“Fool, how stupid!” cried Ivan.
Vrublevsky swung out after him, and Mitya followed, confused and
the fashion of 1820, belonging to her landlady.
the words of mockery and blame, proud words, “How could God give up the
before to make some other use of it, to give or send it away; he may have
what you want, you saucy jackanapes!”
is so simple that sometimes one is even afraid to put it into words, for
world.”
pleased and thankful for it. Ladies used to be fond of me: not all of
then ... but then.... But Mitya did not know what would happen then. Up to
for a fact that frequent fights took place between the husband and wife,
tight at the back, and with trains a yard long, on Church holidays or when
“Stay, wait a bit! You will be of use, for I will tell you the signs by
unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep
Would they love him, would they not?
the knocks impressed the lawyers almost as much as Grigory’s evidence as
excess of nature.” It may well be supposed that among the first to run to
purpose?”
them the quiet humble happiness of weak creatures such as they are by
when he has lost them? Remembering them, how could he be fully happy with
I listened to him and thought that he evidently wanted to tell me
his mother, a change had gradually come over Alyosha’s face. He flushed
“But I saw her.... So she must ... I’ll find out at once where she is....
the devil’s doing. It was the devil murdered father, it was through the
“I am so glad it’s Marya. Good‐by!”
“How it was done?” sighed Smerdyakov. “It was done in a most natural way,
“Do you know, that’s the truth, he’s not lying now,” exclaimed Kalganov,
state of extreme nervous excitement. She greeted Alyosha with cries of
delusion and not to sink into complete insanity.
said just now—that one reptile will devour the other? In that case let me
holding his breath while his heart throbbed. And why he had done all this,
that it was nice to be despised. The child with fingers cut off is nice,
“I am not your relative and never have been, you contemptible man!”
bed. His father saw it. He said it might explode, and thrashed him on the
unaccountably fixed look in his eye. He laughed unexpectedly when there
without a letter, but with a message to Dmitri Fyodorovitch to go to dine
thousand.”
and the vast obligation laid upon him henceforth. And he will not say
Parfenovitch, still laughing. “We haven’t tried to put you out by asking
The counsel for the defense was equally clever in dealing with the
Ivanovna.
state of ecstasy.) He seized his six roubles and ran home. At home he
and rejected much already, like his father. We have all heard him, he was
bitter. “You learned men! You are so clever you look down upon my
described how a gentleman came and tried his luck with the girls, to see
at every one and pointed at the old man. He spoke evenly and deliberately.
immensely swollen face. His lower lip, which had always been thick, hung
There was no doubt he still had considerable strength. He was of athletic
that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it
had seen him looking as usual only two days before. The President began
or that he himself will carry her away somewhere, where that dreaded rival
only for that night, for an hour, for a moment!” Just as he turned from
“I should think it is hard for her! Alyosha, it will drive me out of my
“What are you weeping for?”
you to such a sentiment of hatred for your parent?”
Ivan? He’s a Karamazov, too. What is at the root of all you Karamazovs is
stand up if I like, and I won’t if I don’t.’... It’s in some book about
You don’t suppose he too came to murder me, do you? He must have had some
his eyes away again and again looked on the ground. He stood sideways and
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screened off by a curtain or a sheet hung on a string. Behind this curtain
beautiful, as though chiseled in marble. There were flowers in his hands
“Oh, Pierrot ... my father, Fyodor Pavlovitch.”
you were to be beforehand with Fyodor Pavlovitch and to make Lyagavy the
Smerdyakov? And no one else?” Nikolay Parfenovitch inquired once more.
end gained complete mastery over it. Though I know nothing of medicine, I
de sincérité_ in his words, but I prefer in mine _plus de sincérité que de
his cards. Smerdyakov’s eyes gleamed resentfully, his left eye winked, and
perhaps already knew everything, positively everything. And yet, in spite
called Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov. This young man was preparing to enter the
looking after his brother. He suddenly noticed that Ivan swayed as he
This time the Pole answered with unmistakable irritability.
really can’t take it in even now.... Eh, Rakitin, if only you had brought
“With this eight hundred you must have had about fifteen hundred at
She went with rapid steps to the table, opened a drawer, pulled out a
to her, opened the door into the passage, and, stepping back, made her a
“Who is stupid? Of whom are you talking, brother?” Alyosha asked anxiously
our neighborhood, where the inmates, being particularly interested in the
have all the mighty of the earth, the rulers, the chief judges, and the
tell her to take them. And you, Alyosha, be sure to tell Mitya that I did
maid‐servant slipped round with an envelope addressed to me. I tore it
unbaptized,” the coffin containing the martyr’s body left its place and
kissed her on her lips.
Dmitri leapt up with a sort of fury. He seemed all at once as though he
“Marriage? What’s that?... A marriage!” floated whirling through Alyosha’s
Ivan turned suddenly and went his way without looking back. It was just as
Chapter I. In The Servants’ Quarters
talked, he still could not control himself and was continually missing the
from their hearts. Were we right teaching them this? Speak! Did we not
she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest
you expect me to be open with such scoffers as you, who see nothing and
soiling one’s hands. I have soiled myself enough through you as it is.
earthly bread the spirit of the earth will rise up against Thee and will
Smerdyakov and of his last conversation with him on the evening before he
old man, almost ninety, tall and erect, with a withered face and sunken
love the downfall and disgrace of the righteous,” as the deceased elder
“Come now, is that so, Trifon Borissovitch?” replied Mitya. “Surely I
down for a moment to take breath, he closed his eyes, unconsciously
contemptuously at Grigory’s evidence about the open door, and declared
little tumbledown house with four windows. The owner of this house, as
what is good. Every instant I strove to reform, but I lived like a wild
considerably swollen, and on the left side of his forehead there was a
him, called him a little liar, a braggart, but that only egged him on.
obscenity, to nothing criminal, nothing for which he could be legally
just at the door. Mitya set an easy chair for her. She had sat in the same
stifle them in myself, to still them, to smother them. Ivan is not
woman’s voice was more and more insinuating.
and put them on the table for his night’s lodging, the candle, and the
and Rhine wine,” and, above all, money to the peasants as he had done
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“Good‐by, peasant!”
“There, he sent a stone in your back again, he knows you,” cried the
“I can, with the greatest pleasure, and I shall look upon it as an honor.”
characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: ‘She was
centuries ago. He came down to the ‘hot pavements’ of the southern town in
companions. The conventional answer to this question is: ‘He begot you,
I looked at him; he was speaking with great emotion and gazing
sensible man should care to play such a farce!”
Just as he reached his own house he stopped short, asking himself suddenly
At last he began to be bitterly and ominously haunted by the blood of his
“Nice; I sometimes imagine that it was I who crucified him. He would hang
in holy orders. The reading was begun by Father Iosif immediately after
“I cannot help believing my brother. I know he wouldn’t lie to me. I saw
it struck him that Ivan might be with her, especially on the eve of the
In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white
I have helped doubting, pray, at such a time, and at such a dread hour of
shall kill myself, but first of all that cur. I shall tear three
father’s accounts?’
away from her altogether and hid behind the elder’s back. After a few
acquainted, as though they had all met the day before, when nothing had
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“Brother, you don’t seem to have noticed how you’ve insulted Katerina
worldly and all who set themselves up above the people of God, has not
thoughtful, and apparently very serene. I shall be told, perhaps, that red
his imagination, but with no immediate results.
boy. He scarcely glanced at Alyosha when he came in, and he would not look
explained to me as due to malingering and the trickery of the “clericals,”
the door, when he was struck by the strange hush within. Yet he knew from
PART I
“Yes, that’s purely Russian,” said Alyosha smiling.
“Why are they crying? Why are they crying?” Mitya asked, as they dashed
expect an impossible restraint from a young mind. ‘Drive nature out of the
It was a long time before they could persuade him. But they succeeded
purpose.... He’s the same sort of shaggy dog.... You allow me to call in
In despair he hid his face in his hands.
was making such a sensation—retired army captain, an idle swaggerer, and
man, dear old man!” he exclaimed every minute, gazing at Ilusha. It was
“Mitya,” she wailed, “your serpent has destroyed you! There, she has shown
It was a lie. I like her ... I am afraid for Katya to‐morrow. I am more
utmost to prevent Ivan Fyodorovitch from going.”
him.
taking no notice of the hysterical fears of his wife, who was still
of the existence of God and immortality. And those who do not believe in
“everything that is written down will be read over to you afterwards, and
Vrublevsky swung out after him, and Mitya followed, confused and
Katerina. _Ici_, Perezvon!”
What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement,
“Let’s drink to life and to your queen, too, if you like.”
end of dinner, and since Ivan’s arrival in our town he had done so every
have been passed, so that they don’t dare to flog men now. But they make
restiveness, I beg you again. Believe me once more, I feel the greatest
“And you bragged!” cried Rakitin.
“For mercy’s sake! I’m Karamazov, Dmitri Karamazov. I have an offer to
by no means “hideous”; on the contrary, it was rather attractive, with a
you’ll be coming to me to borrow ten roubles again. Why do you keep
kiss her. I don’t cleave to her bosom. Am I to become a peasant or a
the trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.
Smerdyakov, whom he trusts like himself. So now he has been expecting
“Oh, the irony of fate!” cried Mitya, and, quite losing his head, he fell
“No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But
as though I disdained her acquaintance. I did go up and speak to her at an
hid himself, stood still, and began to listen. But there was dead silence
of Lizaveta Smerdyastchaya (Stinking Lizaveta), had got into the bath‐
her tears. Alyosha fancied that he too had tears in his eyes. “There, you
and offers her his hand.... That’s how it is ... offers her his hand, he
A note of feeling and tenderness suddenly came into the honest old man’s
want to tell it to you.”
what happens.”
“Well, perhaps I am talking nonsense, I agree. I am awfully childish
better make it up to Grusha somehow, without begging pardon. I worship
you, and if they don’t turn me out, I’ll stay to the end.”
The historians write that, in those days, the people living about the Lake
“We must apologize most humbly, your reverence,” began Miüsov, simpering
insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a
father’s house, and that therefore something must have happened there.
true that after he had taken the final decision, he must have felt
Instead of answering, the boy broke into a loud tearful wail and ran away.
Ilyitch, my dear fellow, that’s nonsense, all nonsense, and if only you
out, he he he! And who has provided it all? The Russian peasant, the
Remember the first question; its meaning, in other words, was this: “Thou
It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have
psychology, for instance, a special study of the human heart, a special
it—good‐by to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens.
failed to grasp. All he understood, with thrilling heart, was that she was
trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. He gathered loose women
that he stood still on the spot as though he had been stabbed. “Yes, I
“Why Siberia? Never mind, Siberia, if you like. I don’t care ... we’ll
dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us. If we were
how to love them enough. If I have sinned against every one, yet all
when one’s left alone in the evening,” he used to say. It was his habit to
every day, he realized that it was not on account of Katya’s “returns”
So he would get up every day, more and more sweet and joyous and full of
though impatient and weary, her face rather pale and her lips and eyes
there was sometimes no little insincerity, and much that was false and
I more than any.”
“With terrible eloquence the prosecutor has described to us the dreadful
“Allow me to tell you one little anecdote, gentlemen,” Miüsov said
soon as you approached the house, she screamed, fell into hysterics, and
He suddenly determined to go to Samsonov, the merchant who was Grushenka’s
“Karamazov, who had been frantically jealous of every one, collapsed, so
its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.”
a heart glowing with love. It’s not for the sake of my client that I quote
something childlike came into his face. He seemed to have become suddenly
He ceased speaking suddenly, as though checking himself. After listening
FOOTNOTES
given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the
Yet he himself (if the whole truth must be told), secretly at the bottom
Zossima told me so. I don’t know how to put it, but I have often seen it
mine. We will go out. I have a word to say to you in earnest, but not
Mitya suddenly rose from his seat.
said, he had caught something in this rigmarole, and stood, looking like a
action is far more difficult than you think. It is that which has
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evidently of no use.
“And the devil? Does he exist?”
torn envelope on the floor?
“And now on the top of it all, my friend, the best man in the world, is
folded up the paper and handed it back to Madame Hohlakov.
Silenus with his rosy phiz
caught by a middle‐aged man who came up to me with the others. I knew him
them.”
sacrifice an hour to it: “In an hour I shall know everything, I shall
warm‐hearted sincerity. The “pride and haughtiness,” which had struck
“Does it hurt?”
me or not?” She sat up on the couch, with flashing eyes.
behind the curtains. Who will search them?”
went on indignantly.
morrow.”
neighborhood at the time), who for two days got money without stint out of
in our power, and you can see for yourself how we are conducting the case.
Smaragdov’s _Universal History_. That’s all true. Read that.”
had been leading of late, as well as of the violent anger to which he had
when he ran to her, she grasped his hand tightly.
Kondratyevna, flattered by Alyosha’s apology. “For Dmitri Fyodorovitch
to us, “Make us your slaves, but feed us.” They will understand
her handkerchief and sobbed violently.
struck at my thigh, here in my right leg. I didn’t move. I don’t mind
not healthy in his face. It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and
But the difficulty is how am I to cling for ever to Mother Earth. I don’t
mind.... Do you remember how you drank at my house one day and broke the
we will always be brothers.... No, it’s not a dream!”
jealous now _on purpose_. Am I blind? Don’t I see? He began talking to me
my part with a jest and begin talking of other subjects; but at that
“I never expected—”
Chapter XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
lonely and unprotected position, went to the cellar. He went down the
position, shaking with fear, that I suspected every one. I resolved to
suddenly winked—“only damn him, you know, I say, Pyotr Ilyitch, damn him!
sincere regret, even if he has to go down on his knees in that same
he had ordered it in Moscow expressly for the occasion from his own
alone saw us, I hope He will record it to my credit. You must thank your
more as a captive than as a convict. And what would become of the
Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic.
“You will give your evidence honorably,” said Alyosha; “that’s all that’s
two days previously, before Alyosha, the last time he saw him in the dark,
“Yet you gave evidence against him?”
When he was half‐way there, the keen dry wind that had been blowing early
Pavlovitch, joint guardian of the child, who had a small property, a house
speak of the suffering of mankind generally, but we had better confine
All was hushed as the first words of the famous orator rang out. The eyes
Alexandrovna in and she passes the night there, I’ll be the first to
Ivanovna. So now Ivan knows of it, and you—no one else.”
determined character, proud and insolent. She had a good head for
absolutely and spontaneously open with the old man, and he seems to have
education. Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to
you.” But Ivan did not follow this judicious advice and did not take to
assembling and the table was being laid, but into the bedroom on the
hardly changed at all, and strange to say there was no smell of decay from
years afterwards, some sensible monks were amazed and horrified, when they
Gentlemen, only fancy; there’s a poor but honorable man living here,
conclusion. “I want to suffer for my sin!”
“There’s nothing to finish. It’s all clear. It’s the same old tune,
him to go to church, to confess and take the sacrament, as he was still
“They are rogues.”
“Well,” he said, “run and play now, enjoy life for me too.”
Madame Hohlakov hastened away. This was all Lise was waiting for.
impression left by the conversation with Ivan, which now persistently
couldn’t have seen the door open because it was shut. He’s lying!”
in that way would have been almost impossible, for only after I have faced
his adopting the foundling. Later on, Fyodor Pavlovitch invented a surname
the time of the duel it was easier for me, for I had made a beginning
these ladies, far from being favorably disposed to the prisoner, should
who had brought them and reconciled them with Ilusha, it was really the
Part II
Russian beauty could have foretold with certainty that this fresh, still
Kalganov went off into the most childish laughter, almost falling on the
delicate and conspicuously aquiline. “A regular Roman nose,” he used to
“We have had as many holy fathers as they had. There they are among the
time for any one to know of it?”
sheepskin coat for the winter. But, although she allowed them to dress her
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“Sicily! your Excellency,” faltered the captain, “but you’ve seen”—he
“Why unhappy?” Ivan asked smiling.
closing his eyes.
exclaimed Trifon Borissovitch. “Akim gave you twenty‐five copecks the day
‘Well?’ said I. I saw his eyes flashing. ‘Father, how he treated you
“Cleverer than you,” the peasant answered unexpectedly, with the same
of good family, education and feelings, and, though leading a life of
work, or any part of this electronic work, without prominently displaying
Chapter VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov
word “scoundrel” and begged that it should be put down in the protocol.
Did she send for you or did you come of yourself?”
smile, and as soon as the President, looking at him in astonishment,
So it will be with us, and our people will shine forth in the world, and
Fyodorovitch.”
mind. Grusha keeps looking at me. She understands. My God, calm my heart:
immediately after his death for a long visit to Italy with her whole
“Why are you weeping?” said I, “better rejoice over me, dear friend, whom
“Thank you!” he articulated slowly, as though letting a sigh escape him
from Katerina Ivanovna, and when Alyosha opened the door, the captain had
Section 5.
frightened she’s so sure he will get well.”
the table or else in your pocket.... That’s right, come along. But take
“Your Excellency, your Excellency ... is it possible?” he began, but could
crossed one leg over the other. Mitya’s eye was caught by his huge greased
already at home, and when once I had started on that road, to go farther
“But, perhaps, the fit was a real one, the sick man suddenly recovered,
to lock himself in at night, and even if Grigory Vassilyevitch comes to
“No,” they would say, “he is a brave fellow, he faced fire and could have
natures often thirst for tenderness, goodness, and justice, as it were, in
expression with which he had entered vanished completely, and a look of
hands. Is that true or not, honored Father?”
Karamazov had horrified him by his spiritual audacity. ‘Everything in the
It’s a fact that I did play with them, but it’s a perfect libel to say I
helpless tears, and lie there shaking till dawn. In the morning I would
for ever. I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only
fond of.”
not have quarreled even with a shopman, and probably would not have gone
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thousand—if not, “I’m a common pickpocket, I’m a scoundrel, and I don’t
them before evening, it will be that your venomous spite is enough for
hysterics she even lost her reason. Yet she bore Fyodor Pavlovitch two
up to him again for a blessing.
in the world. And I loved you so much, so much at that moment that I
“Alyosha, I love Grusha terribly,” he said suddenly in a shaking voice,
of others, you are shameless beggars.” And yet how many meek and humble
“I don’t remember.... I think I have.”
and rejected much already, like his father. We have all heard him, he was
“Give orders for the market‐place to be swept to‐morrow, and perhaps
than the ideal given by Christ of old. When it has been attempted, the
These were the very words of the old profligate, who felt already that his
idea: you shall find gold‐mines, make millions, return and become a
“Perezvon,” the big, shaggy, mangy dog, which he had picked up a month
her head pressed to it and she too was no doubt quietly weeping.
only then had he seen “how handsome the woman was,” for, though he had
loan of two thousand roubles for a very short period. Grushenka left that
anything of him.
hymn of praise and everything that lives and has lived cries aloud: ‘Thou
“No, I don’t want it to belong to both of us, I want it to be mine
for our monastery was an important one, for it had not been distinguished
“Yes, that was a moment of weakness ... but I couldn’t believe in you. I
Peter the Great. But besides plays there were all sorts of legends and
they had all met there, had still not appeared. But he seemed almost to be
too funny. Ah, Alyosha, if you only knew how light my heart is now! Would
He’s called Gorstkin, though his real name is Lyagavy(4); but don’t call
martyr’s cross when you are not ready for it. If you had murdered our
But his head ached more and more. He sat without moving, and unconsciously
And, of course, this brief episode did him no good with the jury or the
And so, to return to our story. When before dawn they laid Father
and invited him to come to his cell whenever he liked.
going to arrange it. It will take him two or three days. That’s what the
struck him for the first time, “and I am not angry with you. But if Ivan
the room.
prominent citizen. The dead child lies hidden in flowers. ‘He will raise
He met his little visitors with homage, waited upon them hand and foot; he
he? Why? The window opened at the signals given by the prisoner. Some word
made up his mind how to take it. There was, so to speak, a discordant note
conversation with Smerdyakov, every syllable of it. He couldn’t be calmed,
whether I died a thief or a man of honor. But I see it’s not so, it turns
suffering,” Katya concluded irritably. “Can such a man suffer? Men like
and a sort of bright, strong faith in herself. Alyosha realized at the
me! If only you knew how I prize your opinion!”
faith; for it will be manifest as a miracle, and the freedom of their
question of opening the windows was raised among those who were around the
“Why, it’s all nonsense, Alyosha. It’s only a senseless poem of a
won’t let him be carried out!”
And taking the topmost note from the bundle he held it out to Pyotr
that you’re all sensual, grasping and crazy! Your brother Ivan writes
blushed), “manage to give him this assistance, these two hundred roubles.
heart painfully crushes its pride and falls vanquished by grief. Oh,
suddenly vexed.
hour or twenty minutes at most. There was a hum of conversation and
“Am I? Would you believe it, I was aware of that, too, Pyotr
feel as though I were in a madhouse. They’re both getting so feeble
had taken their seats. I remember how the jurymen walked into the court.
“Madam, if you are an experienced doctor, I’m certainly an experienced
“She won’t. She won’t. She won’t. She won’t on any account!”
“I won’t tell you a lie. Ivan is not in love with Katerina Ivanovna, I
about that. I didn’t give you my word.”
man to murder his father for the sake of robbing him of three thousand—the
Book VIII. Mitya
shirt or whatever it is from which you tore the rag. What sort of rag was
woman, and that is bound to happen quite soon, let him come to me and he
“To be serious about it is impossible, unthinkable, and in the first place
dreams are sometimes seen not by writers, but by the most ordinary people,
think.... Well, even if I’ve not forgotten anything, let me stay a
“Ye—es,” answered Ilusha in a long whisper, gasping for breath.
“The lady’s drunk too much,” Maximov explained to the girls, giggling.
the apprehension itself. The girl’s aims were of the noblest, he knew
persistent burning sensation made itself felt continually, “like a red‐hot
“Of the servant girls.”
burden through the curtains.
“Why are we sitting here though, gentlemen? Why don’t you begin doing
could. It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes
of praying. She used to keep the feasts of Our Lady particularly and used
feel it.
Chapter II. At His Father’s
“Oh, Lise, don’t scream, above all things don’t scream. That scream drives
“Not for one minute,” cried Ivan furiously. “But I should like to believe
me and say, ‘You ugly drunkard!’ Your eyes are mistrustful. They’re
“What object? No object. I just picked it up and ran off.”
anything to see one!”
“The money, _panie_? Five hundred roubles I’ll give you this moment for
divined, with a sinking heart, that at moments she must simply hate him
doctor drove up. The captain darted out after the doctor, and, bowing
till our old age. Of course, on condition that you will leave the
kingdom and ordained to rule, and in the end must undoubtedly become the
entirely forgotten where she was buried.
I swear to you by all that’s holy, if it had not been his father, but an
Karamazov!”
Alyosha turned to the right from the door to the corner, fell on his knees
subtlety.”
and was in evident perplexity.
briefly, but impressively, admonished him to answer only what was asked,
“Expecting him? To come to you?”
quite lately the idea seemed to Alyosha monstrous, though it worried him
earth should be put to shame and humiliated! This murmuring may have been
all was one figure—the figure of his beloved elder, the figure of that
The old man fairly fluttered with joy, as though nothing more comforting
impossible not to think about it. He felt instinctively that this rivalry
them up and brought them in the day before.
with murder for the sake of robbery, since no one but he had seen the
all derived from European hypotheses; for what’s a hypothesis there, is an
him to tell Katerina Ivanovna so, if it could be any comfort to her. After
was the child of the second wife, who belonged to a distinguished
the sofa, was the pretty youth, Kalganov. She was holding his hand and
“And jealous of her money, too? Won’t you add that?”
still go on taking my love‐letters for me.”
interesting man in his house. This individual was not precisely a
incarnate once for all and irrevocably in the form of some merchant’s wife
having come to me, first. How is it I haven’t met you before? I shall feel
“Can a betrothed man pay such visits? Is such a thing possible and with
could perhaps not have said definitely. “Even if my benefactor must die
been forgotten for the time; but still he had been in his mind, and as
morning, wondering how I could write them that dreadful letter—for one can
crowd. He was to be seen everywhere; everywhere he was asking questions,
two thousand three hundred roubles in cash?”
whole ceremony. He helped, evidently alarmed and upset. The sick man did
to defend your brother and to sacrifice yourself ... _C’est
“You are ill, I see; you are quite ill. Your eyes are yellow,” Smerdyakov
Whatever you do, you will be acquitted at once.”
which made all his schoolfellows from the bottom class to the top want to
pigs, which were fattened for sale. But they wouldn’t even give him that,
Krassotkin put his hand in his satchel, and pulling out a little bronze
so many questions that I can’t recall them all.
inferior to them, and that now they had a perfect right to despise him.
and beating himself on the breast, on the spot where he had struck himself
be built up. I repeat, to‐morrow Thou shalt see that obedient flock who at
what’s the matter?”
my sword. I drew it and nearly stabbed myself with it on the spot; why, I
her place I don’t know what I should have done. And your brother Dmitri
set aside for women of rank.
“Nothing will make him get up, nothing!” Kolya cried triumphantly, proud
dance. Mitya ran to and fro, the girls were quiet, and got ready to break
“Well, I made up my mind to kill myself. What had I left to live for? That
on occasion, and in his relations with the teachers he never overstepped
“It must be lovely, a duel,” Marya Kondratyevna observed suddenly.
knew everything that was going on in the town. He had forgotten it as soon
knocked Grigory down and run away. When we told him that Grigory saw the
wife?”
our conversation. I found that out afterwards. She didn’t keep it back,
he added, after a pause, dropping his eyes affectedly, setting his right
down parts of those two remarkable speeches in full, and will quote them
place as clerk in his office, so, who knows, maybe he would. So I’d just
again! It’s shameful! Why are you crying? _As though you had anything to
was what did it—that it would be such a fine scene.... And yet, believe
“Yes. But could I endure such a life for long?” the lady went on
see that he hasn’t come for money, for his father would never give him
understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?” Ivan laughed suddenly.
If the evil‐doing of men moves you to indignation and overwhelming
to be atoms, five senses, four elements, and then everything hung together
“Lise, for mercy’s sake, don’t scream, don’t persecute me. At your age one
in the same spot as the day before, and stole into the summer‐house
his temper at last.
there every night, and slept either in the passage or the cowhouse. People
her. All that time she was obtaining exact information as to her Sofya’s
Grushenka will be happy again. For the last five years she’s been
myself. Do you know, Alyosha,” Ivan added in an intensely earnest and
connection is unpardonable and improper. The Church is, in truth, a
part in the proceedings—that is, of the witnesses and experts. It was a
become so—will not dare to laugh inwardly at having been kind and good at
“No, it’s no use, it’s awful,” Kolya assented. “Do you know, Karamazov,”
unable to refrain from a bad action, may laugh at men’s tears and at those
on me. I feel I am going to have a fit. I have a presentiment. Fright
supposed to know nothing, as he was a student of natural science. The
flat, above all, that he had been talking utter nonsense.
“He took it! He took it!” cried Mitya; “only he wanted to get the whole
frivolous youth, fickle and childish. Go away, Father, I command you!”
curious stories were still extant in the monastery and the neighborhood.
interview seriously. All the others would come from frivolous motives,
I’m praying, and almost crying.
“I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe, what more
touched on his favorite topic. “To my thinking ... Ah, you boys! You
and your brother, Alexey Fyodorovitch, would have anything after the
dirty, took up the big yellow book that Ivan had noticed at first lying on
did not object to any of this, and thought it amusing, though he persisted
“Confound it! An old woman, an old man.... Have you killed some one?”
strengthened it. He found his brother agitated, nervously excited. Mitya
Chapter II. The Alarm
unbolted the door, opened it a little, put her finger in the crack and
morning Lise waked up and flew into a passion with Yulia and, would you
monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos,
Fyodorovitch, give me your pistols at once if you mean to behave like a
of the room, the boys followed him. At last Alyosha too went out.
Although Fyodor Pavlovitch was taken unawares, he was equal to the
set fire to something. It happens sometimes.”
true Russians are philosophers, and though you’ve studied, you are not a
foot, as it would not be “much over” a verst. Mitya, of course, agreed,
to go straight to darkness and death and he found a future life before
thinking of style, and he seized his hat.
just this minute insulted not only me, but an honorable young lady, for
not to see me but to see Lise. That’s six days ago now. He came, stayed
catlike noiselessness. Yet it was a vigorous, ample body. Under the shawl
exercise of independent thought.
“But why is it? Why?” foolish Mitya still persisted.
So it will be with us, and our people will shine forth in the world, and
that I am a fallen angel. I certainly can’t conceive how I can ever have
that he did stop, instead of passing by, as he meant to the minute before,
prosecutor refuses to believe the prisoner’s statement that he ran to old
But the unexpected pronouncement of Doctor Varvinsky gave the last touch
She has the secret of it, and she always gives it to Grigory Vassilyevitch
marriage, now she is an orphan and here; she is betrothed to him, yet
prisoner with surprise. Then followed a list of persons who were to take
Some of my readers may imagine that my young man was a sickly, ecstatic,
“Did you send him a letter?”
shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!”
tempt him to commit the murder, and when he had murdered him and had gone
given to many but only to the elect.
on the ground under a tree, not moving and apparently asleep. He went up
Miüsov. He felt altogether dissatisfied with his position.
Dmitri uttered a scream rather than a shout and rushed at Grigory.
marked, though he answered rationally. To many questions he answered that
their seats and hastened to him. But though suffering, he still looked at
I did not tell him that they would not let me see him.
sullenly.
“Of course not, and I don’t feel much pain now.”
It’s three months since I left home. I’ve forgotten him. I’ve forgotten
The little girl sits up in the coffin and looks round, smiling with wide‐
cheeks betrayed at the first glance that she was ill. But what struck
Are you asleep?”
shamming a fit: should I have told you beforehand that I could sham one,
perhaps, where it lay at that moment. I will say no more of this here, as
than the ideal given by Christ of old. When it has been attempted, the
only Karamazovs!’ That was cleverly said!”
protest, though he had a great longing to remain. He longed, moreover, to
mean to me now.” The poor fellow went on rising gradually into a sort of
getting up and walking about the yard, waiting for Agrafena Alexandrovna
become his lawful wife. We have good evidence of this. As for the
“A pretty trick,” whispered the captain. His mouth was twisted on the left
“I could kill you, but I forgive you, so there!” ’ You see what the
“One must do a good work sometimes. How ill‐humored you are!”
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its volunteers
“You know nothing about it,” she snapped irritably. “Perhaps she has a
really are not like every one else, here you are not ashamed to confess to
money and lived on it, so now she has nothing to go back with. Though
so unhappy in his weakness of will that he wouldn’t do it ... that he knew
“Yes, Perezvon.”
“The same thing over and over again,” he interrupted suddenly, with a look
“There is no doubt that I have renounced it in my own heart, but there was
“Here’s the hermitage. We’ve arrived,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch. “The gates
seemed conclusive. It was the details that were so damning. The secret of
nightmare, and now you are asserting you are a dream.”
“And you believed him?”
expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of
guessed and stayed at home? You contradict yourself!” said Ivan,
Smerdyakov. I’ll send you the gold piece I promised you to‐day, but be
cried once more rapturously, and once more the boys took up his
of savage and insistent obstinacy.
done as he had planned in writing, and the letter was not ‘absurd,’ but
could he have had for throwing it so far? And if he was capable of feeling
It happened that the old lady died soon after this, but she left the boys
beard was all white with frost.
corner behind the ikons, for no one would have guessed that place,
to take interest. They parted friends.
up my mind to give it back to‐morrow, and I’m a scoundrel no longer, but I
all so marvelously know their path, though they have not intelligence,
in Father Zossima’s cell.... And the very same day, in the evening I beat
“But he didn’t murder him,” Alyosha interrupted rather sharply. He felt
now there’s no need,” said Ivan reluctantly.
come again?” Ivan could scarcely control himself.
its members.’ Secondly, that ‘criminal and civil jurisdiction ought not to
it from you, if I had really killed my father, that I would shuffle, lie,
with conviction. “But I’ll tell you the whole truth, gentlemen. Great
it, contemplating it as a possibility. He had not definitely considered
besides, and you must—you absolutely must—take my farewell to her to‐day,
three thousand roubles belonging to some one else, and, of course, only
himself had denied having more than fifteen hundred, Mitya confidently
its members.’ Secondly, that ‘criminal and civil jurisdiction ought not to
the peasantry.”
highly cultured landowner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense
vigorously to her. She was sitting at the moment in the low chair by the
But only for one instant she stood as though hesitating; suddenly the
Better pray to the Queen of Heaven, our swift defense and help, for his
come?”
“But I thought at the time that you quite guessed,” Smerdyakov parried
Distrust the apparition.
And the devil groaned, because he thought that he would get no more
were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children,
in a fainting fit, and then “a terrible, awful weakness had followed, she
with leather satchels slung across them, some in short jackets, others in
love the realism of earth. Here, with you, everything is circumscribed,
“Yes, the trial’s to‐morrow. Are you so hopeless, brother?” Alyosha said,
was Smurov, a boy in the preparatory class (two classes below Kolya
say this to you, even though it may make you hate me from this hour.”
coat. His stockingless feet were thrust in old slippers almost dropping to
me. ‘I know, Nikita,’ said I. ‘Where could he be if not with the Lord God?
The old man persisted. He had reached that state of drunkenness when the
notes in his hand, and had scattered them at random, without bargaining,
“Really?”
of the market‐place,” cried Alyosha again, with glowing eyes.
quite young children of our intellectual and higher classes. There is no
civic rights, or even of keeping down the price of meat. You will show
“I’ve long learned to respect you as a rare person,” Kolya muttered again,
Pavlovitch protested.
The general orders the child to be undressed; the child is stripped naked.
saw he understood. And he slept beside me a light and sinless sleep. May
of the skull with the corner of it. He didn’t even cry out. He only sank
Ivan Fyodorovitch was leaving for Moscow, just before the catastrophe,
laughed inwardly. So I was sitting here alone—no, I was laid up then.
described, the trial of Dmitri Karamazov began in our district court.
it. ‘I am a useless cripple, no good to any one.’ As though she were not
“But he’s dead, he’s dead! and ... what am I to do then?” cried Mitya
with some one,” he muttered.
the shelf from which it was snatched by the prisoner, but had been put
of Russia, was this time finally ruined. Fetyukovitch was satisfied: it
Chapter III. The Brothers Make Friends
“We shall cry, we shall be sure to cry,” Nastya chimed in with timid
for I haven’t finished all I had to say. For at the very moment I become
help himself.
sobbing then, kneeling and praying to Katya’s image, and Grushenka
evidence. But the prosecutor was triumphant. When all the evidence had
certainly would not be for such as they. It is prophesied that Thou wilt
didst Thyself lift up that banner. But with us all will be happy and will
devoted friend and protector in the world than this, now harmless old man.
the only person he trusted, to hide the envelope with the notes in the
The Poles exchanged glances again. The short man’s face looked more
faith? But I only believed when I was a little child, mechanically,
before all these people, telling of Mitya’s generous conduct, in the hope
(Smerdyakov had informed him two days before that he had told her where
haven’t seen so much money for the last four years! Mercy on us! And she
Païssy, and, bending forward, prepared to listen to the conversation he
first word,” said Rakitin, malignantly. “That escaped you unawares, and
“What has became of your fortune?” he asked.
noticing the open window, observed at the same time, much nearer to him,
heart. My Nikita, my Nikita, you are waiting for me,” the woman began in a
Pyotr Ilyitch, almost angrily.
to the sainted man whom you reverence so highly,” he wrote in conclusion.
me about lots of things. He told lies about me to my face. ‘Oh, you are
Church, and not against the State, that the criminal of to‐day can
me every day. ‘She is coming round,’ he declared. He was beaming with
mad, prosecutor!”
seemed to have grown suddenly thinner, perhaps in a single night, for I
nothing but hosannah is not enough for life, the hosannah must be tried in
don’t want to murder him,’ he said, and he suddenly went and murdered him.
servant‐lad, he waddled at last into the drawing‐room. It may be assumed
from the door to the coachman, and the carriage that had brought the
by no one but the servant who had died in the hospital. And after that the
to make a beginning in that direction.
like a wisp of tow (this comparison and the phrase “a wisp of tow” flashed
find out.”
Mitya took his hands from his face and laughed. His eyes were confident.
The old man was quite delighted. He wrote the note, and sent for the
time—the fifteen hundred roubles which the prosecutor said I’d hidden
surname was Svyetlov. I heard it for the first time that day, during the
peace. Here was holiness. But there was confusion, there was darkness in
that I was afraid you would betray me (I never even thought of that), but
come into fashion,” and so on, and so on. And that was why they had
cruel insult to him and stood up for him. And so in the first place, we
tavern into the market‐place; at that moment the boys were coming out of
that another man, a fellow creature, made in the likeness and image of
him. How well she has bandaged it, Alexey Fyodorovitch! I couldn’t have
“I—there’s nothing the matter,” he turned suddenly to Grushenka, who had
here for Easter, and I asked him: ‘Your Excellency,’ said I, ‘can a lady’s
bodies, but that had caused no scandal nor even the slightest excitement.
“That monk,” that is, the monk who had invited them to dine with the
smile. His eyes were riveted on Alyosha. They were standing again under a
drunk now. I’ll wait three hours—four, five, six, seven. Only remember you
affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront, and this
them with her as chaperons. Katerina Ivanovna herself gave way to no one
kissed his hand to Alyosha. He ran another five paces and then turned
nice one,’ he said, ‘where people don’t know about us.’ ‘We will move, we
could hear them: the old warder was dozing in the corner, and not a word
give me a clean rag to bind up my finger with. I have hurt it, and it’s
“Have you, too, fallen into temptation?” cried Father Païssy. “Can you be
how many thousand years. Who is it laughing at man? Ivan! For the last
with Father Païssy. Alyosha could not resist asking:
the last time I repeat, it wasn’t I killed him! I was erring, but I loved
scarcely left his cell, and had been forced by illness to deny even his
the prisoner in the room set aside for the purpose were practically
And he repeatedly made the sign of the cross to the saints painted above
“Oh, no, not at all. I was quite serious in what I said,” Alyosha declared
A minute later Alyosha was sitting beside his brother. Ivan was alone
Go alone, there’s your road!”
“That for me? So much money—two hundred roubles! Good heavens! Why, I
agitated and breathless.
would be bitterer still for the unhappy creatures. For even if the
“In the legal sense. An aberration in which everything is pardonable.
mental faculties was self‐evident. Then giving his grounds for this
to be insulted by me and refused to accept my challenge, and if she heard
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