servant up to destruction,
agree to accept their happiness on the foundation of the unexpiated blood
scarcely any one else beside Alyosha, who did not come every day and never
urgent message begging him to come. Questioning Fenya, Alyosha learned
“The money, _panie_? Five hundred roubles I’ll give you this moment for
once, what was his motive? What was he reckoning on? What was he aiming
the door after him.
His wisdom, His purpose—which are utterly beyond our ken; I believe in the
care for the sticky little leaves I shall only love them, remembering you.
“Just now you said—something quite different,” Katerina Ivanovna whispered
other half of the sum could nowhere be discovered, shows that that money
could not believe that I, his former master, an officer, was now before
“Ach, Vanka’s gone to Petersburg;
entirely forgotten where she was buried.
contemptuously, striding along the street again.
dignity. He asked the question with a sort of cringing timidity. He
and told him all about it. “And from him I’ve come straight to you,” said
“It’s a monk come to beg for the monastery. A nice place to come to!” the
elope with her to the gold mines. But the criminal, counting on escaping
you little stupid, how I called to Alyosha out of the window that I’d
“My money, gentlemen? Certainly. I understand that that is necessary. I’m
“There’ll be nothing of the sort, and you won’t go,” he concluded at last
tell me in detail how you did it. Everything, as it happened. Don’t forget
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
coffee.
would save me, in fact ... for a good, I might say an honorable action....
there are twenty‐five saints being saved. They look at one another, and
delicate and conspicuously aquiline. “A regular Roman nose,” he used to
at Mokroe weighed on the old man’s conscience, and when he learned the
don’t know ... don’t let her go away like this!”
town and district were soon in his debt, and, of course, had given good
sum better than any one when he took the note from him, Maximov, in the
agreed to come more for the glory of the thing, because the case has
tells me that beforehand—warns me. He is planning to throw me over, that’s
“And what then?”
take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so were his underclothes,
impressionable. He would put his whole soul into some case and work at it
agreement for future payments from the estate, of the revenues and value
he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he
“Yes, but he noticed the open door, not when he came to after his
got Timofey ready to start. I know how he’ll go. Their pace won’t be ours,
give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an
in defense of such natures, so often and so cruelly misunderstood—these
indulged in this diversion, probably feeling dull or wishing to amuse
I’ll open my whole soul to you; I’ll pour out everything. We’ll finish
If I go into the world, I must marry. I know that. _He_ told me to marry,
every one came to the conclusion it was not he. Now he is lying very ill.
His first horror was over, but evidently some new fixed determination had
“Stay a moment.... Show me those notes again.”
heart. But four thousand is not a sum to throw away on such frivolity.
grief, smiling compassionately at him. Her smile wrung the old man’s heart
“Clearly and confidently, for I thought at the time, ‘Why does he strike
“Yes, we’ll write it down,” lisped Nikolay Parfenovitch.
for gossip, I can tell you.”
girls were getting ready, and that the Jews with the cymbals would most
grief and pity at having killed a man, it shows that he was innocent of
I heard as far as ‘the fool hath said in his heart’ twenty times from the
only observed in silence by those who came in and out and were evidently
tender smile shining on her tear‐stained face.
“Certainly, that’s not right, that I can quite understand, and that I
“Two questions, disconnected, but natural. I’ll deal with them separately.
rather mysterious.
long ago. She will give you some lunch, too. You’ll give them something,
The words struck me at the time, and now they have suddenly come back to
instance, had heard it, too, so that indeed, it was scarcely a legend, but
him start, because half waking up towards daybreak that night he had cried
novice. And what have Russian boys been doing up till now, some of them, I
your socks.”
“There was a dispute about three thousand roubles, I think, which you
have screamed. There was a hammering in his temples, and the top of his
reflected the insult he had just received.
us, “Feed us, for those who have promised us fire from heaven haven’t
assure him that he knew who he was already. “I am Captain Snegiryov, sir,
stream. He remembered taking out of his pocket the clean white
people,’ he seems to represent Russia as she is. Oh, not all Russia, not
answer to the question where I got the money would expose me to far
unconscious with terror.
in a regular peasant’s room. Though it was large, it was cumbered up with
Book II. An Unfortunate Gathering
terribly cast down and glanced timidly in one another’s faces, when they
silence. “How could I tell I had hit on a clever one? I am always ready to
see Grushenka, who had sent Fenya to him early in the morning with an
“Well, if that’s so, the devil must have killed him,” broke suddenly from
speak like this at such a moment.
with intense spite, and resolved to make a laughing‐stock of him. When
“Just so, sir, I was only running out to Prohoritch’s.... But I don’t know
wilderness? Turn them into bread, and mankind will run after Thee like a
composure and recovered from this scene, it was followed by another.
room there, for all chairs had been removed for the sake of space, and the
accept it with grateful joy. Do you know, blessed Father, you’d better not
distance from him. He had taken a roomy and fairly comfortable lodge
“Come, come here,” she cried, imperiously. “No nonsense now! Good heavens,
looking with emotion at the group round him.
“I am alone, and there are six of them. I’ll beat them all, alone!” he
Kalganov, when called, came in reluctantly, frowning and ill‐humored, and
could we have failed to find it in his chest of drawers or trunk?) that
object of which was Grushenka, scarcely any one understood what really
your son, or he will be sure to send a letter. Go, and henceforward be in
been able till that moment to bring myself to it. And it was only when I
“Oh, that’s all nonsense about Troy, a trivial matter. I consider this an
“any question relating to the facts of the case, and we are, I repeat,
naturally a kind and merry heart. ‘I also write vaudevilles of all sorts.’
everything whirled about him, as though he were delirious. He walked,
earth a power which could release him except the elder who had himself
give up their bread here, wherefore they are in bondage to the devil.
“I believe we shall, Lise.”
door,” the prosecutor pronounced deliberately, as though chiseling out
fault, that it was on my account he had murdered him. But when he said he
“Alyosha, I love Grusha terribly,” he said suddenly in a shaking voice,
He would run away, and she listened to the singing and looked at the
I don’t know how to explain it to you, but I feel it is so, painfully
daren’t speak the truth, from having been for years humiliated and
The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it
him,” Kolya thought indignantly. And all of a sudden he felt horribly
been learnt during the last four years, even after many persons had become
Kondratyevna. “I was in a hurry to find my brother.”
And he repeatedly made the sign of the cross to the saints painted above
ritual, and all the monks gathered together in the church. And before dawn
surprisingly exhausted. It might have been supposed from his Herculean
follow the terms of this agreement and help preserve free future access to
ashes of his adored teacher? Why, every one in the monastery cherished the
him.... And I had no right, indeed, to be exacting as to that money,” she
as Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it—nothing of the kind had happened. But it
“I repeat,” he said, “the only reason I haven’t killed you is that I need
the game they play when it’s light all night in summer.”
it is difficult to contend against it.
that little bag in which he had fifteen hundred roubles!”
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