He closed one half of the folding doors, and holding the other ajar called
sayings, and told the story of Captain Snegiryov’s “wisp of tow.” But even
Chapter XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
tomb. He practically acknowledged at the time that that was the only
Grushenka and did not worry her by looking after her in any way. It is
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
“I am afraid ... I dare not look,” whispered Alyosha.
remembered his humiliating fear that some one might come in and find him
because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster
spider, without a spark of pity. I could scarcely breathe. Understand, I
which came so quickly, for not a day had passed since his death. At the
venomous sneer.
down perhaps, but would not have killed him. As he ran away, he did not
reached Grushenka, she stopped suddenly, turned as white as chalk and
name of our little town. I had hitherto kept it concealed.) It was brief,
I’ll come again and kill him. You can’t protect him!”
I will only observe that from the first moments of the trial one peculiar
“You’ve had another glass. That’s enough.”
Alyosha was at this time a well‐grown, red‐cheeked, clear‐eyed lad of
he confessed long after to his mother. In this way his reputation as “a
humane—Christian, in fact—we must, or ought to, act only upon convictions
later on in the course of my life I gradually became convinced that that
“I’ve no answer to give you,” said Smerdyakov, looking down again.
once I am taken prisoner by the enemies of the Christian race, and they
and swearing to himself. Then suddenly he would begin singing in a husky
so that nothing could have been foreseen—that he had, in fact, insisted on
Kolya added conceitedly. “We all went off to the justice’s, they brought
Mitya seized his hand to press it, but there was a malignant gleam in the
“Don’t go near him, he’ll hurt you,” cried Smurov in a warning voice.
him, but his heart was suddenly filled with melancholy for some special
like two enemies in love with one another. Katerina Ivanovna’s “returns”
annoyed at being interrupted, “in any one else this moment would be only
to fate. So you think I shan’t love her for ever.”
hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable
was afraid, I ran for fear of meeting him.”
starting suddenly.
Only let me explain—”
“Me laughing! I don’t want to wound my little brother who has been
Grushenka and bombarded her daily with requests for money and she had
another town—where you like—but I will watch over him all my life—I will
“You again?... On the contrary, I’m just going.”
distinguished for his strict keeping of fasts and vows of silence. But the
table in the other corner of the room. Ivan looked strangely at the towel:
attentively—more attentively, please—and you will see that he had
bright. What’s he afraid of? I wondered. For you were frightened; you
am I on earth but a poor relation? By the way, I am listening to you and
He relapsed into gloomy silence.
I had a presentiment of it; but Pyotr Ilyitch came in. I showed Pyotr
“That tall, sniveling fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer.”
Nikolay Parfenovitch put in suddenly, “that he intended to make an attempt
till the very last minute whether she would speak of that episode in the
to avert suspicion. The sum stolen was small, and he shortly afterwards
an unsuspected depth of hopeless grief and despair in the soul of his
saw the recent scene: you have seen the witness’s condition. He was
rouble as an offering to the monastery, and another half‐rouble I saw him
crime” have been gathered together at the house of the executive
of Grushenka in a sort of rapture. She held out her hand with a charming
“Ah, young lady, how good and generous you are compared with me! Now
“Yes, he told me, ‘Don’t tell him.’ It’s you that Mitya’s most afraid of.
always sent them small sums. And now that day Mitya had taken it into his
came, he brought me a sealed envelope, which I was to open at once, if
himself very shortly or send a letter, and that she was to go home and
a shindy. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to retire. I won’t tell you
and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.”
you more, infinitely more than three thousand, I remember it all now, but
And it was three thousand he talked about ...”
Alyosha suddenly smiled a forced smile.
disgrace? This wild question clutched at his heart. “To her, to her alone,
already decided, even if he marries that—creature,” she began solemnly,
that they don’t see me. Where are they? In the blue room?”
the window and thrust his whole head out.
in the greatest embarrassment; now he felt nothing of the kind. On the
next day, and was just hastening to search his pockets when he saw the
with Adelaïda Ivanovna, the village girls and women—at that time
even with this old woman.
besides. I didn’t ask particularly. They’ve set to playing cards, so
“We’ve done what we could in your interest, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” Nikolay
made his way in the dark to her bedroom, where a light was burning. As
wretched and strained beyond his powers of endurance. These two questions
but Maximov, who was terribly depressed, terribly scared, and clung to her
yourself within the walls of the monastery for your own salvation, and
piece of narrow pink ribbon, with which the envelope had been tied up.
social, not from a personal standpoint. He was interested in it as a
sum better than any one when he took the note from him, Maximov, in the
beard. He was wearing a brownish reefer jacket, rather shabby, evidently
evening, Fyodor Pavlovitch sent for Doctor Herzenstube, who arrived at
was not quite outside it. It was a pleasant‐looking old house of two
Perhaps, weighed down by all the hideous horror of his struggle with his
dejected but quite cheerful.”
dissatisfied with our lieutenant‐colonel. He was suspected of
indeed knew of his love for her, for he was always reserved and silent and
delusion and not to sink into complete insanity.
doctor drove up. The captain darted out after the doctor, and, bowing
enjoyed a month before. Mitya remembered their faces, greeting and
the wine made up in quantity for what it lacked in quality.
in that insulting fashion. And I am told that his son, a boy, quite a
Petrovitch when he was hardly thirteen, entering a Moscow gymnasium, and
“Give me my own. Damn Kalganov and his clothes, too!”
was a little room furnished with the bare necessities. There was a narrow
“Ah, we’ve heard of that exploit of yours, too,” cried the captain. “How
impartial. In spite of his profound reverence for the memory of his
“He spoke to me once of his hatred for our father and his fear that at an
prisoner take the envelope from under the pillow, did he find the money,
pretending to be dead, and so on; in fact, showed all the tricks he had
never mind.”
noble sentiments, of his attacks upon serfdom and the political disorder
“Come, you want obedience and mysticism. You must admit that the Christian
the devil knows what, we had to lower our crest. There’s a regular muddle,
mankind in our age have split up into units, they all keep apart, each in
him come to the house again.’ I was struck dumb at these amazing words,
because he is an agent in a little business of mine.”
he’ll praise her to my face, more shame to him! He’s treated me badly
with the murder of your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, perpetrated
“Apples?”
something of the fundamental, elemental, so to speak, faith of his soul
ones, why do you wait on me, why do you love me, am I worth your waiting
Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
criminal, they say, rarely repents, for the very doctrines of to‐day
prove to his audience, and above all to himself, that he had not been
can’t trust my daughter so easily to your brother Ivan Fyodorovitch,
“But that’s only for the moment. And what does this moment stand for?
“Yes.”
“I’ll go, Mitya. I believe that God will order things for the best, that
glasses on a tray. Mitya snatched up the bottle, but he was so bewildered
“Everything was on the verge of ruin and my guardian angel saved me,” was
the only way out! But _beyond_—I don’t know whether Karamazov wondered at
rejoices with us. He is changing the water into wine that the gladness of
He was stylishly and irreproachably dressed in a carefully buttoned frock‐
had opened the door into the passage, whistled for him. The dog leapt up
suddenly. “Sit down with us. How are you?”
something awful will happen. Ah, dear me! At last, Pyotr Ilyitch!” cried
“The Father Superior is engaged just now. But as you please—” the monk
Karamazov always lives in the present. Possibly he regarded him as a
downstairs myself, and confided her to the care of the landlord’s
irritation, though he could speak comparatively lightly of other
laugh at him. I was full of spite and anger. Would you believe it, nobody
for Grushenka. He began from the moment when the prisoner went to the
the present case we have nothing against it.”
Or do you, too, consider that to escape would be dishonorable, cowardly,
instead of self‐realization he ends by arriving at complete solitude. All
“There’s no one there, Agrafena Alexandrovna, I’ve just looked out, I keep
electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all liability to you for
the Department of Finance, which is so badly off at present. The
“I assure you I’m in earnest.... Why do you imagine I’m not serious?” It
constantly reiterated entreaties that he would always put on goloshes in
signals, and that, but for him, he would have known nothing about them. If
court was hushed, trying to catch each word. It was something unexampled.
come upon him at once. And that very apprehension, that very wonder,
completely conquered and captivated the boys. He had one characteristic
temporary compromise inevitable in our sinful and imperfect days. But as
And, you know, Pyotr Ilyitch is anything but a coward. He at once took up
He was perhaps predisposed to mysticism. And the birth of his deformed
something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all
world.”
versts to Tchermashnya. He told them to harness the horses. He went into
quickly to Ivan. Alyosha saw at once that she had asked Ivan that question
he added, turning to Fyodor Pavlovitch with a good‐humored face. He went
friend of the other, as it were, a “bodyguard,” and no doubt the big Pole
offers, with the promise of a reformed and happy life. And he, luckless
and not a _lajdak_. I came here to make you my wife and I find you a
but what if he slandered him unconsciously? What if, finally unhinged by
“Have pity on _me!_” Katya said, with bitter reproach, and she burst into
together some extraordinary proofs of his brother’s innocence and
her hand.
rapidity, answered every question as though eager to put the whole truth
on!”
police captain, to tell him all about it, and leave him to do what he
gestures. The old lies and formal prostrations. We know all about them. A
left the town and the only one still among us was an elderly and much
at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off
complete at the provincial gymnasium. The inconsolable widow went almost
now. That’s the arrangement he made himself ever since this to‐do with
“Who? You mean the myth about that crazy idiot, the epileptic,
pocket. The windows of all the rooms were also closed, so Grushenka could
“Were you very anxious to see me, then?”
that proved? Isn’t that, too, a romance?”
him is not even a romance—this is a sphinx setting us a riddle which he
lawsuit, almost as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when
discussion Mitya got into the trap. Three hours later they arrived. At
children! There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and
chief personages in the district. He kept open house, entertained the
inevitably give the reader some account of the nature of Ivan’s illness.
it.... Oh, believe me, I’m an experienced doctor of the soul, Dmitri
intelligent enough—but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form of
what I mean.”
police; “look at him: drunk, at this time of night, in the company of a
conviction. Listen, I carry the money about me a whole month, I may make
Fathers and teachers, watch over the people’s faith and this will not be a
“Why, this,” Ivan suddenly pulled out a roll of notes. “Here’s the money
is a heavenly angel incarnate too, and she has good reason to call me so.
Rakitin, who was just taking leave of Mitya. They were both talking
the slightest, and what if, after he had been knocking, they opened to
permanent, essential, and eternal foundations, he is going directly
sight of it—a man who’s done a lot of nasty things, but has always been,
old man) ‘and he will dismiss you!’ And if he dismisses me, what can I
cash down!” Mitya added, feeling something wrong. “What’s the matter,
‘laceration.’... But I don’t know how to speak now. I’ve said
of many of them. The path Alyosha chose was a path going in the opposite
“You won’t forgive her!” cried Mitya, with frantic reproach.
almost killed himself; the third person was Grigory’s wife, Marfa
get a woman like me ... and he won’t either, perhaps ...”
“To Russia as she was before 1772.”
explain the whole episode to you before we go in,” he began with
that pocket. I’ve been regretting that joke all night. Give me back the
to Tchermashnya even, but would stay.”
persisted in accusing him and declaring that he had committed the crime
hang them on his wall and show them to acquaintances. He prided himself on
hot, restlessly tapping the arm of the sofa with the tip of her right
before the trial is over. After the trial you’ll decide of yourself. Then
saw a light. I am afraid of your brother Mitya to‐day, Alyosha.”
that bullet in your brain, perhaps?” Pyotr Ilyitch asked uneasily.
unconscious of the storm, instinctively picking out his way. His head
“He was naturally very honest and enjoyed the complete confidence of his
The elder’s death came in the end quite unexpectedly. For although those
... but I’ve unconsciously recalled it—I recalled it myself—it was not you
you left and when you came back—all those facts.”
punishment. There she sees among others one noteworthy set of sinners in a
“Don’t touch me....” she faltered, in an imploring voice. “Don’t touch me,
returns to society, often it is with such hatred that society itself
lying on the floor by the bed, behind the screen.”
at anything here. I always took you for an educated man....”
her, and the corners of her mouth and the lines round it quivered.
equanimity at once. Smerdyakov went to the cellar for something and fell
“What wisp of tow?” muttered Alyosha.
“It ... it must be that envelope of my father’s, the envelope that
one of whom also had a large family. Both the lodge and the lower story
from a phrase of Smerdyakov’s, that it was to his, Ivan’s, advantage that
“I only arrived to‐day.... To see the mess you are in here.” Smerdyakov
unperturbed air.
heart, but Nastasya Petrovna,’ she would say, ‘is of the brood of hell.’
things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner, even
the captain affectionately, though a little anxious on her account.
envelope, on which three seals still remained intact. The envelope was
buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode. Maximov suddenly
“I won’t give it to any one, I won’t give you anything,” Snegiryov cried
told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth. You are an angel on
that he had made a fool of the “captain.” He was a cold, spiteful and
quickly forgot them, and forgot them for a long time, “abandoning himself
jacket, observed:
he was answering in accordance with instructions. When he asked whether he
that he too might weep looking at him.
unhappy all my life.’ Do you hear? though he is condemned to penal
girl’s betrothed, looked at her with that smile of mockery, which was more
was afraid, I ran for fear of meeting him.”
time—the position of the ecclesiastical courts. After discussing several
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him in stern, incisive tones. “But I attach no consequence to these old
the time, but for a long time I wouldn’t believe it. How often I have read
desperately naughty boy, so Smurov was obviously slipping out on the sly.
a hubbub but I did not wait to hear. I only remember a few exclamations I
anything unexpected happens. At first, two knocks, and then, after an
late, nearly three o’clock. Alyosha’s whole soul turned to the monastery,
When the protocol had been signed, Nikolay Parfenovitch turned solemnly to
Dmitri Fyodorovitch held in his hand, as he must have been able to see the
would come to himself immediately; but if he were asked what he had been
“Ye—es,” answered Ilusha in a long whisper, gasping for breath.
regiment was stationed at the time. We found the people of the town
would be offended if he were not jealous. I am like that. I am not
unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep
appearance; add to that a long rapacious mouth with full lips, between
trying to assert himself. Or, better still, like a man who wants
the illegitimate son of Fyodor Pavlovitch (there is evidence of this), he
without an inner pang compared himself in acquirements.
it’s only because the finger of God preserved me, and what’s more, he was
fashion is a great power in society. I began to regard my mysterious
“Ivan,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch suddenly, “stoop down for me to whisper.
though it’s forty years ago, I recall it now with shame and pain. I went
With a feeling of disgust and irritation he tried to pass in at the gate
And he burst out crying as I had done before, hid this face in his hands,
“What’s the matter with him?” Mitya wondered for an instant, and he ran
answering Fyodor Pavlovitch’s questions, and was well aware of it, and
the time fixed, Kolya lay down between the rails. The five others who had
with a pestle in it, a small brass pestle, not much more than six inches
the fiercest opponents of the institution of elders added in a malicious
was difficult to get him out of the cellar. They asked the neighbors to
“And you worry every one about you,” smiled Alyosha.
“But you’re coming back to‐morrow?”
air, and in one instant had carried him into the room on the right, from
was told to bring in the prisoner, and Mitya made his appearance. There
us, and they left us the knout as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can
the barest possibility of such an explanation, how can the prisoner be so
she does not love Dmitri any more.”
“But you are just like a foreigner—just like a most gentlemanly foreigner.
“No, it was all my fault. I am horribly to blame,” Alyosha repeated
the elder and every one else, Alyosha succeeded, however, in supporting
long reclining chair. She had a charming little face, rather thin from
sentimentality, and the wild recklessness of the Karamazovs. Yes, but
him? Who can have killed him if I didn’t? It’s marvelous, extraordinary,
was well content with it. His mind wandered and worked incessantly.
I knew nothing. I was filled with sudden irrepressible fury. With flushed
“She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, charming,
will find a friend, a sister.... Only a sister, of course, and so for
very men of noble hearts, standing hidden in some cupboard, listening and
Fyodor Pavlovitch in character, it is Ivan Fyodorovitch.’
always, all your life and wherever you go; and that will be enough for
choose, and perhaps I will marry you.’ She laughed, and she’s laughing
from the self‐laceration of falsity, for the sake of the charity imposed
“No, I’m going home. I’ll take his horse and get home,” he said,
very silent about it. Yet he was perfectly aware of a letter she had
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personages shed tears. The President submitted, and even postponed ringing
“We are discussing this gentleman’s most interesting article,” said Father
their good understanding, he drank off his glass without waiting for any
Having uttered these words Mitya sat down again on his chair. Grushenka
by lightning.
drenched and scared, and gazed mutely at her with a timid, appealing
perhaps prefer him to Fyodor Pavlovitch for Grushenka.
subjects even now.”
higher rank—two or three ladies and a very old general. They were all
directly after he pressed my hand like that. He had met Pyotr Ilyitch here
“That tall, sniveling fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer.”
do her ‘duty’ to the end, whatever the strain!” Mitya smiled bitterly.
showing curiosity about his secret, not seeking to discover it by direct
Fyodor Pavlovitch waited another two minutes.
decisions of the most precise and phlegmatic people. Pyotr Ilyitch was by
have brought him to this, I am most to blame,’ the woman herself cried, in
“I’ve come—about that business.”
other camp, and end by raising their _free_ banner against Thee. Thou
of certain words and ideas like the Moscow women in Ostrovsky’s play, who
have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the
institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the
artist at coffee and at fish patties, and at fish soup, too. You must come
make a scene.” Mihail Makarovitch himself led Grushenka in. She entered
had seen him looking as usual only two days before. The President began
with Father Anfim, collecting funds for our monastery, and we stayed one
days, and didn’t hand over the government money. Dr. Kravchenko declared
didn’t declare so positively that I’d brought three thousand?”
This was unmistakably said with some malice and obviously with intention;
have felt the impulse to suicide doubled, trebled, and must have killed
awakening from a reverie. He pointed to one of the three large rings
Alyosha cried peremptorily.
“And where did you get the needle and thread?”
I run away, even with money and a passport, and even to America, I should
bench on which he was sitting, and, hastily wiping his mouth with a ragged
Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It!
“Hush, evil tongue!” Grushenka cried angrily at him; “you never said such
simple that I began with the supposition of mutual confidence existing
upon himself to criticize and would never condemn any one for anything. He
“Well done! Now come along,” said Mitya in an enthusiastic whisper.
have arisen indirectly and unconsciously from the secret stings of his
at such teasing; the ladies had christened him “the naughty man,” and he
Mitya flew at him at once, clutched him in both hands, lifted him in the
that they are within a hair’s‐breadth of being ‘turned upside down,’ as
am as much a murderer at heart?” he asked himself. Something very deep
and not grasping man.
had utterly forgotten me, I would fling myself on the floor, melt into
“No, Heaven forbid, I am listening,” said Alyosha with a most good‐natured
“Don’t distress yourself, I beg.” The elder got on to his feeble legs, and
centuries ago. He came down to the ‘hot pavements’ of the southern town in
“That will be so, I understand you, Karamazov!” cried Kolya, with flashing
his spectacles.
when, shortly after, he had accompanied Father Anfim on his pilgrimage to
to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every
on. I wasn’t angry with him at all, really; but I suddenly fancied—that
first words he lost his embarrassment and gained the whole of Lise’s
old Grigory we have said something already. He was firm and determined and
of accomplices who begin to accuse one another at once! And think of the
broke like a challenge from Alyosha. “His hands are clean, there is no
being harnessed, an omelette was prepared for him. He ate it all in an
well, I am a little, goodness knows why, I don’t know...” he muttered,
Alyosha, unable to endure her persistent stare, was irresistibly and
And she laughed a little merry laugh.
“So you despise me now for those twenty‐five roubles? I’ve sold my friend,
away, and there’ll be no more of him. I will commemorate my day of joy on
or hang himself. He behaved like a madman before. You know he is a very
doesn’t remember. Only, you know, it’ll be better, ever so much better, if
tempts the tormentor, just the angelic confidence of the child who has no
from his seat, awaited the answer to his foolish proposal. At the last
that she had a concentrated and spiteful expression. I believe that she
resentfully; “and so I stopped you then at the gate to sound you on that
upon him was so strong that he could not live without her (it had been so
Miüsov severely. “That personage has granted us an audience, so to speak,
on her sarafan to take her to church to be married, and she said, ‘I’ll
long on that path? And if the patient whose wounds you are washing did not
“Ah, mamma, how sweetly you talk! I must kiss you for it, mamma.”
“Alexey!” his father shouted, from far off, catching sight of him. “You
Book X. The Boys
for I have sinned against you too.” None of us could understand that at
way, why did you do that—why did you set apart that half, for what
“Delighted to see you, dear ... and precious fellow, I always thought a
“As for being a rascal, wait a little, Grigory Vassilyevitch,” answered
slender strength, holding Dmitri in front.
dirty dinner‐napkin. Pyotr Ilyitch sat down opposite, and the champagne
“Leave off ... that’s enough!” Smerdyakov waved his hand again. “You used
and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including
“Then she’s there! She’s hidden there! Out of the way, scoundrel!”
intentionally, rougher. He pulled off his shirt, himself.
preceded him. Alyosha gave his evidence modestly and with restraint, but
though I was not on earth. I woke up, and my dear one is close to me. How
“You shall have some, too, when we get home.”
them in that envelope himself, and had seen the envelope sealed up and
the gates of the hermitage into the waiting crowd of pilgrims of the
have been certain to have opened that bag and to have stayed at home to
you’d understand without wasting words, and that being such a sensible man
cruelty—shut her up all night in the cold and frost in a privy, and
you. Take your cards. Make the bank.”
But the elder had already noticed in the crowd two glowing eyes fixed upon
understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?” Ivan laughed suddenly.
awfully stupid about that. You wouldn’t believe it. Awfully. You see,
“You can’t have the gypsies now, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. The authorities have
enter now, he frowned and looked away, as though he were entirely absorbed
_panienotchka_, he he!” laughed Maximov, pulling out his queen, and, as
subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the
instantly, he resigned himself.
commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce
is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.’
“Why ashamed?”
given to many but only to the elect.
“But wait a minute, I’ll open the gate to you,” cried Marya Kondratyevna.
the letter I sent you yesterday, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch—be quick, for
public. But the chief sensation in Mitya’s favor was created by the
think him so saintly?” And that question alone, gradually repeated, gave
You know it’s the valet, the valet killed him! Good heavens! Can they
bedroom, where he was waited upon by an old servant with a kerchief on her
prejudice against the institution of “elders,” which he only knew of by
something.
him: “If she is so anxious I should not marry Katerina Ivanovna” (and he
“Yes.”
Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be homesick for the
President of the Court. It was said that Ippolit Kirillovitch was in a
But do make haste,” she finished nervously. She was quite frightened at
his master and any one who chanced to speak ill or lightly of her. His
“Come now, is that so, Trifon Borissovitch?” replied Mitya. “Surely I
“Afanasy,” I said, “I gave you two blows on the face yesterday, forgive
all fathers: ‘Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.’ Yes, let us
begin talking to “Maximushka” about trifling matters, to keep her from
loved him only for those five years, and I, how do I come in? What right
when the witnesses _à décharge_, that is, called by the defense, began
it, sewed it up before I was drunk, and after I had sewn it up, I went off
words and actions, confirmed by witnesses, and the picture made a terrible
What ought to horrify us is that we are so accustomed to it, and not this
it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in
to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world
universe will fall of itself without cannibalism, and, what’s more, the
the news of the death reached the town. By the morning all the town was
later.
priest made a speech full of feeling. All lamented the terrible illness
that many people mentioned that she looked particularly handsome at that
“You were so primed up with your elder’s teaching last night that now you
had ceased, and that instead of singing and drunken clamor there was
“That’s right; but let me tell you I am ready to give in to you not only
how can you? No, that’s just what you are going away for, to join them ...
boredom or the hope of frivolous diversion. He was suddenly seized with
was frivolous, unruly, of violent passions, impatient, and dissipated, and
of his reformation and salvation?”
kitchen in the house; he did not like the smell of cooking, and, winter
doesn’t want to remain in my company or else he’d come at once. And you
three thousand, but less, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had saved half that
that he became well known in literary circles. But only in his last year
saw a light. I am afraid of your brother Mitya to‐day, Alyosha.”
suppose you still regard that security as of value?”
monks would have said, “He is holier than all of us and he follows a rule
little to live upon. May the Lord increase the sustenance that is so
“You mean about Diderot?”
old and very ugly. The widow led a secluded life with her two unmarried
in my throat at those times,” he used to say. At such moments he liked to
his mistrustfulness.
We’re good and bad, good and bad.... Come, tell me, I’ve something to ask
the garden, watching for me. And if he’s there, he won’t come here, so
Book XII. A Judicial Error
going? You won’t pass by; you see that we two clever people have something
or not when you saw the open door?”
his point. Grigory’s honest, but a fool. Many people are honest because
with three horses harnessed abreast with bells, and with Andrey, the
him in his characteristic language. And the prisoner chose him for his
need have I to know his secrets, since I can see without that that he is a
didn’t commit the murder, then—”
been sent to Siberia in my place, the man died of fever. And I’ve been
child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you
in the room and _not through the __ window_; that is absolutely certain
object of his visit. But it can hardly have been the whole reason of it.
more for that. Of late he had begun to listen to the doctrines of the sect
just once, only once; for so often, so often I remember how he used to run
knocked the signal agreed upon, induced your father to open to him, and
desperate haste, since he’d know for certain the notes must be in the
money? But the very fact that only fifteen hundred could be found, and the
Besides, I have a theory about him which I must work out and verify.”
same as is ordered for first week in Lent. On Good Friday nothing is
are, indeed, essential to the soul of the criminal at such moments, as its
But on this occasion he was in no mood for games. He had very important
“Not drunk, but worse.”
all the sooner that I didn’t murder him. Oh, in such cases the criminal is
at her face, her gay, laughing, affectionate face, he revives at once,
be of any assistance to her, with horses for example, or if she would care
“We’re on your subject, your subject,” he chuckled gleefully, making
several years. He made the acquaintance at first, in his own words, “of a
them without that.”
not having killed him, that he was capable of a pure feeling, the feeling
questioned the lad minutely: What he looked like? Whether he was drunk?
described it all in his letter, all beforehand, how he would kill his
us.”
preparing to go abroad upon his two thousand roubles, Ivan Fyodorovitch
fear—oh, not simply from fear of your punishment! The disgrace of it! And
What would it have cost him to add: ‘I am the murderer, not Karamazov’?
would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to
him with an icy expression in his eyes. After keeping him for a moment in
contemptible creature like that can worry me so much?” he wondered, with
approached and except her aged protector there had not been one man who
“Oh, well, my boy, your Zhutchka’s lost and done for!”
At first fortune seemed to smile upon him. As soon as he was announced he
agree with your opinion,” said he.
for the sake of the bread of Heaven thousands shall follow Thee, what is
“First, that he loves you, loves you more than any one in the world, and
are, indeed, essential to the soul of the criminal at such moments, as its
the same. Absolutely the same in kind. Any one on the bottom step is bound
soul!” (she crossed herself)—“I look upon you as a monk, though you look
your poem end?” he asked, suddenly looking down. “Or was it the end?”
agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy all copies of
of the humble. What I say to Thee will come to pass, and our dominion will
took a sudden dislike to me. He was always down upon me, but I had
The carriage rolled away. Nothing was clear in Ivan’s soul, but he looked
“He was mad then, perfectly mad, and that was my fault, wretch that I am!
his heart to them as before, and tell them about “the queen of his soul.”
literary career. That’s what he comes for; he said so himself. He wants to
with some beauty, with a woman’s body, or even with a part of a woman’s
“No, for perhaps he believes in the pineapple _compote_ himself. He is
criticism?’ Without criticism it would be nothing but one ‘hosannah.’ But
us! I am not speaking only for the fathers here present, I cry aloud to
Church. So be it, so be it! Even though at the end of the ages, for it is
breathless. “But I’ve got a dog, Perezvon ... A Slavonic name.... I’ve
“We have seen your handkerchief. Did you hope to restore him to
lived very economically and her surroundings were anything but luxurious.
Ivan, with a malignant smile.
“Bravo!” cried Ivan, delighted. “If even you say so.... You’re a pretty
immediately. And the girls, we must have the girls, Marya especially.”
be a fine God, if man created Him in his image and likeness. You asked
Father Superior’s dining‐room, at the moment when the prayer was over, and
disputes, if there had been any. Some confessed kneeling. The elder
should have thought that there was no need for a sensible man to speak of
Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It!
examining the coat, the trousers, the waistcoat and the cap; and it was
minds, and to such a degree that the very triviality and incompleteness of
on me. I feel I am going to have a fit. I have a presentiment. Fright
“criminal” till the arrival of the proper authorities, to procure also
strange. It may be pretty certainly assumed that she herself did not know
them, our splendid Russian people, so simple in their greatness!”
beckoned us. There was a great deal of talk even in the town about his
me—me, her mother, for you understand it will be the death of me, simply
and did not at all satisfy Nikolay Parfenovitch. Grushenka made a deep bow
Therefore you too, mother, know that your little one is surely before the
he did not cut short the performance, and after keeping Perezvon dead for
looked after him for almost a year. Afterwards he had looked after Ivan
the criminal, it is only the law of Christ speaking in his conscience. It
“Excuse me,” Dmitri cried suddenly; “if I’ve heard aright, crime must not
_Je pense, donc je suis_, I know that for a fact; all the rest, all these
suffering,” Katya concluded irritably. “Can such a man suffer? Men like
after that.”
Yet, after prolonged exertions, he could only succeed in getting the
Kolya’s schoolfellows, and fawned upon them in the hope of thus saving
unaware of it,” the prosecutor began, with a peculiar and stern
“Look, your coat’s covered with blood, too!”
“Yes, and you too perhaps quite misunderstand me, dear young lady. Maybe
me at the time. I fancied that there was an artificial simplicity about
“I will tell you; that’s perhaps why I asked you to come, for I don’t know
beast. I thank the prosecutor, he told me many things about myself that I
the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does
fair, pale skin, freckled. His small, lively gray eyes had a fearless
“What have I done to you?” answered Alyosha, bending over her with a
who has some, though not a great, resemblance in face, seems to me so like
by this incident. This was how the thing happened.
of Dmitri and that I still loved Dmitri. That is how our first quarrel
was young and would not have been bad‐looking, but that her face was so
“What do you think the doctor will say to him?” Kolya asked quickly. “What
“I doubt it,” said Kolya, somewhat taken aback.
on the trousers, too. Nikolay Parfenovitch, moreover, in the presence of
respectfully and timidly away from his father’s window, though he was
languishing glance.
extraordinary indecision, that she was making up her mind to something,
special way; then salmon cutlets, ice pudding and compote, and finally,
seeing him.
not used to it. Everything is habit with men, everything even in their
entertain the company, ostensibly on equal terms, of course, though in
no one would have known of the robbery, nor perhaps even of the money.’
“Me? Can that be?” she faltered, turning pale.
... at once, without delay” (the words “at once, without delay,” the
expected. Nothing could have been farther from his dreams than help from
stopped short and again gazed speechless with a strange smile, their eyes
almost of menace in her voice.
Chapter IV. The Second Ordeal
ones among them, especially in our day—hate not even the wicked ones.
“If you fold a hundred‐rouble note in half, that would be the size.”
absolved, reconciled, exhorted, imposed penance, blessed, and dismissed
Agafya and to tell them all the horror of my present position. You can
you something interesting,” Ivan answered with sudden calmness and
small boy,” not fit to associate with them, and that was an unendurable
“And I understand nothing of that second half so far,” said Alyosha.
finished his studies, and so on. That he did not finish his studies is
chief personages in the district. He kept open house, entertained the
“I will go,” said Ferapont, seeming somewhat taken aback, but still as
whether you had gone away, and was told that you were in the town. ‘I
immensely swollen face. His lower lip, which had always been thick, hung
They began to wash. Pyotr Ilyitch held the jug and poured out the water.
the hymn? Rakitin laughs. Rakitin says that one can love humanity without
“Confound his sorrow! Well, where now? Am I to go on sitting here?”
taking no notice of the hysterical fears of his wife, who was still
angry, and he too, no doubt, has made some plan. Oh, I must succeed in
“We have had as many holy fathers as they had. There they are among the
“Women are often dishonorable,” she snarled. “Only an hour ago I was
Smerdyakov had seen them, when did he see them for the last time? What if
“I can’t say, I don’t know. I don’t know what he said to me, it went
with the simplest air.
and don’t be surprised that I’m glad to tell you, instead of being
pain.”
Scriptures. But this teaching came to nothing. At the second or third
another witness on the path, that brass pestle which he had taken from the
to heaven or to hell, and shall I be forgiven in the next world or not?’ ”
road ... The road is wide and straight and bright as crystal, and the sun
heart that if he confessed his crime, he would heal his soul and would be
flatly denied the existence of the fatal three thousand roubles, and
still does not understand how much I am ready to bear for his sake? Why,
I must have sat on the handkerchief at Fenya’s, and the blood’s come
garden, avoiding the trees and shrubs. He walked slowly, creeping
“I can’t think why you are so agitated,” Fyodor Pavlovitch observed
Chapter XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
Grigory has given evidence.... A horrible suspicion! It’s awful, awful, I
out of the court. But after taking four steps he stood still, as though he
“Why are you trying me?” Alyosha cried, with sudden distress. “Will you
“And how glad she will be, how delighted!” he muttered, but lapsed into
Would he purge his soul from vileness
Only I cried when he said it, because he said it so nicely. He cried
with her. He arrived with her in rain and sleet, sat down on the sofa,
surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. I am speaking figuratively,
It’s better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real
world whom our “unappreciated” prosecutor genuinely liked. On their way to
seemed to be staring at him with perfectly unruffled attention. A sort of
and confirmed his dislike for him was the peculiar, revolting familiarity
everything was over for him and nothing was possible!
“Confound it! If you are laid up, Grigory will be on the watch. Let
was born, he was overwhelmed with grief and horror. The baby had six
invented, that I was in too great a hurry to display my knowledge,
not tell you anything about money—about three thousand roubles?”
1.E.5.
“You see, I knew that you—seemed to care for me, but I pretended to
earth should be put to shame and humiliated! This murmuring may have been
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