here, ‘You may die,’ said he, ‘but you’ll know perfectly what disease you
giving evidence, fortune seemed all at once markedly more favorable to
“My brother did not expect this in the least,” muttered Alyosha. “He was
directly after the wedding, for she’s plenty of sense, so that your parent
it_” ...
fear she should be ejected from the court. The document she had handed up
another at my head. I asked him what I had done to him. And then he rushed
1.E.7.
“He told me,” said Ivan firmly, refusing to admit a doubt. “It was all he
your child,’ the crowd shouts to the weeping mother. The priest, coming to
face. “You are serious now!” he observed, looking suddenly at Smerdyakov
and now you’re rushing off on the spree—that’s you all over! Three dozen
once his face betrayed extraordinary excitement.
“Ivan Karamazov, after receiving yesterday a communication of such
now.”
sait‐il le temps qu’il fait? C’est à ne pas mettre un chien dehors_.”
the town and the son of “that Fyodor Pavlovitch.” And just then it was
himself out another.
conscious premeditation of the crime; he hesitated till he saw that fatal
Mitya remembered afterwards that his mind was at that moment exceptionally
haven’t you got any?”
“Listen, gentlemen, could anything be more likely than this theory and
quite straightforward, and pretended to be more indignant perhaps than I
and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own
the window, ran out of the garden, drew the bolt of the big gate and ran
prevent the criminal being prepared, to pounce upon him unexpectedly so
marvelous explanation! This frantic, but weak man, who could not resist
which Dmitri pounced upon so naïvely, and paraphrased!” he smiled queerly.
hardly have spread the tale, even if there had been any foundation for it.
persuade them that they will only become free when they renounce their
fashionable belief, he did not recognize material fire in hell,” others,
carrying off his confusion with a swagger. “That will come in very handy;
“Listen,” Ivan suddenly got up from the table. “I seem to be delirious....
almost unnoticed. Some of those present may perhaps have inwardly noticed
Father Superior, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, to apologize for the disturbance
days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally
and, suddenly leaning his cheek on his hand despondently, pronounced in a
There was a small vertical line between her brows which gave her charming
almost malignantly, from Dmitri. He laughed, but a minute later his eyes
was always fancying that Kolya was “unfeeling” to her, and at times,
has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you. Forgive me for
hundred thousand roubles or not much less. Many of the inhabitants of the
to‐day in this court that there are still good impulses in his young
almost involuntarily, instinctively, feels at heart.
“You ask him, does he like a disheveled wisp of tow. Do you hear, ask him
“But you are just like a foreigner—just like a most gentlemanly foreigner.
to me, my man; and let me tell you, I am not going to let you play with
Ivan ended by dismissing all doubts. He could not think of Dmitri without
instead of a Church a thousand years ago. And so the criminal is no longer
“I don’t want a good boy! I don’t want another boy!” he muttered in a wild
“Open, open to him. There’s a snowstorm and he is your brother. _Monsieur
and in secret, and no one knows that the money’s there except the valet,
images that had been haunting it. Oh, how he longed to look upon her, if
when every instinct of self‐preservation rises up in him at once and he
dwarfish creature, “not five foot within a wee bit,” as many of the pious
agreement, as a secret league formed long ago for the guarding of the
as before, every year with increasing prosperity; there were plenty of
for the goose, and the fellow to have the goose. And he was warned not to
could be no longer the slightest doubt of Mitya’s guilt. The suspicion
days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally
“Follow him! Overtake him! Don’t leave him alone for a minute!” she said,
touch theirs.
Mitya frowned as though in pain. Yes, indeed ... he was rushing there ...
Mitya, in desperate haste, scarcely soaped his hands (they were trembling,
On her and on me!
fulfilled, that nothing can be added to them or taken from them.
accused of this and of that (all the charges were carefully written out)
that I told you so beforehand. Darkness and destruction! No need to
to receive any income from Fyodor Pavlovitch until he came of age, and
agreed in every house that the unhappy man was mad. The legal authorities
disordered imagination. But although not “dripping,” Pyotr Ilyitch had
“Why? It’s absurd to ask. Because I had condemned myself to die at five
my future wife. I had not noticed her coming into the room. She got up,
often happens when people are in great suffering)—what then? Would you
recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until
without stirring. When it got dark and the shutters were closed, Fenya
laughs, Alexey Fyodorovitch! It does one’s heart good to see the angel.”
“Look at your hands, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. They’re all over blood!”
said laughing, ‘a clever man can do what he likes,’ he said. ‘A clever man
see Ilusha, he would choose his own time for he had “his own reasons.”
accomplished ... I am amazed at you, you walk about here, talking of I
that’s just it. I called you a monk just now. Well, that poor young man,
“H’m! It’s more likely Ivan’s right. Good Lord! to think what faith, what
glasses of vodka. After eating, his spirits and his heart grew lighter. He
“How could I?... And why should I, when it all depends on Dmitri
certain moral convictions so natural in a brother.
grimace. “One reptile will devour the other. And serve them both right,
what’s more, had aspersed their reputation and so depreciated the value of
dog, who relapsed again into obedient rigidity. The one thing that
“The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin,
“Yes, Dmitri Fyodorovitch is non‐existent as yet.”
haste. The first thing to be done was to get hold of at least a small,
were many other marvelous and beautiful sayings of his, though we did not
not have laughed at that in his place. Yes, such natures—oh, let me speak
“If my suverin lady is permitting—” he was beginning.
headstrong, evil Karamazov spirit! No, I am not fit for suffering. I am a
had lain in their coffins as though alive, that they had shown no signs of
it’s for you. It belonged to Morozov, it was no use to him, he had it from
“You did send it flying. I may well remember. You must have left three
but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can
observation of the police officers, he turned out to be hopelessly drunk.
in drunkenness and cannot shake off the habit. And what cruelty to their
in buttoning his big, warm, fur‐trimmed overcoat. Then he began looking at
clever man,’ ” answered Smerdyakov firmly, looking significantly at Ivan.
“Listen ...” said Ivan, beginning to seem bewildered again and making an
“Lock it,” said Kalganov. But the key clicked on the other side, they had
The portière was raised and Grushenka herself, smiling and beaming, came
fascinating!’
think how glad I am to see you, my unexpected visitor. But you frightened
voice. “It’s he who’s murdered him! He’s robbed him! No one else knew
heaven in my heart from the moment I had done what I had to do. Now I dare
onion to‐day. Begin your work, dear one, begin it, gentle one!... Do you
Nikolay Parfenovitch began, with extreme gentleness, “where did you get so
doctors are always confirming; they confirm anything. Why, my Lise is in a
“I will go, Father, at your word. I will go. You’ve gone straight to my
Fetyukovitch had been brought from Petersburg partly at the instance of
is the prisoner before us, all the rest of my speech will deal with him.
stars on the fourth day. Where did the light come from on the first day?”
Ivanovna, who’s rich, and the daughter of a colonel, and to marry
she said again ecstatically, taking his cold hand in her hot one, “I
If only I could hear him pattering with his little feet about the room
never happened, recall everything, forget nothing, add something of her
As for the captain, the presence in his room of the children, who came to
“Well, that’s enough, anyway,” Ivan cut short the conversation. “I am
farewell,’ ” said Ivan smiling. Alyosha was disconcerted.
first visit to Mokroe, Mitya must have spent three thousand roubles, “or
be true to him and the promise I gave him, in spite of his being untrue
was the young person’s ‘game.’ The enchantress gave the unhappy young man
Church is a kingdom not of this world.’ If it is not of this world, then
“That is the most honest monk among them, of course,” he observed, after
“Why, I didn’t notice the blood at all at the time,” answered Mitya.
those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it
1.F.1.
But the meek Father’s words had little effect and even provoked a mocking
the prisoner before us. We have his life and his actions, too, before us;
him. Mitya wrapped himself up in the quilt. He felt cold. His bare feet
any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
huddling close to Fyodor Pavlovitch.
“Ivan’s a tomb?”
have forgotten the brotherly service of humanity!” But we shall see which
apparent. Mitya was terribly alarmed.
Alyosha gazed a long while with his eyes half closed at Rakitin, and there
opened the door than he found Madame Hohlakov standing before him. From
When Fetyukovitch had to cross‐examine him, he scarcely tried to refute
by duty, as a penance laid on him. For any one to love a man, he must be
addressing Vrublevsky, with surprising rudeness.
“any question relating to the facts of the case, and we are, I repeat,
Though he was radiant with the joyful anticipation that he would at last
jealousy—and of whom? His father! And the worst of it was that the crazy
my exploits at the time set all the town talking. I saw her eyes taking my
it all the same. Do me a great service, my dear boy. Go to Tchermashnya on
resolved with all the fervor of his passion that when once Grushenka told
malice.
paroxysm of indignation seized on Mitya’s soul.
Dmitri rose before his mind. But only for a minute, and though it reminded
and the boys have been hunting all over the town for it. Would you believe
“Why?”
Parfenovitch, fearfully excited too, “otherwise it’s absolutely
frivolous vanity and worldly pleasures.”
the carriage, however.
mortification that I love Alexey more than you. Now you know why that was
the sofa sat _he_, and on a chair by the sofa there was another stranger.
drunk on it, and all the women and girls. I sent the thousands flying. In
inscribed the name and age of the deceased and the date of her death, and
“I must confess I can’t endure entering on such discussions,” he said with
and slaves and the ‘holy guard.’ He stops at the sight of the crowd and
love, and he reproached himself bitterly for having been able for one
holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She
“Yes, it’s nasty here, it’s abominable.”
door,” the prosecutor pronounced deliberately, as though chiseling out
month. I was expecting another man who had wronged me. But I think,” she
the greatest importance both to you and to us, that has been given us by
lawyer, and still more the prosecutor, stared intently at him as he told
according to Thy wisdom. Thou art love. Thou wilt send joy to all!”
it now.”
lines of poetry in my life. But I made up this poem in prose and I
and his disciples, to the marriage._”
stopped him, and opening the big portfolio that lay on the sofa beside him
collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg™ electronic works,
The prosecutor could only draw one conclusion: that the man had jumped
“Now, thank God! we’ve come to the real point: ‘since he was in the
articulated in astonishment, and suddenly a chill breath of fear did in
He’s sitting at table with Ivan. Go to him, Alyosha, and ask for the three
can stand it. Go to her, Alyosha, ask her not to speak of that in the
perfectly equal footing. Alyosha understood it by instinct.
sat so long in darkness without seeing the light. And then the sign of the
three thousand!’ and then went away and immediately did the murder. ‘I
“You can go. There’s nothing for you to do here to‐day,” he snapped
The prosecutor looked significantly at the investigating lawyer, and had
yours. What does money matter? We shall waste it anyway.... Folks like us
out of the way by shamming a fit—‘you may murder him as you like; it’s
not true and that it’s blushing just as I am now, all over. Dear Alyosha,
“Yet you gave evidence against him?”
fixed in the ground, and round it were some green benches upon which it
spleen, disconnectedly and incoherently, without choosing words.
Fenya came in and put a tray with an uncorked bottle and three glasses of
been able till that moment to bring myself to it. And it was only when I
who are said to be “possessed by devils.” At times after terrible fits of
“And you remember that for certain now?”
Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long
but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can
“Finish what you were saying, Misha. I’ll tell you my idea after.”
still pagan, and mistaken path to the true and rightful path, which alone
masters—far more, indeed. I repeat that, because I am convinced that there
lot of them, and all little. You put them in the mouth and crack.”
used the word apothecary instead of doctor on purpose, and, as he
fault, that it was on my account he had murdered him. But when he said he
death. They are not sentimentalists there. And in prison he was
spiteful and angry, he’s made some plan and will stick to it. And what of
notes on which the eyes of all, especially of the Poles, were fixed. In
Fyodorovitch’s going away like that, it’s her own fault. But he won’t go
me, I grew fond of them in the end, those expectant eyes. You seem to love
but Ilusha did not like the game and it was given up. He began buying
differently.”
melancholy arising from his disease and this catastrophe he hanged himself
of hatred.
Alyosha and Katerina Ivanovna floated into his mind. But he softly smiled,
would move to another town, how we would buy a horse and cart. ‘We will
still he felt it would be unseemly to go to dinner. Yet his creaking
the derangement of his faculties that Herzenstube talked of?”
respectfully and timidly away from his father’s window, though he was
highly prizing his flat, dull and always gleefully complacent German wit.
perhaps you won’t care for a silly creature like me, now you know my
a little taller, so that only the trousers might be a little too long. But
“Why has he forgotten everything, then? He used to carry me about when I
if we don’t meet for twenty years afterwards, let us always remember how
before, perhaps only a moment before he came in, and not for the first
crimson. She was evidently ashamed of something, and, as people always do
fulfilled, that nothing can be added to them or taken from them.
everything, everything! He came every day and talked to me as his only
troubled to contradict a set of tradespeople. In those days he was proud,
unmannerly way to show regret at losing him. Instead of doing so, he flew
back to my senses. Fyodor Pavlovitch sent for Herzenstube, the doctor
words at the elder’s: “I always feel when I meet people that I am lower
suddenly, as though divining his thought, and pointing to Maximov.
civilization. And if the Church resists and is unwilling, some corner will
cash (they would never have let him have anything on credit, of course).
gave the peasants champagne to drink the other day, e—ech!”
though in a fever. Grushenka was called.
they will show diabolical cunning, while another will escape them
priest agreed, after some demur, to conduct him to Suhoy Possyolok; his
particularly unpleasant to him to meet certain persons, whose presence
see, you cannot, in any case, lose over it. On my honor, my honor, I swear
sum all at once, when by your own confession, at five o’clock the same day
financial relations of father and son, and arguing again and again that it
At the beginning of his speech he spoke rather disconnectedly, without
For one whole week she was unconscious. She was very much changed—thinner
I knew he kept under his pillow, ready for Grushenka, I considered as
harshness. Finally, he had asked the patients as soon as he saw them,
the “captain” (he was by no means of a timorous temper), but in order to
Ivan stopped. He was carried away as he talked, and spoke with excitement;
“Hang the oysters. I don’t eat them. And we don’t need anything,” cried
not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as
become his lawful wife. We have good evidence of this. As for the
was really called Nosov, and Kuvshinikov had quite a different name, he
The prosecutor ceased speaking. He was provoked. He did not conceal his
Fyodorovitch.”
suddenly, unmistakably proud of Krassotkin at such a moment. He was
intended, he walked out of the tavern. When he reached the market‐place he
his sentences, and seeing that this only increased his consequence in the
word of it, and he could not even put it sensibly, for on this occasion no
“I don’t want a good boy! I don’t want another boy!” he muttered in a wild
“Boys, I should like to say one word to you, here at this place.”
“I did that for a good reason. For if a man had known all about it, as I
go to him in any case before going to the captain, though he had a
I did not tell him that they would not let me see him.
FATAL KATYA: To‐morrow I will get the money and repay your three
morrow, in the town—I swear on my honor, I’ll get it, I’ll get it at any
Mr. Napravnik is our well‐known Russian orchestra conductor and what we
have given me a punch in the face on the spot, but you were not a bit
wagons from the country and a great number of live fowls. The market women
have taken the money, too, oh, I should have taken it; I should have taken
the belief in Athos, a great place, where the Orthodox doctrine has been
or torment a man, or any kind of creature, for every creature is created
door, pinching his tail in it. He squealed and began to struggle, and I
with anger.
“Hush, Rakitin,” Alyosha answered with an aching heart.
should have who suffers for an idea. And so he deprives me instantly of
that you should be feeling that so early, though I’ve observed it for some
Questioning him more in detail, Grushenka learned from him that he had
be roused. He waked up for five minutes, sent his blessing to the
the prisoner was now, and had been all along, in a perfectly normal
suddenly shuddered in a paroxysm of terror.
vengeance more completely than any earthly justice. What’s more, justice
with that creature in one night.... But he knew, he knew that I knew all
“She’s here. She must be here. Smerdyakov! Smerdyakov!” the old man
relieved?” he said, glaring defiantly at the lawyers.
window, whether the door into the garden was open?”
the understanding of the rest of my story. Let me say then, it was not a
“Open, open to him. There’s a snowstorm and he is your brother. _Monsieur
Alyosha did not answer. There was something too mysterious, too subjective
killed a man, an old servant; and he flung away the pestle with a curse,
called upon to render assistance and appeal to some one for help in the
death. I was impressed by all this at the time, but not too much so,
his vigilance and precaution. And, most of all, I suppose that he,
his own property from the thief who had stolen it. For that was the idea
your side—a little happier, anyway—and children and all animals, if you
though I were drunk!”
moment’s hesitation, made up his mind to go back with Alyosha.
filled his soul. “Shall I go at once and give information against
God. And they will have no secrets from us. We shall allow or forbid them
I’ve forgotten the name. I must look it up. It was in the darkest days of
injuries, but before that, as soon as he went into the garden from the
non‐existent. Besides, Mitya hardly looked upon him as a man at all, for
He said this and smiled with a face as white as chalk. “Why is it he is
It’s hard for her, you know,” Alyosha looked timidly at his brother.
justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote infinite
Alyosha did not look at him, but from a slight movement Rakitin at once
coming to Lise and describing to her what had just happened to him, what
bring up his children. His behavior as a father was exactly what might be
spendthrift,” that he, Samsonov, could be taken in by such a cock‐and‐bull
the accumulation of these facts. Yes, the accumulated effect is awful: the
that Varvinsky could be at ease about the indulgence he had shown, which
hear it more often, that the priests, and above all the village priests,
nothing to do with it. Alyosha did not dare to look at Rakitin, the
curiosity to the meeting of the two rivals—the proud aristocratic girl and
“Really? Well, I dare say you do understand, since you blurt it out at the
and the whole institution of “elders,” which he regarded as a pernicious
But Grushenka sent almost every day to inquire after him.
penny for the right of lying in this “holy place,” but refrained. His
child who was given as a child of six by his parents to some shepherds on
“Why, who could have opened it if you did not open it yourselves?” cried
father and went in at that door, he killed him, he robbed him. Who was he?
happening. When they began filling up the grave, he suddenly pointed
farewell. I bow down to the ground before you, for I’ve been a
devils show them their horns from the other world. That, they say, is a
“You go to the devil.”
“Not him, damn the monster!” Ivan shouted, in a frenzy. “Do you know that
as before.... But wait: don’t let them forget dessert, sweets, pears,
The court was adjourned, but only for a short interval, a quarter of an
first inevitable inquiries and warnings, Nikolay Parfenovitch asked her,
“You do despise me, though! It’s simply that I don’t want to do good, I
only child, but she made up her mind to it at last, though not without
why could it not be that? What reason have we to call that letter ‘fatal’
Learning the author’s name, they were interested in his being a native of
“No, no, I’m coming to look on, too,” exclaimed Kalganov, brushing aside
very unpleasant place. Mitya listened attentively, and only shrugged his
I can picture the state of mind of the criminal hopelessly enslaved by
had sprung from feeling, and been adopted in a flash, with all its
used to do to her. He’s upset about his mother, his mother,” he muttered
something—money, of course. He didn’t even hide from Mitya his suspicion
miracle, too! Oh, how it has upset me, how it has shattered me, that
purpose?”
Book I. The History Of A Family
“And who will believe him with all the proofs against him? Grigory
did not venture to clear the court as he had threatened. Even persons of
pick things up for at such moments? I don’t know what for. I snatched it
care most about. You won’t want to spoil your life for ever by taking such
too, said that the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced
and his bride’s a regular fright of the first rank and the last degree.
steadfast, but still I am not going to apologize for him.”
was not a word of truth in it? His wife has never died at all, she is
devil’s to know who is Sabaneyev?”
north, in the town of V. My father was a gentleman by birth, but of no
“So there’s a secret, she says, a secret? We have got up a plot against
would do.’ How, how could he have failed to understand that I was
capital punishment, have we? But be sure to come, even if it’s at three
“I say this in case we become bad,” Alyosha went on, “but there’s no
Alyosha went up to say good‐by to him, and kissed him on the shoulder.
“Don’t betray me,” Smerdyakov called after him.
added with a smile.
day. There’s nothing in that.”
“The bodyguard? Let him come, and I want him, too. I must have him!” cried
“He doesn’t despise any one,” Alyosha went on. “Only he does not believe
“So she wouldn’t kiss her hand! So she didn’t kiss it; so she ran away!”
how you got up in the morning and what you had for breakfast. We began,
purpose.... He’s the same sort of shaggy dog.... You allow me to call in
leave their seats. Once or twice the conversation was interrupted by
the fence into the garden. Though he knew Grigory was ill and very likely
“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has
and conceptions demand not that the Church should pass as from a lower
come into fashion,” and so on, and so on. And that was why they had
drove him to fury. With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov’s
an angel, nothing touches you. And I dare say nothing will touch you
it, or would it not, be the proper thing for me to turn Rakitin out for
“I couldn’t have believed it. I can’t understand it!” Alyosha cried
should become a monk, that’s why he did it.”
Pavlovitch; ough!” floated through his mind.
Ivan talked well here yesterday, though we were all drunk. Ivan is a
coming. Why was it, why was it you wouldn’t come all this time?” Smurov
rarely, I think, in such an extreme and peculiar form as in the present
“Forgive me, I did think that, too, at the time,” whispered Alyosha, and
“Sensible advice from a sensible young man. Am I to understand that you
that some of them, the fierce and rebellious, will destroy themselves,
his face. Alyosha was even more disconcerted and vexed. At last he turned
down by a scythe.
fifteen hundred roubles which were on his breast, just below the neck, and
the career of an archimandrite in the immediate future and don’t become a
quite sober.
yourself from the study.’ He ran to the window, put the candle in the
beard shakes you know he is in earnest.”
his master, revealing to the prisoner the existence of the envelope with
“Boys, we shall soon part. I shall be for some time with my two brothers,
cannot accept. Let me make it plain. I believe like a child that suffering
Am I a monk, Lise? You said just now that I was.”
9 Gogol is meant.
the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to
went off into a roar of laughter. “Would you like to go to the mines,
of time for them,” he thought. They reached the station quickly, changed
“What does ‘suverin’ mean? ‘Sovereign,’ I suppose?” interrupted Grushenka.
disease, and so on.
magnificent black shawl. She was suffering from a slight feverish
Ivan, I can’t resist the way he looks one straight in the face and laughs?
a disdainful and contemptuous air.
Translated from the Russian of
pulled up his steaming, panting horses at the high flight of steps.
place as clerk in his office, so, who knows, maybe he would. So I’d just
fact, from that letter we see that the whole fact of the murder was
meddlesome, inquisitive man, who poked his nose into everything. This was
and so, though we thank you for showing us the way, we cannot ask you to
whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.” ... It all rushed whirling
suddenly echoed in his head.
act of heroic virtue, and you don’t believe in virtue; that’s what
finding a rag of some sort, dipped it into the water, and put it on
“Dmitri Fyodorovitch told me so himself; you can believe him. The woman
particularly because this article penetrated into the famous monastery in
consideration for her great unhappiness. But in answer to one of the first
Mitya started from his seat again.
making a mistake? What is right in this case? And will people recognize
Fyodor Pavlovitch made her an offer; inquiries were made about him and he
and praying for him to the Mother of God, holding him out in both arms to
“Father, I will stay here with a light, and seize the favorable moment. As
help him. But everything and all our fates are from the Lord. ‘Except a
“What suspicion? Suspicion or not, I should have galloped here just the
house, but blinded by my conceit I had noticed nothing. And this
accept by faith, or, better to say, _on faith_, like many other things
our neighborhood, where the inmates, being particularly interested in the
Christ holding out His arms to me and seeking me with those arms, I see it
remember afterwards. “Love God’s people. Because we have come here and
suddenly alarmed for his flowers, as though they wanted to take them from
more. I have patience; but I may lose patience, and then ... then
“You are injuring yourself in the opinion of your judges.”
been when he ran into the room, trembling all over, holding her hands out
And Kolya hurriedly pulled out of his satchel the little bronze cannon. He
at the stake as the worst of heretics. And the very people who have to‐day
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
will see to it all herself.”
Moscow. It came to pass that, settling permanently in Paris he, too,
But still they cannot mend her.
out there. The second half is a tragedy, and it is being acted here.”
“Good‐by, my angel. You stood up for me, just now. I shall never forget
It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have
She was reckless now of all consequences to herself, though, no doubt, she
take his revenge. But I don’t know whether it was true. All this was only
stretched out his hand and snatched a few flowers from the coffin. He
like that. Mitya, how shameful it is! Oh, Mitya, I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed
was shy or bashful. On the contrary, he was conceited and seemed to
Perezvon.” And Kolya began giving orders to the dog, who performed all his
contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for
Alyosha went in. The old man was sitting alone at the table wearing
“Do you suppose I _knew_ of the murder?” Ivan cried at last, and he
crowd, pointing with his finger to the coffin, “did not believe in devils.
there’s no need, it’s too late for talking. Where’s my money? Where have I
In a third group:
only nine. I am alone in the world, and if I die, what will become of all
and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to
will be so all my life. My dear, kind, ever‐faithful and generous adviser,
any one in the town). People said she intended to petition the Government
more. Yes, with you I could still talk, I could still get on. Do you think
Having uttered these words Mitya sat down again on his chair. Grushenka
“Rebellion? I am sorry you call it that,” said Ivan earnestly. “One can
humbly begs forgiveness for his presumption.” As the monk had given the
of the elder.
self‐complacency, and all traces of his former irritation disappeared. He
was giving way. He walked about, raving; he was seen muttering in the
him to go to church, to confess and take the sacrament, as he was still
merciful than you! And He will forgive him for your sake.
fretting Mitya.
presence and felt an irresistible impulse to knock him down. At that
The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern what you
“Oh, no. I’ll tell him everything,” muttered Alyosha. “He asks you to come
stuck out, and he couldn’t pull the quilt over so as to cover them.
Diderot, your reverence. Did you ever hear, most Holy Father, how Diderot
again. Here’s his little sash, but him I shall never see or hear now.”
sting of conscience at it.
happen then. You say that he is worried, but how worried I am! And he
pillow.
till morning after the draught she had taken. But, all of a sudden she
in different houses the last few days and I wanted at last to make your
“She asks me to go and see her? Me? What for?” Alyosha muttered in great
on the reading desk, opened it, and began reading, and suddenly for the
me?”
then not only from men, as now, but from Christ. By his crime he would
it is not the Church that should seek a definite position in the State,
intently, however.
mischief! The ancient fire was better. Well, this man, who was condemned
pulled out. And if you can pull her out of the lake, let her come to
without reflecting, or caring to reflect what use so much wine and
your action then.”
released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more
In despair he hid his face in his hands.
conjecture why. His health had been giving way for a week past: he had
“Did you show it to every one? He restored the son to his mother!”
was received with extraordinary rapidity. “As though she were waiting for
difficult he still found it to believe in the strange and unexpected mood
“Ah, young lady, how good and generous you are compared with me! Now
“I cannot positively assert,” the prosecutor continued, “that the prisoner
awfully important. Could two different people have the same dream?”
valet Smerdyakov was on his mind, and that it was this man that his soul
“I wasn’t there, but Dmitri Fyodorovitch was; and I heard him tell it with
“Thanks, if only for that,” smiled Ivan. “Be sure, I should always defend
but would still have expected the dead man to recover and fulfill his
“What is it?” asked Alyosha, startled.
‘who asked you to teach me?’ ‘But my breath,’ says she, ‘is clean, and
beating.
for time is passing,” he observed suddenly, as though speaking to himself.
the sofa. Mitya peeped behind the curtain—she was there. She was sitting
recover herself. She had come in, as appeared afterwards, accidentally,
I’m more afraid of Ivan than the other. You’re the only one I’m not afraid
a stuck‐up beggar! I mentioned money! I ought to have borne it in silence,
Mitya was sitting on a little chair at the entrance, awaiting his fate
It’s all come to me here, here, within these peeling walls. There are
letter at home and that cheered me. You left it behind on purpose, so as
with great suspicion. So one of the most dangerous witnesses brought
case of mistaken identity, let it be so. It is true,” he went on,
He only listened to Grigory’s minute and solemn account of the erection of
understand them at the time. He died the third week after Easter. He was
elder would say, but seemed on the point of standing up, like Miüsov.
fate was determined, Mitya had fallen ill with nervous fever, and was sent
you believe it, she answered me instantly in pencil (the lady has a
“He’ll remember it afterwards,” Mitya remarked. “Woman, I love woman! What
did not know, who was not of his own class, and to whom he hardly knew how
“Stay, Alexey Fyodorovitch, stay,” the captain began to talk with frenzied
foreseeing it, to Alyosha, four days ago in the arbor, when, in answer to
won’t renounce—will you renounce me for that, yes?”
“Who is _he_! I don’t know whom you are talking about,” Alyosha faltered,
of her dark brown hair escaped from its lace covering and fell on her
“Eye‐Witness.” These paragraphs, it was said, were so interesting and
Parfenovitch hurriedly added up the total.
after prolonged disputes he came to a settlement with his father, and the
grows on a tree and is gathered and given to every one....”
repudiate it. But now justice cries out and we persist, we cannot
The prosecutor is charmed with his own romance. A man of weak will, who
there!”
vanished as quickly as it appeared. He was always well and even
sitting at the door of his cell on a low bench. A huge old elm was lightly
the end of the last book, something so unexpected by all of us and so
suppose she did give it to you. You’ve got the money in your hand, but
later by God’s grace I entered upon the safe and blessed path, praising
tender conscience! He tormented himself with his conscience! He told me
every one must have seen it. It’s peculiarly Russian. He describes how a
when you were there, while you were in the garden....”
due to yesterday’s impression and would be only a moment. But with
another town, for those who have been in trouble themselves make the best
same suffering smile, but the person most delighted with the dog’s
stinking, but they don’t see, they don’t smell it. It’s a year since I
passage and prance in like that on a respectable family. Strange sort of
may well come to pass from all this, and that’s what your brother Ivan is
Alyosha most was the expression in the poor woman’s eyes—a look of
exclaimed:
he must recognize that. Else he would have had no reason to come here.
hugged me, tried to pull me away, crying to my assailant, ‘Let go, let go,
stranger, roused her feminine curiosity intensely. But this time Pyotr
quite believe in the sincerity of your suffering.”
but weak‐minded woman, who could not herself have been admitted to the
have a joke with you and scare you. I shouted, like a fool, ‘Your money!’
A look of profound despondency came into the children’s faces.
But when, when had he seen it for the last time, I ask you that? I talked
to come. For the last few days he’s been perfectly frantic expecting her.
then it would know when to bring back from exclusion and to reunite to
added, putting in the bullet and driving it home with the ramrod. “Pyotr
and they have no bells even,” the most sneering added.
“Tell me, my good woman, is Agrafena Alexandrovna there now?” said Mitya,
“You hit the mark, indeed. And you’d better be sensible.”
“Casting out I cast out,” he roared again.
I have been watching you for the last month. I’ve watched you a hundred
object—to obtain the justification of something which cannot be justified.
respect men like that and it’s not because he stood up for me.”
from Paris. He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that
been for his eyes, which, in themselves small and inexpressive, were set
what it is! You see, I love him with all my soul, that’s how it is!
Book VII. Alyosha
“He’s taken his revenge already,” said Alyosha. “He’s written a paragraph
taverns in the course of that month, it was perhaps because he was
kiss me hard, that’s right. If you love, well, then, love! I’ll be your
whether, if Samsonov had sent him to that peasant, calling him Lyagavy,
explain—”
“Good‐by!”
“Your brother Ivan declared once that I was a ‘liberal booby with no
consider, brother, that it constitutes a sin.”
All the things were shown to the witnesses. The report of the search was
“What should I want a light for? I did it with my fingers in one minute.”
truth—from you and no one else.”
On her and on me!
for there had been a good many, especially during the last two years, who
boots were no good. I could never walk properly in them.’ He fancied it
the house, for Smerdyakov too had gone out marketing. Though he had got up
of a “provincial hetaira.” “She has the manners of the best society,” he
the contrary, they thought they had every right, for Richard had been
like that again. How dare you be so familiar! Sit in that corner and be
been her lover! That’s a lie....”
I know that. But I am convinced now that you don’t despise me; it was all
and with a wave of his hand he turned quickly and quickly descended the
his wits went. Where did they go? I’ve forgotten the word.” He went on,
unseemly questions. You want to know too much, monk.”
called Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov. This young man was preparing to enter the
is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all
much the better! But I really have been to Kuzma Kuzmitch’s, Mitya
what I have not seen, that is, the crime itself and the whole catastrophe,
and steam myself with merchants and priests. What I dream of is becoming
recognized that the three thousand roubles had become almost an obsession
money which was so suddenly seen in your hands, when only three hours
Immediately after that interview with Mitya, Ivan went for the first time
was working towards some object, but it was almost impossible to guess
you step? Where did you step? When did you step? And on what did you
almost shrieked. He, too, leapt to his feet. Mitya was seized by the men
sat so long in darkness without seeing the light. And then the sign of the
“Impossible! Where was the paragraph? What did it say?”
document, a letter ... take it, read it quickly, quickly! It’s a letter
“Signals? What signals?” asked the prosecutor, with greedy, almost
idea—an idea which he had at first regarded as impossible and unthinkable,
Mitya spat on the ground, and strode rapidly out of the room, out of the
Can it be right to confess aloud? It was ordained by the holy Fathers to
Mokroe, but that his money was in the town. Mitya observed hotly that he
not endure it and would repine, and perhaps at last would say: ‘I am
but the more highly they were developed the more unhappy they were, for
all, the happy martyr and the seer of God, Mary of Egypt—and you will
some champagne. You owe it me, you know you do!”
“I am telling it. If I tell the whole truth just as it happened I shan’t
“Well, Timofey was saying they’re all gentlefolk. Two from our town—who
friend Rakitin comes in such boots, and always stretches them out on the
prisoner, the tragedy of his fate is evident; it is before us. But such
to believe me entirely, but I assure you on my word of honor that I am not
pressed it warmly to his heart. Tears positively glittered in his eyes.
she has hated me ever so long, oh, ever so long ... and hated me with good
PART II
think of the gold‐mines, Dmitri Fyodorovitch?”
it will shine forth like a precious diamond to the whole world. So may it
“No, not about that at all. But when he came, I asked him about that at
make your acquaintance. I’ve long been hoping for an opportunity, and have
had burnt the candle at both ends all his life. ‘To her, to her! and
disease turned out to be incurable. The fits occurred, on an average, once
“Bravo! Now give me the pistols. Upon my honor I’ve no time now. I should
Fetyukovitch was a little taken aback, and the President intervened,
Doctor Herzenstube, of course, heard all this, and now all the three
him, and with all his might pulled him away. Alyosha helped him with his
“He told me to give you his compliments—and to say that he would never
recalled, in fact, every item of expense and added it all up. So the
“Take it. Rakitin, I owe it you, there’s no fear of your refusing it, you
at the special request of Madame Hohlakov. As soon as that good‐hearted
bring us the bottle Mitya left! Look sharp! Though I am so stingy, I’ll
chair; besides I can sit up. I shall have people with me. And, you know, I
fastidiousness. He would sit before his soup, take up his spoon and look
Doctor Herzenstube and Varvinsky, the doctor he met in the hospital,
“I know it’s the other side of the copse,” observed Fyodor Pavlovitch,
long, quivering, inaudible nervous laugh.
believe it!”
message to Father Païssy before that to Alyosha, the latter found after
had not yet seen him.
remarkable, too, that while he felt that he hated Mitya more and more
1.D.
even in the first month of his marriage, to be continually fretted by the
Alyosha, unable to endure her persistent stare, was irresistibly and
a house of correction. I don’t know what the punishment is—but it will be
numbered. He was weak, yellow, his hands trembled, he gasped for breath,
they teased him all the more. The worst of it was he was horribly dressed
and Thursday we have white bread, stewed fruit with honey, wild berries,
voice as though she were chanting a dirge, swaying her head from side to
“One can’t tell for certain. Perhaps in nothing: it may all fizzle out.
case was evident. And, what’s more, he went into psychological subtleties
world are great and beyond your strength to endure. Well, now go, my
us and huddle close to us in fear, as chicks to the hen. They will marvel
me when I hadn’t a shoe to my foot, when my family had turned me out.” The
they could not have been left in greater confusion and suffering than Thou
people and even to be kicked, for if I put on mortal form I am bound to
boys, from this day forth, I have a place in my heart for you all, and I
“Not an easy job.”
or I won’t listen. You want to get the better of me by realism, to
always in such a funk for your life? All my brother Dmitri’s threats are
idea that the boy’s genius should be trained by a teacher of genius. But
past him on the road, or a jackdaw on a cross—that he will remember. He
in school among themselves, and even aloud, of things, pictures, and
“I’ve known of it a long time; I telegraphed to Moscow to inquire, and
still thick, dark hair, slightly streaked with gray and a small pointed
great a faith that you are continually swearing at me, you try yourself
silent. Alyosha got up and walked towards them. He found Smerdyakov
gone on without interruption for so many years, ceased. Grushenka had
“Quite so,” said Father Païssy.
matters. He felt quite certain that he would receive the money from his
taught you? But you’re talking nonsense, you casuist, nonsense, nonsense,
say many evil words. So let us all catch a favorable moment when we are
“Oh, no, I didn’t write it,” laughed Ivan, “and I’ve never written two
was rude to him just now,” he repeated with a sinking, softened voice.
temptations. The statement of those three questions was itself the
invented, that I was in too great a hurry to display my knowledge,
duty to his wife and children, he would escape from old memories
Alyosha hesitated.
high, strong fence remained a mystery. Some maintained that she must have
“Ah, for shame, young lady! Ah, for shame! That’s unbecoming for you, dear
then, because I should only have had to say at that instant to the
that pleasure. Oh, I love the dreams of my ardent young friends, quivering
“Yes, of course.”
He told them exactly what every tap on the window meant, tapped the
apparent. Mitya was terribly alarmed.
Kolya smiled mysteriously. “Listen, Karamazov, I’ll tell you all about it.
the notes? The only person who saw them, and stated that they had been put
especially sometimes, and how glad I am again of everything! Dear Alexey
What infuriated Ivan more than anything was the aggressive, insolent tone
away from Alyosha, though she still sat on his knee with her arm round his
horror, perhaps from disgust. And well it is that they stand aside, but
Book VIII. Mitya
“Paid for!” cried Kolya, and the meat passed in a flash from the dog’s
sometimes, and when I am pleased about anything I can’t restrain myself
Dmitri stood up, thought a moment, and put his finger to his forehead.
the garden was open.
“Who is laughing at mankind, Ivan?”
me! If only you knew how I prize your opinion!”
“There is.”
abandon herself altogether to the man she loved, in spite of the Karamazov
thirty rainbow‐colored notes in one roll, it will make more impression,
“I know it will be heaven for me, heaven, the moment I confess. Fourteen
poem. Thank you though. Get up, Alyosha, it’s time we were going, both of
that angered Ivan more than anything.... But of all this later.
his master, revealing to the prisoner the existence of the envelope with
refusal, sending Alyosha a message not to bother him any more, that if he
truth and demand the same lies from others. Here I have for once in my
boiling. It’s capital coffee: Smerdyakov’s making. My Smerdyakov’s an
though the formalities were not relaxed, exceptions were made for some, at
you, agonizingly and insufferably. I would give anything to be able to
this chance.”
bout of reckless drinking. And just at that time his wife’s family
Smerdyakov was always inquiring, putting certain indirect but obviously
river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to
hoped to gain his object for three thousand roubles. Mitya had reached
“It is yours, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” Madame Hohlakov cut in at once. “The
least abashed as he stood before the lawyers. He had, on the contrary, an
“To her officer, the same one she used to know, the one who threw her over
Fyodorovitch’s betrothed, not from himself.... But you know.... I would go
Again Alyosha seemed not to hear. Rakitin could not control himself.
all the gentlemen should, as though intentionally, on the evening of “the
spite of his independent mind and just character, my opponent may have
“What’s that?” The doctor flung up his head, staring with surprise at
Fyodorovitch Karamazov (for, in spite of all, he is unhappy),
(there are many hurdles instead of fences to this day in our town) into a
crossed one leg over the other. Mitya’s eye was caught by his huge greased
want her sacrifice; they’ll put me to shame at the trial. I wonder how I
were goading his heart, at that moment his whole being was yearning for
hands of her protector, Dmitri showed great coarseness and want of
an ideal is infinitely remote, at the second coming of Christ. That’s as
amazement that he felt now, at the first glance at Katerina Ivanovna as
buttoned up, with a round hat and black gloves in his hands, just as he
marveled indeed at himself, on that score, sometimes. He appeared in the
thoughtful. His hands, crossed over his breast, looked particularly
to time, of course, not all the while. It’s impossible, I think, for the
crimes. And here we have a man of that type who had really been driven to
sent early in the morning by Lise Hohlakov. But there were flowers too
“Good evening,” Maximov ventured blandly on the left. Mitya rushed up to
room?”
the meat. “Dogs don’t like hot things. No, it’s all right. Look,
Alyosha thought it strange that his arrival should cause such excitement.
come to stay with them as Marya Kondratyevna’s betrothed, and was living
stake and that you must be careful. We have heard the prosecutor himself
seemed conclusive. It was the details that were so damning. The secret of
has rankled in her heart as an insult—that’s what her heart is like! She
there is a man, then, whom I love. Here he is, that man, my dear little
describe? They are not that at all, not at all.... They are simply the
thought of that sorrowful day as one of the bitterest and most fatal days
“No, I didn’t go home,” answered Mitya, apparently perfectly composed, but
hast wrought miracles for such sinners as me! But what, what if the old
though I still consider him the most chivalrous young man. But only fancy,
garden, he must have murdered him.’ In those few words: ‘since he _was_,
“He’s alone,” thought Mitya, “in all probability he’s alone.”
They decided that if tea were ready downstairs (Mihail Makarovitch had, no
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