contemptuous and rough, and at another there was a sincere note of self‐
head.”
with twenty‐eight thousand of my mother’s money and made a hundred
a peaked cap, and looked like a merchant’s clerk. He was in a state of
factories children of nine years old, frail, rickety, bent and already
“He took it! He took it!” cried Mitya; “only he wanted to get the whole
“Ivan has dissuaded me. I shouldn’t care about Ivan, but there’s another
It was evening. Fyodor Pavlovitch, whom she had not seen for those eight
he wants you, but only that you would go and show yourself at his door. So
Alas, put no faith in such a bond of union. Interpreting freedom as the
little bit. But perhaps you think that I am saying all this on purpose to
not to wait more than a minute before a rosy‐cheeked boy of about eleven,
were swollen, and now it will be more so, and more and more. Look how she
he added, turning to Fyodor Pavlovitch with a good‐humored face. He went
you.” But Ivan did not follow this judicious advice and did not take to
was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness
reality he was on a servile footing with them. It was just at the time
cried with sudden warmth.
sacrificed herself in terror for him, conceiving all of a sudden that he
hair, to kick him in the face in his own house, and brag of murdering him
elder, opening his weary eyes and looking intently at Alyosha, asked him
“Mitya, he won’t give it for anything.”
you and I can still hold up my head before you.”
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I—” (He addressed the Polish gentleman with the pipe
God in your loneliness. And if two of you are gathered together—then there
say, had been reached only during the last hours, that is, after his last
ill, and the thought never leaves me.”
when she was visited by one disturbing thought stronger than ever in her
she sent for me a month ago, gave me three thousand roubles to send off to
that the elder Zossima, who was living in the monastery hermitage, had
Alyosha. But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque
They crossed the market‐place, in which at that hour were many loaded
radiant with modest virtues. Come, Arina Petrovna, come, mamma, first your
in Father Zossima’s cell, and so to have forgotten himself. “The monks
nor wonder‐working ikons, nor glorious traditions, nor historical
administrative power could not always be relied upon. It was not so much
must,” and Alyosha held out two new rainbow‐colored hundred‐rouble notes.
are not laughing?”
Krassotkin put his hand in his satchel, and pulling out a little bronze
“I regard the question as quite a trivial one,” he rapped out again,
running after him. “She told you to catch me up, because I’m mad. I know
proofs from the other world ... in an envelope. You think of nothing but
Marfa Ignatyevna had tasted the stuff, too, and, being unused to strong
loved nothing but “evil.” When Alyosha had left him, he confessed to
... spare me!”
recollection seemed to come back to him for an instant.
the sun was setting, and the whole room was lighted up. He beckoned me,
say. Ivan noticed this particularly. “He must be bored with me,” he
I am a Socialist, Smurov.”
death. I was impressed by all this at the time, but not too much so,
you are driving a murderer!’ But it was impossible for him to speak out,
“It’s lite, _panovie_,” the Pole on the sofa responded, as it were
voice. “For combing the lice off me, I thank him; for forgiving my blows,
apiary, and had been greatly impressed and overawed by the visit. This
would lie down between the rails at night when the eleven o’clock train
He certainly never uttered any such threat before me. If he had come to me
despair of a sort, had felt during those last few days that one of the
“You are upset about something?”
“No, I didn’t, I didn’t! I refused to give it him, for he could not
“Are you frowning on Smerdyakov’s account?” asked Alyosha.
letter was enclosed a receipt for the sum, with a promise to repay it
of course, did not think of this; but though he was fascinated, yet he
father, Fyodor Pavlovitch?” asked the investigating lawyer, softly but
when Miüsov, Kalganov, and Ivan arrived. The other guest, Maximov, stood a
“Of course I mean you,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch. “Who else? The Father
by no means “hideous”; on the contrary, it was rather attractive, with a
it as a sign of her good sense. He had never beaten her but once, and then
Fyodorovitch.”
it in our mansion before him.”
how he ran into his father’s garden when the investigating lawyer suddenly
disrespectful to the servant Grigory and his wife, who had cared for him
Nikolay Parfenovitch, as though in reply to Mitya’s question.
girl’s betrothed, looked at her with that smile of mockery, which was more
impression on the audience. The guilt of this harassed and desperate man
“No, however cowardly he might be, if he had plotted such a crime, nothing
describing how a peasant lashes a horse on the eyes, ‘on its meek eyes,’
he wouldn’t take my presents. Besides, what motive had he for murdering
it becomes earth—and the same sequence may have been repeated endlessly
street.
After three o’clock the rush of worldly visitors was greatly increased and
lives and is alive only through the feeling of its contact with other
Alyosha’s account of it, had admitted that he was a scoundrel, and told
Though swollen and red and tender!
“Nothing at all, my boy. Damn it all! why, no schoolboy of thirteen
them see how beautifully I dance....”
understood it. She understood it all then. I remember, she cried
exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God,
He was a rough‐haired dog, of medium size, with a coat of a sort of lilac‐
others, rebellious but weak, will destroy one another, while the rest,
“Assured of your consent, I should have known that you wouldn’t have made
was his duty and obligation to conduct a minute and thorough search “of
caught his breath. He could not bear it for a minute, he put the pistol‐
there? Oh, I admit that the chain of evidence—the coincidences—are really
sought to cling to the ‘ideas of the people,’ or to what goes by that name
owing to him. It was unreflecting of him, but it was just his
prisoner himself, his brother, and the servant Grigory—that is, all who
door without waiting for Grushenka’s answer.
an ideal is infinitely remote, at the second coming of Christ. That’s as
talking about the goose. That was just when I was fancying you had a great
Alyosha stood rooted to the spot, watching the scene in silence.
know of it!” she concluded. The letter had been written in haste, the
and there was no one near. The notes seemed to produce a tremendous
slur on his honor. And three weeks ago, Dmitri seized him by the beard in
the truth even now may legitimately order his life as he pleases, on the
drunk with wine, too.”
case. One of them—Katerina Ivanovna—was an object of general interest. All
and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can
for the whole school, a secret which could only be discovered by reading
Marfa, only perhaps more respectfully. It was impossible to make him
“What have I done to you?” answered Alyosha, bending over her with a
such phrases a thousand times, drunk, in the taverns. But now he’s not
soon as the statement of Smerdyakov’s death was made, he cried out aloud
decide what he, Mitya, was to do with his own money.
can do, believe me ... oh, I love young people! I’m in love with young
cheerful, he was surrounded by visitors and engaged in a quiet and joyful
fault!’ She’s done nothing, nothing! I’ve been grieving over her all night
because they’ve been burnt out.”
Pavlovitch married a second time. His second marriage lasted eight years.
“And have you told them every word of our conversation at the gate?”
All was hushed as the first words of the famous orator rang out. The eyes
grew greater at every step he took towards the house. There was nothing
on the walls, vases and lamps on the tables, masses of flowers, and even
keeper,” answered Smerdyakov quietly, distinctly, and superciliously.
Alyosha, do you believe I love you with all my soul?”
that I have, leaving Lise, and becoming a sister of mercy. I close my eyes
“Quite so, quite so,” cried Ivan, with peculiar eagerness, obviously
concluded that the fit was a very violent one and might have serious
Chapter I. The Breath Of Corruption
district.
undertaken voluntarily, in the hope of self‐conquest, of self‐mastery, in
still looking away from him.
soon as I got here, before he had fired a shot, before leading him into a
to live with their wives and mistresses, to have or not to have
but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can
identity or a wild fantasy? All that matters is that the old man should
“Ah, yes, I was missing that, and I didn’t want to miss it, I love that
Her gifts to man are friends in need,
hospital, I had a real attack and a more violent one than I’ve had for
The boy waited for him without budging. Coming up to him, Alyosha saw
have begun, I may as well go on,” he decided. His predominant sensation at
“But how can she ruin Mitya?” he asked, pondering on Ivan’s words. “What
about that also. Ask him.”
from your notes, your letters, and your agreements, how much money you
What are seraphim? Perhaps a whole constellation. But perhaps that
to pray for them, save too all those who will not pray. And add: it is not
into the room. “Allow me to finish. There in the cell you blamed me for
mistrustfully, looking with a forced smile into his eyes. Ivan still gazed
Mr. Rakitin, of course, but ... old Byelinsky said that, too, so they
the earth.”
to reject him even as the civil law rejects him and cuts him off? What
“You are pleased to be sarcastic, too, Alexey Fyodorovitch.”
the garden by the roof, at great risk of discovery. But, as often happens,
consequently, the possibility of their having been stolen.
her a bow, scraping his foot, and turning to Nina, he made her, as the
fingers through which the tears flowed in a sudden stream.
blow from him. You have been trying to sell me to him,’ she said.... ‘And
strange. It may be pretty certainly assumed that she herself did not know
to you and for forcing you to fire at me. I am ten times worse than you
first time I understood something read in the church of God. In the land
“Does she?” broke from Alyosha.
the mind of a statesman, he talks so charmingly, and I shall certainly,
“You are injuring yourself in the opinion of your judges.”
home, dear, you’ll be glad of it afterwards.”
alone saw us, I hope He will record it to my credit. You must thank your
“Why, do you suspect him?”
“I went to the Father Superior on Trinity Sunday last year, I haven’t been
you know she is laughing at me every minute. But this time she was in
so. When the wise and dread spirit set Thee on the pinnacle of the temple
robbery and with premeditation?” (I don’t remember the exact words.) There
would lie down between the rails at night when the eleven o’clock train
help from his father. His father was terribly concerned about him. He even
‘Fyodor Pavlovitch, our papa,’ he said, ‘was a pig, but his ideas were
in that way? Would he have left the envelope on the floor?
he’s come back from Siberia. Dmitri Fyodorovitch, dear, don’t take a
Abroad now they scarcely do any beating. Manners are more humane, or laws
seeing him.
I’ll call you back again.”
is mechanically cut off and sent far away out of sight, another criminal
it was a piece of paper, or perhaps a roll of papers. Smerdyakov pulled it
and Dmitri? of foreign travel? of the fatal position of Russia? Of the
Chapter VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
flung another stone at the group; this time it flew straight at Alyosha
Lise’s pretty little laughing face became suddenly serious. She rose in
something blessed and miraculous, and as a promise, by God’s grace, of
added, with feeling.
blame myself or you hereafter.”
Pavlovitch, and discerning at once that he could extract nothing from him
“Oh, Lise, don’t scream, above all things don’t scream. That scream drives
“What do you mean by that?” the President asked severely.
In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white
to say ‘sir.’ It’s the work of a higher power. I see you are interested in
sententiously. “Well, how are things over there? How is your elder?”
myself, but you’ll know how to do it ever so much better. He lives in Lake
himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes
they heard in the distance the rumble of the train leaving the station.
Ilusha; “he only pretends to be like that, but really he is top in every
that breaks out, and from that minute it bursts into tears and finds vent
“Doctor, doctor! But you see!” The captain flung wide his hands again
of certain words and ideas like the Moscow women in Ostrovsky’s play, who
but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can
tender years and not tell them any of your old woman’s nonsense about
followed like a drunken man.
Madame Hohlakov’s face assumed an expression of intense and painful
“Tell me now, why did you send me then to Tchermashnya?”
lot of sense, too. Writes well. He began reading me an article last week.
“Very well, Lise, I’ll look; but wouldn’t it be better not to look? Why
watching his brother with the same gentle and inquiring smile.
evidence.
tears. And now, to add to her misfortunes, Katerina, her only servant, was
afterwards he called “infamous,” and at the bottom of his heart, he
Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
It was a warm, bright day at the end of August. The interview with the
“It’s all right; he won’t be cross; he’s a nice fellow. Good‐by, Matvey.”
on the ground of his craziness, and did not keep him to the rules binding
piquant that they were soon taken. This alone showed the young man’s
time uttered an inarticulate grunt. How could she have been proud?
“You’ll come again some time or other? Mind you do come. I shall always be
“Yes, I’d heard of you and had thought of you, too ... and if it’s partly
too.”
“So then there are loopholes, after all, to creep out of the hermitage to
“They’re angry and offended,” he thought. “Well, bother them!”
He did, in fact, for a time almost forget Smerdyakov’s existence, and yet,
“Stay,” Mitya interrupted, suddenly, and impelled by uncontrollable
“Very well, I will come,” Alyosha decided, after rapidly scanning the
a sign from me will hasten to heap up the hot cinders about the pile on
face a look of concentrated thought, almost austere at the first glance.
I was referring to the gold‐mines.”
to utter a word. Something moved Kolya to raise his hand and pass it over
French dictionary). Then I showed it her in silence, folded it, handed it
arm‐chair. His face was covered with blood, but he was conscious and
unexpected friend, a warmly loving teacher, in this austere monk who had
Agrafena Alexandrovna comes to see his father while I am ill, his honor
“And the money, _panie_?”
“Your nerves are out of order,” observed the gentleman, with a carelessly
“Go to your brother, the prison will be shut; go, here’s your hat. Give my
that anecdote. I lead you to belief and disbelief by turns, and I have my
them, he first took out his handkerchief, and as it turned out to be very
rainbow‐colored notes. (I asked him about that on purpose.) Oh, beware of
book (I saw the signature in the book afterwards), stood up, saying he
been interested, and learning of the existence of Mitya, he intervened, in
is there. Alyosha, my angel, all these philosophies are the death of me.
They embraced and kissed.
that very three thousand roubles, which the son looked upon as his own
had been his one friend and protector. Clever little Smurov, who was the
torturers behave mildly and benevolently, like cultivated and humane
too was striving to stand among Thy elect, among the strong and powerful,
Alyosha went up to Ilusha and began setting his pillows straight. Nina,
the scene at Perhotin’s, at the shop, with the drivers. He quoted numerous
begin to live. You can pass through the world doing wrong, but there’s no
garden in the darkness. She listened. The groans were repeated, and it was
you’re in the service here!”
Pan Vrublevsky came up to the table, swaying as he walked.
important thing?’ Ach! how do I know now what is of most importance? Ever
with such revolting cynicism to ruin his happiness!”
“Drink a little more water,” murmured Nikolay Parfenovitch.
at the time, his breeches were too small for him, and there were holes in
Krassotkin—this is the man”; Kolya pointed to Alyosha. “I obey him, good‐
everything. There can be no doubt of that circumstance.”
“Ah, you are bound to ask that! Look, it’s on wheels.” He rolled the toy
I want my money myself,” cried the old man, waving his hand. “I’ll crush
once and declared that he would not allow the “scoundrel” to speak like
She really meant it. She pulled a white cambric handkerchief out of her
also come to ask him for it. And here the young man was staying in the
have tortured me too deliberately for me to be able to forgive you at this
deprive man of freedom and didst reject the offer, thinking, what is that
And, you know, Pyotr Ilyitch is anything but a coward. He at once took up
temptations. The statement of those three questions was itself the
“Here, Andrey, let’s settle. Here’s fifteen roubles for the drive, and
murderer.”
true Russians are philosophers, and though you’ve studied, you are not a
out of the cell. Alyosha and the novice flew to escort him down the steps.
bullet.... My eternal gratitude—”
both arms, though he looked sideways at the same point, at the sofa that
“Go on,” he said. “Tell me what happened that night.”
that there is suffering and that there are none guilty; that cause follows
footsteps Katerina Ivanovna came in, holding out both hands to Alyosha
would have adhered to her resolution, and would have gone on nursing the
“Maybe it is well,” said Father Païssy thoughtfully; “weep if you must,
insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a
uncontrolled on the surface, are sometimes, most frequently indeed,
effect, simply and directly; that everything flows and finds its level—but
only thought of Smerdyakov and his gibes with contempt. A few days later
keep Alexey Fyodorovitch a minute. He will come back to you at once.”
Good‐by, Alexey! Not a word to Æsop about the money now. But go to
“Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless
Famusov in the last scene of _Sorrow from Wit_. You are Tchatsky and she
Dmitri’s feet till his forehead touched the floor. Alyosha was so
before Alexey Fyodorovitch.”
no hooks, darling? When you’ve lived with the monks you’ll sing a
Street. They all shouted: “Aha, he is funking, he is running away. Wisp of
himself a growing feeling that was almost of hatred for the creature.
brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind
“I am not guilty. I am guilty of the blood of another old man but not of
Or do you, too, consider that to escape would be dishonorable, cowardly,
borrowed five hundred roubles from Miüsov, myself. No, no, I’ve no money.
disgusting and unworthy of love, they have a compensation—they’ve eaten
alone with the peasants, who stood in silence, never taking their eyes off
Pavlovitch.
addressing Ivan. He gave her a sort of strained smile. Alyosha started at
give evidence without taking the oath. After an exhortation from the
among you, you know; a little more in fact, and spying, indeed, for we
might mean more than threats, and that such a frenzy might turn threats
Father Ferapont had succeeded in getting himself installed in this same
“What do you mean? Why do you say such things?” said Alyosha, troubled.
“How dare you!” Pan Vrublevsky, too, growled at Kalganov.
elder’s cell where his coffin was now standing. There was no one in the
go to him in any case before going to the captain, though he had a
“My brother directly accuses you of the murder and theft.”
Vrublevsky swung out after him, and Mitya followed, confused and
to him. You’ll break to him that you have long loved another man, who is
very typical, and must have been a great shock to her, but, fortunately
the banker, ‘you pledged your honor and we pledged ours.’ Podvysotsky took
Section 2.
time uttered an inarticulate grunt. How could she have been proud?
Moscow, and to whom she was obliged to write twice a week a full account
been applauded before! He had been all his life unable to get a hearing,
Moravian brother, I am not quite sure which. He had been living amongst us
the death of me, if this goes on, or else I shall run away. I can stand no
torturers behave mildly and benevolently, like cultivated and humane
to our town for freethinking, and led a solitary existence there. He was a
Ivan did not go home, but went straight to Katerina Ivanovna and alarmed
be recognized as such,” the visitor began in an excess of deprecating and
though I would gladly give my life for others, it can never be, for that
taken their sins upon us for their happiness will stand up before Thee and
seemed even to have taken a dislike to him, so much so that Alyosha gave
scaffold in procession behind the prison van. At the scaffold they call to
thousand roubles in return for my sending him a deed giving up all claims
good man? Moreover, though he is such a serious man and my senior, he
“Make haste with the lint and the lotion, mamma. That’s simply Goulard’s
“He’s mad!” he cried, and rapidly jumping up, he drew back, so that he
“She ought to be flogged in public on a scaffold!”
any one could possibly look upon such an animal as a woman, and so
“If you fold a hundred‐rouble note in half, that would be the size.”
jury.... Observe that we have only the statement of one witness as to that
official, living in the town, called Perhotin, had called on particular
the play the fatal scene takes place on the staircase. I heard it all; I
position of a poor relation of the best class, wandering from one good old
“Well, you can go,” he said, with a wave of his hand. “Ivan Fyodorovitch!”
“Let us go,” cried Miüsov, addressing Kalganov.
when one does something good and just!”
the image as though to put him under the Mother’s protection ... and
talked like that, but would have drawn your saber to defend all Russia.”
generations to come. In 2001, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
That was not a Diderot!”
“Oh, I’ve nothing against God. Of course, God is only a hypothesis, but
Ilusha raised himself, and, with his right arm still round the dog, he
“Well, Father, I will follow Pyotr Alexandrovitch! I am not coming to see
without it we should never have heard of the horrors of unbridled violence
with a sort of triumph, even with hatred. The world has proclaimed the
received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly
morrow? Nothing will happen to you; can’t you believe that at last? Go
“No, fourteen—that is, I shall be fourteen very soon, in a fortnight. I’ll
however, much larger and more comfortable than Father Zossima’s. But there
silence, especially in a case of such importance as—
is not sordid; on the contrary, full of fine feeling.... No, Lise, I have
And with wild fury he began trampling them under his heel, gasping and
sausage....”
his low sensuality. Do you know, I simply wonder at you, Alyosha, how you
for the acquittal of the prisoner? Why not found a charity in the honor of
induce him to come back now!” he cried again, regretfully realizing it;
at the special request of Madame Hohlakov. As soon as that good‐hearted
love. When the doctor, an old German called Eisenschmidt, came:
home with me, his mother, and the servants. He did well at school, but did
perfect mass of fruitful activity open to us. That’s what I answered.”
smell of corruption, which had seemed to him so awful and humiliating a
stuck out, and he couldn’t pull the quilt over so as to cover them.
mayest not take from men the freedom which Thou didst exalt when Thou wast
Kolya smiled mysteriously. “Listen, Karamazov, I’ll tell you all about it.
all men will say: “The stone which the builders rejected has become the
Alyosha said to himself: “I can’t give two roubles instead of ‘all,’ and
the waters and they became bitter.” These heretics began blasphemously
us like children because we allow them to sin. We shall tell them that
have you come to defend me?’ Hang them all! They’ve got a doctor down,
come to see us. Yet Lise has told me twice that she is never happy except
science and realism now. After all this business with Father Zossima,
in his excitement told them on the spot that his fate would be decided
be copied and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying
mistrustfulness concealed under a mask of _naïveté_, and an intelligence
decided, in an exhausted voice. “I see you don’t believe me! Not for a
beating now ... or killing, perhaps?”
In the “Metropolis” tavern he had some time since made acquaintance with a
you. You didn’t sleep all night either, I hear, you had a meeting in
his turn came to question him. It must be noted that Grigory entered the
replied that he had meant to offer the “little chap,” not money, but a
won’t even look at me.’ And I felt it so much at last that I wondered at
“That’s just a song of yesterday,” he said aloud. “Who writes such things
“It’s not a question of dreams now, gentlemen—this is realism, this is
conversations with his master’s elder son, Ivan Fyodorovitch, who readily
explained anything since that fatal night two months ago, he has not added
will be most zealous in the cause of brotherly love. For it is not we, but
offense at this contempt, if it existed; yet, with an uneasy embarrassment
was fully persuaded that his father might hurt any one else, but would not
“Just so, hurrah! You are a prophet. Oh, we shall get on together,
just now, I made him promise to believe me and I told him a lie. I told
was informed that Grigory, who had not been well for the last three days,
“ ‘In order to determine this question, it is above all essential to put
men of honor and refinement, will forgive me! I’ll finish by asking you,
such a betrothed, and before the eyes of all the world? Confound it, I
and that Christ was with him too. “Ah,” said he, “how good that is, how
something hurried and scattered. Greeting his father affably, and even
for the peasant has God in his heart.
vanquished foe. “Consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch; it is said in
was received with positive indignation by the ladies, who immediately
something and unable to come to a decision. He was in great haste,
other tears of humanity with which the earth is soaked from its crust to
neighbor who used to come to Fyodor Pavlovitch’s kitchen for soup and to
up from deep sleep (for he was only asleep—an epileptic fit is always
the other cheek, and not to measure to our persecutors as they measure to
“Splendid!”
escorted me there. I told him I should stay there till midnight, and I
“Yes, guilty!”
obstinate as a mule. If once he had taken an idea into his head, there was
of clumsy mahogany chairs along the walls, with glass chandeliers under
him. He said he had lost his honor and that nothing matters now,” Alyosha
excitedly.
former lover, nothing would have happened. But she lost her head, she
held, crushed up in his right fist, and as he ran he thrust it into the
“The pistols? Wait a bit, brother, I’ll throw them into the pool on the
then he got up and went on.”
That was a fortnight before this Sunday. That was why Alyosha had not been
please you? There’s only Ilusha who comes home from school and loves me.
crime” have been gathered together at the house of the executive
pass, though I’m perfectly free to stop it. I can stop it or carry it
too much for me.” ... This personal repulsion was growing unendurable.
days, and even to this man who waited upon him, Father Ferapont rarely
about it ... many times, indeed ... but now, that three thousand you so
thousand.”
speak of that, gentlemen, because it would be a stain on my honor. The
Alyosha was delighted too, but he did not know how to get over the hurdle.
like a child’s, but turned away at once without uttering a word and hid
“I assure you I’m in earnest.... Why do you imagine I’m not serious?” It
say to that, my fine Jesuit?”
with Mitya by going through certain inevitable formalities. But later,
Grushenka, who has been the mistress of a dissolute old merchant,
“Oh, sir! I feel afraid of driving you, your talk is so strange.”
the investigating lawyer stopped him, and civilly suggested that he should
I have pumped him and found out that he had somehow got to know
like, and learned that he was “very well dressed, young and so polite.” We
sheet of paper and laid it before Ivan. This was the document of which
have done to put such a degrading suspicion into your mean soul?”
punish me, decide my fate!” cried Mitya, staring with terribly fixed wide‐
gold‐mines, the gold‐mines, the gold‐mines!”
whether they would love him:
acquaintance, Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamazov,” Perhotin began.
I knew that you were dishonoring me, and yet I took your money. Despise me
see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther
there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen
suddenly thrust him away. “Go along, Mitya, I’ll come and have some wine,
“Nothing but saffron? Don’t you remember any other ingredient?”
“scapegrace” had rushed in on him with such a tale to get money which
was trying to conceal it on purpose, so as not to be obliged to give a
on earth. Whatsoever Thou revealest anew will encroach on men’s freedom of
all, and that they all take me for a buffoon. So I say, ‘Let me really
“It’s all a lie! Outwardly it’s the truth, but inwardly a lie!” Dmitri was
“We have heard that legend. But you are your father’s son, too, you know;
“But you are mad,” said Lise, nervously, “to make all this nonsense out of
what difference does it make now?” he added, hopelessly. “If I’ve killed
sentimental,’ he says; ‘that’s how I shall get hold of her. When I marry
“But you took him down about the founders of Troy!” Smurov put in
agree with my words some time. You must know that there is nothing higher
reckoning on! He is a scoundrel, your Ivan!”
let the one I hate become dear—that’s what making way means! And to say to
spendthrift,” that he, Samsonov, could be taken in by such a cock‐and‐bull
I am in good spirits now, though I’ve a pain in my forehead ... and in the
something bad and even ridiculous. And who will admit so much in these
the powder and the shot.
“Do you?” he asked sarcastically.
a special study of Russian statistics and had lived a long time in
doing this. You’re too impulsive. How could you do such a thing? You don’t
subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the
whole court rang with exclamations: “What’s the meaning of it? What next?”
of life.
Ippolit Kirillovitch’s wife had had toothache for the last two days, and
certainly queer, but God only could tell what was hidden in those words,
Grigory was thunderstruck. The boy looked sarcastically at his teacher.
their own eager rhetoric. At this moment in his speech he went off into a
“You see, Alyosha,” Grushenka turned to him with a nervous laugh. “I was
“Then you know that one has to make way. What would you say to a driver
it. But don’t believe him, that was only his cunning; he didn’t really
“He is proud,” he used to say, “he will never be in want of pence; he has
Thee to come now at all. Thou must not meddle for the time, at least.’
you only took the money?”
Grigory, to the surprise of every one, had no proof at all to bring
darkness to light. Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our
man who has just hit his head against a wall. Fyodor Pavlovitch emptied
tender years and not tell them any of your old woman’s nonsense about
at me and bit my finger badly, I don’t know why.”
Alyosha stood, with hanging head, on the verge of tears. What seemed to
commands the general. ‘Run! run!’ shout the dog‐boys. The boy runs.... ‘At
by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don’t want millions,
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who had taken the money after beating him.”
for ever and ever.
themselves to him, and to the indissoluble bond between him and them.
Chapter I. The Engagement
master’s death, not a rouble, for Agrafena Alexandrovna would marry him
in to him and saw at once, that not only his days, but his hours were
“unfair,” and that he ought “to have paid him several thousand roubles
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them before evening, it will be that your venomous spite is enough for
another twenty years yet, as that dear good woman from Vishegorye, with
fancied he was talking of something intellectual that I couldn’t
where it is however much you shout at it, and that shows, Grigory
one. I suddenly said to him that if he had not money enough to move to
his property in sums of money from Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was perhaps even
only his horns poked out; another had one peeping out of his pocket with
her I’ve become a man myself. Will they marry us? If they don’t, I shall
if it’s impossible to state accurately what he has stolen; that’s an
his warm sympathy for his unhappy brother was unmistakable. In answer to
away. I want to sweep them out with a birch broom.”
prisoner and his brother, Ivan Fyodorovitch, before the catastrophe.
“To find out how you are,” said Alyosha.
that we shall all rise again from the dead and shall live and see each
was found, Grigory, to whom all possible medical assistance was at once
am incapable of loving any one.”
composed. The President began his examination discreetly and very
her family. And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for
answered abruptly and very strangely, and at moments seemed not at all
“What?”
these sinful murmurs that Father Ferapont was left in peace.
They were both silent. The silence lasted a whole long minute. They were
that he will get well,” Alyosha observed anxiously.
Then he explained that he had lain there as though he were insensible to
more readily than to myself. And I am not a bit ashamed with you, not a
work directly, not keeping my effects in reserve and economizing my
had attempted to obtain those favors. But all their efforts had been in
“And you believed him?”
brought close to those who have loved when he has despised their love. For
You’ll sit all night deliberating whether to go or not. But you will go;
sterlets, served with little fish patties; then boiled fish served in a
is so dear to me. Now I will tell you. His face has been as it were a
and they refuse forgiveness, they curse God Who calls them. They cannot
laughing at you, don’t you see her?’ He suddenly believed it; he was all
“Brothers, I am your brother Joseph!” Let him read them further how happy
homage.”
“At Agrafena Alexandrovna’s.”
and should be there till late counting up his money. I always spend one
repeating ‘He ran away squealing’: the sight of that haunted him. He was
between him and Fyodor Pavlovitch.
Book XI. Ivan
acquitted, all the ladies, strange to say, were firmly persuaded up to the
“Yes.”
wrote them,’ said he. ‘I wrote them as a joke,’ he said, ‘for I think it
that three thousand.”
up.
only his horns poked out; another had one peeping out of his pocket with
fail not, God will forgive all. There is no sin, and there can be no sin
but I need two bottles to make me drunk:
“What nonsense, and it is all nonsense,” he muttered. “I may really have
“_C’est du nouveau, n’est‐ce pas?_ This time I’ll act honestly and explain
not married, although she had had two suitors. She refused them, but was
herself for not being able to repress her mirth.
stony heartlessness ascribed to him by the prosecutor is inconsistent with
Pan Mussyalovitch had indeed sent an extremely long and characteristically
the fact came to be remembered and established that “at midday, on the day
the common bond of noble birth and honor. In any case, allow me to look
“Then you know that one has to make way. What would you say to a driver
you gave him?”
determined stride of a military man. He stood still for a moment on the
turned up.”
a wordy, disconnected, frantic letter, a drunken letter in fact. It was
his head, as though tearing himself away, turned rapidly towards the town.
not?”
more about the “mischief” he had done, and not to torture himself with
man’s head, because he has become our brother and has found grace, yet we
frantically, stretching up his hands to the sun, and falling face
abruptly told him to wait at home for him next morning, for he would go
fever, nervous fever. The doctor told me so. Go, run after him....”
She’ll scrape up all the scrapings and load them on your head. They are
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people’s games of soldiers or robbers in their playtime are also art in
too. But though Smerdyakov always talked of that with great excitement, it
be unmoved. And this is even truer in youth, for a young man who is always
bit. Alyosha, why am I not ashamed with you, not a bit? Alyosha, is it
Marfa Ignatyevna, the wife of old Grigory, who had been knocked senseless
would you believe it, the poorer our Russian peasant is, the more
uneasiness. The little Pole turned out to be a retired official of the
it was not intentional on his part but instinctive—it was his character.
that Katya was taking measures, she was silent, but she set her mouth. She
of his tongue, but he dared not ask it. He knew that the elder would have
you want?”
and talked quite like a child, and was not at all ashamed of it, even when
remembered perfectly that when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina
Pavlovitch always liked, over the dessert after dinner, to laugh and talk,
“But is her husband in prison?” the matter‐of‐fact Kostya inquired
“Tell me, Karamazov, what sort of man is the father? I know him, but what
in very truth was the turning‐point of my life. In the evening, returning
salary, almost the whole of which Smerdyakov spent on clothes, pomade,
it. Ivan says that in America, ‘with the good‐will,’ I can be of more use
in myself a new man. A new man has risen up in me. He was hidden in me,
wonder, for _soon all will be explained_.”
had this fatal pestle in his hand, he would have only knocked his father
quarrels and altercations in defense of him and succeeded in bringing some
estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a
ground has been crossed. He’ll be prayed for there. One can hear the
wonder to many others as well as to me. Pyotr Alexandrovitch Miüsov, of
“Why, we’d shut up Kronstadt and not let them have any corn. Where would
precious mystic sense of our living bond with the other world, with the
downright thief, you’ll admit! I squandered it, but I didn’t steal it. Now
cried in dismay.
“But, gentlemen of the jury, why do I tell you all this, all these
Zossima?... But I don’t know what I’m saying ... and only fancy, with the
Ilyitch.
mildew in the bath‐house.(2) That’s what you are.” Smerdyakov, it appeared
counted out the half of that three thousand, sewed it up, calculating on
“You see you are in a better humor now,” said Alyosha, smiling.
temporary compromise inevitable in our sinful and imperfect days. But as
priest agreed, after some demur, to conduct him to Suhoy Possyolok; his
market!’ And, for some reason, I really am known all over the market,”
Ivanovna with three thousand roubles to send off by post. But the question
diplomacy, banks, and so on—something after the fashion of socialism,
“Of course, I won’t forget, if I can ... but I am so late,” muttered
condescends to abuse me, you know. Why haven’t I a right to abuse him?”
saw it from his eyes. Well, good‐by!”
“Don’t trouble; it is cold, but I don’t often catch cold. Let us go in,
destitution, without food or fuel, without cigarettes, in debt to their
the top of his voice:
declared. People who saw something pensive and sullen in his eyes were
wouldn’t come. Ah, how I need you! Sit down to the table. What will you
undressing.
eyes and fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow. Ivan and
“Bravo!” cried Ivan, still with the same strange eagerness. Now he was
turned up. “I’ve a regular pug nose, a regular pug nose,” Kolya used to
thinking of him!”
“ ‘Yes, but Grigory saw the door open and so the prisoner certainly was in
will you think of me now?”
“Yet, when the young lady came from boarding‐school on a visit, the whole
to take her place.
lying. No, indeed, I can’t suppose so, for all this, alas! is perfectly
no one of these witnesses counted that money; they all judged simply at
“Go and enjoy yourself. Tell them to dance, to make merry, ‘let the stove
Sohn. It is von Sohn himself, risen from the dead. Why, how did you tear
“But you are not a king, anyway,” Miüsov muttered, losing his self‐
relation. That’s right, isn’t it, von Sohn? Here’s von Sohn. How are you,
days that you would come with that message. I knew he would ask me to
without God? That’s the question. I always come back to that. For whom is
turned away his eyes pretending not to have noticed.
rich again—they’ve got heaps of money.”
if I haven’t killed you, it’s simply because I am keeping you to answer
“Not for one minute,” cried Ivan furiously. “But I should like to believe
to believe the prisoner’s statement that he is not the murderer, then
hundred paces. It was a still, clear day, with a slight frost. The church
story lived Samsonov’s two married sons with their families, his old
must hide this first.”
doesn’t care for Dmitri, and loves me whom she torments, and perhaps she
through the newspapers. One can love one’s neighbors in the abstract, or
love, and he reproached himself bitterly for having been able for one
“That bowing to your brother, Dmitri. And didn’t he tap the ground with
“You’re making fun of me, aren’t you?” asked Mitya, looking haughtily at
unanswerably clear. Listen! If all must suffer to pay for the eternal
see father and her.”
answer for all. And they will be glad to believe our answer, for it will
and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two
“Well, what of that? It’s not seemly—is that it? Not suitable in my
Well, I told a fib, and that was the end of it, once I’d said it, I didn’t
sent early in the morning by Lise Hohlakov. But there were flowers too
He sat with his elbows on the table and his head in his hand. He sat
who were gathered about him that last evening realized that his death was
“Brother, I cannot stay long,” Alyosha said, after a pause. “To‐morrow
and were not worse words and acts commonly seen in those who have
muttered Rakitin, for some reason fearfully disconcerted and almost
with what? Tell me,” he asked quickly, looking at the two lawyers.
you that he understood it all), appropriated that three thousand
1.F.4.
to go straight to darkness and death and he found a future life before
come, but don’t tell him beforehand, for perhaps I may go, but not go
“Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the last time, your compact, do you hear? Behave
several men, and that she was led out, and that when he recovered himself
likely more, but if Fyodor Pavlovitch got married then to that lady,
is unable to receive such terrible gifts? Canst Thou have simply come to
light, as of joy, in his face.
Maslovs, an old merchant and his son, will give eight thousand for the
current in the town about it. It is true that he was irascible by nature,
would not protect us, for I might have been taken up any time for stealing
not the Karamazov, mamma, who ... h’m ... etcetera, but his brother,
too, to take the two hundred roubles to Ilusha’s father, though he had so
They began asking him questions. He answered, as it were, reluctantly,
so many questions that I can’t recall them all.
whole town, gave suppers and dances. At the time I arrived and joined the
Sobakevitch, Nozdryov, Tchitchikov, it could reach no rational goal,
still he felt it would be unseemly to go to dinner. Yet his creaking
town the morning before to get his pay. He was instructed to avoid raising
Dmitri got up, took a step or two in his excitement, pulled out his
matter. Now, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, I rest all my hopes on you, and, of
the course of years to expiate his cowardice.”
that he knew her secret, that he knew it was her birthday, and that she
nervously. “Do you hear, Mitya,” she went on insistently, “don’t prance
scene), and he is able to forgive infidelity almost conclusively proved,
your clothes and everything else....”
Shall we be happy, shall we?”
defined that miserable, drunken letter of the unhappy prisoner. And, in
“Don’t trouble yourself, your excellency, I am well enough and can tell
so carried away by his simulated emotion, that he was for one moment
“Who has made me a judge over them?” was all he said, smilingly, to
You must require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the
one question, he sketched his brother’s character as that of a man,
infidel Diderot came to dispute about God with the Metropolitan
Alyosha was delighted that he had brought him such happiness and that the
aberration?”
reports, performances and research. They may be modified and printed and
noticing a pretty little lap‐dog with dark eyes, sitting in the corner.
“I not only say it, I shall do it.”
before night, I shall be back at night and the thing is done. Could the
muddy yard, in the middle of which stood a solitary cow. He crossed the
that he, too, was trying to talk of other things.
thinking the old man really has a keen nose; he sniffed a crime. Your
being intensely excited.
wanted to pay a debt. I wanted to pay a debt of honor but to whom I won’t
took possession of his heart, and like a drunken man, beside himself, he
brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind
for the most part kept out of the cottage. But when, at the end of a
“Fool!” Ivan snapped out.
further. And all again in the name of freedom! I tell Thee that man is
were demanded of him the more he seemed intentionally to avoid them. Yet
more quickly, the signal that meant “Grushenka is here!”
“_Panie, panie!_” yelled Mitya, “she’s pure and shining, and I have never
“No, be sure, be sure to come in; don’t say ‘If you can.’ I shall die if
to Count Mattei in Milan. He sent me a book and some drops, bless him,
Karamazov, given so genuinely and sincerely, so spontaneously and
excitement, Father Païssy began to reprove them. “Such immediate
prisoner, the tragedy of his fate is evident; it is before us. But such
the same afterwards—that if the episode had not occurred, the prisoner
it’s my last night! Let’s drink to our good understanding. They’ll bring
his great and holy servant. And the devil laughed at God’s words. “Give
turned out that the old merchant, too, was going to Volovya. After some
of this inharmonious family took place in the cell of the elder who had
Be silent, heart,
her tears. Alyosha fancied that he too had tears in his eyes. “There, you
“But do you believe that I am not ashamed with you?”
that? You understand now why I’m here in secret and what I’m on the watch
pray for the rest of the soul of her son, Vassenka, who had gone to
At the time of Yefim Petrovitch’s death Alyosha had two more years to
no help for it, your reverence, you must make way for chemistry. And
“Wait here a minute,” I said to him. “I’ll be back directly, I have
in the corner, by the little bed, Ilusha’s little boots, which the
said that real powder is not made like that, but that’s nothing, it can be
scoundrel, but not a thief.’ So here we have already a twofold reason why
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one’s the
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