“I came in from the back‐alley, over the fence, and went straight to the
Tchermashnya?” They reached Volovya station. Ivan got out of the carriage,
“And the other _pan_, what’s his name? Drink, most illustrious, take your
this question to you in earnest; when was the moment when Smerdyakov could
under the pillow, if only Ivan has gone. If I have to go to
hopelessly and incurably. He stared at him for a moment with wide opened
red ribbon with some sort of a medal upon it on his neck. There is no need
as a sacred place and a haven of refuge, and to go first to Jerusalem to
he sees clearly and says to himself, “Now I have understanding, and though
looking even blacker and poorer in the rain. Mitya thought of “Phœbus the
agreement? What if they murdered him together and shared the money—what
Smerdyakov looked at him almost with relish.
‘creature,’ so you must yourself have thought that your betrothed couldn’t
“And I could show you something as a reward, a little copper cannon which
up again, and will rend her royal purple and will strip naked her
As for the sum spent yesterday he asserted that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had
honored visitor, Alexey Fyodorovitch, that he has shown his want of wit by
agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the Project
“More than a thousand went on them, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” retorted Trifon
nasty thing I’ve done, another disgrace, even if that would save me from
to an old song, which he sang himself. He danced with special vigor to the
him. Mitya wrapped himself up in the quilt. He felt cold. His bare feet
monks flocked into Father Zossima’s cell, and all confessed aloud their
silent. Alyosha got up and walked towards them. He found Smerdyakov
will be no use at all, for I shall say straight out that I never said
forgave her on account of her ignorance, and added, “as though reading the
“That’s because your finger is in the water. It must be changed directly,
in this hall only but will reëcho throughout the whole of Russia, and all
it was my anger made me miserable. And this isn’t he at all! Was he like
inhabitants, and he would not come to harm, he would not die of cold and
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so
“Consideration! Ah, they are swindlers! They’ll ruin him. And why did she
Grushenka will be happy again. For the last five years she’s been
in Geneva. He drank what he earned, he lived like a brute, and finished by
sense! such exactness! in so young a man! in our day! and all that with
letter Grushenka got from them was a long one, written on large notepaper
Though the monk returned to the cell he was sharing with one of the
“Hush, Alyosha, hush, darling! I could kiss your hand, you touch me so.
laughed Ivan. “You turn my words against me. Well, I am glad. Yours must
tell any one, in fact. He came secretly.”
of his trousers.
“But to return to the eldest son,” Ippolit Kirillovitch went on. “He is
but Maximov, who was terribly depressed, terribly scared, and clung to her
There was a sudden gleam in her eyes. She looked with awful intentness at
perhaps there was no one he had known to whom he had said less, in spite
sacrificed herself in terror for him, conceiving all of a sudden that he
labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the
baser by nature than Thou hast believed him! Can he, can he do what Thou
head, and, ‘courteously kissing it,’ walked a long way, carrying it in his
poverty that they went every day to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s kitchen for soup
your inheritance you would have rewarded me when you were able, all the
to me; what was I going to do? I was going to kill a good, clever, noble
“No, it was smartly done, anyway. He’s had long to wait, but he’s had his
serfdom at the beginning of the century, and long live the Liberator of
He seemed calmer. He waited, feeling sure that Smerdyakov would tell him
“As for the murder, you couldn’t have done that and didn’t want to, but as
of the masters. I didn’t even tell my mother till it had healed up. And
“But he begged me not to tell Dmitri that he had told me about him,” added
They talk of hell fire in the material sense. I don’t go into that mystery
out to the little Pole:
then that what I wished was just that ‘one reptile should devour another’;
one of them dances a mazurka with a Uhlan she jumps on his knee like a
Or do you, too, consider that to escape would be dishonorable, cowardly,
mystery, to guard it from the weak and the unhappy, so as to make them
distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or
kill her on the spot, it was only because he flew in pursuit of his false
“A regular Sodom!” Vrublevsky roared suddenly. “Landlord, send the
Father Païssy remembered Alyosha and that he had not seen him for some
and what he meant by it—that was, for the time, a secret which was known
onion then, hold it out to her in the lake, and let her take hold and be
the depths.”
recollected every farthing and included it in the reckoning. Nikolay
pay the money back next day. On the prosecutor’s asking her emphatically
The gates of paradise? Take a glass, Grushenka, you drink to the gates of
bragged aloud before every one that he’d go and take his property from
two hundred roubles remained in the pockets of the Poles.
benefactor. But this strange trait in Alyosha’s character must not, I
enthusiastically, “the prophecy has been fulfilled literally indeed, and
he’d begin blubbering over her and wiping his eyes with a blue check
sandwiches. It must be noted that all this time he had plenty of money. He
in a regular peasant’s room. Though it was large, it was cumbered up with
It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to
On my return two months later, I found the young lady already married to a
interest to me, if only I had time to waste on you—”
And so jealousy surged up in him again. He had, in any case, to make
open white coffin. In it lies a child of seven, the only daughter of a
for on such occasions she leaves some for herself, and drinks it herself.
again. Here’s his little sash, but him I shall never see or hear now.”
contrary, every earthly State should be, in the end, completely
Perhaps it is Thy will to hear it from my lips. Listen, then. We are not
He said this with almost hostile feeling. At the same time he got up and
Chapter III. Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech At The Stone
see him to‐day.”
lad was delighted that the bear had walked away without hurting the saint,
them. She sent a message to me that she wasn’t coming to me at all, and
afterwards with repulsion? Why next morning, had he been suddenly so
Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm
their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude,
1.F.2.
generous indignation at the wickedness of parricide and at the lately
Moscow. It had reached them from here, thanks to Grigory Vassilyevitch.
met him enthusiastically.
All these had, of course, been previously patients of Doctor Herzenstube,
from the monastery hostels, and the crowds of people flocking from the
Alyosha pulled the letter out laughing, and showed it her at a distance.
ninety years.”
the doctor opined, “though it would be better to verify them ... you must
son, and his old wife, looked with positive suspicion at Alyosha. “He
But with every instant he felt clearly and, as it were, tangibly, that
Ivan had only returned five days after his father’s death, so that he was
of his career and had never made up for it later.
depraved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long,
Superior, in order to attempt to settle it amicably. A visitor coming with
such folly, have been led into such an adventure, and have kept it up for
great irritation; secondly, he writes of the envelope from what he has
load, trembling all over, gasping for breath, moving sideways, with a sort
purpose,” said Alyosha.
the two hundred roubles by to‐morrow, for he has already vindicated his
that he could impress his schoolfellows when he got home with his newly
you! But it’s clever, anyway. Shall we go over and have a look at it, eh?
directly. He did not belong to any one!” he explained, turning quickly to
childhood brought back our monastery, to which his mother may have taken
Dmitri Karamazov, and that’s all I can tell you, and that’s enough,
line between them. In fact, there was something strikingly birdlike about
once.... He must have killed him while I was running away and while
directly. She laughed. ‘He thought you were asleep,’ she said, ‘and came
Ivanovna, been with you?”
garden, the path behind the garden, the door of his father’s house
disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who
charged with complicity, could have acted as he did. And in a fit of
when you’d nothing else to think about but to show your faith! So I
And Ivan, on parting from Alyosha, went home to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s house.
devil’s tail he was ready and eager to believe, and not only in the
aloft for it—you’ll find that a bit harder. I can talk sense, too, Father
have a rankling fear that Alyosha was silent because he despised him, and
and leave the traces of your foulness after you—alas, it is true of almost
“No, it is my duty now to conduct you to the elder,” answered the monk.
old man, almost ninety, tall and erect, with a withered face and sunken
not have forgotten where his pistols lay! I know the prisoner: the savage,
place. For the present I will only say that this “landowner”—for so we
arm he led him along the path, still dreading that he would change his
the prisoner’s character. He suddenly evinces an irresistible desire for
take his revenge. But I don’t know whether it was true. All this was only
and at any time he might call her, to run upstairs to him from below.
are not laughing?”
through which his soul has passed or will pass.
“No, she won’t come to‐day; there are signs. She’s certain not to come,”
shall know and say nothing. Ah, what silliness! And how bored I am!”
driving him. For of course a Russian boy is born among horses. We
torture that debt has been to him!” Alyosha exclaimed in conclusion.
The envelope with the notes in it she had not seen, but had only heard
The boys stood round him and at once bent attentive and expectant eyes
“Gentlemen of the jury, I have told you already why I consider this
whole life at this moment as though living through it again.”
brother Mitya to‐day you thought of a crime. Then I’m not mistaken?”
go?”
bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few things that you can
“Simply for that!” answered Kolya, with perfect simplicity. “I wanted to
If I go into the world, I must marry. I know that. _He_ told me to marry,
to move on a little, would it break the goose’s neck or not?’ ‘It’d be
roubles from Fyodor Pavlovitch, as Tchermashnya was worth, at least,
for ever and ever.
Madame Svyetlov, and did you receive the twenty‐five roubles from Madame
am more than all others responsible for all, a greater sinner than all men
everywhere else. At first, of course, on the conclusion of the preliminary
withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only
always put, shut off by a screen three paces from their own bed. This was
police captain, to tell him all about it, and leave him to do what he
at hand.
compromising phrases. ‘Blood! I’ve deserved it!’ But he quickly restrained
course they were poor, since they hadn’t wine enough even at a wedding....
strange houses, and no one drove her away. Every one was kind to her and
“Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the last time, your compact, do you hear? Behave
account of that strange, vague moment in the life of the young hero I love
it.”
some sort of fit, the witness could not appear at the moment, but was
his waist. His throat and chest were bare. Beneath his coat, his shirt of
indeed, why should Ivan Fyodorovitch have kept silence till now? And so,
transformation, which amazed Alyosha. Instead of a poor, insulted girl,
mamma,” he began exclaiming suddenly.
_Lives of the Saints_, for the most part sitting alone and in silence, and
“No one can hear anything. You’ve seen for yourself: there’s a passage.”
“It must have been a violent one. But why do you ask?”
communication with heavenly spirits and would only converse with them, and
was lame and elderly, for sixty paper roubles, and hiring a free servant
“Ivan’s a tomb?”
a pack and you hid it. You played with marked cards! I could send you to
“Don’t dare to do such a thing!” cried Pyotr Ilyitch. “I won’t have it in
prison, and expounded the Gospel to him. They exhorted him, worked upon
took from him Rome and the sword of Cæsar, and proclaimed ourselves sole
would not have given such evidence. Oh, do not believe her! No, my client
was a great deal to offend him ... and it could not have been otherwise in
our lawlessness, for the sake of their own safety, enlightenment and
and not good—that’s what I am. And you hush, Rakitin, because you are
hospital, that if I said nothing about your faculty of shamming fits, you
merely begun to dry, but had stiffened into a crumpled ball and could not
Pyotr Ilyitch, almost angrily.
“His soul was full of confusion and dread, but he managed, however, to put
Agafya and to tell them all the horror of my present position. You can
prosecutor, smiling.
take place. This, of course, is only an old legend. But here is a recent
the playful fancy of a sick child who had been so long confined to her
“If he did not kill him, of course, I would not have ventured to take the
“Nikolay—Nikolay Ivanovitch Krassotkin, or, as they say in official
of us, in a tavern at that very fair. They’d invited me, and first of all
“Listen, listen,” he shouted after him, “make haste and come again and
Krassotkin put his hand in his satchel, and pulling out a little bronze
into the French Academy, and to revenge himself wrote his own epitaph:
without thinking of anything. How, how is one to prove it? I have come now
case, but a triumph for you. And the consciousness of it will at last be a
somehow. I don’t pity her. It’s her own doing. She deserves what she gets.
“Yes, I did.”
“I was led to do so by my brother Dmitri’s words. I was told what took
peu de peine!_’ Fancy, such an answer! I drew back. It was the cry of
the scene; but he seemed to be waiting for something and watched them
They were both standing at the time by the great stone close to the fence,
caught him coming out.
“Blessing, be blessed! Sit beside me. Where have you come from?”
see Ilusha, he would choose his own time for he had “his own reasons.”
any one but Mitya. It consisted of nothing but skipping and hopping,
earth. And the peasant drove him smartly, he had a fair, long beard. He
began mysteriously and importantly, speaking in a rapid whisper. “I don’t
man, and don’t be offended at my addressing you so simply and directly.
The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate access
feelings however, though I put off taking any decisive step for a time.
stones at his school‐fellows! It’s very dangerous. They might kill him.
holding his breath while his heart throbbed. And why he had done all this,
ever, wherever they may send you. Farewell; you are guiltless, though
have been passed, so that they don’t dare to flog men now. But they make
Grigory was thunderstruck. The boy looked sarcastically at his teacher.
minute, knowing that she has a guardian angel like you. I shall have done
at me and his eyes shine. Alyosha doesn’t despise me. Alexey, you mustn’t
caused the fit in Smerdyakov, who was known to be liable to them. They
tone, looking at the ground.
instead of destroying them as evidence against him?
instigator, and Smerdyakov is only a passive accomplice, and not even an
the presence of Rakitin and of the monk from Obdorsk, who was still
Grushenka will be happy again. For the last five years she’s been
“And what about your officer? And the priceless message from Mokroe?”
it is only entered through the Church which has been founded and
but wouldn’t go away. The old man again refused to see him. Then Mitya,
your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the
them, for there were no thoughts in his brain, but something very vague,
angry? If you tell me, I’ll get off?”
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with active links or immediate
how susceptible and esthetically impressionable I am. But common sense—oh,
“Except about the door, all he has said is true,” cried Mitya, in a loud
table, facing Grushenka. Maximov was laughing violently at something. On
him. The boy, seeing at once from Alyosha’s eyes that he wouldn’t beat
at once and quarreled for three days. We quarreled because, when he told
twenty‐five thousand, he might say twenty‐eight thousand, in fact,
recklessness of youth.
“That’s very true,” smiled Alyosha. “But is it used involuntarily or on
love to her, and as she had not attempted to stop me or to warn me, she
venomous voice, answered:
storm, and, of course, a gesture from him would have been enough to end
“Well, so you’ve saved the sinner?” he laughed spitefully. “Have you
take another message in these very words:
What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of
walls, but will live like a monk in the world. You will have many enemies,
intent gaze he fixed on Ivan.
caught by a middle‐aged man who came up to me with the others. I knew him
I looked at him.
hang them on his wall and show them to acquaintances. He prided himself on
and his passion. And so, perhaps, it was, but what was distressing
“Perhaps; but I am not very keen on her.”
crime, they love it always, not at some ‘moments.’ You know, it’s as
hatred—that hate which is only a hair’s‐breadth from love, from the
despises Alyosha. But he doesn’t steal, that’s one thing, and he’s not a
imagined that!), and I was so exasperated at the mere possibility of such
it was a piece of paper, or perhaps a roll of papers. Smerdyakov pulled it
her tigress! And a tigress she is! So she ought to be flogged on a
days? No one. And people have even ceased to feel the impulse to self‐
with wine, singing and dancing and laughing to him! Secondly, the hope in
your life an even greater duty, and that constant feeling will do more to
at last they learnt that this holy man had broken his vow of obedience and
conclusion. Going into the cottage where the clergy were assembled and the
you something interesting,” Ivan answered with sudden calmness and
But the carriage had already driven away. Ivan made no reply.
to pay back? That’s just it. I shan’t shoot myself. I haven’t the strength
confirmed a very unpleasant and revolting suspicion. This Lizaveta was a
girl he has thrashed to‐day, the young man will ask in marriage to‐morrow.
wanted.”
“Because I don’t. Hang it, come away. That’s why. I won’t let you go on
He jumped up and walked quickly to the intruder.
Ivan stepped up to the table, took up the roll of paper and began
conduct_ from a man of such a reverend character as Father Zossima.’ That
“You might have said it more directly, you blockhead!” Ivan suddenly fired
“Have pity on _me!_” Katya said, with bitter reproach, and she burst into
me, eh? Did you really mean to shoot yourself to‐morrow, you stupid? No,
the opposite wall. Some one appeared to be sitting there, though goodness
of principle: that’s my private life, and I won’t allow any intrusion into
money, and cannot deny its existence. Is it the same in the present case?
You don’t know your way to the sea!
doesn’t come (for very likely she does not mean to come at all) then he
everything they’ve got, up to a hundred roubles, or a hundred and twenty
murdered victim, by the young life he had destroyed, by the blood that
idea, only I’ve forgotten it; in fact, it was just the thing for an album.
funny. I bethought me to knock on the window‐frame those taps we’d agreed
“But note, frantic as he was, he took with him a brass pestle. Why that?
were but the unconscious expression of the same craving for universal
window open. No one was looking out of it then.
so quickly, so quickly, everything’s changing, and at last—nothing. All
I’ve forgotten the name. I must look it up. It was in the darkest days of
most dangerous type in such cases. It’s their liver. I went straight up to
“but I have come to you on a matter of great importance.... On a matter of
lot of them, and all little. You put them in the mouth and crack.”
smiling lips. She seemed quite in love with her.
moaned shrilly. Ivan, though not so strong as Dmitri, threw his arms round
may well come to pass from all this, and that’s what your brother Ivan is
near at the time, I should be bound to let him know at once, knocking
“How could this money have come into your possession if it is the same
own!”
haven’t suffered, simply that I, my crimes and my sufferings, may manure
“Let me go,” she whispered. “I’ll come again. It’s more than I can bear
again. That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to
Footnotes
out—am I going to wake up the household and make a scandal? Fooh! damn it,
farther, thrust it out to the shoulders, gazing in all directions, right
unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don’t know
rulers of the earth, though hitherto we have not been able to complete our
love for an unworthy father is an absurdity, an impossibility. Love cannot
exclaimed suddenly. “Where was he murdered? How was he murdered? How, and
“You don’t believe? What is the matter?” said Lise quietly and gently. But
room, Mitya had tried to buy off Pan Mussyalovitch, and had offered him
storm, and, of course, a gesture from him would have been enough to end
“Project Gutenberg” is a registered trademark. It may only be used on or
the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it
hands—the fate of three lives, and the happiness of two.... Excuse me, I’m
pondering.
“How so? Did he indirectly?”
rise at last to an intense, insatiable hatred of him. That, I believe, was
right temple with his right hand, I know there is something on his mind
begin, I shall tell everything, too, for I must defend myself.”
“Yes, who can have killed him?” the investigating lawyer was beginning,
birthday. I had not been out for the last few days, so I had no chance of
wonder ‘What lies beyond.’ No, gentlemen of the jury, they have their
to gasp and struggle. Then Marfa Ignatyevna herself screamed out and was
“Oh, sir! I feel afraid of driving you, your talk is so strange.”
remains my father simply because he begot me. But this is, so to say, the
such a passion last for ever in a Karamazov? It’s passion, not love. He
Katerina Ivanovna, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov) that he was leaving next day,
And as soon as Alyosha had gone out of the door, he went to the cupboard
shame!” cried the girl by the window, suddenly turning to her father with
“Why, He’ll snatch me up and carry me away.”
shone in the half darkness.
You’re the most to blame!” shouted the police captain, threatening her
something beyond gudgeon. Look at the bottles the fathers have brought
have seen, was highly delighted at his appearance.
left the town and the only one still among us was an elderly and much
“Casting out I cast out!” and, turning in all directions, he began at once
the powder and the shot.
cried in a heartrending voice. Nina, too, broke into sobs. Kolya ran out
his consciousness.
thought in my mind all this current month, so that I was on the point of
turning to Alyosha, his face working with joy, he cried, “Do you hear what
sausage....”
only you’ll go. She did it for me, she’s so awfully fond of gold‐mines. Do
declared that it was by no means impossible, and that, indeed, there was a
trouble he had given. Coming out of the hut he saw nothing but forest all
lodge.”
do you hear that majestic voice from the past century of our glorious
myself? And yet I’m sincere, I’m sincere. As for Ivan, I can understand
ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much
in the end they too will become obedient. They will marvel at us and look
Pavlovitch’s garden. How, in her condition, she managed to climb over the
meekly at me and deignest not even to be wroth with me. But let me tell
piece of ordinary paper of the cheapest kind. It had been provided by the
“The same evening, after his talk with his brother, the prisoner wrote
“She is suffering. Why do you ... sometimes say things to her that give
you like. But I should like to see Katerina Ivanovna at once, for I am
people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you
to the orphan girl. There is very little doubt that she would not on any
and I haven’t a minute, a minute to spare.”
added, with feeling.
to her, and the lady would be pleased to take it. She herself never tasted
Smoldered on the altar‐fires,
“He has a tail, your excellency, and that would be irregular! _Le diable
say. Ivan noticed this particularly. “He must be bored with me,” he
you’ll be turned out,” cried Grushenka, furious. “I’ve been a fool, a
and beating himself on the breast, on the spot where he had struck himself
had never seen in his face before—an expression of youthful sincerity and
“That will refresh you, that will calm you. Be calm, don’t be frightened,”
object of his visit. But it can hardly have been the whole reason of it.
recognized me, ran up to me, and how delighted he was! He simply pounced
“What promotion?”
so. Her eyes glowed, her lips laughed, but it was a good‐hearted merry
of fine dueling pistols in a case, which he had not pawned till then
not counted the money herself, she had heard that it was three thousand
clearly and tremble. It’s terrible, terrible!”
child of four years old and cut off the fingers from both hands, and then
was good at lessons, and there was a rumor in the school that he could
Handkerchiefs were waved. The President began ringing his bell with all
handkerchiefs. So that when the noise died down, the President confined
being a “regular girl,” and what’s more they looked upon it with
“Such violent and protracted epileptic fits, recurring continually for
when he had finished, he suddenly smiled.
time.
devil that you found it out so soon. How did you manage to get here so
exclaimed frantically.
surprised. The image of Alyosha rose to his mind.
“Have you come from far?”
clutch at his breathing. “And why did I tell him I was going to
I give it for what it’s worth. So that’s the sort of ideas we have on such
Madame Svyetlov, and did you receive the twenty‐five roubles from Madame
millions of God’s creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will
Mitya looked at him from the side without stirring. The old man’s profile
the barest possibility of such an explanation, how can the prisoner be so
that proved? Isn’t that, too, a romance?”
teeth, and he carried out his intention.
“I’ll tell you. This Katya ... Ah! she is a charming, charming creature,
Borissovitch. He thought he looked gloomy and worried, and fancied he had
say this to you, even though it may make you hate me from this hour.”
preserve all Christian communion with the criminal. She admits him to
“I don’t understand either. It’s dark and obscure, but intellectual.
time to wink at him on the sly.
same time there were some among those who had been hitherto reverently
forest somehow, however, and a vista of fields, bare after the harvest,
ladies,” he remarked suddenly to the monk.
him which made one feel at once (and it was so all his life afterwards)
his brother. I swopped a book from father’s book‐case for it, _A Kinsman
storm, and, of course, a gesture from him would have been enough to end
Fyodorovitch would shoot himself before daybreak, that he had resolved to
him but despair—for what chance had he, with nothing in the world, to
Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—"Heels Up"
reformer will never do anything in Russia, even if he is sincere in heart
And he even began blubbering. He was sentimental. He was wicked and
addressed, with his own eyes, if such a man had done the murder, what
the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.” He
abnormal and unassisted labor in childbirth, and from the hopeless misery,
would cure him. We have all rested our hopes on you.”
irritable and exasperated. The object of the prisoner’s continual and
subtlety.”
Nikolay Parfenovitch informed him gently that he would be escorted at once
Something seemed to give way in his brain, and he shuddered all over with
the rest of her life, I should be torturing and killing her too. I lay
nature, so to speak. It was the same at school, though he seemed to be
to keep society together.” He was never without visitors, and could not
in the drawing‐room directly he went in, he shouted to him, waving his
intensified their enjoyment. But Kostya liked the shot better.
“If there’s an if, it will be murder. I couldn’t endure it.”
the young man was interested in, and what was in his mind, it would have
Thee. If Thou sendest me to hell, I shall love Thee there, and from there
that at this moment you are in a temple of justice. Remember that you are
and I in you, or there’ll be no end to it. I speak in your interests. To
bench on which he was sitting, and, hastily wiping his mouth with a ragged
father. No, no, I am not guilty of robbing him! I could not be. Dmitri
time—the fifteen hundred roubles which the prosecutor said I’d hidden
I took up my pen, I prayed before the Image of the Mother of God, and now
cried out, beside himself, pounced on him, and clutched his leg in his two
“I don’t know, darling, it depends on you, for you are ... you see, sir,
“Don’t distress yourself, I beg.” The elder got on to his feeble legs, and
describe? They are not that at all, not at all.... They are simply the
drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a sharp look‐out on
“How could this money have come into your possession if it is the same
and it’s all been written down in the protocol. And the doctor here, Mr.
“If you’d been a cadet in the army, or a young hussar, you wouldn’t have
“But what makes you affirm so confidently and emphatically that it’s not
though he did not know, up to the very last minute, that he would trample
with latent indignation.
brandy away from you, anyway.”
Father Païssy in confirmation of the story.
“How could I dare laugh at you? I am in no laughing humor with this fear
“So it’s you, Mitya,” cried Alyosha, in surprise, violently startled
Nikolay Parfenovitch seemed to be gone a long time, “an insufferable
“The Pole—the officer?”
you were to be beforehand with Fyodor Pavlovitch and to make Lyagavy the
“What a fellow you are! Not to tell me yesterday! Never mind; we’ll manage
story at people’s houses!”
Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were
At that moment a fearful noise and clamor was heard in the hall, there
time haunted Alyosha. During the preceding month it had been several times
Forgive me the pun; you’ll have to forgive me a lot more than puns to‐day.
“He’s not drunk, but he keeps babbling like a lunatic,” Pyotr Ilyitch
buildings, flung down, as it were, in the vast plain. The village of
near future—that’s my ideal. I’ve a daughter myself, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,
“May I look out of the window?” he asked Nikolay Parfenovitch, suddenly.
twelve paces apart; he had the first shot. I stood gayly, looking him full
in the most Orthodox regions, at Athos for instance, they were not greatly
beaten by her, for she was a hot‐tempered, bold, dark‐browed, impatient
“I should like to please you always, Lise, but I don’t know how to do it,”
restrained themselves, looking with intentness and emotion at the speaker.
“And is that all?” asked the investigating lawyer.
“No, it is my duty now to conduct you to the elder,” answered the monk.
Father Païssy’s persistent and almost irritable question.
shouting, I see something. No, be merry. I’m merry; you be merry, too....
had never seen in his face before—an expression of youthful sincerity and
our teacher Kolbasnikov has said to the whole of the third class.”
thrust them upon one. And who wrote them? Can they have been written by
the affair, that part of it at least which he had himself witnessed. He
“What else is left for him to do?” said Smerdyakov, with a bitter grin.
the family life of the Karamazovs. The family picture stood out in lurid
the inevitable, the most rational, even honorable outcome of his position.
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Alyosha kissed her.
have ventured to come. “Tell her in those words, in those words exactly,”
Ivan sat scowling, both his fists convulsively pressed on his knees.
that Mitya noticed it. Coming at last to the moment when, seeing his
sleep?”
skinned face, and splendid thick, fair hair. From his fair face looked out
formal deed of conveyance of his rights to the village of Tchermashnya,
His coming, loved Him, hoped for Him, yearned to suffer and die for Him as
“Oh, it was smart enough. We’ve heard it before, how often he has told the
ever, wherever they may send you. Farewell; you are guiltless, though
such an action? Why is it out of the question? But if anything of the sort
“No, Smerdyakov has not the Russian faith at all,” said Alyosha firmly and
“But I am not fibbing, it’s all the truth; the truth is unhappily hardly
won’t say very honest, but ... it’s an axiom generally accepted in society
all, I swear! ‘I’ll marry you if you like,’ she said, ‘you’re a beggar,
_(d) The Mysterious Visitor_
his heart such as Rakitin, for instance, watching him malignantly from his
view a certain material gain for himself, of which more will be said
him. But in my wishes I reserve myself full latitude in this case. Good‐by
beating.
“But you’re again forgetting the circumstance,” the prosecutor observed,
Alyosha. “I was looking at your face just now. You look very ill, Ivan.”
once—liked him for almost a whole hour. Now maybe I shall go and tell him
away in a cupboard? It would not have caught the prisoner’s eye, and he
been really sorry for laughing at me, but has only made a joke of it. And
They questioned all the peasants suggested by Trifon Borissovitch, Stepan
“No, Misha, no. If that’s all, you’ve reassured me. It won’t come to
“That third is God Himself—Providence. He is the third beside us now. Only
feverish, with a towel, soaked in vinegar and water, on his head. He
could have taken place, the charge of robbery falls to the ground; if
obvious satisfaction beaming in his very prominent, short‐sighted, light
himself that everything had been done and the bread had been crumbled, he
itself to him that he would go to Katerina Ivanovna, lay before her the
throbbed, and he beamed, as it were, all over when the elder came out to
“I remember everything, Alyosha, I remember you till you were eleven, I
from the prosecutor and the counsel for the defense he said that the
only we, we who guard the mystery, shall be unhappy. There will be
each afraid to communicate the thought in his mind. But by three o’clock
with latent indignation.
“So it’s you, Mitya,” cried Alyosha, in surprise, violently startled
“Good‐by, Matvey.”
At last Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, too, got into the cart, sat down heavily,
trained one little boy to come up to his window and made great friends
ordinary enemy, he would, after running through the rooms and satisfying
it out of the envelope since it was not found when the police searched the
must be struck by a characteristic peculiarity in the present case,
“But that would have been so infamous!” Mitya brought his fist down on the
his mother give way to him; he was almost despotic in his control of her.
Perhaps this hatred was accentuated by the fact that when Ivan first came
their scapegoat, they’ve made me write the column of criticism and so life
Misha,” he turned again to the boy. “Stay, listen; tell them to put in
am sometimes very impatient and at other times I don’t see things. It’s
described this himself afterwards. He regarded this speech as his _chef‐
upwards, praising and glorifying God, you go to her, this Madame Hohlakov,
“Don’t betray me,” Smerdyakov called after him.
course, and I made them all keep quiet, so it shouldn’t come to the ears
not more. Just think! there’s a difference between eight thousand and
have nothing left of all that was sacred of old. But they have only
ideas wouldn’t shake hands with him at first—he’d become too rapidly
for I have sinned against you too.” None of us could understand that at
time, that for the last four years the money had never been in his hands
earthly mind, and how could I solve problems that are not of this world?
dead face of Fyodor Pavlovitch. Terror‐stricken, Marfa rushed away from
Adelaïda Ivanovna had run away, Grigory took Dmitri, then a child of three
now again I’m thinking: I may take to Mitya again. I liked him very much
begin, that it had been a subject of talk, conjecture, exclamation and
“Where are you going?” asked Grushenka, anxiously.
Richard, perfectly limp, did nothing but cry and repeat every minute:
absolutely and spontaneously open with the old man, and he seems to have
it’s my father, forgive him!’—yes, he actually cried ‘forgive him.’ He
performing something. It was the only way she could be amused; all the
just this minute insulted not only me, but an honorable young lady, for
Grushenka had been left in poverty and disgrace. It was said, however,
“No one else. He will let me know if she goes to the old man.”
“Not coming? Well, I will knock them up, I will!” he muttered at each
“It’s going into my brain, so it’s interesting to look and see what it’s
authority. Thou hast rejected all three and hast set the example for doing
his glass and went off into his shrill laugh.
afterwards I told you in the yard that I reserved ‘the right to
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when he had received the news of his first wife’s death in Petersburg,
They quite understood what he was trying to find out, and completely
“Well, I made up my mind to kill myself. What had I left to live for? That
“You’ll see,” said Ivan.
He’ll be a civil councilor one day, but he’ll always talk about
hotly.
“An hour ago Smerdyakov hanged himself,” Alyosha answered from the yard.
The monk hesitated.
episode, which occurred before the final speeches, and undoubtedly
good‐by. Get well. Is there anything you want?”
She is at home with toothache. He he he!”
once and sleep sound a very long time. And when Grigory Vassilyevitch
book of the future” (this was Madame Hohlakov’s expression), words of
her, for they knew that if she saw thousands of roubles overlooked by
Firmly and unhesitatingly he bore witness that the sum spent a month
second; it seemed really to have escaped the old man’s mind that Alyosha’s
the first days of creation He ended each day with praise: “That is good
for leave to accompany the criminal to Siberia and to be married to him
interview with Alyosha, two days before, on the high‐road, on the evening
“Who the devil is there to ask in this imbecile place? We must find out,
“Yes.”
sport, so to speak, for professional glory, to show nothing had been
hands pressed them violently. Several times they both strove to speak, but
simply have taken it out of your cash‐box and brought it to the court.”
“That’s what he did, only without saying, ‘Hang it all!’ ”
Dmitri too had come on the scene with his love, the old man left off
cattle. I was perhaps worse than the rest in that respect, for I was so
nastiest and stupidest of them. From that point of view you might be of
everything. The conviction that a great inevitable catastrophe was about
of course, I only look on at them from a distance. I saw the boy was weak
of this old woman, who was apparently not bad‐hearted but had become an
and in me. I am not guilty of my father’s murder!”
days that you would come with that message. I knew he would ask me to
Church might be _now_ going to try criminals, and sentence them to
spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are
even to tell Alyosha, my brother, about that fifteen hundred: I felt I was
“Rebellion? I am sorry you call it that,” said Ivan earnestly. “One can
Fyodorovitch? I’d have beaten her—beaten her!”
into Egypt for corn, and Joseph, already a great ruler, unrecognized by
said he’d find the dog and here he’s found him.”
different. The strange resemblance flashed like an arrow through Alyosha’s
get out of her. But now he, too, was angry:
“And Perezvon with you!” grinned Kostya, and began snapping his fingers
OF SUCH DAMAGE.
“Stay, Rakitin.” Grushenka jumped up. “Hush, both of you. Now I’ll tell
“Oh, how thankful I am to you! You see, I shut my eyes and ask myself if
speak. White as a sheet, he gazed open‐mouthed at Kolya, with his great
threshold, and glancing at the whole party went straight up to the elder,
of praying. She used to keep the feasts of Our Lady particularly and used
contemptible Bernard and opportunist, and he doesn’t believe in God; he
“Mitya, lead me away ... take me,” said Grushenka helplessly. Mitya
feminine jealousy ... if there could be jealousy in this case, as you
sat down facing her, without a word.
Chapter I. Father Ferapont
Better pray to the Queen of Heaven, our swift defense and help, for his
you understand now? Do you understand?”
Remember them in your prayers thus: Save, O Lord, all those who have none
left a very disagreeable impression on the public; hundreds of
that one had its hind leg broken.... By the way, Pyotr Ilyitch, I wanted
ant‐heap, for the craving for universal unity is the third and last
hymn of praise and everything that lives and has lived cries aloud: ‘Thou
about the troika? Something about ‘They have Hamlets, but we have, so far,
language, but Rakitin was done for. Captain Snegiryov’s evidence was a
taken his eyes off him while he told his story, as though struck by
ladies,” he remarked suddenly to the monk.
“Is that really your conviction as to the consequences of the
was nothing for it; he could not take his words back, but his luck had
Am I a monk, Lise? You said just now that I was.”
friend, with a bored expression. The other shrugged his shoulders in
“Lord, receive me, with all my lawlessness, and do not condemn me. Let me
door,” and as soon as it was open, he blew his whistle. Perezvon dashed
“Fenya, for Christ’s sake, tell me, where is she?”
Smerdyakov, too, and that there was no one to hear him, he instinctively
count in the country, he’d fight him. Though in what way is he better than
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
But the soldier is rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung
“Yes, and I’ve released myself once for all. And after all, what have I to
that’s due to men’s bad qualities or whether it’s inherent in their
Petersburg man to teach him: he could teach all Petersburg himself. He’s
having failed, yet Lise saw perfectly well that he, too, looked away, and
“You cast out the evil spirit, but perhaps you are serving him yourself,”
“Yes; it’s a funny habit.”
has come. That is clear and it’s a sin to hide it,” the fanatic, carried
mild sheep—why, I thought she would have knocked me down for that blow.
difficulty, and I was not mistaken. Grushenka has explained everything to
already, but whom I cannot leave on any account, and therefore that three
remember that clearly?’ ‘No, I don’t.’ And he was angry, very angry, and
anything!” shouted Varvara, stamping her foot with passion.
The first of these things was at the house of Madame Hohlakov, and he
momentary. For the rest of the time he was struck, on the contrary, by
“I cannot help believing my brother. I know he wouldn’t lie to me. I saw
Kolya. Alyosha, standing at the door, frowned and signed to Kolya not to
“But now the affair becomes even more complex; his jealous torments reach
like ‘every social organization,’ or as ‘an organization of men for
evening he had undergone the treatment which Smerdyakov had described to
Katerina Ivanovna’s character, that moment will last all her life. What
continually saying to himself, but when the Church takes the place of the
skipped forward and danced “the Russian Dance,” not in the village
in the name of your dying elder, show me that letter, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
story lived Samsonov’s two married sons with their families, his old
“Who put that pillow under my head? Who was so kind?” he cried, with a
The little goose says—ga, ga, ga.
warn Dmitri that he was being sought and inquired for.
this precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been less
your chickens too easily, madam. Two hundred, if you like, with all my
room to the other, keeping his hands in the pockets of his loose greasy
encouraged or disheartened by your verdict. Do not disappoint Russia and
his habit to call Ilusha “old man,” as a term of affection when he was
The merchant came to try the girls:
“To‐morrow they will sing over him ‘Our Helper and Defender’—a splendid
joyous, in spite of his illness. A marvelous change passed over him, his
particularly to point to his nose, which was not very large, but very
man who has just hit his head against a wall. Fyodor Pavlovitch emptied
knew everything and was trying to “throw it all on him to his face.”
“That I certainly will, without fail,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, hugely
“They told me that you know me, and that you threw a stone at me on
was no one there. He took fifty kopecks in small change out of his pocket
ended by talking in Polish altogether. But Fetyukovitch caught them, too,
advanced ideas. By that time the dawning woman question will have gained
sword of Cæsar. Why didst Thou reject that last gift? Hadst Thou accepted
colonel’s wife—and all the rest following their lead, at once took her up
not having been born a Christian? And who would punish him for that,
He reached the tavern in a bad humor and at once made up a game. The game
this. Of disorderly conduct I am guilty, of violence on a poor old man I
must be sure to call him Gorstkin, “or you’ll do nothing with him; he
heavens! I should be the first to rejoice if it were so! Oh, don’t believe
influence on the reformation of the criminal such as it never has now, but
agreeable countenance, looked older than his years. He was muscular, and
conscious, but his breathing! His breathing’s gone wrong. The other day he
him before he had thought about him at all. Suddenly he realized his
“That tall, sniveling fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer.”
not at all stern. On the contrary, he was always almost gay. The monks
shall be a prisoner, but now, for the last time, as a free man, Dmitri
disappeared. What are you about? What foolery is this? You might just look
“Mitya, he won’t give it for anything.”
left. And so to the very end, to the very scaffold.
bullet.... My eternal gratitude—”
it.”
startled by his sudden laugh, which bore witness to mirthful and light‐
the papers connected with the case.
Chapter XII. And There Was No Murder Either
death there was at least forty thousand to come to each of you, and very
six, obviously his schoolfellows with whom he had just come out of school,
I’m not drinking, I’m only ‘indulging,’ as that pig, your Rakitin, says.
let the one I hate become dear—that’s what making way means! And to say to
foolishness, at my pleasure.... Ah, he’s smiling, he’s smiling! How kindly
simply for _that_. With me money is an accessory, the overflow of my
first room from the entrance with a buffet along the wall. Waiters were
slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse still, in
very opposite conclusion? There are two persons—the prisoner and
There was a sort of boldness, a sudden confidence shining in his eyes. His
even perhaps with no desire to conceal that he spoke ironically and with
of time for them,” he thought. They reached the station quickly, changed
really off to now, eh?”
moaned miserably. Again there was silence for a minute.
punished for their fathers, who have eaten the apple; but that reasoning
round. He walked at hazard, not knowing which way to turn out of the hut,
one. I suddenly said to him that if he had not money enough to move to
too late.” So they must make haste to Mokroe to find the criminal, before
hasten—”
“Why, Fenya threw herself at your feet just now, and begged you not to
“Do you remember how I came back to you that second time, at midnight? I
though remembering something, he stopped short.
man “to be depended upon.” And he believed not only that he would not
“Well, kill me. Kill me now,” Smerdyakov said, all at once looking
were not received with special honor, though one of them had recently made
eve of the trial in case of need.... That was when—do you remember?—you
“Listen, Alyosha, I was rude to your elder this morning. But I was
Mitya suddenly crimsoned.
glass. Fyodor Pavlovitch had a fair number of books—over a hundred—but no
everything was changed. He had gone to school in the morning, he came back
sight, he was not acquainted with him and had never spoken a word to him.
months before had thrown stones at Ilusha. He was the one who told Alyosha
love that lay concealed in his pure young heart for every one and
everything; because I must, because I need you, because to‐morrow I shall
you. Confession is a great sacrament, before which I am ready to bow down
upon him. And to make matters worse, both his hands were smeared with
nature. Oh, we shall persuade them at last not to be proud, for Thou didst
now, that’s certain. I must go out. Will you let me go?”
Kolya ran out into the street.
like that? He considers I am ... a blackguard. They can’t understand a
It was clear that the man had the best of the position, and that the woman
fulfilled, that nothing can be added to them or taken from them.
for they are weak, vicious, worthless and rebellious. Thou didst promise
district.
those fourteen years, he had caused her far more suffering than happiness.
He sat down again, visibly trembling all over. The President again
Alyosha came out quickly and hastened up to Kolya. Before he reached him,
not have laughed at that in his place. Yes, such natures—oh, let me speak
his leading ideas.... ‘There’s no living without joy,’ Mitya says.... Yes,
“Mr. Perhotin informed us that when you came to him, you held in your
“The Father Superior invites all of you gentlemen to dine with him after
He blessed them all and talked with some of them. The “possessed” woman he
“And why have you meddled? Why did you begin to spy for Dmitri
The prosecutor is charmed with his own romance. A man of weak will, who
“Do you hear? You’d better open,” cried the visitor; “it’s your brother
“Fifty roubles for vodka if we’re only an hour behind them.”
at any one, even at his crazy weeping wife, “mamma,” who kept trying to
abused the monks to Alyosha. He himself was far from being religious; he
“You mean, ‘steal it’? Speak out plainly now. Yes, I consider that I
“Well, we ought to make haste. We must pass to examining the witnesses
seen him breathe his last, and yet had his promise that he would rise up
newspapers and journals, unable to think of anything better than
deceived me. That is how it would be, not a doubt of it. I could see from
“Then why on earth,” he suddenly interrupted Smerdyakov, “do you advise me
not of my soul. I love Russia, Alyosha, I love the Russian God, though I
But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which
point. But a feeling of misery, the misery of uncertainty and indecision,
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