monster, but that in the end God had vouchsafed him light and shown grace.
unruly—we are trying him now for that—but who is responsible for his life?
some well‐to‐do tradespeople. Her mother had long been dead. Spiteful and
“Oh, no. I’ll tell him everything,” muttered Alyosha. “He asks you to come
But the prosecutor gave him a slight shove under the table, and he checked
everything they’ve got, up to a hundred roubles, or a hundred and twenty
under what circumstances she received it.
induce him to come back now!” he cried again, regretfully realizing it;
dropped at his feet and bowed my head to the ground.
institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the
arrest, Grushenka was taken very ill and was ill for nearly five weeks.
him; you know he threw me up to get married. She must have changed him
don’t insult me so lightly and wantonly. I have a sense of honor, too,
hardly hold his head up, and from time to time all the objects about him
terribly preoccupied since the trial; sometimes he would be silent for
Book X. The Boys
with tassels round the waist. A clean, dandified shirt of fine linen with
“Oh, where, where did you get that from? What fool have you made friends
said in conclusion, “that there’s no need for you to inquire about that,
wiping off the perspiration, so that on his forehead and his right cheek
late. But now I sit and await words of wisdom. I’m like the philosopher,
“Sit down, Alexey Fyodorovitch,” said Katerina Ivanovna, though she
was glowing in his mind and in his heart. The one window of the cell was
“I have drunk it, gentlemen, I have ... but ... come, gentlemen, crush me,
It’s three months since I left home. I’ve forgotten him. I’ve forgotten
brother Dmitri, who was evidently keeping out of his way. It was getting
sleeping awake.... I walk, I speak, I see, but I am asleep.” It seemed to
look like that? Why are you staring at me? Yes, Ivan fell in love with
“Yes, from your gait. You surely don’t deny that character can be told
not go to them till four days after his arrival. When he got the telegram,
her lips and round her mouth I saw uncertainty.
“Polish women?” repeated Mitya, perfectly ecstatic.
failed to grasp. All he understood, with thrilling heart, was that she was
“I don’t know whether I shall go. I don’t know. I’ll decide on the way.”
thoughts, and this is not the place to look into that soul—its turn will
“What do you mean by isolation?” I asked him.
‘Good gracious!’ I thought, ‘they’ll fly at each other.’ ‘It was I who
marriage, now she is an orphan and here; she is betrothed to him, yet
every minute the five knocks agreed upon. Now and then he peered out into
on me. I feel I am going to have a fit. I have a presentiment. Fright
are, that it’s better to hang oneself at once. Knowing that you are
else to do with your time.”
There turned out to be on the coat, especially on the left side at the
He.” Thou didst not come down, for again Thou wouldst not enslave man by a
blackened with age. Its walls were of lattice‐work, but there was still a
purpose. Old Kuzma is the only man I have anything to do with here; I was
She was getting up from her place, but suddenly uttered a loud scream and
conversation. Smerdyakov grinned uncertainly on seeing Ivan, and for the
And besides, how many of those elect, those mighty ones who could become
“I do love you, Ivan. Dmitri says of you—Ivan is a tomb! I say of you,
Chapter II. Dangerous Witnesses
had expected. And, crushed as he was by his own sorrow, his eyes
begun. Every one looked at him with curiosity.
in the despotic tone he was fond of adopting with “small boys,” and Smurov
were sent to fetch her.”
his dreams were not fated to be carried out.
Doctor Herzenstube and Varvinsky, the doctor he met in the hospital,
He had no time to lose indeed. Even while he was saying good‐by to Lise,
preparing to go abroad upon his two thousand roubles, Ivan Fyodorovitch
his will was strong enough “in some of the affairs of life,” as he
“That’s a good thing,” said Alyosha, “we must often take some.”
“Yes.”
for whenever I was ill, Marfa Ignatyevna used to put me there, near them.
“Well, he’s just like a top: he wants to be wound up and set spinning and
uncertainly. “Oh, you mean the trial! Damn it all! Till now we’ve been
“Look, you haven’t got your nails clean. Now rub your face; here, on your
securing the revenues of his estates was in haste to return at once to
sipped tea, he worshiped his belly, filling it with sweet things and his
speechless and confounded; he had never expected what he was seeing.
the universal happiness of man. But Thou mightest have taken even then the
A loud, persistent knocking was suddenly heard at the window. Ivan jumped
how susceptible and esthetically impressionable I am. But common sense—oh,
with low and degraded passions, but a thief and a pickpocket Dmitri
it all their own way. One has to take what they’ll give, for no one here
she wanted to laugh, but was doing her utmost to control it. Alyosha at
Peter the Great. But besides plays there were all sorts of legends and
What’s more, the girls had heard about it the very first day. Varvara had
his promise. Dmitri wondered, for he could not remember what he had
the fatal day has come and all has been brought to the surface. While his
The prosecutor ceased speaking. He was provoked. He did not conceal his
“Gentlemen, let us lay aside psychology, let us lay aside medicine, let us
just then that affair with his father happened. You remember? You must
tired again, had gone back to bed, he thought of Alyosha as he was closing
instance—my benefactor will perhaps allow me; but when you come to higher
and was a fearful time fumbling over it, then he subsided and stood
“Listen. Did you kill him alone? With my brother’s help or without?”
your feet. I want to love you for ever. I want to save you from yourself.’
once, dear young lady, what a willful wretch I am compared with you. If I
precious diamond. One such soul, you know, is sometimes worth a whole
property....”
condemnation. Sometimes she spoke as though she were taking a desperate
who was such a fateful influence in his life, aroused such love in his
It must be noted again that our monastery never had played any great part
Yulia.”
sofa.... It is absolutely imperative that you should give an explanation.”
certain piquancy about it, and so on.... It is true that at that time he
“Yes, even if every one is like that. You be the only one not like it. You
room, and said in a loud and excited voice to the prosecutor:
punished by my sufferings for the blood I shed. And I shan’t be believed,
what had happened with Mitya, she rushed on Ivan’s return to meet him as
“_C’est du nouveau, n’est‐ce pas?_ This time I’ll act honestly and explain
was the young person’s ‘game.’ The enchantress gave the unhappy young man
“The open‐heartedness consists in my not being ashamed of myself with you.
dog?” exclaimed Alyosha, with an involuntary note of reproach in his
“Yes. He was throwing stones with other schoolboys. There were six of them
slyly to startle the eldest granddaughter, Olga Mihailovna, by showing
7 i.e. a chime of bells.
of Mitya’s ruin. For I am convinced, so is every one—all the lawyers said
That is true. But what happened? Instead of taking men’s freedom from
must be and is permitted? Without it, I am told, man could not have
days since I’ve cast anchor here.) Because it’s only to you I can tell
the only good deed I’ve done.’ So don’t praise me, Alyosha, don’t think me
ashamed.”
eve of the trial in case of need.... That was when—do you remember?—you
with a man of honor, a man of the highest honor; above all—don’t lose
see all this? Why does it interest you? That’s the first question.”
“I am very thankful for everything. Marfa Ignatyevna does not forget me,
be asked to sit down with any one, though, of course, not in a place of
it with indignation. “But perhaps I haven’t got a clever face?” he
“Where have you been?” I asked him.
then that what I wished was just that ‘one reptile should devour another’;
purpose,” said Alyosha.
“And a grand feast the night before?”
“I’m in a hurry. I can’t stay now. You shall tell me next Sunday.” Kolya
of his career and had never made up for it later.
employers, and many others in the town, especially of the tradespeople,
God!’ ”
tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set
that Fyodor Pavlovitch went at night to the lodge to wake Grigory and
sergeant’s widow, called Prohorovna. She had inquired whether she might
for a visit from the boy for whom Ilusha was fretting.
Karamazov so for ever.... She always used to call me Mityenka, do you
to some ordinary worldly conversation, it would be meanness, but when her
heard them. Honor, self‐sacrifice were shown there, and I will be silent.
and are putting up here. One’s quite a young gentleman, a relative of Mr.
completely by doing so, for who would be likely to be such a criminal, if
they had the inheritance, while he was only the cook. He told me himself
denying miracles. But those who remained faithful were all the more ardent
the catastrophe had happened, old Samsonov himself confessed, laughing,
matter!”
save us from ourselves!”
“Ech, it’s not a secret, and you know it, too,” Grushenka said, in a voice
it is by no power but God’s will. It’s all from God. Visit me, Father,” he
it all their own way. One has to take what they’ll give, for no one here
Don’t love her.... Don’t love her any more. If you love her, I shall
He seemed frantic.
some one? In the tavern again, as before? Have you been beating that
me.
needle.”
noticed the day before.
aloud, only perhaps in Lent. He was fond of the Book of Job, and had
“You here, Alexey? Can you have—” he began wondering but broke off. He had
held, crushed up in his right fist, and as he ran he thrust it into the
to clink glasses with the Pole whom he had so solemnly invited to drink to
Turks are particularly fond of sweet things, they say.”
loved me. I may mention that although everybody talked openly of our duel,
Ilusha,’ I said, ‘there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.’
with the train, raised his head, which had been bowed in thought, and came
something else, something more important. I wondered what the tragedy was.
“You are welcome with all my heart,” answered the Superior. “Gentlemen!”
altogether a thief, or I should not have brought back what was left, but
“Would you like to look anywhere else if you’re not ashamed to?”
dowry with his wife, and had, so to speak, taken her “from the halter,” he
In the case in which we are now so deeply occupied and over which our
“Nothing, brother—it’s the fright you gave me. Oh, Dmitri! Father’s blood
follow the terms of this agreement and help preserve free future access to
not married, although she had had two suitors. She refused them, but was
his guilt, for I put him up to it. Whether I did, I don’t know yet. But if
naïve and simple‐hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
admitted to the cell felt that a great favor was being shown him. Many
nose to his mouth. The audience, of course, expressed enthusiasm and
the earth, dishonoring it with my vile presence? And then I heard you
account, Father Zossima’s talk goes on without interruption, as though he
there’s no immortality of the soul, then there’s no virtue, and everything
unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved it so little. All this was
brother Markel and what he said on his death‐bed to his servants: “My dear
again Alyosha gave no answer.
“No one else. He will let me know if she goes to the old man.”
kiss me hard, that’s right. If you love, well, then, love! I’ll be your
last. He had abandoned his cassock and was wearing now a well‐cut coat, a
didn’t want to irritate her by contradiction?”
the present case we have nothing against it.”
to speak, and effaced himself at once before this first lover. What makes
Chapter V. By Ilusha’s Bedside
And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root
childhood in one’s first home. And that is almost always so if there is
desired my father’s death.’ Then I brought out that letter and showed it
one but his old acquaintance, Trifon Borissovitch, the slightest hint of
himself.
three days she had only looked at from a distance, she trembled all over
amazement, looking at Alyosha; then, with a curse, he went out quickly to
“Better acquit ten guilty men than punish one innocent man! Do you hear,
rather a curious incident. When he had just left the university and was
that there are terrible facts against me in this business. I told every
we shall remind them of everything again,” Alyosha suggested.
ill, too. She is on the verge of insanity, too, perhaps.... I had hoped to
him positively: “I shall not die without the delight of another
likely to have one. So the doctors tell us. And so, as soon as Ivan
And going up to the sofa he thrust his fingers between the sofa back and
face, and clever, observant, narrow brown eyes, and was wearing ordinary
type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of
unconditionally, and squandered it in two days with the new object of his
“Witness, your words are incomprehensible and impossible here. Calm
tortured me most during this night has not been the thought that I’d
cut down from a halter in which she was hanging from a nail in the loft,
hint of the sort to me. But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man
The candle on the table brightly lighted up the blood and the motionless
Serve him right, the swindler! The guard here told me yesterday; he comes
woman was suddenly repeated with Alyosha. He jumped up from his seat
went into Mr. Perhotin’s—how many roubles exactly?”
his hand and softly knocked on the window frame. He knocked the signal the
She clasped her hands.
sulking and fulfill my destiny though it’s against the grain—that is, to
any one. If he doesn’t believe in people, of course, he does despise
have to suffer for it. Why not accept such an interpretation of the facts?
something strikes him on the other side. And on the other side is
Hungering and thirsting for you in every cranny of my soul and even in my
could not go on for emotion. “Oh, I understand the people’s love for you.
drawing‐room.
he would have unpicked it again and taken out another hundred, and then a
eyes, “you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would
reproaches will follow! Nothing will make her forgive you simply and
only we, we who guard the mystery, shall be unhappy. There will be
“And jealous of her money, too? Won’t you add that?”
men, though I’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old
the last hour he didn’t know. That must be said to his credit. He had no
have hysterics? Then, next day another fit, and the same thing on the
“Good‐by, Pyotr Ilyitch! My last tear is for you!...”
boys had stones in their hands. Behind the ditch some thirty paces away,
Would they love him, would they not?
speaking with loud, nervous haste, gesticulating, and in a positive
through his mind. “Why not go for the pistols, bring them here, and here,
what is fortunate is that you will be able in Moscow to see auntie and
murder me and ... he dashed away! But what shall we do, what must we do
begun talking to a monk who, as mentioned before, had been awaiting his
ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and
understand how hard it is for you; be sure we are able to feel for you,”
“I’ll say nothing about money. I am not going to insult you.”
“Mitya, I know you will tell the whole truth,” said Alyosha in agitation.
Holy Father Isaac the Syrian_. Ivan read it mechanically.
“We’ll leave off soon. We’ll leave off.”
truth and demand the same lies from others. Here I have for once in my
communication, will you allow me to inquire as to another little fact of
seduction of some respectable girl; we know all about that, Dmitri
the longer it went on, the more intense was his suffering.
Not long after visiting his mother’s grave Alyosha suddenly announced that
there had been trouble in the house. Grushenka had come on the scene, and
“All right. I’ll see for myself. Are they playing cards?”
“But you didn’t get that from me.” Ivan stopped suddenly, seeming struck.
not allowed to go about with me now, no one is allowed to go about with me
tell of it to the prosecutor and Nikolay Parfenovitch you might defend me
their secrets before they had spoken a word.
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“I should like you to have a dark blue velvet coat, a white piqué
There turned out to be on the coat, especially on the left side at the
“ ‘Quite so,’ some astute people will tell me, ‘but what if they were in
Kolya held the cannon in his hand so that all could see and admire it.
of it, so to speak, and you pounce upon it at once. Oh, well, write—write
Pavlovitch; and, theoretically, from various strange philosophical
‘it isn’t a very nice town.’ ‘Father, let us move into another town, a
used as a term of abuse, and this contempt for the monk is growing. It is
to Doctor Herzenstube and Nikolay Parfenovitch, the investigating lawyer,
diverting entertainment for them. He could have made them stand side by
nothing, only appears and passes on. Fifteen centuries have passed since
should want to live and, having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn
I would bear anything ... anything except blows.... But she won’t be
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to begin—my confession—with Schiller’s _Hymn to Joy_, _An die Freude_! I
unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for
stupefaction and was as excited as before. “What did he say?” He turned to
Gentle Father Iosif, the librarian, a great favorite of the dead man’s,
Why Ivan Fyodorovitch had come amongst us I remember asking myself at the
themselves. I saw the dear lad’s heart was moved. He told me that he loved
Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be homesick for the
even perhaps with no desire to conceal that he spoke ironically and with
“More than a thousand went on them, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” retorted Trifon
of the market‐place,” cried Alyosha again, with glowing eyes.
On the way to Ivan he had to pass the house where Katerina Ivanovna was
“And for the last time there is not.”
death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting
“He doesn’t despise any one,” Alyosha went on. “Only he does not believe
leaves, bits of stick, and shavings clinging to it, as she always slept on
fixed between that life and this existence.”
vanished as quickly as it appeared. He was always well and even
with a peculiar earnestness. From him Alyosha learnt all the details of
“Then I didn’t quite understand you,” said Katerina Ivanovna slowly,
captain, too, came back.
“You got back to town? Then you had been out of town?”
n’existe point!_ Don’t pay attention: he is a paltry, pitiful devil,” he
murdered woman, and that there was no doubt about them. Yet nothing was
to get drunk on the rest. Yes, that was base. Do you understand now?”
least in Lutheran countries. As for Rome, it was proclaimed a State
laughing, ‘_Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn_, and _Gott der heilige Geist_.
“Just so, sir, I was only running out to Prohoritch’s.... But I don’t know
infidelity. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there’s a great deal of
garden gate, and that they were the groans of a woman. Opening the door of
but, incredible as it seems, that’s just what the prisoner alleges. When
confidant (we have his own word for it) and he frightened him into
But I have been lying, lying positively my whole life long, every day and
speak, afraid of giving himself away! This purgatory of the spirit, this
about something.
“You’ve said so to yourself many times, when you’ve been alone during
parade. The servants are summoned for their edification, and in front of
expenses. I will only say that this business took a whole hour, but Ivan
towards the light, and he longed to live, to live, to go on and on,
and tortured herself by her pretended love for Dmitri from some fancied
gasping with excitement. “He’s struggling, the scoundrel! But he won’t
opened and inside was found the body of a new‐born child which she had
“Not worthy! She’s not worthy of it!” Katerina Ivanovna cried again with
“By the way, I will note in parenthesis a point of importance for the
‘catch hold and I’ll pull you out.’ And he began cautiously pulling her
Easter. It was a fine day, and I remember to‐day, as though I saw it now,
‘she loves him like a son, and so will follow all his directions and take
only not here but yonder.”
but not for that reason; only from regret that he had killed the woman he
shouts of wild merriment, reckless gypsy songs and dances I shall raise
of it all.”
he added, after a pause, dropping his eyes affectedly, setting his right
The children’s faces instantly brightened. “Show us the cannon,” said
only go to mass instead of ‘following Him.’ ” Perhaps his memories of
Grigory and Marfa, but the boy grew up “with no sense of gratitude,” as
no special sin in that. Or if there was sin, it was the most ordinary.”
Smaragdov, and no one had Smaragdov but Kolya. One day, when Kolya’s back
made up my mind to show up his game, though he is my father....”
guessed even yesterday, how easy it would be to put an end to it if I
disconcerted tone. “Well, gentlemen, you see, that Samsonov to whom I went
later between her and this rival; so that by degrees he had completely
Chapter V. The Third Ordeal
Mitya started, leapt up, but sat down again. Then he began at once
dumb, pitiless laws of nature?
“On no account,” cried Lise. “On no account now. Speak through the door.
He looked at me, all of a tremble. ‘Well,’ thought I, ‘if he’s so
love, for my earthly life is over, and Abraham will not come even with a
interested him extremely, and with whom he sometimes argued and not
trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. He gathered loose women
monastery. The nearest friends of the deceased and those whose duty it was
what he decided.
already. I have sent in my papers this morning and as soon as I get my
even to change the baby’s little shirt.
wronged him she hates him at moments,” Alyosha thought to himself. He
barrister ‘a conscience for hire.’ The counsel protests in his client’s
“You feel penitent?”
When Katerina Ivanovna heard that, she got up from her seat without a
“That’s because your finger is in the water. It must be changed directly,
begin, I shall tell everything, too, for I must defend myself.”
From the beginning every one noticed Fetyukovitch’s persistence on this
too, has never loved you ... and only esteems you.... I really don’t know
violent weeping, stifling his sobs that they might not be heard by Ilusha.
sighed deeply.
evidence, but only the scream of a frenzied and revengeful woman, and it
gravely, in an undertone, as he passed Agafya, “I hope you’ll spare their
the business was as good as settled and I should be crushed like a fly,
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
frenzy. He was unmistakably a man driven into a corner, on the brink of
“It’s true, though.”
anguish, he will exclaim: ‘Others are better than I, they wanted to save
shake you off!”
“Go away, Father!” said Father Païssy, in a commanding voice, “it’s not
“That rotten prosecutor has gone, too, contemptuous no doubt, it disgusts
evening before and left his cell terror‐stricken.
encouraged or disheartened by your verdict. Do not disappoint Russia and
after that.”
birth of the dauphin. It was called _Le bon jugement de la très sainte et
“From what specially?”
that terrible day, he had entirely forgotten his brother Dmitri, about
woman.
seemed to hope to bring Ivan to reason—“how could he have told you of
the little man’s face.
evening he had undergone the treatment which Smerdyakov had described to
abandoned his determination to shoot himself, owing to “new factors in the
children often argued together about various exciting problems of life,
the people came from among us, and why should they not again? The same
and unable to determine upon it. And so, not without good reason, he
left to the care of Providence like a beast of the field. He thirsted
heart, but Nastasya Petrovna,’ she would say, ‘is of the brood of hell.’
old Grigory we have said something already. He was firm and determined and
Ivan raised his head and smiled softly.
ladies quarreled violently with their husbands over differences of opinion
went blindly and obstinately for his object, if once he had been brought
eloquence, especially as they had no apprehensions as to the upshot of the
Could a Karamazov fail to understand it? That anxiety was just what he was
very original one. He suddenly took a thousand roubles to our monastery to
“I shall be told he was drunk when he wrote it. But that does not diminish
declared that Smerdyakov had been lying all night the other side of the
“He doesn’t despise any one,” Alyosha went on. “Only he does not believe
place behind the table at which the three judges sat was set apart for the
“You agree. Then it must be so, if you agree. It’s true, isn’t it,
the mines, breaking ore with a hammer? I am not a bit afraid of that—it’s
what happens.”
for this feeling, and even felt a positive repugnance at prying into his
case, but a triumph for you. And the consciousness of it will at last be a
her hope. Forgive me for speaking to you like this,” he added.
his secret business. He had spoken to him just before Mitya met the
solemnity. All were expecting that some marvel would happen immediately
gun with a service bullet, took the boot off his right foot, fixed the gun
Moscow.
and nothing but the truth before him. Little by little, even with a sort
involuntarily suggests tormenting questions to a young creature,
all came to know me at once and invited me; they laughed at me, but they
received many such letters, accompanied by such receipts, from her former
his wits went. Where did they go? I’ve forgotten the word.” He went on,
conviction—not conviction, but feeling. A man ought to be magnanimous, and
“And jealous of her money, too? Won’t you add that?”
She said just now that you were a friend of her childhood, ‘the greatest
to make her yours than mine. Well, here we are. You’d better go to the
brooding and did not resist when the coffin was lifted up and carried to
principles, her family, everything that she holds sacred! Yes, you
hurry, in a terrible hurry), ‘but still I am not guilty, it is not I
window. I snatched up that iron paper‐weight from his table; do you
showed that she had come with an object, and in order to say something.
“How do you mean, mamma, one on the top of another, how is that?” muttered
one actual illuminating fact to his former fantastic statements; all those
examples of it: a man sits singing a song, suddenly something annoys him,
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