himself.
neck. “My officer is coming, Rakitin, my officer is coming.”
“Mitya! And what if Grushenka comes to‐day—if not to‐day, to‐morrow, or
“It was just through my simplicity, and I never have shammed a fit on
it at all, though it barked all day. (Do you like that stupid barking,
came into the court that he had given evidence against Mitya, and so she
“He has a tail, your excellency, and that would be irregular! _Le diable
but, looking for something to cover up the notes that she might not see
bag and have taken out some hundred roubles, for why should he have taken
“What, he stole it?”
kissed me.
had to confess and take the sacrament at home.
charged me to do it, and went away knowing all about it. And so I want to
wood, and a fortune, not large, but sufficient to keep her and her
relation. That’s right, isn’t it, von Sohn? Here’s von Sohn. How are you,
so he felt at once entitled to fortify himself for the journey by another
“In the spirit and glory of Elijah, haven’t you heard? He will take me in
Perezvon, “Dead!” And the dog immediately turned round and lay on his back
Ivan looked down, waited a few seconds and, raising his head, answered,
and brothers, that I cannot express this clearly. But woe to those who
and said to Thee, “If Thou wouldst know whether Thou art the Son of God
Alyosha went out in tears. Such distrustfulness in Mitya, such lack of
be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone
bodies, but that had caused no scandal nor even the slightest excitement.
“Kolya, if you say another word, I’ll have nothing more to do with you,”
will be sure to make me laugh, especially as you’ll be in that long gown.
recklessness of youth.
He worked His first miracle to help men’s gladness.... ‘He who loves men
lead their prisoner to the close, gloomy vaulted prison in the ancient
present use, eighty thousand roubles, as a marriage portion, to do what
at my words, and so rudely, you know. Well, I was pleased; I thought I had
hoarded it, and lent it at a wicked rate of interest, that she’s a
not get on with his schoolfellows, though he never quarreled, at least so
very neatly dressed. She looked disdainfully at Alyosha as he came in.
old servant’s composure in telling it, his parsimony of words and peculiar
be asked to sit down with any one, though, of course, not in a place of
“The landlady is laying the table for them now—there’ll be a funeral
one moment he went up to the coffin to set straight the cover or the
This anticipation showed itself in some by anxiety, in others by devout
boarding with an experienced and celebrated teacher, an old friend of
could.”
window—opened it, it looked out upon the garden; I saw the sun rising; it
... that some one is hunting me, some one I’m awfully afraid of ... that
Herzenstube came, and he was so alarmed that I didn’t know what to do for
blushing; your eyes flashed. Enough of this filth with you. And all this
reminder and an inspiration. So that I positively wondered at so strange a
wretched and strained beyond his powers of endurance. These two questions
been of appreciable service.... But this is the chief thing I should like
combing the young gentleman’s hair.”
“Perhaps she does not. Only she is not coming this morning,” Mitya
“He’s alone, he’s alone!” he repeated again. “If she were here, his face
Father Païssy paused in his reading, stepped forward and stood before him
if it meant not getting back to the monastery that day.
and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a
Then Fyodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with
flinging himself on a chair, and bursting into tears, turning his head
Sounds of approval and laughter, at the expense of the prosecutor, were
irritation, though he could speak comparatively lightly of other
“Excuse me, madam, then you did not give him money? You remember for a
heard Lise, “that she loved Ivan, and so I said that stupid thing.... What
the portico. Father Zossima stood on the top step, put on his stole, and
I kept worrying and worrying, and my heart began to beat, and I couldn’t
questions.... Of course I shall give it back.”
He was sitting writing something in pencil in his note‐book. Alyosha told
and are not pretending, so as to throw your guilt on me to my very face,
Madame Svyetlov, and did you receive the twenty‐five roubles from Madame
were in his clutches, every one in the neighborhood was in debt to him.
Boileau answers that he’s going to a masquerade, that is to the baths, he
“My dear fellow,” observed the visitor sententiously, “it’s better to get
had come down, He had visited some holy men, martyrs and hermits, as is
French words by heart. He has an exercise‐book under his pillow with the
a repulsive mug, though, hasn’t he? I can’t endure medicine!”
“It is, brother.”
very sarcastic, well known to all educated people:
hindrance. It’s with me, you know, like the saying: ‘When he is sober, he
motionless in the next room. Marfa Ignatyevna did not stir. “The stuff’s
my house, it’s a bad, demoralizing habit. Put your money away. Here, put
utmost to restrain himself, and suddenly realizing, with disgust, that he
Lise laughed nervously again; she spoke rapidly.
“I shall be no use in such a business. I have no eye either.”
changed. She began looking constantly at Ilusha’s bed in the corner and
lived for a long while as one of his family. I beg the reader to note this
delusion! Alyosha, darling, how did you escape from them, those women? Did
with your tears.... Each of you keep watch over your heart and confess
“Come round to the steps, I’ll open at once,” said Ivan, going to open the
wet a towel and put it on my head and perhaps you’ll vanish into air.”
averted. When he had finished he was evidently agitated and was breathing
had gone away, and trade had got worse, yet the grocery stores flourished
The candle on the table brightly lighted up the blood and the motionless
“Yes, I approve of it,” Ivan assented, in a subdued but firm voice.
student, and where she had thrown herself into a life of complete
“A wash‐stand? That’s all right ... but where am I to put this?”
come. And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give an account of
And I told briefly what I’ve just told you. He listened. ‘Father,’ he
detail. At the same time he was in a hurry to get it over. But as he gave
Grushenka’s mood and the enigmatic tone of some of her words he completely
dream I have sometimes, you know.... I often dream it—it’s always the same
and burying them with great ceremony. He used to dress up in a sheet as
“No, no, it is impossible!” cried Miüsov, beside himself.
lofty mind.
almost unnoticed. Some of those present may perhaps have inwardly noticed
that is what manner of man I am, what I believe in, and for what I hope,
preparation and always keeps it. It’s a strong thing made from some herb.
“They are rogues! Medicine’s a fraud! I am glad to have made your
moment.
shouting group far behind. He too was in high spirits, though he was still
was to see you. And how he fretted for you to come!”
more terrible its responsibility.
me present you to my wife, Arina Petrovna. She is crippled, she is forty‐
voice.
“You low harlot!”
begging him not to exaggerate, not to overstep the bounds, and so on, as
with all their hearts, warmly and sincerely. Some were almost fanatically
for it was always kindly and not spiteful laughter. These conversations
wrote, the prosecutor said suddenly, as though pitching on a new idea:
himself. Of Dmitri, for instance, he did not say a word. He was quite
lawsuit, almost as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights
last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Yet such
copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
“And how pleased Ilusha will be to see you! He has no idea that you are
given birth to a child. She was watched, and a box of which no one knew
for the classics and all that fraud.... You don’t agree, Karamazov?”
doctors were not able to discriminate between the counterfeit and the
were angry, he was more dejected. It happened even (very rarely however)
laughed a pitiful, helpless little laugh. She called Fenya and told her to
darkness to light. Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our
“He had no business to make a thrust at the Petersburg man like that;
and the setting of the ax, _Gatzuk_ would put it in his calendar, that’s
grateful young man, for you have remembered all your life the pound of
waved his hand at her, as though she had attacked him and not he her.
to make a great impression on Alyosha. He more quickly made friends with
“Let me alone,” said Alyosha suddenly, with a weary gesture of his hand,
sent them away. But we’ve Jews that play the cymbals and the fiddle in the
triumph of some preconceived idea—oh, no, not at all—what he saw before
Chapter II. The Alarm
not entered your head before. So I don’t repeat your ideas, yet I am only
he could not see.
friend of the other, as it were, a “bodyguard,” and no doubt the big Pole
followed by a deep sleep) at that moment when the old Grigory shouted at
only bring you together to create a scandal. I had come to forgive him if
thousand roubles, so you have begun to keep your eye on me. He he he! No,
seems to me. Good‐by for now.”
him.... And I had no right, indeed, to be exacting as to that money,” she
“And if he hadn’t come?”
fornication, ostentation, boasting and envious rivalry of one with the
Turns her melancholy gaze,
brother. I have money. I will take a roll of notes and say that Smerdyakov
peculiar, irritable curiosity.
disease, and so on.
notes lying on the table. Where had they come from? Smerdyakov had picked
flamed up at the sight of her asleep, and then vindictive, jealous anger
him, and nothing had happened? Then Fyodor Pavlovitch in his jeering way
Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
doesn’t care for you or me, the monster,” Grigory used to say to Marfa,
most simple question, ‘Wasn’t it Smerdyakov killed him?’ Then, as we
revived again now in his soul and seemed forcing its way to the surface of
window and leaned right out of it. ‘Here she is; she’s in the bush,
off, come along!”
“Chinese,” as Fyodor Pavlovitch used to call it. The word “Chinese”
else?”
“Thanks, old fellow. I’m a savage you say. Savages, savages! That’s what I
I am not good‐looking. I know I’m hideous, but I’ve a clever face. I
save me—from him and for ever!”
“Do you want me to bow down to you, monk?” said Father Ferapont. “Get up!”
“And when he came back,” Fenya added with excitement, “I told him the
But now? Was it the same as then? Now one phantom, one terror at least was
made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say
wife and is quite settled about it. He is sure I was in earnest. What a
tavern. It was impossible for him to go into the tavern in his monastic
And his mouth was simply watering, the beast, not for the widow, but for
reason and humanity and not of mystic ideas. How shall it be decided? Why,
an arm‐chair, thinking. This had become a habit with him. He often slept
face a look of concentrated thought, almost austere at the first glance.
me, though he was still jealous of me and still convinced that I loved
how much I give Grushenka if she comes. They are all scoundrels! But I
before?
about Smerdyakov than you, you remember that yourselves, but now I am
past. The boys rushed to Kolya. He lay without moving. They began pulling
And now the man who should, he believed, have been exalted above every one
literary style. That hosannah in the skies really wasn’t bad, was it? And
“I cannot positively assert,” the prosecutor continued, “that the prisoner
Seeing his blood‐stained face, Mitya started and scowled wrathfully.
can I be held responsible as a Christian in the other world for having
“Do you remember how I came back to you that second time, at midnight? I
know there’s a deficit of 4,500 roubles of government money in your
I swear to you by all that’s holy, if it had not been his father, but an
“I assure you I’m in earnest.... Why do you imagine I’m not serious?” It
towards the market‐place. When he reached the last house but one before
only nine. I am alone in the world, and if I die, what will become of all
had made him feel most ashamed was that he had given in too soon and
rooms; might have pushed his father away; might have struck him; but as
appeared that among the women who had come on the previous day to receive
“Bravo,” I cried, clapping my hands. “I agree with you there too. I have
powers. His head ached and he was giddy. A feeling of hatred was rankling
“Will you shoot, sir, or not?”
“As for that door and Grigory Vassilyevitch’s having seen it open, that’s
containing a little real gunpowder. He had some shot, too, in a screw of
conjecture why it happened so, but there were causes. The same lady,
continually tormented at the same time by remorse for having deserted
“Who is _he_?” asked Alyosha, involuntarily looking round.
to understand anything. Everything seems mixed up in a sort of tangle. I
the throat of her lover’s lawful wife.”
make, he had nothing but a bare denial ready. ‘I am not guilty of my
overpowered.
flung the notes at me and trampled upon them as he did just now. But now
innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what
Good‐by, Alexey! Not a word to Æsop about the money now. But go to
“Well, what of that? It’s not seemly—is that it? Not suitable in my
“His honor said to him the other day, ‘I’ll pound you in a mortar!’ ”
was quite the other way, I felt awfully sorry for him, in another minute I
the evening there was another trouble in store for Fyodor Pavlovitch; he
round my neck, sewn up in a rag, and I’d had it round my neck a long time,
hast seen these “free” men,’ the old man adds suddenly, with a pensive
them, and spit in their faces!”
guard like that, but not me. I know the tricks. I’ve been in the service,
seemed that all that was wrong with him was that he had a better opinion
Once it went on for three days. I fell from the garret that time. The
village, and I’d planned to do it at five o’clock in the morning. And I
country, on the way up told him to take his place, but forgot to mention
a smile, and suddenly, flinging his hand downwards, he turned to his
ejaculated in the midst of her mirth. But she suddenly ceased laughing and
men?”
most dangerous type in such cases. It’s their liver. I went straight up to
affable conversation as soon as his host should begin it. All at once his
night; everything had been perfectly as usual. Mitya grew thoughtful. He
her yesterday, I believe?”
“I ... I’m coming, too. I’m here till morning. Gentlemen, may I stay with
choice about it. For it would have been discreditable to insist on
steps. The crowd awaiting him below wavered; some followed him at once and
Ivanovna. Mitya was silent throughout her evidence. He sat as though
going upstairs to your room early every evening, and yesterday you did not
Ignatyevna, whenever he had a fit. There, lying behind the screen, he
one question, he sketched his brother’s character as that of a man,
But Miüsov had no time to reply to this sarcasm. They were asked to come
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so
“How could I guess it from that?”
what he was and what he could be now to her, to that being, dearer to him
“Oh, if I, too, could sacrifice myself some day for truth!” said Kolya
every time he began to speak. He was fond indeed of making fun of his own
been thrashed then, he couldn’t, could he?”
smile, and turning his face to Ivan again, he stared at him with a look of
his life! That’s my decision. Ivan Fyodorovitch fully approves me.”
“And be sure, be sure,” she prattled on, “to come back and tell me what
“Damn it! I’ve nothing to do with you. Just answer my question and I’ll go
can do, believe me ... oh, I love young people! I’m in love with young
me,” thought Mitya, and as soon as he had been led to the drawing‐room,
trample me under foot, every one, every one, not excepting _any one_. For
believe it?—she didn’t like Ivan, and hardly greeted him. I had a lot of
indeed.” He looked at me and smiled. “I am more convinced of it than you
thought out: it can all be arranged. Hush, don’t decide. I should go to
he is so open‐hearted beforehand? Any one can see that.”
tower and have cut short the sufferings of men for a thousand years; for
do you hear that majestic voice from the past century of our glorious
“I did.”
It was exactly eleven o’clock when he entered Madame Hohlakov’s house. He
haven’t troubled the valet at all, have they?”
impressively:
struggling with him in the passage, refusing to admit him, acting on
leave the cup, even if I’ve not emptied it, and turn away—where I don’t
“I shall be told he was drunk when he wrote it. But that does not diminish
money?” the President asked wonderingly.
though remembering something, he stopped short.
nor wonder‐working ikons, nor glorious traditions, nor historical
The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it
wrathfully at his father.
addressing the elder. “I am not a cultivated man, and I don’t even know
ritual, and all the monks gathered together in the church. And before dawn
“Expecting him? To come to you?”
Alyosha’s mother, the “crazy woman,” but for the first, Adelaïda Ivanovna,
“No, sir.” The landlord seemed disconcerted. “Why should I be looking for
both arms, though he looked sideways at the same point, at the sofa that
said he’d find the dog and here he’s found him.”
himself all the time he was studying. It must be noted that he did not
and set candles at God’s shrine.”
of about four and twenty, remarkably unsociable and taciturn. Not that he
“What is the stone in your ring?” Mitya interrupted suddenly, as though
have I been thirsting for you all these days, and just now? (It’s five
I sat still and repeated a silent prayer. I got up at last, I felt afraid.
“Oh, no, no! God will not take you from us. You will live a long, long
possible required by common civility. All this struck Ivan instantly; he
“God was watching over me then,” Mitya himself said afterwards. At that
any one whatever of this circumstance before, I mean that you had fifteen
good wine until now._”
house, into the street, into the darkness! He walked like one possessed,
she got up and she rushed to me, but when she saw Grigory Vassilyevitch
will sing from the bowels of the earth a glorious hymn to God, with Whom
respect for you and understand the true position of affairs. Don’t think
“ ‘Don’t be uneasy,’ I said, ‘I won’t tell any one. You know I’m as silent
“Before you talk of a historical event like the foundation of a
“And did you tell them that you can sham fits, as you boasted then?”
with brain fever, as he said himself afterwards. Alyosha had not been able
before—so that it will even increase his worldly well‐being too. The thing
stood still in perplexity, wondering at himself. He realized that what he
kill my father?”
Alyosha. “One way or another he is bound to come to it. He must escape.
of all I am the lowest reptile! I’ve sworn to amend, and every day I’ve
I should have known that you didn’t want it done, and should have
Father Zossima scrutinized them both in silence.
of good family, education and feelings, and, though leading a life of
“And the old man?”
was warm and beautiful, the birds were singing.
piece of ordinary paper of the cheapest kind. It had been provided by the
announcing that she would carry off both the children she wrapped them
degrading, humiliating suffering such as humbles me—hunger, for
ridicule it. Drunkenness, debauchery and devilry were what we almost
name. But remember that they were only some thousands; and what of the
one side love and kindness, and on the other penitence and eager desire to
“You’ve talked nonsense enough,” cried Rakitin, “you’d much better give us
was not for her—oh, not for her!—to reproach him with treachery, for she
well be passionately in love, but which perhaps could not be loved for
wondering at my words, perhaps you don’t believe me? Agrafena
Him, sing, and cry hosannah. ‘It is He—it is He!’ all repeat. ‘It must be
frightened of me as all that, it’s a bad look out!’ And my legs went weak
withdrew into his corner again for some days. A week later he had his
hear, I’m very glad! I want him to stay here with us,” she said
awaited what would come next without fear, watching with penetration and
and kill him.’ His eyes shone and glowed. And of course I am his father,
For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it
kiss yours.”
care for such elegance. They say he used to jump up and thrash even ladies
old morality, and everything will begin anew. Men will unite to take from
fond of listening to these soup‐makers, so far.”
Money’s like dirt or water to you, it seems. Here are your pistols. It’s
“That’s just why you must go now, to avoid meeting any one. There will be
family. Another personage closely connected with the case died here by his
taken possession of him. He suddenly stood up, smiling dreamily.
edge of the bed.
Mitya jumped up from the table and ran into the next room to give orders,
I had prepared him for it ... during the last few days.... He knew about
1.E.4.
“Quite so, quite so,” cried Ivan, with peculiar eagerness, obviously
above all, kind, then honest and then let us never forget each other! I
it is a monstrous slander, that I am exaggerating. Let them say so—and
whole affair, and I am not the real murderer, though I did kill him. You
pleased, but not so much; if he had not shown it; if he had begun
sparkling black eyes. He kept an attentive and anxious watch on the other
“No, before that woman I can’t punish myself! I asked her forgiveness
All this Grushenka said with extreme emotion.
for the dead followed in their due course. Father Païssy again took Father
you, nor I, nor any one of us is able to comprehend. Go, Father, and do
greatest sin? You must know all about that.”
some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud
am not worth it, I am taking it from you, I am a burden on you,’ that’s
never, never! Run at once, challenge him to a duel!’... I took her to the
was where the judges, on whom his fate depended, were sitting. So that it
“But now the affair becomes even more complex; his jealous torments reach
me to go now.... You see, I’ve two pieces of copse land there. The
too, in my words: ‘Grushenka has fallen to a scoundrel, and not to you,
“Oh, about the open door of which you spoke just now, we may as well
“Everything was on the verge of ruin and my guardian angel saved me,” was
intensely irritated.
Othello was incapable of making up his mind to faithlessness—not incapable
the old man? Why, he’s very likely his son, you know—his natural son. Do
Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career
was not a sign of delight, though it made a very good counterfeit. That’s
“But here is one from afar.” He pointed to a woman by no means old but
incoherent, almost wild enthusiasm. He was thrown off his balance and
changing the notes from his right hand to the left, and impulsively jerked
“Would you believe it, I foresaw all this! I have that special faculty,
was already in her bedroom, though not yet asleep. She had felt upset ever
one that I’d kill him, and now, all of a sudden, he’s been killed. So it
and in humanity, and only trembles for fear he should lose his money and
before witnesses.... Oh, a thousand witnesses! I’ve been shouting it aloud
But by now the doctor had entered, an important‐looking person with long,
Although the family accepted the event pretty quickly and apportioned the
“I’ll go, Mitya. I believe that God will order things for the best, that
Nikolay Parfenovitch informed him gently that he would be escorted at once
him, no one in the world would have known of that envelope and of the
beside himself with delight, watching her sip her glass of champagne. The
till the sensation made by Perezvon had passed off, now he hurried on
man speaking in a circle of intimate and sympathetic friends. His voice
people,’ he seems to represent Russia as she is. Oh, not all Russia, not
thought the subject of great importance.
for keeping the Project Gutenberg™ name associated with the work. You can
are rebels, they are impotent rebels, unable to keep up their own
moaned miserably. Again there was silence for a minute.
“I shall begin to cry, I shall,” repeated Grushenka. “He called me his
such be enough to make a tragedy? More than that, one such standing at the
boots on his feet, and his little breeches hanging by one button.”
be built up. I repeat, to‐morrow Thou shalt see that obedient flock who at
boy, not over twenty, dressed like a dandy, with a very charming fair‐
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state of
It’s not her foot, it is her head:
your own evidence you didn’t go home.”
strange happened to Alyosha. Precisely what he was describing in the crazy
Troy most of all. Though Smurov, with the captain’s hat in his hand, was
left side, so as to have my right hand free, but you’ve got yours on your
he explained. “From the very first accounts in the newspapers I was struck
And this is what happened: every one was amazed and horrified, every one
joyful. It wore an expression of gayety, kindness and cordiality. “Maybe I
“I wasn’t there, but Dmitri Fyodorovitch was; and I heard him tell it with
“You want to have everything above‐board; very well, you shall have it,”
envelope now on the table before us, and that the witness had received
would simply come to peep in respectfully, though he knew the signals, and
just now. Let us wait a minute and then go back.”
“I somehow fancied all at once,” Alyosha went on as though he had not
a final air. “It’s possible for one who doesn’t believe in God to love
the most sacred guarantees for the destiny and future of Russian justice
member of philanthropic societies.
“I don’t know. Perhaps he wants to tell me, but doesn’t dare to. He warns
bad, Alyosha, it is! I hate that America, damn it, already. Even though
believed in virtue,’ he said. ‘No matter if they disbelieve you, you are
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