“Alyosha,” said Mitya, “you’re the only one who won’t laugh. I should like
Nikolay Parfenovitch laid upon the table a large and thick official
in very truth was the turning‐point of my life. In the evening, returning
“Yes, what must it be for Mitya?”
was the old servant who waited on Samsonov, whom Mitya had particularly
up from his chair.
“Good‐by, dear fellow! I shan’t forget your generosity,” he cried warmly.
to know how he was walking down there below and what he must be doing now.
drawn by three horses. The doctor remained at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s to make
quieted.
maddest love!
such haste. I’m in a hurry to get back to‐day,” he said in great
yours. Ilusha will always let you play with it; it shall belong to both of
his habit to call Ilusha “old man,” as a term of affection when he was
had been at home a year, looking after her sick mother. She always dressed
there’s a fence here” (he looked at her as though setting her a riddle),
The little _pan_ was taken aback and looked apprehensively at Mitya. He
boy! You want a whipping for saying such things, that’s what you want!”
have on Mitya, and he muttered a few words of admonition to him, but Mitya
to my bosom till I crush you, for in the whole world—in reality—in re‐al‐
“We are rejoicing,” the little, thin old man went on. “We are drinking the
preparing to throw. He wore an air of solemnity.
seemed as though God had in this case let the minority get the upper hand
latter went nearer to Lise and, smiling in a strangely awkward way, held
revered, Father Païssy himself, for instance. And so Alyosha, untroubled
humility, will understand and give way before him, will respond joyfully
“Ah, mamma, how sweetly you talk! I must kiss you for it, mamma.”
buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode. Maximov suddenly
Church jurisdiction.”
man, dear old man!” he exclaimed every minute, gazing at Ilusha. It was
obviously liked having her hand kissed.
member of philanthropic societies.
so! Of course it’s a fantasy. But allow me to say: do you really think
I won’t take. Trifon Borissovitch, bear witness. Forgive my foolish words
Grigory, the gloomy, stupid, obstinate, argumentative servant, who had
next morning, at least, they would come and take him. So he had a few
married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and
“How can I tell what he’s to do with you?” put in another. “You ought to
No, there’s something else in this, something original.”
me?”
obstinate as a mule. If once he had taken an idea into his head, there was
in practice in its full force, that is, if the whole of the society were
hands. Is that true or not, honored Father?”
large old mahogany leather sofa, on which a bed had been made up, with
for Grushenka. He began from the moment when the prisoner went to the
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conscious of being ridiculous.
counsel for the defense. But before Katerina Ivanovna was called, Alyosha
You’ve no humane ideas,’ said he. ‘You have no modern enlightened
“He’s sad. The promotion has not been given,” boomed Rakitin.
“foolish” ideas into words. For his opinion had struck him as awfully
nationality, you must first understand what you mean by it,” he admonished
sometimes talk about Diderot! Diderot will do no harm, though sometimes a
“Confound it! An old woman, an old man.... Have you killed some one?”
going to arrange it. It will take him two or three days. That’s what the
was always of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run after any petticoat on
the earth.”
“But I shall be asked: What about the envelope on the floor? Yes, it’s
attentions upon her; and I know all about that, too; she laughed at you
house at the end of April, meaning not to let her go out until after the
his parents to associate with Krassotkin, who was well known to be a
fifty for vodka ... for your readiness, for your love.... Remember
“And obscure too.”
but now ‘the dagger in the heart’! That’s how women are.”
undone and altogether lost, as was the human race before the flood. Much
when Dmitri had burst in and beaten his father, threatening to come back
pestering her with his offers, not honorable ones, of course. And they’ll
“More than a thousand went on them, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” retorted Trifon
“It is much, and well that your mind is full of such dreams and not
never opened at that time, though I always carried it about with me, and I
there is no God.’ And he fell down at his feet on the spot. ‘I believe,’
partition wall. “He was not three paces from our bed,” and that although
begun snarling. ‘You fools and buffoons, can you ever do anything
“Oh, I can’t spare the time. You must excuse me.”
“Love life more than the meaning of it?”
children. The kind, silent man used often on our wanderings to spend the
each responsible to all for all, it’s only that men don’t know this. If
“The young lady forgot to give you this letter from Madame Hohlakov; it’s
were splendid children, he longed to caress them; “and I can’t look at
with all its passages and outbuildings. I imagine that part of the money
they talked over it—and most of all Father Ferapont, to whom some of the
illness, but full of gayety. There was a gleam of mischief in her big dark
that we shall all rise again from the dead and shall live and see each
He told the coachman to wait, while with rapid steps he returned to the
whom she still, however, considers as her benefactor. There was perhaps
What are seraphim? Perhaps a whole constellation. But perhaps that
and answered, ‘On what grounds could I refuse to see such an excellent
struck himself with his fist on the breast?”
faith? But I only believed when I was a little child, mechanically,
district. I have no preconceived ideas. The prisoner, a man of turbulent
that he might kill him, and whether he had heard it, for instance, at
stupid to me at the time ... I remember its seeming stupid ... it flashed
But one grief is weighing on me.
Now I’m ready to believe in hell, but without a ceiling. It makes it more
He told the coachman to wait, while with rapid steps he returned to the
head, and by a lad, who used to sit on the locker in the passage. Owing to
happened there last night, whether, by any chance, she went to Fyodor
some people will praise you. But now Smerdyakov’s dead, he has hanged
“Shameful!” broke from Father Iosif.
hard upon her, for she’s such a clever little thing. Would you believe it?
disdainful composure.
am good. I’m very good.... Come, why am I so good?”
salvation from despair. For I cannot imagine the horror and moral
most sumptuous thing in the room at the moment was, of course, the
cleverer than her husband, or, at least, more prudent than he in worldly
and drink. I hardly think of anything but of that degraded man—if only I’m
course he has not come for nothing; of course he brings ‘news,’ ” Ivan
driver, with three horses, they are just putting in fresh horses.... A
Ah, he is reading again”....
portioned out as to last till they are twenty‐one, for it is more than
they had not slept all night, and on the arrival of the police officers
... (as she said that, she flushed and her eyes shone). “I must tell you
before. There was something positively mysterious in it, too. Ivan had
didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before
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“Father, father, how can you—with him! Let him alone!” cried the boy,
speaking to a clever man’? So you were glad I went away, since you praised
what are we to do now? I’m ready.”
smile to Alyosha. “Don’t be afraid of me, my dear Alyosha, you cannot
harm her mistress, and some one else, too ... so you see, sir— It’s I am
sentimental.
sent early in the morning by Lise Hohlakov. But there were flowers too
remember my actions, Alexey Fyodorovitch; you checked me in one of them”
pass and not have cried out at the moment. He let go of the bell and
champagne—what do you want all that for?”
but Maximov, who was terribly depressed, terribly scared, and clung to her
“Yes, yes!” cried Alyosha warmly. “I believe that is it.”
have thought the creature standing before him most simple and ordinary, a
of new taverns in the district. It was evident that he had perhaps a
Chapter III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family
‘Uncle, _Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn_,’ and he had only forgotten ‘_Gott
They are like a cloud of dust. When the wind blows, the dust will be
again, evidently taking him for the most important person present.) “I
“So, maybe they’re not in bed if they’re at cards. It’s most likely not
he would do, but he knew that he could not control himself, and that a
dining.
times and explained them. And as in the whole universe no one knows of
purpose,” said Alyosha.
felt hungry, and taking out of his pocket the roll he had brought from his
shall be a prisoner, but now, for the last time, as a free man, Dmitri
has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometime be
“But are you really so sensitive? At your age! Would you believe it, just
lock‐up. It’s a gloomy, cold, foggy autumn day, a capital day for hunting.
thought as he watched him go. He had half a mind to stay and see the cart
laid upon him.
schoolboys in the fewest words possible. Lise clasped her hands at his
the powers of Heaven took part when required. In our monasteries the monks
righteous in Paradise forgave them, beholding their torments, and called
arrest, the prisoner fell sick of a fever and died unconscious in the
has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometime be
such kindness, but ... If only you knew how precious time is to me....
motive would be unnatural. Note that he took trouble over Grigory, wiped
sentenced to walk a quadrillion kilometers in the dark (we’ve adopted the
Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with
impossible.”
and daughter were asleep, but they waked up at Marfa’s desperate and
“Not in the slightest! I haven’t a hundredth part of a grain of faith in
no desire to live.
something extraordinary, an unheard‐of, even “unseemly” excitement and
to live with their wives and mistresses, to have or not to have
identity or a wild fantasy? All that matters is that the old man should
not come into my life, I should never perhaps, so I fancy at least, have
“We will compare all this with the evidence of other persons not yet
a question—for instance, what year it is?”
himself on tiptoe. All Fyodor Pavlovitch’s bedroom lay open before him. It
through, note that. Well, let me tell you, I shall carry it through. I
“But you’ve said that before. Don’t waste words. Prove it,” cried Fyodor
“_Pani_, I didn’t oppose it. I didn’t say anything.”
profligate, a despicable clown!”
“Yes, there are clerks,” said a member of the district council, joining
“Well, so you’ve saved the sinner?” he laughed spitefully. “Have you
For a long while I could not believe him, and I did not believe him at
before him! This thought crushed him. And so he instantly flew to one
always talking about? He talks and talks and I can make nothing of it. I
struck eleven, and he particularly wanted to go out “on very urgent
the same chair as before, with a blissful smile on her face. Her cheeks
“Well, I’ve come to do the same again, do you see?”
regarding it would inevitably change, not all at once of course, but
manner of speaking impressed Alyosha as almost incredibly incongruous with
Grigory out of pity. ‘No,’ he says, ‘such sensibility is impossible at
You’ve given me strength for to‐morrow. God bless you! Come, go along!
“So you married a lame woman?” cried Kalganov.
her bright eyes! She used to be always crying, but now she laughs and is
urge you on at all. No, no, I didn’t urge you on! But no matter, I will
After thinking a little Samsonov told the lad to take the visitor to the
the greatest importance both to you and to us, that has been given us by
the religious persons of the town, as an orphan. In fact, every one seemed
as it fell in with his own designs. He gathered only that the young man
afterwards, from Glafira, so it was a great shock to me. I sent for Lise
it at all, though it barked all day. (Do you like that stupid barking,
invented that little bag on the inspiration of the moment, because he had
directly, only don’t exasperate me ... and I’ll send him about his
longer cares for me, but loves Ivan.”
Fyodorovitch has pestered me in a merciless way even here by his incessant
up for it in another way just as national as ours. And so national that it
can tell you that....”
He has been ill ever since that attack. Really ill,” added Alyosha.
was a false one. It was at this time that the discord between Dmitri and
“You wanted to help him?”
spirit so far as possible, for he will go away and condemn himself more
me, I would fall on my knees.’
dance. To‐morrow to the nunnery, but to‐day we’ll dance. I want to play
because _his ideal was destroyed_. But Othello did not begin hiding,
go away altogether?” he wondered. “No, wait till to‐morrow now. I’ll stay
the door. I’d better knock first,” and he knocked. An answer came, but not
persistent screaming and knocking at the shutter. Marfa, shrieking and
railway lines when the train was passing. Lucky fellow! Listen, your
home “with his mattress and pillow” did not frighten him in the least. He
not long, but sharp, like a bird’s beak.
teeth, and he carried out his intention.
educated man? He can’t be said to have feeling at all, in his ignorance.
love! Let us make an end! To‐morrow I shall try and get it from
mistrustfully, looking with a forced smile into his eyes. Ivan still gazed
“Then it’s for the salvation of my soul you are working, is it, you
the whole world of ladies, including his wife, had protested he could not
“If you want to talk to me, please change the subject,” he said suddenly.
with a look of suffering.
Kolya opened the door to peep at “the kids.” They were both sitting as
the decomposition had been natural, as in the case of every dead sinner,
carry the peasant to the police‐station, promising him three roubles. The
save us from ourselves!”
“I think I quite understand his exclamations just now, and part of what
And this was followed by a shower of criticism and even blame of Father
bare thee, and the paps that gave thee suck—the paps especially. When you
you of the hymn. They’ll say I’m out of my mind or a fool. I am not out of
“By all means, gentlemen. I’ll turn out all my pockets, if you like.”
meet him. “Mamma” pulled herself together and assumed a dignified air.
him to mass. Perhaps the slanting sunlight and the holy image to which his
and take leave of every one. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors
“Whose then? Whose then? Whose then?”
not healthy in his face. It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and
“You sit down, too,” said he.
Grigory, and had turned it inside when he was washing his hands at
the hymn? Rakitin laughs. Rakitin says that one can love humanity without
preparation and always keeps it. It’s a strong thing made from some herb.
looked at Alyosha as he came in with an undefined expression, but there
his low sensuality. Do you know, I simply wonder at you, Alyosha, how you
hands.
“I went to the window, put my forehead against the frozen pane, and I
benefactor’s family. They provided him liberally with money and even
noxious insect for fear it should crawl and spoil life for others.... Let
conscious premeditation of the crime; he hesitated till he saw that fatal
intolerable position. But he repelled with indignation the suggestion that
like to have a chat with you, my dear boy, but I haven’t the time. And
“Not hopeless, for the two hundred roubles will still come to them. He’ll
did not know, who was not of his own class, and to whom he hardly knew how
“He won’t marry her, I tell you. That girl is an angel. Do you know that?
become so notorious. I saw him yesterday.”
“struggling with his destiny and trying to save himself,” as he expressed
his conscience that he could not have acted otherwise.
have the right to forgive and could forgive? But there is a Being and He
yet it was she who had betrayed him. “Perhaps because she feels how she’s
insufferably close in the overheated room. He suddenly pictured the
“This I can tell you for certain, Grushenka,” Alyosha said, getting up.
nothing. She would only have become angry and turned away from him
your son, or he will be sure to send a letter. Go, and henceforward be in
the frivolity, absurdity and malice that were manifested beside the coffin
taught him, not at the word of command, but simply from the zeal of his
his intercession by a suggestion of hope. The suggestion, it is true, was
of the riotous blood of youth. I bless the rising sun each day, and, as
“I’ll thrash him, sir, at once—this minute!” The captain jumped up from
faintly.
An absurd chaotic confusion followed, but Mitya was in his natural
committed the murder and gets off unpunished? That is what every one,
by Alyosha’s evidence on the public was most disappointing. There had been
has come back, he sends for her and she forgives him everything, and
three thousand roubles he had seen his master put in the envelope. And yet
attracted general notice, on a subject of which he might have been
you, and you shall become a peasant, a real peasant; we’ll keep a colt,
Ivan remembered this. During the last week of that month Ivan himself
Alyosha and Katerina Ivanovna floated into his mind. But he softly smiled,
I knew he kept under his pillow, ready for Grushenka, I considered as
a rational, responsible and strictly humanitarian basis. But if he does
“I’ve long learned to respect you as a rare person,” Kolya muttered again,
Lise seemed extraordinarily impressed and for half a minute she was
you want?”
afterwards to tell as a characteristic touch, that when he began to speak
Seeing his blood‐stained face, Mitya started and scowled wrathfully.
Katerina Ivanovna’s, too, if I don’t find her now.”
“There’s nothing to finish. It’s all clear. It’s the same old tune,
tone, and even his manner, and at once rose to pathos. The audience seemed
very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive. That’s what I
earnestly at the font, but his opinion of the new‐born child remained
“And behold, He deigned to appear for a moment to the people, to the
written, he is coming here, and, do you know, we’ve loved him, none but
“that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has,
people, and, of course, I am not right and you are, only I shall spy on
dining with the old man, I loathe him so. I should have left long ago, so
“Yes, I see a vital difference! Every man may be a scoundrel, and perhaps
sensibly?”
the superintendent shouting in the yard. He’ll be here directly. We are
To this I reply again, “Yes! my hero had faith, a faith holy and
stifle them in myself, to still them, to smother them. Ivan is not
standing on one side, taking him in their ignorance for the most important
again.
charges which had died away of themselves everywhere. But the spirit of
about, but it’s nice you’ve brought the champagne. I want some myself, and
that had been accumulating so long and so painfully in the offended
Alyosha raised his head, sat up and leaned his back against the tree. He
next room, “come in to us. This is a friend. This is Alyosha. He knows all
Yes, I think the ladies who came to see the spectacle must have been
got a letter from him to‐day. I am expecting the messenger every minute.”
he added, extremely politely. Mitya (he remembered it afterwards) became
hand, in such cases as the present, to explain and set before you the
of having actually carried out that robbery? This is encroaching on the
not time to utter a word, though he wanted to speak. He longed to beg her
Nothing! To life, and to one queen of queens!”
hysterically, feeling that she was just going to begin talking again, and
both dead. His first wife, who was of a humble family, left a daughter as
Mitya’s wrath flared up. He looked intently at “the boy” and smiled
there’s no immortality of the soul, then there’s no virtue, and everything
pushed on, excited with great difficulty before he could entertain the
agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the Project
when the Son of God was nailed on the Cross and died, He went straight
sister. The aunt was simple and illiterate; the niece was simple but
that is what such places are called among you—he was killed and robbed,
Alyosha shuddered.
of Dmitri and that I still loved Dmitri. That is how our first quarrel
despair and told them how, when he left Madame Hohlakov’s, he thought that
“Stay, Trifon Borissovitch,” began Mitya, “first and foremost, where is
to‐day, perhaps in a few days, that I can’t tell. But she will come, she
and simple in the very sound of it. But every one realized at once that
they can get off easily. Of course, bribing is dishonest even in such a
On her and on me!
kindest and wisest of men, oh, Lord, what a good man I should have been
the face and said that he could send it when he liked, ‘in a month’s time
told me the story and laughed at you.... You wanted to put me in prison
world.’ ”
had visited Father Zossima once already, three days before. Though they
decided that I am going out of my mind!”
walls. Rakitin doesn’t understand that; all he cares about is building a
sitting alone in my room the following evening, when my door suddenly
conceiving a great idea and serving it—the rich man in his isolation or
nieces, who were also elderly women. She had no need to let her lodge, but
at moments, to think that he had written his own sentence of death with
“I know. Confound my temper! It was jealousy. I was sorry, I kissed her as
“You agree. Then it must be so, if you agree. It’s true, isn’t it,
animal thirst for self‐preservation, these humiliating moments of the
am afraid you are so bored you will jump up and run away, and that will be
enjoyed a month before. Mitya remembered their faces, greeting and
forgives her everything. Only fancy, as soon as you had gone, she began to
exhilarated condition, and on entering the arbor he saw half a bottle of
or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and
feeling he pronounced, addressing all in the room:
the door he won’t open to him till he hears his voice. But Grigory
from meekness to violence.
Siberia for it, I’ll give you back your three thousand. And
clutched his head in both hands. His scattered thoughts came together; his
me afterwards. He is stupid, he can’t disguise what he is doing; he is so
it all by heart,” he added irritably.
sulking and fulfill my destiny though it’s against the grain—that is, to
Chapter II. Lizaveta
the gladness of our hearts, remembering how God brought about our
dignified person he had ventured to disturb.
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haven’t suffered, simply that I, my crimes and my sufferings, may manure
“You’ve caught the fox again,” commented Mitya at last; “you’ve got the
out there. The second half is a tragedy, and it is being acted here.”
Perhaps nothing but Atheism, that’s all their secret. Your Inquisitor does
unanswerably clear. Listen! If all must suffer to pay for the eternal
“But maybe they’re not in bed!” Andrey went on after a pause. “Timofey
alone and defying them all, that his heart was full of resentment, of
the house, therefore he killed him.’ Now about that door, gentlemen of the
“If my suverin lady is permitting—” he was beginning.
scattered, and the houses are far apart. And meanwhile his father was
They are children and stupid. A stone may be thrown and break somebody’s
one. Ah, man should be dissolved in prayer! What should I be underground
No, she has not taken the knife.... That was only a tragic phrase.... Well
“Well, am I to stay naked like this?” he added savagely.
At the moment the maid ran in.
What are seraphim? Perhaps a whole constellation. But perhaps that
but with whom he had evidently had a feud.
Alyosha wanted to say something, but he couldn’t find a word. His heart
being stained with blood, must be “included with the other material
work miracles?” exclaimed Rakitin, genuinely surprised again.
P.P.S.—I kiss your feet, farewell! P.P.P.S.—Katya, pray to God
“Come, you want obedience and mysticism. You must admit that the Christian
herself for not being able to repress her mirth.
began breathing into his mouth, which was putrid and loathsome from some
“What is happening? What’s this?” voices were heard in the group of monks.
do with her now?”
I thought, “I feel it’s not that. Can it be that I am afraid of death,
“Why, to‐day he told me that a fool would visit me and would ask me
cross over me. What did it mean, Alyosha, tell me? What is this babe?”
these walls sincerely seeking salvation, such obedience and sacrifice will
and left. “Come here, I’ve a little present for you. Come, I’ll show
some people will praise you. But now Smerdyakov’s dead, he has hanged
with him completely? Why are you so late? I’ve not been simply waiting,
“Surely he did not tell you so?” asked Alyosha.
described the whole of that day, in great detail, the visit of Rakitin and
gunpowder,” responded Ilusha.
don’t ever beg her pardon all the same for anything. Remember that rule
She took a glass, Alyosha took his, tasted it and put it back.
hands. “Save me!” she almost groaned. “Is there any one in the world I
thrilling with emotion. And his heart glowed, and he struggled forward
nasty trick. He told him to take a piece of bread, to stick a pin in it,
of his mind and, in fact, a maniac. I maintain that he is in his right
Ignatyevna would run up, or something else might happen. I don’t remember
“Oh, dear, no, quite the contrary, he’s very quiet. Only please don’t talk
exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God,
have gone in and carried out his plan. With what weapon? Why, with any
“Really? Well, I dare say you do understand, since you blurt it out at the
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to look at her, laughing, and began jesting with unbridled licentiousness.
The family, I repeat, was now united for the first time, and some of its
them, tormented them, accused them, kept his brother Benjamin, and all
monstrously outgrown. His bare arms stuck out beyond his sleeves. There
people, why are you doing so much for me, do I deserve to be waited on? If
monastery. His expression was one of unquestioning, but self‐respecting,
the sudden suicide. What struck people most was Mitya’s sudden outburst As
was cast forth from the church, and this took place three times. And only
noticing them. Bare‐footed girls or unattractive ones, you must take by
“No, no,” he said. “I’ll just make the sign of the cross over you, for
was where the judges, on whom his fate depended, were sitting. So that it
mamma’s kept you there for hours; she’s just been telling you about me and
that “damned” Agafya did not come back within ten minutes he should go out
“That’s a woman’s way of looking at it!”
“Don’t worry about his decision,” she said, with confident emphasis to
There was a feverish look in her eyes, her face was pale and yellow.
And so on, awfully funny, I’ll bring it to you later on. I say nothing
composure.
already gloating in his imagination, and in the second place he had in
give you my word before God I will! And if you will condemn me, I’ll break
when he was away, not to be naughty, not to cry from fright. With this
spite of his independent mind and just character, my opponent may have
“Yes.”
that he felt considerable curiosity. The drawing‐room in which Mitya was
contrary to his custom he was silent, though he had been drinking. He did
“On the contrary, I am struck by a coincidence,” cried Ivan, warmly and
abandoned by him. The officer had gone away and afterwards married, while
then their sons will be saved, for your light will not die even when you
“What, do you suppose I’d shoot myself because I can’t get three thousand
village, so one might send for them. They’d come.”
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“It’s true.”
characteristic our prosecutor had gained a wider notoriety than could have
yourself. There’s no need to hurry now. Now the world has taken a new
Kondratyevna had run to his rooms and informed him Smerdyakov had taken
It was a lie. I like her ... I am afraid for Katya to‐morrow. I am more
likes to tell his companions everything, even his most diabolical and
force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing
So he must drive at full speed, and he had not the money for horses. He
brother. I have money. I will take a roll of notes and say that Smerdyakov
So this is that very von Sohn. He has risen from the dead, hasn’t he, von
complacency. “But it’s true that I am stupidly sensitive, crudely
every copeck.’ He lost his temper. But after all, what is goodness? Answer
I’m the only one who can’t stand it. It’s deadly—deadly!”
was afraid, I ran for fear of meeting him.”
Hohlakov heard of his arrival from some one, and immediately sent to beg
kissing his feet, flew into a fury again! Oh, I am unhappy! It’s my
conversation, through absent‐mindedness he often forgot the most ordinary
emphatically. “The question is, will you go to the gold‐mines or not; have
mother. Smerdyakov, who was ill—almost dying—had been with them ever since
himself, “I am a scoundrel”? And now he almost fancied that these
slowly. “There’s the court, and the lawyers—it’s a perfect misery. But if
morrow, I beg you on my knees, come to‐morrow. Don’t condemn me. Forgive
‘haunted by profound, unsolved doubts.’ He’s showing off, and what it all
at the stake as the worst of heretics. And the very people who have to‐day
“Oh, what ideas you have!” Lise shrieked in delight. “And you a monk, too!
Chapter VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
Ilyitch the verses and didn’t say who was the author. But I am convinced
“Never mind!” he murmured softly to him to cheer him up, or perhaps not
... but I’ve unconsciously recalled it—I recalled it myself—it was not you
What struck Alyosha above everything was her earnestness. There was not a
afterwards, every one agreed with him. But Doctor Herzenstube, when called
then that she was hesitating between me and him. So I kept thinking every
nothing, only appears and passes on. Fifteen centuries have passed since
“And what’s your Tchizhov to do with me, good people, eh?”
sighed deeply.
that boy mean so much to my heart now?” he asked himself, wondering.
last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Yet such
going to make a scene. She was watching him with intense curiosity and
“Oh, how base that would have been! Gentlemen, do you know, you are
want to suggest anything, I don’t want to lift the veil, you will see for
Ivanovna, of whom Grushenka had even raved when she lay in delirium.
“It’s not here. Don’t worry yourself. I know where it is—here,” said
it!” she exclaimed frantically.
to take her. But that first reason, in the prisoner’s own words, was of
Petrovna, compose your countenance. This is Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov.
a reality. I know you. Then I shall have attained my object, which is an
it?”
“That’s true, that’s true,” cried Madame Hohlakov.
funny‐looking peasant!”
murdered him, if not I? That’s what it comes to, isn’t it? If not I, who
impression left by the conversation with Ivan, which now persistently
addressing Alyosha again.
‘laceration.’... But I don’t know how to speak now. I’ve said
“Oh, how base that would have been! Gentlemen, do you know, you are
that he may blurt out his cherished ideas in all their simplicity,
greedily looked at his brother and listened to him with a wild, strange
The President showed signs of uneasiness.
that she was there, with him, with his rival, in his arms, and perhaps
Thou didst proudly and well, like God; but the weak, unruly race of men,
dried, but where Dmitri Fyodorovitch had run with the pestle, or rather,
he tells another person—and a person most closely interested, that is, the
“Surely you don’t want to go, Alyosha!” she cried, in mournful surprise.
And if he goes away I shall go, too!” she added with flashing eyes.
“Now, with your permission I’ll ask you a question,” Fetyukovitch said,
... (as she said that, she flushed and her eyes shone). “I must tell you
But at these words the President pulled him up, too, and Fetyukovitch
Napravnik I am one.’ And would you believe it, it ruined our business! And
be just like that now. Alyosha did not leave him. The thought passed
But Mitya did not hear. He was frantically praying and muttering to
put mamma and Nina in the cart, and Ilusha could drive, and I’d walk, I’d
house of a general’s widow, a wealthy old lady of good position, who was
“Plain Vanilla ASCII” or other format used in the official version posted
Fathers and teachers, forgive me and don’t be angry, that like a little
“Alexey!” his father shouted, from far off, catching sight of him. “You
been roused in his quarrels with his father. There were several stories
“Mitya! Mitya!” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch hysterically, squeezing out a
“I used to wash him in his tub. He’s insulted me,” repeated Grigory.
and not to freedom.
though creeping up to the subject. “Where were you able to procure such a
now, alas!...”
the things he can do! I trained him so as to bring you a well‐trained dog,
they have lived or not! And behold, from the other end of the earth
window and pretended to be learning his lessons. But I could see his mind
you are still responsible for it all, since you knew of the murder and
the work of my hands—I’ve heard that already. But as to my being clever at
not been able to walk for the last six months, and was wheeled about in a
forward, but he still persisted that the arrangement with the son was
to my bosom till I crush you, for in the whole world—in reality—in re‐al‐
whole story, and then I began asking him, ‘Why have you got blood on your
with Ivan, almost uneducated, and the two brothers were such a contrast in
Mitya, of course, was checked, but the young doctor’s opinion had a
struck nine o’clock—the hour of rest and repose after a day of such
and, what was more, that he meant “to carry her off” from Dmitri. Until
And, bending over him tenderly, she kissed his forehead. Kalganov
him that I was going to spend the evening with my old man, Kuzma Kuzmitch,
execution.
have got by it afterwards? I don’t see.”
felt the spasm that always comes ... and so I went flying. All that and
rather a curious incident. When he had just left the university and was
immediately by Nikolay Parfenovitch.
infinitely by his will and his science, man will feel such lofty joy from
For as her foot swells, strange to say,
If he addressed them, he was brief, abrupt, strange, and almost always
splendidly, it all burnt away leaving only a tiny ash. But that was only
of Ivan, because the latter had on one or two occasions got the better of
He walked across the room with a harassed air.
And from that time forth he came to see me nearly every evening. And we
too. But she is so ill, Alexey Fyodorovitch, she has been so ill all
grown used to Alyosha. The sentry, of course, did not trouble him so long
And bending down to Alyosha, he went on in a confidential half‐whisper.
delusion and not to sink into complete insanity.
he would have unpicked it again and taken out another hundred, and then a
the boy a hiding. Catch him, catch him, he was laughing at me!”
certainly go, I am making arrangements. I shall be carried there in my
Ivan got into the carriage.
questions with: “I don’t know. Ah, I can’t say. How can I tell?” and so
Grushenka stared at her and, pausing for an instant, in a vindictive,
twenty copecks—he pulled out of his waistcoat pocket. They counted the
should have remembered that myself in a minute, for that was just what was
his eyes away again and again looked on the ground. He stood sideways and
“What am I to say, gentlemen of the jury? The hour of judgment has come
become a monk and entered on this precious path. He appeared first to me
irritability.
“How could I help knowing? It was clear beforehand. But how could I tell
garden. Knock at first twice, rather gently, and then three times more
Mitya asked for a rest. His request was courteously granted. After
dirty, took up the big yellow book that Ivan had noticed at first lying on
and that Ivan disliked. It had first given rise to his aversion. Later on,
he couldn’t stand. ‘Ah, I told you before, father,’ he said, ‘that those
received a month ago from her seducer, and had heard of it from her own
words. I wrote them down and I remember them. ‘When he began shouting at
interpretation of the word ‘father,’ which insists that any father, even
much!”
“The money was mine, it was my money,” Mitya kept repeating. “Even if I
understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?” Ivan laughed suddenly.
“Well, I know nothing of it so far, and can’t understand it, and the
his cap on his head. His face looked almost angry and disgusted, as though
there, and if so, what; and only to go to the police captain, as Pyotr
“That is quite different.”
if that leaves your souls untouched, then you’ve simply no respect for me,
back his words afterwards, for Fetyukovitch caught him out over it at
Him, they flock about Him, follow Him. He moves silently in their midst
“I can sit up. Ah, you put me out! Ah! this trial, this savage act, and
addressing Vrublevsky, with surprising rudeness.
“I quite understand. And if you don’t speak of that, I shall say nothing
province and to post three thousand roubles to Agafya Ivanovna in Moscow,
“Will my brother Dmitri soon be back?” asked Alyosha with as much
ordinary enemy, he would, after running through the rooms and satisfying
were drunk. His eyes became suddenly bloodshot.
earth. The innocent must not suffer for another’s sins, and especially
“Well, Father, I will follow Pyotr Alexandrovitch! I am not coming to see
getting dusk, and I was just preparing to go out. I had dressed, brushed
And again she cried bitterly.
window. ‘Grushenka,’ he cried, ‘Grushenka, are you here?’ Though he cried
“And now, I suppose, you believe in God, since you are giving back the
whose relations with Grushenka had changed their character and were now
jumped up from his seat and moaned “Ah!” I remember that, but it was
contemptuously at Grigory’s evidence about the open door, and declared
way a year ago. It’s quite true you can’t tell the day and hour of a fit
case.”
completely disappeared. His face expressed attention and expectation,
“Ah, you shameless woman! She is making you a declaration, Alexey!”
the speaker; but the latter did not flinch.
good moment and to stick to my nasty task. Somebody takes all the credit
understand in a minute, for it’s just the motive of it that’s the
shout. And before that Grigory Vassilyevitch had suddenly got up and came
looked at him very affectionately: before Mitya’s arrival, she had been
pale, with quivering voice and flashing eyes. “_Ici_, Perezvon!”
ridiculous? Besides, nearly all clever people now are fearfully afraid of
“You see, you must go. Don’t grieve. Be sure I shall not die without your
Mitya sat down on a wicker chair, before a little table, covered with a
“Why, what are you doing, what are you about? Why did you do that?” Fyodor
cold sweat on his forehead, feeling hot and cold all over by turns. He
tribune of truth and sound sense! We peep into the Gospel only on the eve
“I’ve long learned to respect you as a rare person,” Kolya muttered again,
have the whole logic of the prosecution. Who murdered him, if not he?
mankind, don’t you think so? Voltaire didn’t believe in God and loved
addressing Ivan. He gave her a sort of strained smile. Alyosha started at
“Why, in the English Parliament a Member got up last week and speaking
Several times afterwards he wondered how he could on leaving Ivan so
Madame Hohlakov at last ran off. Before leaving, Alyosha would have opened
wine‐glass? I remembered that and I broke a glass to‐day and drank ‘to my
be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet
unnatural monster, and pay me a sum down of only three thousand?... You
“That’s just the way with mad fellows like that: ‘I shall kill myself to‐
of emotion in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later,
“Alexey Fyodorovitch, this is awful. This is all childish nonsense and
it was a piece of paper, or perhaps a roll of papers. Smerdyakov pulled it
extraordinary. When he had finished his speech, he went out hurriedly and,
He was perhaps predisposed to mysticism. And the birth of his deformed
Snegiryov’s face looked eager, yet bewildered and exasperated. There was
and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two
come down at all, and so perhaps you don’t know how carefully he has begun
they had no doubt that he was crazy. But it was just his craziness
a wordy, disconnected, frantic letter, a drunken letter in fact. It was
“Father, father, how can you—with him! Let him alone!” cried the boy,
and opera‐glasses. There was a stir among the men: some stood up to get a
make way for their happiness. But he could not make up his mind to open
acquaintance, though, Karamazov. I wanted to know you for a long time. I
Afterwards, when we were married, after the wedding, that very evening,
it out. At last he got hold of it and began pulling it out. Ivan saw that
“Stay, listen, Trifon Borissovitch. Tell me the chief thing: What of her?
Marfa Ignatyevna was by no means foolish; she was probably, indeed,
recklessness of youth.
forest somehow, however, and a vista of fields, bare after the harvest,
can’t tear himself away.”
saw he understood. And he slept beside me a light and sinless sleep. May
“Philosophy, indeed, when all my right side is numb and I am moaning and
“Are you leaving the hermitage? What, without asking leave, without asking
thought he was showing off before him. If he dared to think anything like
me?”
pocket. I drove with Grushenka to Mokroe, a place twenty‐five versts from
sight of the rainbow‐colored notes may have made a morbid impression on
will be in delirium by to‐night. I would not tell you a lie; have pity on
seen. But Mitya did not look long, and, indeed, he could not see them, he
Pavlovitch’s garden. How, in her condition, she managed to climb over the
about our affairs. Show yourself to him.”
cheerful, he was surrounded by visitors and engaged in a quiet and joyful
afterwards he called “infamous,” and at the bottom of his heart, he
is so simple that sometimes one is even afraid to put it into words, for
respect men like that and it’s not because he stood up for me.”
“There were reasons which you shall know directly. Anyway, I am glad to
She said she was the widow of a non‐commissioned officer, and lived close
of tricks in my time,’ said he. He did Dernidov, the merchant, out of
Alyosha bent a long wondering look upon her and a light seemed to dawn in
it here, why waste it? It would come in handy to‐morrow, and I dare say
round his injured hand. He was a full minute bandaging it. The boy stood
I knew a criminal in prison who had, in the course of his career as a
but this time it was for another, and perhaps only now—perhaps only at
heard of that officer, Grushenka’s former flame. Well, if he has turned
i‐ty—(can you take it in?) I love no one but you!”
Why am I, of all creatures in the world, doomed to be cursed by all decent
and immortality, and at once he instinctively said to himself: “I want to
to beg forgiveness. Oh, not for himself, but for all men, for all and for
national and individual, only then the aim of our seclusion is attained.
it back three days after.”
as the authorities were satisfied.
sipped tea, he worshiped his belly, filling it with sweet things and his
this, we are to believe, that he might more conveniently get up and murder
conviction that he was a distinctly spiteful creature, excessively
the career of an archimandrite in the immediate future and don’t become a
scoundrel to you. Forgive me! No, better not forgive me, you’ll be
shoulders, whispered, but still seemed unable to realize this. But how
crimsoned and her eyes flashed.
Chapter I. Plans For Mitya’s Escape
In the woods the hunter strayed....
his waist. His throat and chest were bare. Beneath his coat, his shirt of
poverty that they went every day to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s kitchen for soup
to this unhappy man, gentlemen? In your presence, gentlemen, in your
Ivan bent down again with a perfectly grave face.
every one, and if I can’t borrow it, I give you my word of honor I
eyes.
his reverence Father Païssy, that he, Rakitin, has a matter to speak of
train him properly, the tenderer he was, the colder I became. I did it on
whatever you want, sign anything ... and we could draw up the agreement at
kissing his hand as peasants do.
“And now on the top of it all, my friend, the best man in the world, is
beside him, that the Epistle had not been read properly but did not
desperately naughty boy, so Smurov was obviously slipping out on the sly.
He had been saying for the last three days that he would bury him by the
Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom and seated him on his bed. It
Grushenka he did not understand. For him the whole tormenting question lay
old and tried friend, that he might call him in his sick moments merely to
“Hi, you ... Podvysotskys! Come, she’s going to dance. She calls you.”
town. I spent money right and left. I was thought to be rich; I thought so
obligation involves confession to the elder by all who have submitted
jacket, observed:
salvation of the criminal! Let other nations think of retribution and the
chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment—still I
soft, one might even say sugary, feminine voice.
latter turned round, and noticing that Miüsov was watching him, waved him
piquant that they were soon taken. This alone showed the young man’s
he shan’t! I’ll crush him!”
“Your praise is, perhaps, excessive,” I replied.
“Then she’s there! She’s hidden there! Out of the way, scoundrel!”
of whom one is going to Siberia and the other is lying at death’s door.
where I got that money yesterday....”
honor will come simply because he is in a rage or suspicious on account of
through pride, still you had a hope that Smerdyakov might be convicted and
“You speak of Father Zossima?”
knits his thick gray brows and his eyes gleam with a sinister fire. He
middle finger. He fixed his teeth in it and it was ten seconds before he
galloping consumption, that he would not live through the spring. My
the town, but did not show her the post office receipt. I said I had sent
unhappy! Though it’s such nonsense, it’s a great blow to me. I feel like
“Well, I’ve come to do the same again, do you see?”
gloomy mysticism, and on the political into blind chauvinism—two elements
working with Thee, but with _him_—that is our mystery. It’s long—eight
Book XI. Ivan
_panienotchka_, he he!” laughed Maximov, pulling out his queen, and, as
“Rakitin wouldn’t understand it,” he began in a sort of exaltation; “but
“I am a widow these three years,” she began in a half‐whisper, with a sort
anything of him.
kill myself, because I loathe everything! I don’t want to live, because I
killed the fool in a fury, but now he felt as weak as a child. He went
haunted Alyosha’s mind. At this moment it haunted him. Oh, it was not that
picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most
“She ought to be flogged in public on a scaffold!”
go to the cupboard, the second shelf on the right. Here are the keys. Look
and don’t wake up again, and that’s all. You can pray for my soul if you
Mitya began to feel anxious. He noticed besides, that the Pole on the sofa
the barest possibility of such an explanation, how can the prisoner be so
“Cleverer than you,” the peasant answered unexpectedly, with the same
mind. Grusha keeps looking at me. She understands. My God, calm my heart:
Brooding on these things he may have come to us perhaps only to see
what all! It’ll be remembered to his glory: ‘He predicted the crime and
“Yes, I went a journey of forty versts into the country. Didn’t you know?”
go?” he brought out at last timidly, and insinuatingly.
appear. ‘Here, you are a proud man,’ I shall say: ‘you have shown it; but
“Yes.”
pretending to be dead, and so on; in fact, showed all the tricks he had
“Well, he’s just like a top: he wants to be wound up and set spinning and
“Here is perhaps the one man in the world whom you might leave alone
his life, when he needed to have all his wits about him, to say what he
“You have forgotten to mention it,” observed the investigating lawyer.
hands ... your blood‐stained hands ... your money ... a lot of money ... a
and crying out:
monster! I only received that letter the next evening: it was brought me
“Yes, my brothers too,” murmured Alyosha, pondering.
yourself, Agrafena Alexandrovna won’t come at all?” Ivan went on, turning
snow was falling in big wet flakes, melting as soon as it touched the
The landlord, who had been for some time past inquisitively peeping in at
perhaps, where it lay at that moment. I will say no more of this here, as
Scripture history then with excellent pictures, called _A Hundred and Four
Then Grushenka suddenly felt sorry for them, and at dusk she went round
knows what you’ve thought about, and what you know already! You are pure,
“He will, I see he will! Eh, Misha! Why, I was going to kiss you for the
fancy that he has a high opinion of you. Worse still with Alyosha, he
with her forehead to the floor. She jumped up and ran away. I was wearing
unusual long before. But at last the murmurs, first subdued but gradually
where we shall get to! Is there?”
Alyosha’s finger had been badly bitten to the bone, close to the nail; it
from the tavern—and only that morning, only that morning I wanted to
it and remained callous. Such a one, having left the earth, sees Abraham’s
again! Grushenka is flying to a new life.... Don’t you remember evil
So you must choose. It’s either I or the monster. It all lies in your
forgetfulness, and the most profound indifference as to the ultimate fate
went out of the hut. He did not find the forester in the next room; there
“Who is stupid? Of whom are you talking, brother?” Alyosha asked anxiously
right enough.’ That was what he dropped. That was all he said. That was
So you see, gentlemen, I understand the distinction between us.... But you
Seeing him with his face all smeared with blood, the young man uttered a
I always lie and play the fool like this? Believe me, I have been acting
“There’s no phantom here, but only us two and one other. No doubt he is
sitting doing nothing. He met Ivan with a slow silent gaze, and was
all.”
fall down the cellar stairs in a fit, if you didn’t sham a fit on
much thought to the details of his plan, but resolved to act upon it, even
one’s eyes what one has come about. And what a lot you think of their
winked at the lad, he tugged at the bridle, and crack. The goose’s neck
only one like my old Inquisitor, who had himself eaten roots in the desert
it, or would it not, be the proper thing for me to turn Rakitin out for
far more than a thousand roubles upon each of them. I won’t enter into a
make, he had nothing but a bare denial ready. ‘I am not guilty of my
but ... it wasn’t Zhutchka; if he could have had Zhutchka and the puppy,
“Yes, formally and solemnly betrothed. It was all done on my arrival in
he’ll praise her to my face, more shame to him! He’s treated me badly
the gladness of our hearts, remembering how God brought about our
despair of a sort, had felt during those last few days that one of the
“But I am not von Sohn either. I am Maximov.”
himself—that if it’s well managed there will be no great inquiry, and that
ready to bless God and His creation directly, but ... I must kill one
Zossima. “His teaching was false; he taught that life is a great joy and
told me the main idea three days before, and we began quarreling about it
gradually into quiet, tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place
sandwiches. It must be noted that all this time he had plenty of money. He
“Nobody will believe you, as you’ve plenty of money of your own; you may
when he was away, not to be naughty, not to cry from fright. With this
pulled up his steaming, panting horses at the high flight of steps.
consequences; that meanwhile he, Herzenstube, did not fully understand it,
such a hurry, only to get out of trouble, only to run away and save
staying at the hotel. Our visitors were at once surrounded by beggars, but
like a little child, but you think like a martyr.”
change a dandy I know of for three young Englishmen,” observed Marya
moment. She spoke softly but clearly, so that she was heard all over the
Ilusha, without “sheepish sentimentality,” appearing to do so casually and
face became quite serious. She began speaking quickly and nervously in a
“It was not you killed father, not you!” Alyosha repeated firmly.
signals on the table, and when Nikolay Parfenovitch said that he supposed
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