horribly; and in a moment Mitya’s fingers were drenched with the hot
time past, and not only in you. Nowadays the very children have begun to
“Doctor ... your Excellency ... and will it be soon, soon?”
Pas même académicien.
“And as for Mitya’s being mad, he certainly seems like it now,” Grushenka
no harm in forgetting it. Now I only prize the reputation of being a
“The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin,
He was choking. He was not expecting Grushenka at the time, and the sudden
take him to Lyagavy at once, and by so doing “save him, so to speak,” the
had been three days before at the elder’s, at the family meeting with his
H’m!... if he was there a week ago ... there certainly has been a change
for Alyosha, the police captain was very fond of him and had known him for
Pyotr Ilyitch got up, and announced that he was going straight to the
simply throw it all up ... rather than stay on in such a position,”
that he had made a fool of the “captain.” He was a cold, spiteful and
“And at the end, too. But that was all rot.”
of to Ivan, all relating to his expected visitor, and these questions we
It’s a lie that it was my anger I loved and not him. Mitya, I was only
had no thought for him. Alyosha wondered, too, whether there was not some
“I’ll remember it.”
myself,” he said resolutely and distinctly, and at his last word he
wouldn’t tell the investigating lawyer all our conversation at the gate?
were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are
added with a smile.
regiment like this, facing your antagonist and begging his forgiveness! If
finished.
sought to cling to the ‘ideas of the people,’ or to what goes by that name
wretched. ‘What is it?’ I asked. He wouldn’t answer. Well, there’s no
to Count Mattei in Milan. He sent me a book and some drops, bless him,
disease.”
you beyond all reckoning. He does not ask your forgiveness—‘It’s
She was sitting in the kitchen with her grandmother; they were both just
“It is much, and well that your mind is full of such dreams and not
would have sanctioned their killing me before I was born that I might not
promised, but he answered by letter that he would do his utmost not to let
“Make haste with the lint and the lotion, mamma. That’s simply Goulard’s
to the amusement. Here is another scene that I thought very interesting.
of Seville.
significance in Smerdyakov’s last words. He was almost on the point of
still loved me and treated me good‐humoredly, but there’s no denying that
pleased and thankful for it. Ladies used to be fond of me: not all of
hermitage.
dear young lady.’ She knows it! Your brother’s a scoundrel, Alexey
mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first
There was something positively condescending in his expression. Grigory
could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man. So holy it
have arisen indirectly and unconsciously from the secret stings of his
once he boils up like that. He didn’t even nod to you. Have you broken
“We love you, we love you!” they all caught it up. There were tears in the
PART II
FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
school as officers, we were ready to lay down our lives for the honor of
dark back‐alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and
and light to Thy people!
talking to you, Rakitin, while a prince like this is standing here. Such a
“And now, I suppose, you believe in God, since you are giving back the
I’ve never in my life lent to that unhappy man, Dmitri
“Have you said so at the examination yet?” Smerdyakov queried with
and a father who had ignored him all his life, hardly knew him, never
repeating to himself, again and again. “It’s like a dream, I’ve sometimes
night on the bank of a great navigable river with some fishermen. A good‐
To begin with, he was late, taking a short cut from Volovya station which
for such things. He was grateful to me, too....”
forget the newspaper.
punishing me for it.’ He can’t get that idea out of his head. And if the
away to the opposite wall, while his arms clasped the back of the chair
shouts of wild merriment, reckless gypsy songs and dances I shall raise
What does the counsel say. Where are you off to, Alexey Fyodorovitch?”
joke, and their souls are dry, dry and flat; they remind me of prison
humiliating in it, and on their side something “supercilious and
feel that.”
Grigory did not speak for some time. “It’s a confusion of nature,” he
Krassotkin, the widow of a former provincial secretary, who had been dead
ladies quarreled violently with their husbands over differences of opinion
unclean.’ And ever since then I had it in my mind. Not long ago I was
“Listen, monster.” Ivan’s eyes flashed and he trembled all over. “I am not
recalled, in fact, every item of expense and added it all up. So the
“I say! You are going it! Why, it’s a regular mutiny, with barricades!
solemnity. All were expecting that some marvel would happen immediately
crossed the threshold he stopped, taken aback; he probably fancied he had
for anything! Let him keep it as a consolation.”
did not refuse the general’s widow his formal consent to any proposition
just now, ‘The Karamazovs are not blackguards, but philosophers; for all
you little stupid, how I called to Alyosha out of the window that I’d
forgotten it till this moment?”
wheeled into this room.”
suddenly flashing. His voice was trembling with tears. “So this is what
“No, not to say read.... But I’ve read _Candide_ in the Russian
too fond of female charms, too, and you mind most of all about living in
“They are both crazy,” said Rakitin, looking at them with amazement. “I
“Yes, what you said just now,” said Nikolay Parfenovitch, looking at him
for the prosecution and for the defense the whole course of the evidence
“Well, and what else?” he asked in a loud voice.
and I heard through a trustworthy man that if I were to go he’d give me a
“Damn you! Speak out what you want!” Ivan cried angrily at last, passing
Pavlovitch.
“That you are just as young as other young men of three and twenty, that
on thrashing themselves. And a good thing too. ‘For with what measure ye
towards her and answered her in an excited and breaking voice:
His plan was to catch his brother Dmitri unawares, to climb over the
every copeck.’ He lost his temper. But after all, what is goodness? Answer
“What’s that for?” The old man was a little surprised. “We shall see each
any one. If he doesn’t believe in people, of course, he does despise
there. That’s why I let you go, because I hope for that. You’ve got all
can’t tear himself away.”
one. Ah, man should be dissolved in prayer! What should I be underground
“Oh, I’ve nothing against God. Of course, God is only a hypothesis, but
a bunch in his trembling hands and was strewing them again over his dear
Mitya.... ‘Everything that is true and good is always full of
There was laughter. The offending boy turned from pink to crimson. He was
“This is from Kiev, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” she went on reverently, “from
himself even to the people.”
fear of being laughed at, and yet how true it is! One who does not believe
not have been feigning at all, the fit may have happened quite naturally,
him.
Karamazov? I can’t stand it.) So it rushed at the bread, swallowed it, and
“What has happened to you, sir?” said Fenya, pointing to his hands again.
token of sympathy, of a desire to assist him from me, Dmitri
sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth—that’s my opinion!
many sofas, lounges, settees, big and little tables. There were pictures
out awkwardly.
would certainly have to keep watch to‐day, but where? Here or at
runaway bride her dowry, the husband and wife began to lead a most
attentively—more attentively, please—and you will see that he had
it lies just in the fact that it is a mystery—that the passing earthly
somewhere in the mines. The appearance of Grushenka in court was awaited
“They are both utterly crazy, they are no better than little children,”
had listened on the stairs. But he remembered it now with such anguish
At last he began to be bitterly and ominously haunted by the blood of his
‘Daddy! daddy!’ By some diabolical unseemly chance the case was brought
Her face beamed with delight, to the great distress of Alyosha, but
“I am unclean, not holy. I would not sit in an arm‐chair and would not
But she lived in another province; besides, what could a little girl of
scowled, he clenched his teeth, and his fixed stare became still more
inclined to believe in me, I administered some disbelief by telling you
thought of that sorrowful day as one of the bitterest and most fatal days
preceding the awful catastrophe, that broke so suddenly upon him.
I was in ecstasy, laughing and talking all the way, I don’t remember what
“Certainly we shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and
and delicately nestling her milk‐white neck and broad shoulders in a
in that insulting fashion. And I am told that his son, a boy, quite a
specimens from home that are even better than the Turks. You know we
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness
shop. There’s no time to lose. Last time I drove with Timofey, but Timofey
“In regard to my epilepsy, sir, you had much better inquire of the doctors
That’s what may be too much for me.”
fingers and pointed here, very high up.... How could I have so completely
been thirsting for you! It’s too much for me, that’s the worst of it. I’ll
color on his pale cheeks. At the same moment Fenya said to him, not a bit
at them both—“I had an inkling from the first that we should come to
laugh at him. You see what a spiteful cur I am, and you called me your
released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more
child I had an elder brother who died before my eyes at seventeen. And
momentary. For the rest of the time he was struck, on the contrary, by
subject....”
good of believing against your will? Besides, proofs are no help to
envelope with three thousand roubles in it, tied up with ribbon and sealed
the jealous were all vulgar and base souls. On the contrary, a man of
feeling tender to devoutness, to self‐effacement before her! “I will
being examined, but quite the contrary, I brought him to it by a hint, as
the spot, what then? What will become of them? And worse still, if he
delirious!” she kept crying out, beside herself.
Perezvon,” said Smurov, with a sigh. “You know his father, the captain,
have kept that, too. She would see at once that since I brought back half,
that human shape in which He walked among men for three years fifteen
“How ‘naught’? You say that with all those thousands!”
“Come, now go. Christ be with you!” and she made the sign of the cross
Mitya was reduced to silence. He flushed all over. A moment later he felt
minutes to reach the lighted window. He remembered that just under the
himself to steal, it would not be regular stealing, but simply taking what
You’ll sit all night deliberating whether to go or not. But you will go;
exceedingly tender‐hearted, only they don’t express it. Don’t laugh, don’t
who slept quietly without stirring, with regular, hardly audible breathing
But do make haste,” she finished nervously. She was quite frightened at
humble, hold thy peace.’ ” He wound up his reflections with that line. But
head aches, Alyosha.... Alyosha, comfort my heart. Be an angel and tell me
Alyosha and Katerina Ivanovna floated into his mind. But he softly smiled,
purpose?”
hour or more, but he did not hear Nikolay Parfenovitch. He was suddenly
handkerchief; the handkerchief itself, stiff with blood and by now quite
when he had finished, he suddenly smiled.
suddenly in distress.
scene which had just taken place with his father.
Ivanovna’s. Now Alyosha was impressed by Madame Hohlakov’s blunt and
beard. He was wearing a brownish reefer jacket, rather shabby, evidently
Mitya bustled about. All sorts of people began coming into the room to
will be a turning into another street and only at the end of that street
him? Who can have killed him if I didn’t? It’s marvelous, extraordinary,
three thousand!’ and then went away and immediately did the murder. ‘I
it all their own way. One has to take what they’ll give, for no one here
our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have
me? Have I entered into some sort of compact with you? Do you suppose I am
“Did he never say before you ... casually, or in a moment of irritation,”
the top of his voice:
“That’s true, Katya,” Mitya roared suddenly, “I looked into your eyes and
monster, but that in the end God had vouchsafed him light and shown grace.
fancy! brought me some verses of his own composition—a short poem, on my
his arms, gentlemen. He used to wash me in the tub when I was a baby three
from the prosecutor and the counsel for the defense he said that the
it.” Smerdyakov looked resolutely at Ivan. He was very weak and spoke
stay to dinner at the Superior’s and tell the monks about the girls at
painfully as to find some one to worship. But man seeks to worship what is
and curse Thy name.” And God gave up the just man He loved so, to the
Don’t be uneasy—we would not come to this little town. We’d hide
o’clock in the afternoon that something took place to which I alluded at
I have mentioned already that Grigory had detested Adelaïda Ivanovna, the
The boys looked at one another as though derisively.
the captain, looking at Ilusha, was more enchanted than any of them. Kolya
either, but will only venture to observe that if a lofty and high‐
out of place. Well, it’s as though I were confessing to Father Zossima,
children. The kind, silent man used often on our wanderings to spend the
immortality.”
“But do you believe that I am not ashamed with you?”
flinging himself on a chair, and bursting into tears, turning his head
idea of deceit. The truly jealous man is not like that. It is impossible
decorum burst on his ears. The door was flung open and Father Ferapont
of tow, wisp of tow!’ And he had soon regular skirmishes with them, which
When Alyosha entered the hall and asked the maid who opened the door to
nothing but nonsense.” The idea suddenly dawned on his despairing mind.
moaned shrilly. Ivan, though not so strong as Dmitri, threw his arms round
things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner, even
the district than Katerina Ivanovna. They had already seen “the woman who
that they had come not one verst, nor one and a half, but at least three.
safe, most safe security, madam, with the most trustworthy guarantees!
smiled Ivan. “Shall I tell it to you?”
eyes flashed. ‘Tell Krassotkin from me,’ he cried, ‘that I will throw
you’ve got thousands. Two or three I should say.”
brother alone: there was no one to whom he could leave him. By degrees
extraordinary. When he had finished his speech, he went out hurriedly and,
do wrong in sinning. So that our people still believe in righteousness,
had been kind to him, as a child in his father’s house, might not such a
said. And he was punished for that ... that is, you must excuse me, I am
“Besides its being honestly acquired from a ‘sister,’ so highly respected
impelled you to this sentiment of hatred? You have asserted in public, I
paradise, but we won’t see it, if we would, we should have heaven on earth
quick, and shining like two bright points. He had a sprinkling of gray
for instance, with too little reserve, while Alyosha had looked serious
that the elder Zossima, who was living in the monastery hermitage, had
He’s sitting at table with Ivan. Go to him, Alyosha, and ask for the three
to see him. But Mitya persisted and sent his name up again. Samsonov
money on such an orgy that the new major was obliged to reprimand me.
turning. Ah, Alyosha, what a pity you can’t understand ecstasy. But what
Alexandrovitch everywhere now. If you will go away, Pyotr Alexandrovitch,
They went out, but stopped when they reached the entrance of the
‘Why not go and kill the master?’ And how did he know what had happened,
man of vast intellect, the mind of a statesman ... he knows you, too ...
“Father, don’t cry, and when I die get a good boy, another one ... choose
in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of equipment
coat. “I’ll turn it up at the wrist. It won’t be seen under the coat....
in the face; I did not twitch an eyelash, I looked lovingly at him, for I
“I knew you’d stop of yourself.”
“No, Varvara, you are wrong. Allow me to ask,” he turned again to Alyosha,
Alyosha, I’ll go for a turn in the yard. My head’s begun to ache.”
his wits went. Where did they go? I’ve forgotten the word.” He went on,
of light out of darkness, like a corner torn out of a huge picture, which
And its little tail curled tight.
Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s
The three of them are knocking their heads together, and you may be the
confronting the hurrying apparition and will check the frenzied rush of
made him completely drunk. He was suddenly drunk, although till that
though it were a surplice, and sang, and waved some object over the dead
monastery, but a visitor from an obscure religious house in the far north.
distinction flocked, for instance, to the elders of our monastery to
struck Ivan particularly.
“Well, a joke’s a joke. Laugh away. I don’t mind. There’s no harm in a
the garden was open.
his face on his father’s shoulder.
you’ve got thousands. Two or three I should say.”
They must appreciate you, they must understand you. If there’s anything I
were simply dejected, not wanting him to be acquitted. Fetyukovitch
ever.”
gesture of refusal. “I did have an idea of beginning a new life with that
in his pocket and went straight downstairs, without going back to Madame
contemplating going to Katerina Ivanovna to beg that sum from her.... I
Don’t tell any one I told you to. Don’t say a word to Ivan.”
“I can’t think why you are so agitated,” Fyodor Pavlovitch observed
the soul of the penitent thief. I heard the glad shrieks of the cherubim
more. I’ll say no more. Call your witnesses!”
adhered to their opinion, arguing that “for those who have come within
did not know, who was not of his own class, and to whom he hardly knew how
embitters the heart; and not the real punishment, the only effectual one,
now.”
been awfully anxious to make sure whether he had broken the old man’s
that hitherto, that is, up to the present moment, you have made such an
position of a poor relation of the best class, wandering from one good old
dreams than we. They aim at justice, but, denying Christ, they will end by
longer cares for me, but loves Ivan.”
Hearing of the message, Mitya suddenly smiled, and there was a flush of
She must have understood it, yet she made up her mind to tell everything.
realists to belief. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will
dead man in your heart what wrong he did you. Be reconciled with him in
heard from Smerdyakov again, for he has not seen the envelope himself; and
“This is too disgraceful!” said Father Iosif.
But even though he exclaimed he still preserved for a time his genially
“Oh, if it’s pounding in a mortar, it may be only talk,” observed Alyosha.
me.
three thousand roubles he had seen his master put in the envelope. And yet
It’s all a matter of money: he’ll pay ten thousand for escape and give me
people in spite of everything. You’ve taken a load off my heart.... Well,
beaten for stealing it (which was very wrong of you, for stealing is
and watering it with his tears, and vowed passionately to love it, to love
“Ah, that’s true! I understand that perfectly now. Ah, Alyosha, how do you
They began a third game, and by degrees the talk about Mitya died away.
shining to him from the abyss of space, and “he was not ashamed of that
poverty,” from Dmitri Fyodorovitch, and that he was ready to pay it back.
and all creatures, every leaf is striving to the Word, singing glory to
Chapter VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
small house, very clean both without and within. It belonged to Madame
“You are in love with disorder?”
man of strong will almost forgot the past. Whenever he recalled it, he
“What will our peasants say now?” said one stout, cross‐looking, pock‐
dismay. But the boys reminded him at once that he had taken the crust of
before her very eyes he is dancing attendance on a certain enchantress.
for Rakitin certainly wanted to say something after giving me the verses.
passage, opened the door of the lodgers’ room and looked anxiously at “the
lawyers listened now with a sort of awful reserve, looked coldly at him,
other hand, if he had said nothing about the money, but had committed the
“Did you feel how I kissed you when you were asleep just now?” she said
heard Lise, “that she loved Ivan, and so I said that stupid thing.... What
know it’s serious, and I’ll run over and fix it up. I’ll snatch the time
reward, for great is your reward on this earth: the spiritual joy which is
stand at the doors and in the corners, waiting. And suddenly I have a
“Ah, then you are in earnest! My dear fellow, upon my word I don’t know.
Kolya wondered, feeling pleased. We may note here, in passing, that
shrink from nothing, gentlemen of the jury, considering the importance of
“We have seen your handkerchief. Did you hope to restore him to
to the mythical legends. But the question, “Who had founded Troy?” that
tears in these five years.... Perhaps I only love my resentment, not him
understood your brother Dmitri, seen right into the very heart of him all
nonsense because I’m drunk. I’m not a bit drunk. Brandy’s all very well,
deceived and insulted her and to help, in however small a degree, in
alive to this day and gives him a beating twice a week. So what you have
before us, let alone an hour.”
burdened with a numerous family, a captain who got into trouble and was
observed gravely and stolidly, as if the only thing he cared about was the
alley, and she will marry Ivan.”
take his skin to some monastery. “That would make the people flock, and
I’ll work for you. We’ll go to the young lady and bow down to her
aback. He had meant to frighten him with the threat of repeating their
“And what has he told you, gentlemen—Smerdyakov, I mean?” he added
already been relieved by God Himself of my Christianity by reason of the
I’ve forgotten it. Now what do you think you’re going to her to‐day to
“His name is not Trifon and not Sabaneyev, it’s Tchizhov,” put in suddenly
“She has a message for you, Alexey Fyodorovitch. How are you?” the mother
were simply dejected, not wanting him to be acquitted. Fetyukovitch
“You won’t have time, dear boy, come and have a drink. March!”
“It’s he, it’s he! No ‘perhaps’ about it. You know I turned him out of the
“Yes.”
to knock. Ivan went out on to the stairs twice to listen like this.
I believe I know why—”
of Thine elect, but Thou hast only the elect, while we give rest to all.
having come alone without the gentleman you invited, Fyodor Pavlovitch. He
faith of the saints.
Chapter IX. The Sensualists
prisoner and his brother, Ivan Fyodorovitch, before the catastrophe.
him.
was where the judges, on whom his fate depended, were sitting. So that it
her face was beaming with spontaneous good‐natured kindliness, and direct
upwards, praising and glorifying God, you go to her, this Madame Hohlakov,
“It’s the babe,” answered the driver, “the babe weeping.”
out his hand to her too. Lise assumed an important air.
sententious tone in which he had taunted Grigory and argued with him about
suicide, laying his hands on himself, may well have felt redoubled hatred
her. All that time she was obtaining exact information as to her Sofya’s
share it without charge with others.
had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.
no idea. But he says that on purpose. Pyotr Ilyitch began to laugh at
in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. Brothers, love is a
especially in the last century, analyzed everything divine handed down to
spying, never feel the stings of conscience at that moment, anyway, though
generations and generations, and for ever and ever, since for that he was
morrow, in the town—I swear on my honor, I’ll get it, I’ll get it at any
And as they drove in, there were peasant women drawn up along the road, a
Krassotkin, the widow of a former provincial secretary, who had been dead
to speak of the artisans and the peasants. The artisans of
“No. It is enough that you are distressed at it. Do what you can, and it
won’t spoil the air,’ said I, ‘I’ll order some slippers and go away.’ My
cast‐iron posts. Of course I grasped the position at once. She walked in
code, could I get much compensation for a personal injury? And then
The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it
to‐day, when he was undoubtedly suffering from brain fever. But we know
“I have heard, I know, oh, how I long to talk to you, to you or some one,
Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors
days that he is unique. Another man will not commit the murder, but will
this moment—she felt and knew how dear that other was to her! She had
“You force me to go to that damned Tchermashnya yourself, then?” cried
unfortunate. We were too ready to make every sacrifice for an unworthy,
“I am not guilty. I am guilty of the blood of another old man but not of
“What is it?” asked Ivan, trembling.
“The three thousand you promised me ... that you so generously—”
Alyosha looked at her in silence. Her pale, sallow face was suddenly
multiply your desires.” That is the modern doctrine of the world. In that
him every evening,” said the doctor, in conclusion. Having given his
buffoons of others. His depravity with women was not simply what it used
mine. We will go out. I have a word to say to you in earnest, but not
and tell them.... Give him your note. Be off, Misha! Put your best leg
the room, as no one would go out of a decent house. Let me tell you, sir,
“Is the master murdered?”
He was beside himself, crimson in the face and quivering all over.
again. Here’s his little sash, but him I shall never see or hear now.”
no need to tell the monks, for all knew of it already. Rakitin had
two hundred roubles remained in the pockets of the Poles.
they forge them? Have they a foundry there of some sort? The monks in the
that bullet in your brain, perhaps?” Pyotr Ilyitch asked uneasily.
of making speeches, in order to dazzle the audience by our acquaintance
“Nothing will make him get up, nothing!” Kolya cried triumphantly, proud
court, can’t you? But damn it all, it doesn’t matter! I shall get through
anxiously at the falling earth and began trying to say something, but no
“That’s true,” assented Pan Vrublevsky.
their sages that there is no crime, and therefore no sin; there is only
driving him. For of course a Russian boy is born among horses. We
your character.... Even admitting that it was an action in the highest
first visit to Mokroe, Mitya must have spent three thousand roubles, “or
unhappy brother. Intense, infinite compassion overwhelmed him instantly.
Grigory know beforehand; he will be sure not to let him in.”
no wine_” ... Alyosha heard.
more severely.
sir, even at nine years old. How should the rich know? They don’t explore
the birds were trilling the praise of God.... I hid my face in my hands,
tired again, had gone back to bed, he thought of Alyosha as he was closing
It wouldn’t take much to do for Æsop, would it?” whispered Ivan to
“Well, if so, I won’t either,” chimed in Grushenka, “I really don’t want
lisped, ‘_Gott der Sohn_.’ ‘_Gott der heilige Geist_.’ Then he laughed and
called him a “naughty man,” to his great satisfaction.
Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s
There! I’ve said it now!”
only slightly. Once during the year after Fyodor Pavlovitch’s marriage
an impression of a stoutish, broad‐faced, short little man, who was
by something which strongly prepossessed me in the prisoner’s favor. What
serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of
not your old ladies I mean, but ours. We’ve everything you have, I am
and the remaining two thousand three hundred “to be paid next day in the
“Brother, you don’t seem to have noticed how you’ve insulted Katerina
kick, every one of them, and they’d take it as an honor—that’s all they’re
The Pole gasped with offended dignity, and quickly and pompously delivered
for the last month, any one can tell you that!... The fact stares you in
the family life of the Karamazovs. The family picture stood out in lurid
Dmitri Karamazov, and that’s all I can tell you, and that’s enough,
with a cry, and plumped down at his feet.
times not to forget to say so.”
just that fifteen hundred roubles on him, which he might have returned to
“Then you will come,” said Alyosha firmly, seeing her tears. “I’ll go and
awaiting the luckless man? Almost from the first minute at Mokroe he saw
very last day, Smurov did not know that Kolya meant to go to Ilusha that
lodge and beat Smerdyakov. But if he had been asked why, he could not have
like that,” he turned to Alyosha, nodding towards Rakitin’s hurriedly
Chapter III. The Schoolboy
Perhaps, weighed down by all the hideous horror of his struggle with his
What was such an elder? An elder was one who took your soul, your will,
the next day on the outskirts of the town—and then something happened that
clever in getting round people and assuming whatever part he thought most
“Open, open to him. There’s a snowstorm and he is your brother. _Monsieur
he is sitting in the summer‐house.”
me. “It’s all your doing,” they said. I was silent and indeed rejoiced at
had been, was a rosy‐cheeked young man in a sort of shabby hunting‐jacket,
“In the ordinary occasions of life,” he said in the same complacent and
Madame Hohlakov, beaming all over as she saw Perhotin enter the room. “You
the opinion of this person here whom I trust absolutely. Don’t go away,”
cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of
“Yes, it’s a great pity. You saw for yourself how delighted the poor child
the rascal. He’s written in honor of Madame Hohlakov’s foot. Ha ha ha!”
“I shall certainly cry to‐day. Good‐by till our meeting, our _awful_
Smerdyakov never hinted at their complicity, though the actual murderer
“You do, Lise. I shall be leaving the monastery altogether in a few days.
trivial, though they are, in fact, essential,” the prosecutor remarked
“But he never speaks.”
“No,” I said, “not now, later on when I have grown worthier and deserve
and thinking lovingly of him. He moved away quickly, however, for he felt
and the young novice Porfiry, who, exhausted by the previous night’s
Alyosha stopped short.
Rakitin looked at him with astonishment. He had never expected such a
Grushenka himself. He hopes to keep me from Grushenka by that (as though I
too. Whom could I marry better than you—and who would have me except you?
am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel’ (I use the
murderer. Do you hear? It was not you! God has sent me to tell you so.”
I’d only known this!”
the spot, what then? What will become of them? And worse still, if he
she suddenly had a fit, screaming, shrieking, hysterics! Why is it I never
be, so may it be!
“But you are mad,” said Lise, nervously, “to make all this nonsense out of
that hitherto, that is, up to the present moment, you have made such an
notice things with surprise. You know, two months ago, that modest,
evidence. But the prosecutor was triumphant. When all the evidence had
unlearned people, who had warmly bidden Him to their poor wedding. ‘Mine
and rejected much already, like his father. We have all heard him, he was
“Yes.”
brother, mysteriously come back to me at the end of my pilgrimage, as a
him, for it was not he killed my father,” Alyosha said firmly, in a loud
“Hold your tongue, I’ll kick you!”
“Mokroe!” cried Andrey, pointing ahead with his whip.
he looks at me! And you know, Alyosha, I’ve been thinking all this time
if you are a clever man,” his screwed‐up left eye seemed to say.
precious. With my memories of home I count, too, my memories of the Bible,
taking no notice of the hysterical fears of his wife, who was still
“Yes, of course, if so—” muttered Alyosha, “only it’s not right.”
“Ivan doesn’t talk to me of Mitya’s case,” he said slowly. “He’s said very
“though ... that’s not Rakitin’s doing. I didn’t see Mitya yesterday. I’ll
don’t recognize Ivan, I don’t know him at all. Where does he come from? He
her away? Where had he the means, the money to do it? It was just at this
to kill him outright and relieve himself of all anxiety about the witness?
yourself that in that very hour you became anathema accursed. And if once
with Adelaïda Ivanovna, the village girls and women—at that time
had appeared at that time. He comes on the scene in my poem, but He says
noted that Kolya understood and divined what was in Dardanelov’s heart
Then a gypsy comes along and he, too, tries:
out! He was gnashing his teeth!”
her place I don’t know what I should have done. And your brother Dmitri
“How cross you are! It’s because of yesterday; you had better lie down,”
fallen greatly under the influence of his protégée, whom he had at first
pronounce: ‘Yes, he is guilty.’
there’s no need, it’s too late for talking. Where’s my money? Where have I
in his voice. There was a reproachful light in his eyes.
who was at that time in the hospital.
Here Ippolit Kirillovitch drew a minute picture of Mitya’s preparations,
go alone.”
The little goose says—ga, ga, ga.
“But what if he did not kill him, but only knocked him down?”
prefer beating—rods and scourges—that’s our national institution. Nailing
dig the earth with my own hands. We must work, do you hear? Alyosha said
the “monster,” the “parricide.”
It’s truly marvelous—your great abstinence.”
last she liked them so much that, if the boys had given up coming, she
the way. It’s only to turn to the left from the station at Volovya, only
Father Païssy remembered Alyosha and that he had not seen him for some
life like a child’s game, with children’s songs and innocent dance. Oh, we
Samsonov would look upon his freak, supposing he were to consider it from
influence in your favor, and may, indeed, moreover—”
It’s not such an easy thing to do, as you would think. Perhaps I shall not
“And, if so, he’s not altogether lost. I can still save him. Stay! Did he
because if you really haven’t understood till now, as I see for myself,
purse and took from it a twenty‐five rouble note.
Chapter VI. A Laceration In The Cottage
brotherly fashion, because he had found grace. Yes, that’s characteristic.
asked for it yourself.” And she threw the note to him.
by a ‘laceration.’ Ah, she knew how I loved her! She loved me and not
he is? For you know we are just the same, no better. If we are better, we
“Why does he come here so often? Surely you are not such great friends?”
have died.”
Only I cried when he said it, because he said it so nicely. He cried
alone will bring it on.”
“What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”
The fact was that the identity of the founders of Troy had become a secret
his own life. “I went in to clear away the samovar and he was hanging on a
“It was all that going to Tchermashnya. Why! You were meaning to go to
at the “Metropolis,” where he got thoroughly drunk. Then he asked for pen
How have you come to be an angel? That’s the only thing I want to know.”
“ ‘Receiving bread from us, they will see clearly that we take the bread
destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace
“I say! You are going it! Why, it’s a regular mutiny, with barricades!
Alyosha’s question, “How can you say you’ll kill our father?” “I don’t
to see him. But Mitya persisted and sent his name up again. Samsonov
I was unfair to her; she is a Christian soul, gentlemen, yes, I tell you,
so? And could anything truer be said than what he revealed to Thee in
did not allow even Grigory to come in on any pretext. Seeing that door
uneasiness. The little Pole turned out to be a retired official of the
assure him that he knew who he was already. “I am Captain Snegiryov, sir,
and called him by his name.
and had gathered round him a mass of loving adherents, none the less, in
the room.
making for the door, but he stopped short and said suddenly, addressing
salvation of the criminal! Let other nations think of retribution and the
deceive and defraud Mitya. But, suddenly feeling vexed with himself, he
back pocket of his coat. He ran headlong, and the few passers‐by who met
as the smallest boy in the school, and not so much for the sake of
why. Thinking of another subject was a relief, and he resolved to think no
morning.... You could pay me that three thousand, for there isn’t a
thinking of style, and he seized his hat.
But that’s only natural.”
you everything. I’ll only tell you the idea, without details, and you keep
Take three thousand and go to the devil, and Vrublevsky with you—d’you
talked. Grushenka snatched the letter from her and carried it to the
“Here is perhaps the one man in the world whom you might leave alone
terrible amount of suffering for man on earth, a terrible lot of trouble.
had something to keep me here, I would have run over myself long ago, for
difficult. He spoke of Mitya again.
“It’s a monk come to beg for the monastery. A nice place to come to!” the
about midnight. Suddenly I saw the door open and he came in again. I was
unbolted the door, opened it a little, put her finger in the crack and
learnt afterwards, rather strongly about the Karamazov case, but from a
up your nose again? Angry again? I don’t know how to please you—”
shall. I’m afraid that he will suddenly become so loathsome to me with his
dark night resounding with the shout ‘Parricide!’ and the old man falling
the witnesses. It was by now eight o’clock in the morning. The lights had
as though only just recollecting and understanding something.
Alyosha went thoughtfully towards his father’s house.
ant‐heap, for the craving for universal unity is the third and last
“You see, sir, business of that sort’s not in our line,” said the old man
his bundle of notes.) “Allow me, _panie_! I want to have music, singing, a
the prisoner before us. We have his life and his actions, too, before us;
“You again?... On the contrary, I’m just going.”
hermitage, waked and heard of the death of Father Zossima, she was
was greatly surprised to find her now altogether different from what he
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forgive me or not, you will always be a sore place in my heart, and I in
example, Trifon Borissovitch made a great impression, of course, very
“You see, you must go. Don’t grieve. Be sure I shall not die without your
And often, especially after leading him round the room on his arm and
“Listen. I meant this morning to get that ruffian Mitya locked up and I
speak very unintelligibly, but you’ll remember it all the same and will
write, for you will see them and explain everything. Oh, how glad I am!
that that stupid anecdote isn’t true. Why are you playing the fool?” cried
infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their
Grushenka, Ivan will carry off his rich betrothed, that’s what he’s
Karamazov? I can’t stand it.) So it rushed at the bread, swallowed it, and
confess their doubts, their sins, and their sufferings, and ask for
apart from you; could Mitya Karamazov do anything but run away? But I
story at people’s houses!”
to finish what they were about. They had immediately to begin examining
and hide myself? No, that’s not like Dmitri Karamazov, that he couldn’t
Mokroe two months before, he had simply stayed on and was still staying
conscious, but his breathing! His breathing’s gone wrong. The other day he
tore herself away from him and disappeared behind the curtain. Mitya
very opposite conclusion? There are two persons—the prisoner and
talking about. It’s not Smerdyakov, gentlemen. He doesn’t care for money;
“I couldn’t have believed it. I can’t understand it!” Alyosha cried
seventeen years in the wilderness till they were overgrown with moss?”
I will not repeat all the questions asked her and all her answers in
later between her and this rival; so that by degrees he had completely
“Give it him, hit him back, Smurov,” they all shouted. But Smurov, the
beating, prison, and even death.”
blow from him. You have been trying to sell me to him,’ she said.... ‘And
must be stopped at once! Believe me, your reverence, I had no precise
fire of gentle indignation. This game only tickled that insect lust I
Mokroe had soon disappeared. But Grushenka was surprised at their meeting
old sinner, who can never draw the line—if they both let themselves go,
pain prevent you talking about utterly unimportant things, but talking
word, “according to certain theories only too clearly formulated in the
monks of the hermitage, one the Father Librarian, and the other Father
can think for myself.... I am not opposed to Christ, if you like. He was a
interest for him; he saw very little there, and took scarcely any notice
But, suppose at that very moment I had tried all that, and cried to that
And here the man had come back to her, who had loved her so ardently
“Whom do you mean—Mitya?” Alyosha asked, bewildered.
“A soldier has to know how to sew. No knowledge was needed to do that.”
began speaking to Fenya as though he had utterly forgotten how he had
recollections of how he had bought, three or four weeks ago, wine and
gentle Father Iosif.
miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou
there must be a great conflict in your hearts and minds.... Forgive my
because we haven’t time; things are too much for us, and, in the second
arrest, the prisoner fell sick of a fever and died unconscious in the
I have never seen him again since then. I had been his master and he my
“A lie? You know Fyodor Pavlovitch?”
it. We shall fight. But I shall love her, I shall love her infinitely.
absurd, indeed, to suspect you. On the contrary, I am grateful to you for
as I turn my back he gives way to it. But now I don’t think about him.
should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project Gutenberg
they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it
“It happens at night. You see those two branches? In the night it is
Alyosha, catching Kolya’s eye, signed to him vigorously again, but he
“One has to be careful there’s no fire about, or it would blow up and kill
“What makes you think that?” observed Nikolay Parfenovitch.
“An unseemly farce which I foresaw when I came here!” cried Dmitri
fifteen hundred years have passed, we see that everything in those three
Shortly afterwards Marfa and Grigory reported to Fyodor Pavlovitch that
towering rage and happened to come upon me. He dragged me out of the
perhaps unconscious, as he had feared to find him, he saw him sitting up
carriage, Smerdyakov jumped up to arrange the rug.
up again, and will rend her royal purple and will strip naked her
“Is it worth it? Is it worth it?” exclaimed the boy in his grief.
remind me of it yourself....”
on along the table. “And it can be fired off, too. It can be loaded with
healed and come back again. And I will wait for you. I feel that you’re
“You need keeping up, to judge by your face. It makes one sorry to look at
Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
“What did it mean, falling at his feet like that? Was it symbolic or
in the street bawling how ‘Vanka went to Petersburg,’ and I would give a
laughing— no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are for ever
universe it will be, when everything in heaven and earth blends in one
“Lite? What do you mean by ‘lite’?” asked Grushenka.
was difficult to get him out of the cellar. They asked the neighbors to
the cart, “and I dare say I shall have to bring this Lyagavy back here ...
“Give me some.”
getting up and walking about the yard, waiting for Agrafena Alexandrovna
days that he is unique. Another man will not commit the murder, but will
gave his evidence to the investigating lawyer Ivan said nothing, for the
landlady. The two hundred roubles they had carried off from Mitya at
“Impossible!” he cried. “You’re raving! Grushenka with her?”
about their circumstances and Ilusha’s illness, visited them herself, made
me,” he muttered.
prolonged, nervous, inaudible laughter. The elder listened to her with a
only be permitted but even recognized as the inevitable and the most
touch might drive him to the utmost limits of obscenity, but only to
“That’s just how he comes to see me—he begins talking, and I can’t make
what is it, what is it?” The doctor began waving his hands again. “It
it. Life’s easy for Rakitin. ‘You’d better think about the extension of
him: “If she is so anxious I should not marry Katerina Ivanovna” (and he
convulsively, while he stared persistently at me.
virtuous, yes, holy Fathers, she is virtuous. Dmitri Fyodorovitch wants to
forget Ilusha and one another. And whatever happens to us later in life,
the boy was proud; but in the end he became slavishly devoted to me: he
tease you. They told me how they tease you, but I don’t want to tease you.
into the house—well, what then? How does it follow that because he was
speak of Zhutchka, but he did not or would not notice.
back from the laundress the previous morning. Ivan positively smiled at
his bed to be nursed. “I am walking about, so I am strong enough, if I
“To begin with, are we alone?” Ivan asked sternly and impulsively. “Can
“And who did you think it was?” Krassotkin shouted with all his might, in
bread already and that it was in his pocket. He instantly pulled it out
retort. “That’s all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it,” the
treating the chorus, you shouted straight out that you would leave your
to affect even his moral side, as though something had awakened in this
fool, that’s what you are!”
bed, she lay all day half‐reclining on the couch in her boudoir, in a
Mitya was somewhat surprised for a moment, and explained that that was
others. The strange and instant healing of the frantic and struggling
with such feelings ... while they were asleep ... she was asleep, perhaps,
says.”
are dying of!’ And then what a way they have sending people to
two women, and which they could always recognize afterwards as theirs, and
Alyosha read the note in amazement, read it through twice, thought a
so many questions that I can’t recall them all.
you conceive that a man like that, on receiving that sum and in such a
the most obsequious countenance, when he had an inkling that it was to his
from your notes, your letters, and your agreements, how much money you
old man in the presence of witnesses. After that he had no prospect of
madness. I turned back and joined the ranks of those _who have corrected
have, in the talented prosecutor’s speech, heard a stern analysis of the
complacency. “But it’s true that I am stupidly sensitive, crudely
humbly begs forgiveness for his presumption.” As the monk had given the
“I’ve heard about it,” said Alyosha.
heart. The object of that uneasiness was the same as ever—Katerina
some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud
everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and
Well, this wild legend belongs to our middle ages—not yours, but ours—and
“Well, let them! Let them!” said Grushenka sententiously, with an ecstatic
were “quite grown up.”
found this extremely amusing. She waited intently to catch his eye.
and ignorance?” And I wondered at the time that such simple and self‐
“Stay, wait a bit! You will be of use, for I will tell you the signs by
face,” thought Mitya, as he got in. At the gates there was a crowd of
“Aie! Aie!” cried Madame Hohlakov, alarmed, and she flew to the other end
Chapter V. Elders
“It’s very important for me to be in time to see my brother to‐day,”
itself. Ha ha ha!”
made up his mind how to take it. There was, so to speak, a discordant note
“The purest Ultramontanism!” cried Miüsov impatiently, crossing and
moment.
their sinless life. Yonder,” said I, “in the forest wanders the dreadful
“But if you say yourself that it couldn’t be guessed, how could I have
did it alone. If he had killed him it must have been with some object, for
“To‐morrow—to Moscow!” her face was suddenly contorted; “but—but, dear me,
contemptuously, striding along the street again.
“Alyosha, put me out of my misery at once!” he exclaimed suddenly. “Tell
I am guilty, too—but that you need not write down” (he turned suddenly to
matter?”
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