always putting on his big, round, silver‐rimmed spectacles. He rarely read
distinction flocked, for instance, to the elders of our monastery to
shake you off!”
And here the man had come back to her, who had loved her so ardently
you’ll excuse my saying so, is a matter of nerves, in my opinion ... your
“What should I go for?”
prisoner take the envelope from under the pillow, did he find the money,
trick. Would you believe it, it has never happened to me with any other
from a woman you love. From one you love especially, however greatly you
prosecutor, too, stared.
white again.
too, a peculiar, nervous laugh. He remembered it long after.
at moments, to think that he had written his own sentence of death with
are not a fool, you are far cleverer than I thought....”
won’t even look at me.’ And I felt it so much at last that I wondered at
two stories, one of the finest in our town. Though Madame Hohlakov spent
more than that.” Scarcely had the old woman reached home when they gave
every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
back to reason. But I swear, by God, Alyosha, I never insulted the poor
“Stay, Alexey, one more confession to you alone!” cried Dmitri, suddenly
strangely, as it were disconnectedly, and inconsecutively. He began a
spoke just now of Tatyana.”
n’existe point!_ Don’t pay attention: he is a paltry, pitiful devil,” he
her little Lizaveta in her arms, wished me yesterday. God bless the mother
money, he might still endure to take it. But he was too genuinely
and he lived in a corner beyond the apiary in an old decaying wooden cell
the sofa.
of us, in a tavern at that very fair. They’d invited me, and first of all
how it all happened. He had enemies certainly. Suddenly there was a marked
evidence, the celebrated doctor withdrew. The letter produced by Katerina
Alyosha shook hands with her. Grushenka was still crying. He saw that she
show you a trick that will make you die with laughing. A piece of meat,
road, sighing and shaking our heads, no doubt, and yet smiling joyfully in
He looked down and sank into thought.
Ivan is a scoundrel! And I’ll marry Grushenka in a minute if I want to.
tremor at meeting Fetyukovitch, and that they had been enemies from the
away from Alyosha, though she still sat on his knee with her arm round his
was frivolous, unruly, of violent passions, impatient, and dissipated, and
“You have done no harm. You behaved beautifully, like an angel,” Madame
it is, sometimes, especially in cases like the present one, with the
hearing the applause, in a loud voice threatened to clear the court if
trouble he had given. Coming out of the hut he saw nothing but forest all
Smerdyakov remained, sleeping on a bench in the hall.
“Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age—it has
connection with his taverns and in some other shady business, but now he
it all to the Jews? You will found institutions and enterprises of all
dropped at his feet and bowed my head to the ground.
are.”
see what Father Ferapont would say or do. For they felt with a certain
would never come and see me again, and when I dragged myself down to her,
“Strange, extremely strange!” Miüsov pronounced, not so much with heat as
Chapter III. A Little Demon
“But I shall take Alyosha away from the monastery, though you will dislike
must, I concluded, have been laughing at me all the time. Later on, of
Mitya ended beside himself. He held Alyosha with both hands on his
How could such a vulgar devil visit such a great man as you! Yes, there is
young hero’s pure heart. I am far from intending to apologize for him or
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was Alyosha, and Ivan was greatly surprised to find that, in opposition to
were three kinds of well‐baked bread, two bottles of wine, two of
agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy all copies of
destiny.
“Ach, Vanka’s gone to Petersburg;
“Oh, I am ready to approve of you now,” said he; “will you shake hands?
pistols. Here’s the letter. Read it! It’s not for you I tell it,” he added
Mitya, run and find his Maximov.”
former lover, nothing would have happened. But she lost her head, she
imagined that!), and I was so exasperated at the mere possibility of such
his father.
we see a great sign from God.”
could still scarcely get over his incredulity; he still fancied that Ivan
you look at it or not?”
“And did you believe he would do it?”
Chapter II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
was called Shkvornev. Fenardi really was called Fenardi, only he wasn’t an
dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the
letters—what for? Why had he kept them for fourteen years afterwards
suddenly clutched his head in both hands.
Trifon Borissovitch was a thick‐set, healthy peasant, of middle height,
coffin. But this suggestion made casually by some one was unanswered and
happen. Alyosha understood his feelings.
referring to your hearts and minds, gentlemen of the jury, but I want to
like a kind of convict. Yet I was awfully well received in the little
go to him in any case before going to the captain, though he had a
you, or better still, to meet you in that same place, he will ask your
“I might well be,” Ivan groaned angrily. “All my stupid ideas—outgrown,
whole; he has trained himself not to believe in the help of others, in men
the culprit was Karp, a dangerous convict, who had escaped from prison and
“Mercy on us! Could any one think of it all in such a desperate hurry? It
it to me. It was a very thick bundle, all rainbow‐colored notes. And
finger just now.” The curtain was pulled, and Alyosha saw his assailant
a feature of the Karamazovs, it’s true, that thirst for life regardless of
doubt it.”
“So the critical moment has come,” he thought to himself with spiteful
“No, Lise; it’s better I didn’t run after him,” said Alyosha, getting up
drive anyhow. Nothing will restrain them, they just force it along.”
And, you know, Pyotr Ilyitch is anything but a coward. He at once took up
hour, in which Alyosha fell on the earth, and rapturously swore to love it
he could scarcely breathe. “No, this throbbing at my heart won’t stop,” he
she paid two thousand for the doctor from Moscow herself. The counsel
though it looked like a chapel, for it contained an extraordinary number
“Yes, it’s a fearful thing to shed a father’s blood—the father who has
smock. Her coarse, almost black hair curled like lamb’s wool, and formed a
with it, but so it always was with him in all his undertakings, in all his
“Well, I’m going away. You’ve had too much brandy.”
document, a letter ... take it, read it quickly, quickly! It’s a letter
everyday rite. But Miüsov fancied that it was all done with intentional
the little monastery of Obdorsk in the far North. It was he who had been
consultation. The President was very tired, and so his last charge to the
give it me,” the crazy mother begged, whimpering. Either because the
their imagination was that the cannon kicked.
“Mitya, lead me away ... take me,” said Grushenka helplessly. Mitya
“What can be the matter?” muttered Rakitin, leading Alyosha into the
the direct consequence of the secular law? There could be no more terrible
she sent for me a month ago, gave me three thousand roubles to send off to
their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are
utmost to prevent Ivan Fyodorovitch from going.”
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“Ah, brother, but a Balaam’s ass like that thinks and thinks, and the
Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career
this study will come later, at leisure, when all the tragic topsy‐turvydom
regenerated, would enter on a new path. That was what he believed in, and
Chapter III. Gold‐Mines
“Ah, Lise, it was not so a bit. The letter is with me now, and it was this
shall open all your letters and read them, so you may as well be
the mines, breaking ore with a hammer? I am not a bit afraid of that—it’s
has come. That is clear and it’s a sin to hide it,” the fanatic, carried
At the hospital he was at once allowed to see the patient. Smerdyakov was
arrest, the prisoner fell sick of a fever and died unconscious in the
flew towards the town, urged on the driver, and suddenly made a new and
Go alone, there’s your road!”
is awfully keen on it. He doesn’t ask me, but orders me to escape. He
and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no
filled the margins but had written the last line right across the rest.
we went for a walk; he would not talk. There was a wind blowing and no
reproduce his speech word for word, but will only summarize the gist of
misgivings.” He began questioning her and at once learnt the most vital
he might have reflected that each of them was just passing through a
God will look on you both more graciously, for if you have had so much
a faint one, but then Dardanelov was such a paragon of purity and delicacy
ached.
“That I absolutely refuse to answer, gentlemen. Not because I couldn’t, or
Moscow, where she had a house of her own, yet she had a house in our town
have all the mighty of the earth, the rulers, the chief judges, and the
about myself. In spite of that I became very fond of him and spoke with
kill myself, because I loathe everything! I don’t want to live, because I
you’re bored?” Grushenka flew at him with evident intention of finding
when you least expect them. She spoke lately about a pine‐tree, for
every one, and if I can’t borrow it, I give you my word of honor I
previous occasion, in a special cart also with three horses traveling at
down, I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.’ ”
other hand, if he had said nothing about the money, but had committed the
asked Mitya to get into the cart with somewhat excessive surliness.
As for the President of our Court, I can only say that he was a humane and
and I myself was put in such a position ... that I could not invite
“Don’t disturb yourselves. I am not mad, I am only a murderer,” Ivan began
said, “and to us above others. Our little lost one has sent us this, who
to beat me cruelly. He lay ill; I thought looking at him, if he were to
cheerful to‐day.”
looked an awful dandy in a brand‐new frock‐coat. I heard afterwards that
first word,” said Rakitin, malignantly. “That escaped you unawares, and
seemed to every one a guarantee of peace and order in the house.
and blamed himself when they kept recurring to him during the last month.
knife with me to‐day, I can’t make up my mind ...”
Mitya’s whole face was lighted up with bliss.
and did not let her see the new puppy. With the greatest courtesy he made
room. But it was dark there, and she could only hear the invalid beginning
happening. When they began filling up the grave, he suddenly pointed
you. Your refusal of that great cross will only serve to make you feel all
even, perhaps, somewhere here, in Mokroe. This would explain the
which had been growing in him all those days, he was bound to get into the
“You see, I remember once taking a cap for a rag, perhaps to wipe my pen
written.’ But, I repeat again, he was running to her, to seek her, solely
become a monk and entered on this precious path. He appeared first to me
pressed his forehead to the stone floor and lay so for a long while.
he has a banquet. There’s not been such a banquet since the Superior
“Yes, I know it was that old man Grigory murdered him.”
tried to force his way in twice, but Mitya persistently begged Varvinsky
“The talented prosecutor, with extraordinary subtlety, sketched for us all
mother actually was the mother of Ivan too.
he said. ‘It’s to win her heart, so it’s in a good cause. When I get hold
“No, I didn’t tell them that either.”
brother Ivan. He’s trying to get Mitya’s betrothed for himself, and I
‘Why not go and kill the master?’ And how did he know what had happened,
far innocent. Are you fond of children, Alyosha? I know you are, and you
knife with me to‐day, I can’t make up my mind ...”
slavishly devoted to me, and yet all at once his eyes would flash and he’d
shall certainly spy on her!”
The same thing happened with the Poles. They took up an attitude of pride
“Go to your brother, the prison will be shut; go, here’s your hat. Give my
that she had no feeling for her husband but contempt. The marriage
of anything. He went once to the theater, but returned silent and
become more silent, more modest, sterner, and more thoughtful.
evidence of Katerina Ivanovna, which I will describe directly. Indeed,
brandy and a wineglass on the table.
“But her night fevers have entirely ceased ever since Thursday,” said the
“I am afraid ... I dare not look,” whispered Alyosha.
maintain the opposite, that the envelope was on the floor because the
over her. In another minute she might have cried. She was greatly amused
you receive me as your guest?”
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Smerdyakov with the murder. He did this very circumstantially, and every
she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest
fancy that he has a high opinion of you. Worse still with Alyosha, he
every sin will be expiated, if it is done with our permission, that we
which had grown from one thousand to two, it was delayed, owing to
it. What’s left of it, eight hundred roubles, is in your hands now,
face tenderly, lovingly; he said nothing for a minute, only looked at me
act to‐morrow at the trial,” he said sharply and angrily again.
killed. The puppy lay beside him feebly moving and he, smiling sadly,
hallucination of a madman,” Mitya still shouted. “He’s simply raving, from
worst of it all was that, as I learned then, the young landowner had been
Those words seemed strange to us, and mother would go to her room and
Him, they flock about Him, follow Him. He moves silently in their midst
lady’s. I have thought of you a long time in that way, Alyosha, and Mitya
resolved with all the fervor of his passion that when once Grushenka told
delight. He looked at Grushenka, laughing continually, and bringing his
I swear I loved you even while I hated you, and you didn’t love me!”
or there can be no harmony. But how? How are you going to atone for them?
flattered at seeing you at my house in the future. How delightful it is
next I am as timid and blind as a mole. But if I am so bloodthirsty and
only other lady present, a similar bow. This polite behavior made an
were not so well satisfied, though even they were pleased with his
which I shall burn Thee for coming to hinder us. For if any one has ever
poor dear, he’s drunk.”
prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God to
Oh, for some remedy I pray
tell her to take them. And you, Alyosha, be sure to tell Mitya that I did
spent an irregular boyhood and youth. He did not finish his studies at the
could boast of her favors during those four years. It was a positive fact,
counsel and admonition. Seeing this, the opponents of the elders declared
to pray over them, return shortly after—some the next day—and, falling in
clever man? What did he mean by that?” The thought seemed suddenly to
of a criminal, and so, far from being on equal terms with you. And it’s
first word,” said Rakitin, malignantly. “That escaped you unawares, and
consideration for her great unhappiness. But in answer to one of the first
but thirsting for you the whole morning. But never mind. We’ll make up for
perhaps I shall. I’m afraid he’ll suddenly be so loathsome to me at that
“What? Went away?” cried Mitya. “When did she go?”
word, “according to certain theories only too clearly formulated in the
Katerina Ivanovna did not take her hand away. She listened with timid hope
contemptuous eyes were fixed upon her, as she finished giving her evidence
in his object, bringing the peasant to the police‐station and arranging
Grushenka, if she will come,’ to which he added three days later, ‘for my
doors; there’s a crowd of them behind the doors and they want to come and
in his object, bringing the peasant to the police‐station and arranging
questioning the women whether they had seen anything the evening before.
he spoke to the lawyers as though he had never met them before in his
“this is a specimen of the lofty‐minded persons who accuse him.” I
saltpeter, ten of sulphur and six of birchwood charcoal. It’s all pounded
dear boy”—Madame Hohlakov suddenly looked arch and a charming, though
wonder, as I did as soon as I had looked at them, “what men like that
Fyodorovitch,” so he testified afterwards, “seemed unlike himself, too;
and didn’t repay it. I preferred to remain a thief in her eyes rather than
a heart glowing with love. It’s not for the sake of my client that I quote
“At once, if she will. And if she won’t, I shall stay all the same. I’ll
Let me tell you, too, the old man, your father, is standing in Mitya’s way
has lived in my joys, in my successes. To murder such a father—that’s
“That’s just so. You can’t tell beforehand.”
withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only
ran. “Pater Seraphicus—he got that name from somewhere—where from?”
past him on the road, or a jackdaw on a cross—that he will remember. He
I am one to talk! Have you any water? Give me a drink for Christ’s sake!”
frighten them, but the fact was that he really had lost consciousness, as
from his sores with a pot‐sherd—and for no object except to boast to the
“I say! You are going it! Why, it’s a regular mutiny, with barricades!
birthday. I had not been out for the last few days, so I had no chance of
of to‐day is farther behind us, so that it’s possible to examine it with
loathed the coarse, flat, crooked nail on the right one, and now they
You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is
his father, he answered precisely that he had tapped that signal, that
They embraced and kissed.
easy. Besides, every one in the prison, down to the humblest warder, had
Kolya held the cannon in his hand so that all could see and admire it.
“She was terribly scared.
shrink from nothing, gentlemen of the jury, considering the importance of
“He brought him the money as a man he could trust, saying, ‘Take care of
remember him sitting, sweet and gentle, smiling, his face bright and
Father Iosif walked away, grieving the more since he had put forward his
rather a curious incident. When he had just left the university and was
not having been born a Christian? And who would punish him for that,
of it they’ll come along. Well, there’s nothing of that sort here, no
Fetyukovitch would have charged more, but the case has become known all
passed.
from their position began to lay out the corpse according to the ancient
contravention of common sense and logic,” he continued. “Not to refer to
no business of mine. I told you, all I want is to live on to thirty, and
profoundly astonished, flushing crimson, and frowning.
is mistaken there. If I had a certain sum in my pocket, I would have left
Ivanovna’s. Now Alyosha was impressed by Madame Hohlakov’s blunt and
boys remembered it. Kolya Krassotkin was the foremost of them.
“Gentlemen, it’s Smerdyakov!” he shouted suddenly, at the top of his
do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief
me, am I very ridiculous now?”
youth, and with my pockets full of money. I did drop some hint as to my
the priest’s? Come, will you go?”
hidden deep in the hearts of many of the monks. Even more powerful was
afflicted, and, worse still, an infidel, and that it was Fyodor Pavlovitch
like her, ‘the crazy woman’ ”—that was what he used to call his dead wife,
He was—if the reader has not forgotten—one of the group of boys who two
had lain in their coffins as though alive, that they had shown no signs of
find the priest at home at Ilyinskoe; he had gone off to a neighboring
of his destiny. He drove away any other idea, in fact. But for that ending
is, and that this is the vital point, and still I won’t say.”
In brief, there was a great deal of talk. I know for a fact that there
Yes, I think the ladies who came to see the spectacle must have been
Grushenka’s suffering, a fellow creature’s suffering, touched his good‐
Smerdyakov, who was looking at the ground again, and playing with the toe
rainbow‐colored notes. (I asked him about that on purpose.) Oh, beware of
the table and I’ll sit beside you and look at you, and go on talking. You
“And the devil? Does he exist?”
grave, had gone to Odessa, abandoning the grave and all his memories.
“Jews high and low alike.” It may be presumed that at this period he
he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather
cried in haste. “I was rude to Andrey!”
almost unnoticed. Some of those present may perhaps have inwardly noticed
seemed to be insinuating something, Smerdyakov showed himself unchanged.
dig the earth with my own hands. We must work, do you hear? Alyosha said
“What do you want with her? Why do you torment her? She’s done nothing,
Mihailovitch, was very favorably disposed to Grushenka. His abuse of her
hands.
haste.
would be enough to satisfy your thirst for vengeance. You won’t ask for
accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen,
“_Lajdak!_” one of the Poles shouted in reply.
face, and clever, observant, narrow brown eyes, and was wearing ordinary
on leaving Fyodor Pavlovitch and opening a little shop in Moscow with
fence of a neighbor’s kitchen‐garden, on the other the strong high fence,
in the past ... in the tavern, for instance, I’ve talked to every one, so
“Oh, yes, that’s what I say,” he went on stubbornly. “One head is good,
sorrow out, for having spoken of it. He was sorry to leave her in such a
of weariness. “I have nothing particular to tell the court.”
female sex as for men; he was discreet, almost unapproachable, with them.
“Well, doctor, have I another day in this world?” he would ask, joking.
way. Alyosha, darling, well, here goes! I’ll tell you our secret!”
father shouted to him from the carriage. But in spite of his uneasiness he
gymnasium, he got into a military school, then went to the Caucasus, was
“All right. I’ll see for myself. Are they playing cards?”
“Och, true,” sighed the monk.
people want thrashing, as Fyodor Pavlovitch said very truly yesterday,
unwilling to let him go. The journey was not an expensive one, and the
fancy he’ll succeed, too. And what’s more, it’s with Mitya’s consent. For
“You know, I keep thinking of your pistols.”
“Why do you look at me without speaking? I’ve only come with one question,
loved life too much, shamefully much. Enough! Let’s drink to life, dear
“I’m weak....” she said in an exhausted voice. “Forgive me.... I’m weak, I
him again. But he was taken away, and I did not see him again. Twenty‐
satisfied. But he only succeeded in saving a hundred roubles. In the end
now again I’m thinking: I may take to Mitya again. I liked him very much
boots”—that was the deputy prosecutor. “He has a chronometer worth four
ill‐treating you?”
that we have facts, witnesses, and his own words. I confess, gentlemen of
this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to men.
own expense, after Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom he had often pestered about the
that, if there were no God, he would have to be invented. _S’il n’existait
had drunk two cups of chocolate. His face was red, and his nose was
village girls play—they invite the unwary to lick an ax in thirty degrees
the next room. The room in which they had been sitting till that moment
the court usher to arrange for medical aid for Ivan. The doctor announced
And I advise you never to think about it either, my dear Alyosha,
not understand how he could, half an hour before, have let those words
envelope now on the table before us, and that the witness had received
begun. It has long to await completion and the earth has yet much to
shall. I’m afraid that he will suddenly become so loathsome to me with his
on the sly, and I openly. And so all the other sinners fall upon me for
“Have you asked him whether he believes it?” asked Alyosha.
Mitya was reduced to silence. He flushed all over. A moment later he felt
The voice ceased. It was a lackey’s tenor and a lackey’s song. Another
Him, ‘but at last we have completed that work in Thy name. For fifteen
such a hurry, only to get out of trouble, only to run away and save
Grushenka, he suddenly shouted “Bernard!” When, after Rakitin’s cross‐
coat. His stockingless feet were thrust in old slippers almost dropping to
it’s nonsense I’m talking now, let me finish, and you, gentlemen, being
are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal
later. He asks your blessing, and begs you to forget what has taken
will not regret it. At the same time you will destroy in him the
vitally important for us to know exactly why you needed that sum, I mean
to get to know the investigating lawyer, though he had met him and talked
to be, but even more revolting. In a short time he opened a great number
if you are a clever man,” his screwed‐up left eye seemed to say.
Smerdyakov. One day he came to me and said, ‘If it was not my brother, but
the rest poor, I’ll eat sweets and drink cream and not give any to any one
Our evenings, one after another, were spent in such stirring and fervent
Hohlakov announced with serene amazement. Mitya was stupefied.
had expected. And, crushed as he was by his own sorrow, his eyes
mind—and it was for all his life and for ever and ever. He had fallen on
now. Who were they?
though it looked like a chapel, for it contained an extraordinary number
“Oh, Rakitin, I assure you I’d forgotten about it,” cried Alyosha, “you
without a prospect of gain for himself. His object in this case was
despise me? Did he despise me? Tell me, tell me, Alyosha, did he despise
before what terms you were on with him, or I’d have come to you long ago
believe, even then—who, retiring from the service into a life of leisure,
one movement to cast Thyself down, Thou wouldst be tempting God and have
not healthy in his face. It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and
scoundrel. Ivan is not going to Tchermashnya—why is that? He wants to spy
insisted on being wheeled back into this room here.”
You are working for the whole, you are acting for the future. Seek no
disgrace!”
come upon him at once. And that very apprehension, that very wonder,
only of one side of me ... of my thoughts and feelings, but only the
hated Alyosha, recalling the conversation he had just had with him. At
will see no more of me. That’s why I am dressed up, so as to be ready.”
I am bound to my dear.
capricious and tearful and insane! And now I can get a servant with this
“What suspicion? Suspicion or not, I should have galloped here just the
“I’m not talking about his faith. I mean those two in the desert, only
Yet, ’tis not for her foot I dread—
arm‐chair. His face was covered with blood, but he was conscious and
quickly forgot them, and forgot them for a long time, “abandoning himself
in his hands. He affirmed that the Poles had cheated at cards. In reply to
sometimes be.
myself why.... Oh, of course, I was furious then about that creature, and
consciousness that I had torn that damned money off my breast at last and
“No one else. He will let me know if she goes to the old man.”
might mean more than threats, and that such a frenzy might turn threats
“Oh, but she did not finish cutting it.”
drank a bottle and a half of it, and I was ready to dance, it took it away
Suddenly a man in a violent rage darted out from the arcade of shops close
me. The cycle of the ages is accomplished. That’s my position. And though
suggested to him that his brother Ivan was in love with Katerina Ivanovna,
eh?”
had reached a decision, smiled slowly, and went back.
sent? Here, give her three roubles and pack a dozen pies up in a paper and
surprised, indeed, that you haven’t inquired about it before. It’s true I
me, though he was still jealous of me and still convinced that I loved
Every one laughed. Their question was frivolous and my answer was not
I’ll come again and kill him. You can’t protect him!”
“You’re a senseless fellow. I tell you it’s not Sabaneyev, but Tchizhov,
Grigory and Smerdyakov ran into the room after Dmitri. They had been
“Good‐by, Ivan! Don’t be too hard on me!” the father called for the last
lofty feelings, whose love is pure and full of self‐sacrifice, may yet
the cushion, and pulled out an unopened pack of cards.
truth of the prisoner’s statement that he ran away from his father’s
He determined to drop his litigation with the monastery, and relinquish
shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!”
seeking.”
is awful, awful!”
you’re bored?” Grushenka flew at him with evident intention of finding
hardly noticed.
to come. There’s no need to build halls for this, let him take them into
“Among us there is sin, injustice, and temptation, but yet, somewhere on
coat. “I’ll turn it up at the wrist. It won’t be seen under the coat....
silent.
he was always in too great a hurry to go into the subject.
“Ilusha, I can show you another trick. I’ve brought you a little cannon.
“I know you would all like it to be Zhutchka. I’ve heard all about it.”
There was nothing left but faith in what the heart doth say. It is true
sometimes tragic in the extreme. His whole life now is centered in Ilusha,
admit that until to‐day he hesitated to accuse the prisoner of a full and
“This is delirium, gentlemen, raving delirium,” cried the captain of
me, I would fall on my knees.’
prompted me, and that I didn’t remember it of myself?”
he added with thoughtful penetration, never for a moment taking his eyes
comes from our parts; he was a soldier in our regiment. He does jobs for
I was in ecstasy, laughing and talking all the way, I don’t remember what
the genuineness of Ivan’s horror struck him.
danced and feasted so lavishly. She was sitting there with no one by her
“I’m talking of other people’s money. Stealing straight out of a pocket?
and may proceed from different causes. But if there has been any healing,
vitally important for us to know exactly why you needed that sum, I mean
“There ... there! What a girl I am! Blurting things out!” exclaimed
I will note, too, in passing, that although many in our town knew of the
am sorry for it now. But I had a special reason. So now I’ve told you all
his half‐brother Dmitri (though he arrived later) than with his own
finish without interruption. The court relapsed into silence at once. The
Grushenka himself. He hopes to keep me from Grushenka by that (as though I
he felt that a passion of pity, such as he had never known before, was
clutch at his breathing. “And why did I tell him I was going to
very last day, Smurov did not know that Kolya meant to go to Ilusha that
foreseeing it, to Alyosha, four days ago in the arbor, when, in answer to
Mitya was sitting sideways with his back to the curtains. He listened
to move on a little, would it break the goose’s neck or not?’ ‘It’d be
Just as he reached his own house he stopped short, asking himself suddenly
Chapter IV. At The Hohlakovs’
already decided. Don’t decide, spare me! I can’t live without Grusha. Wait
contrary to his custom he was silent, though he had been drinking. He did
Grigory rushed to Marfa and sent her to Lizaveta, while he ran to fetch an
_Lives of the Saints_, for the most part sitting alone and in silence, and
“Did he tell you that alone, or before some one else, or did you only hear
“Oh, what ideas you have!” Lise shrieked in delight. “And you a monk, too!
individually. I don’t believe in medicine. It’s a useless institution. I
struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from
it in taverns? A man who premeditates such a crime is silent and keeps it
him that I was going to spend the evening with my old man, Kuzma Kuzmitch,
boys, Ilusha’s schoolfellows. They had all been impatiently expecting him
that if he could only obtain ready money he would be satisfied, although
the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it
“There was milfoil in it, too.”
“Why, does he make a row?” asked Ivan coarsely.
haste!
“Nothing at all, my boy. Damn it all! why, no schoolboy of thirteen
“Gentlemen, what a pity! I wanted to see her for one minute only; I wanted
it, no one knows it, but when night comes on, I sometimes lie as I did
brought his fist violently on the table. “What do you mean by ‘something
babies among the cabbages in the kitchen‐garden. It’s winter now and there
“That money was a torment to him,” Katya went on with impulsive haste. “He
the evidence becomes less trivial and less incomplete even to an
shy. He was a pretty boy of about eleven, called Kartashov. He was sitting
three thousand which means a career for him. Oh, I am not contradicting
and now you’re rushing off on the spree—that’s you all over! Three dozen
on a couch. She was particularly smartly dressed and was evidently in a
Instead of answering, the boy broke into a loud tearful wail and ran away.
begging him not to exaggerate, not to overstep the bounds, and so on, as
seeing you. So we are praying to the same God.”
condemn him in place of the valet and will no one stand up for him? They
once, what was his motive? What was he reckoning on? What was he aiming
asked them all to sit down. The blood rushed to Alyosha’s cheeks. He was
down so low over the open grave that the boys caught hold of his coat in
funny, wouldn’t it be awful?”
who was walking by, raised his head and looked at the boy. He seemed not
to pay for the journey (though he tells us he had fifteen hundred roubles
don’t let him in.”
advantage or reward there or here, I should, at least, save my skin. And
graver occasions, and very subtle and complicated ones, when Fyodor
you would have lightened the path for others too, and the evil‐doer might
“Don’t inquire. I seemed to see something terrible yesterday ... as though
thousands were lost to her for ever. The little village and the rather
forgotten, great elder, it is distinguished! I shall make a note of that.
play the buffoon. I am not afraid of your opinion, for you are every one
could not bear to go out of the room without it. But Madame Hohlakov took
I shall be told, perhaps, that Alyosha was stupid, undeveloped, had not
too, the breath of corruption had come, naturally, as from all dead
without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of
and put business in her way.
could conceive such an audacious, savage act, and carry it out, tells
seemed to seize the moment.
something of my words.
the reformed law courts. I don’t believe he’d be dangerous; besides, I’ll
gave up drinking and was almost crazy with terror that his boy would die.
“Well, are you coming to the Superior?” Miüsov asked Ivan abruptly.
about you. Your face haunted my heart. ‘He despises me,’ I thought; ‘he
“Yes, and quick to take offense. And there was too much rhetoric, such
ever.
the first consisting of criticism in refutation of the charge, sometimes
“No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But
(have you heard about Father Zossima?). This is a case of mathematics: you
“Stay! You knew it! And I see you understand it all at once. But be quiet,
the bushes and hid behind them. He held his breath. “I must wait now,” he
deserve to suffer. Stay, wait, afterwards, I won’t have that....” she
drawing‐room, and sent the old woman downstairs with a summons to his
ritual, and all the monks gathered together in the church. And before dawn
on our travels?’ I thought I might bring him back to our talk of the day
may be wondered why, if he felt so certain, he had not gone to her at
temporary compromise inevitable in our sinful and imperfect days. But as
headlong into the room.
“Three years ago?” asked the elder.
you, not him; take me to the other end of the world.’ And I’d only forty
what I did. You did not see it, Ivan Fyodorovitch, he did. What he thought
times as you’ve walked past, saying to myself: That’s a man of energy who
He jumped up in a frenzy, flung off the towel, and fell to pacing up and
to beat me cruelly. He lay ill; I thought looking at him, if he were to
with enthusiasm.
should have been exposed to the jeering and spiteful mockery of the
asked his question about Dmitri’s inheritance, and got the same answer
He.” Thou didst not come down, for again Thou wouldst not enslave man by a
being in love doesn’t mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet
“Why, I thought that it was because you guessed, that you went away in
to twenty‐five thousand roubles as soon as she received it, so that those
“The effect of it was amazing. He leapt up and shouted to us, ‘Then
“Good‐by, chickens, I go with my heart at rest. And you, granny,” he added
Mitya’s trial. Three weeks before his death, feeling the end approaching,
from the rest of the three thousand,” said Mitya firmly.
crossing his legs. “So far as I understand, then, the realization of such
were simultaneously at work, one of which was the deeply‐rooted hostility
bureau with numerous little drawers, she began pulling out one drawer
“Madam, I am so touched. I don’t know how to thank you, indeed ... for
more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes
one for the three thousand.” It was half‐past seven when he rang at the
is so dear to me. Now I will tell you. His face has been as it were a
disturbance have been only due to the fact that his elder’s body had shown
crucified him on the wall, hammered nails into him and crucified him, and
impatience, so as to wake Marfa Ignatyevna as soon as possible. At last
violent anger was not the sum itself; there was a special motive at the
yellow; the pistol loaded by Mitya at Perhotin’s with a view to suicide,
case, was almost an innocent babe compared with many of them. And yet we
alone on a pillar—I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I
maker, but with luck I could open a café restaurant in Petrovka, in
“And you remember that for certain now?”
me ... How can I help it when you put the lint in another place? I’ve been
‘in the hands of the living God,’ that’s how one must think of those
should end by being worthy to become only the Church and nothing else. So
turned away with a curse and went to the tavern to play billiards.
Lord, in this judgment.’ Well, my poem would have been of that kind if it
it before?”
seized the moment to put before him, very reasonably, that, even if he
was customary in poetry to bring down heavenly powers on earth. Not to
“What is it?”
had some design. Ivan felt that.
opened the door they grinned at him, hoping he would come in and would do
from him at once the whole of the sum required. Of the commercial value of
sensation began to obtrude itself again. “Is it possible that a miserable,
the things he can do! I trained him so as to bring you a well‐trained dog,
convinced that Dardanelov did not know who founded Troy. Kolya had read of
in the singing but did not go on to the end. Falling on his knees, he
to Petersburg as other parents did. “You have only one son now,” they
would have got the remaining two thousand three hundred roubles, since he
both gave way in everything to Katerina Ivanovna, and that she only kept
“My God has conquered! Christ has conquered the setting sun!” he shouted
man speaking in a circle of intimate and sympathetic friends. His voice
It’s a fact that I did play with them, but it’s a perfect libel to say I
Mitya hurriedly pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and read:
despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind
that Mitya noticed it. Coming at last to the moment when, seeing his
struck him for the first time, “and I am not angry with you. But if Ivan
for Mitya. Madame Hohlakov had been slightly ailing for the last three
seemed to him sinful. But a minute later he laughed again just as softly
are doing their best for him,” thought Alyosha. “That’s good.”
Street, in the house of a woman called Kalmikov.... For God’s sake, Alexey
curiosity to the meeting of the two rivals—the proud aristocratic girl and
three thousand roubles in my pocket when I went to see Grushenka, and it
well, and could tell from the sound of it that his father had only reached
that the great idea may not die.”
“No, it is untrue,” said the elder.
strengthened the case for the prosecution. Altogether, Rakitin’s discourse
Suddenly he jerked up his head, listened a moment, and hearing nothing
in the Orthodox Church.... That’s Rome, and not even the whole of Rome,
after another, looking for something with desperate haste.
open, they were afraid to go in to Fyodor Pavlovitch “for fear anything
“Serve him right!” shouted Dmitri breathlessly. “If I haven’t killed him,
“I did not believe it even then. I’ve never believed it. I hated you, and
“We will come back to this later,” Nikolay Parfenovitch decided. “Now,
what is it, what is it?” The doctor began waving his hands again. “It
you will remember, was put forward in a tone that brooked no
heard it in Paris from a Frenchman. He told me it was read at our mass
within the monastery were brought to bear on the elder, who of late had
more as a captive than as a convict. And what would become of the
had made him feel most ashamed was that he had given in too soon and
and take leave of every one. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors
surprised, indeed, that you haven’t inquired about it before. It’s true I
Alyosha and Madame Hohlakov entered, Ivan Fyodorovitch stood up to take
the elder said jestingly. “Why have you been laughing at Alexey?”
though people ran to question me. But when I wanted to visit him, I was
Handkerchiefs were waved. The President began ringing his bell with all
“At once, if she will. And if she won’t, I shall stay all the same. I’ll
talking incessantly, but quite incoherently, and even articulated his
“But you must look at it like this,” said Alyosha, smiling. “Grown‐up
fifteen hundred roubles which were on his breast, just below the neck, and
the course he suddenly announced to the ladies that he was going to see
fastening on him like bugs.” And so in response to their reiterated
fascinated, upset, ashamed that such a gentleman should fall in love with
hands? We have taken the sword of Cæsar, and in taking it, of course, have
half‐senseless grin overspread his face.
conclusion, and the worst of it was that a sort of triumphant satisfaction
had been arrested, why he must be tried, and so on. Yet it made a great
“He’s a brick, he’s a brick!” cried the other boys, and they began
hardly got into it, when he suddenly stopped short. He remembered his own
prison, and expounded the Gospel to him. They exhorted him, worked upon
he is in terrible need of that money. Though he is proud of himself now,
savories, pies, and sweets—bring them all up at once. That box Andrey has
Grushenka, when she will come to me.’ He scrawled it himself in silence
the pagan civilization and culture, as, for example, in the very objects
“He was an acquaintance. He came to see me as an acquaintance during the
boys. They began teasing Ilusha at once. I am two classes higher up, and,
me. There is a secret, he tells me, but he won’t tell me what it is.”
irritably, his eyes somehow did not follow his mood, but betrayed
by!”
house? In the first place, part of the money was found in the cash‐box,
“Ah! if it were only Zhutchka!”
was listless and lazy, at other times he would grow excited, sometimes,
how well I know all about it! On the envelope is written: ‘To my angel,
his master was fond of him and honored him with his confidence, he would,
Grigory Vassilyevitch lying by the wall, covered with blood, senseless. So
“What! Did he bite your finger?” The captain jumped up from his chair.
Ivanovna, whom he, of course, remembered, and in whom he had at one time
felt obliged to decline the honor of your hospitality, and not without
and now he draws back and looks and listens. Why listen to me? Kiss me,
Chapter I. Father Ferapont
“Who is laughing at mankind, Ivan?”
Here Ippolit Kirillovitch described at length the prisoner’s fatal passion
She listened to everything.
“Oh, dear! couldn’t you go to that counsel yourself and tell him the whole
unlucky three thousand roubles, but he had given up coming to see me ...
unmannerly way to show regret at losing him. Instead of doing so, he flew
“No ... I came with Perezvon. I’ve got a dog now, called Perezvon. A
“Brothers, I am your brother Joseph!” Let him read them further how happy
completely did they take possession of him again. It was just after
Several times afterwards he wondered how he could on leaving Ivan so
chest, he turned pale and pressed his hands to his heart. All rose from
sometimes thought, doubtful even of that. But it must not be supposed that
not your old ladies I mean, but ours. We’ve everything you have, I am
“that I have a secret with Fyodor Pavlovitch in this business. As you know
gloomily, with a melancholy and exhausted air, as though he would say:
heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would
The prosecutor positively pounced on this piece of evidence. It seemed to
them. ‘I’m to be pulled out, not you. It’s my onion, not yours.’ As soon
for months. They said that he wore irons weighing thirty pounds under his
thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn’t have brought you back this
“Oh, how thankful I am to you! You see, I shut my eyes and ask myself if
driving off then with Grushenka to Mokroe, he had “spent three thousand in
would have said that there was no thought in it, no reflection, but only a
gestures. The old lies and formal prostrations. We know all about them. A
life, for instance when he is being led to execution, he remembers just
Father Païssy stood over him for a little.
Katya. He overtook her outside the hospital grounds. She was walking fast,
sent for. They gave their evidence with dignity, though not without some
roars with delight that the torturer is acquitted. Ah, pity I wasn’t
her from you, that she should take I.O.U.’s of mine which were in your
For, even if the rival did disappear next day, he would invent another one
that pocket. I’ve been regretting that joke all night. Give me back the
1.F.3.
the world and of humanity—dost Thou believe that all the wisdom of the
“Nothing but saffron? Don’t you remember any other ingredient?”
had led. Besides the long fleshy bags under his little, always insolent,
he hastened to explain by declaring that he was responsible for the death
here, I can look at Alyosha ... smile at me, dear, cheer up, smile at my
crazy girl! Only once, perhaps, in the first year; then she was very fond
“Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the
rulers of the earth, though hitherto we have not been able to complete our
stood on each side of the bed, so that he could get a full view of Ilusha.
The President intervened, but Fetyukovitch declared he had no more
“Precisely so,” said Smerdyakov, softly and reasonably, watching Ivan
the clerk, directly afterwards, I believe. It made an overwhelming
“Some strangers. One is an official gentleman, a Pole, to judge from his
Chapter I. The Engagement
“Ach! What fine gentlemen’s airs!” Grigory muttered, looking at him.
prompted him with this old slander. Fyodor Pavlovitch did not understand a
walls are receding.... Who is getting up there from the great table?
“Witness, your words are incomprehensible and impossible here. Calm
sister, and his unmarried daughter. In the lodge lived two of his clerks,
come, but don’t tell him beforehand, for perhaps I may go, but not go
going upstairs to your room early every evening, and yesterday you did not
prosecutor positively seized hold of him.
each other, and glorify life.”
“The fondants are all right. But what do you want with four dozen of
eyes glow. But now I’ve no objection to discussing with you, and I say so
ill, and the thought never leaves me.”
that last counsel of the mighty spirit, Thou wouldst have accomplished all
sun rises, Mitya will leap over that fence.... You don’t understand what
recalled, in fact, every item of expense and added it all up. So the
“And to‐morrow he will turn a chariot into a cart, just to suit his
unhinged, while he felt that he was afraid to put together the disjointed
cost!” cried Mitya.
“Why, you told every one yourself that you’d spent exactly three
comrade and jumped into the carriage.
to Lise’s room every minute that he was there. Madame Hohlakov was lying
murdered. Where shall I put them? Mr. Superintendent, take them.”
was his one anxiety. But these rumors were not quite just. Our prosecutor
they’ll both come to grief.”
honor will come simply because he is in a rage or suspicious on account of
so completely are the people cowed into submission and trembling obedience
“Damn it all, if I hadn’t pulled him away perhaps he’d have murdered him.
their last meeting before the catastrophe, Alyosha started as he answered,
“ ‘Four thousand! What do you mean? I was joking. You’ve been counting
of‐war between two. I’m expressing it awkwardly, perhaps, but I’m not a
“I said that yesterday at dinner on purpose to tease you and I saw your
reader already. Mitya was impatiently anxious not to omit the slightest
the wrong, Ippolit Kirillovitch passed to the evidence of the medical
lodgings, but I looked at Plotnikov’s shop, and saw him just setting off,
me to introduce my family, my two daughters and my son—my litter. If I
account of the crime, in every detail.
“What strength?”
shall keep quiet and I’ll go on talking, for the time has come. But on
he cried suddenly again. He suddenly stopped and taking Alyosha by the
“Come, I say, I’m never thrashed! And you’ve got Perezvon with you?”
Chapter XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
explain what had suddenly arisen in his soul, and drawn him irresistibly
women like such freedom, and she was a girl too, which made it very
his paws in the air, rigid as though he were dead. While this last
by one button’—to use the expression of the kind‐hearted doctor,
“A long fit, lasting a long time—several hours, or perhaps a day or two.
impulsively at Ivan, and seizing both his hands, pressed them warmly. “But
his bed to be nursed. “I am walking about, so I am strong enough, if I
do homage to the Holy Places and then to go to the north to Siberia:
hands. Immediately Fyodor Pavlovitch introduced a regular harem into the
hand, in such cases as the present, to explain and set before you the
him, and at least a little love. There must be no more of this, monks, no
mint!”
come of themselves!”
from Dmitri Fyodorovitch’s own lips.
She clasped her hands.
What was taking place in the cell was really incredible. For forty or
turned, looked at him, and walked away. He had not gone three steps before
telling it! Thousands of things are unconsciously remembered like that
him. In this way he could reach the High Street in half the time.
impossibility would serve at last to console them. For accepting the love
Ivan is a riddle. You are a riddle to me even now. But I understand
consequences, and as I resigned my commission, they took it as a joke. And
relationship, though you really are a relation in spite of your shuffling.
“That you are just as young as other young men of three and twenty, that
“Why, isn’t she a relation of yours? I heard so.”
“I beg your pardon, brother, it was a joke.”
“Why, isn’t she a relation of yours? I heard so.”
though the formalities were not relaxed, exceptions were made for some, at
“I’ll do the business with you at a notary’s, or whatever it is ... in
she won’t come, but maybe she’s looking for more than that—I mean to be
a ringing, happy voice, and bending down he seized the dog and lifted him
“Yes.”
For if you’ve money, Alexey Fyodorovitch, you have only to want a thing
him to any one till to‐day. Only Smurov has known for the last fortnight,
staying in the monastery. Of both of them Father Païssy felt for some
of praying. She used to keep the feasts of Our Lady particularly and used
incorrigible old man’s heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and
give my full consent, gentlemen, only ... do you see?... Stay, stay, write
“That was a nice peasant,” Kolya observed to Smurov. “I like talking to
more.”
Doctor Herzenstube roundly declared that the abnormality of the prisoner’s
ill‐humoredly, “but I will spare myself your company, Fyodor Pavlovitch,
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