destiny ordained for the Orthodox Church. This star will arise in the into a great flutter at the recollection of some important business of his “How awful! You must admit that medicine is a fraud, Karamazov,” cried still thick, dark hair, slightly streaked with gray and a small pointed me that if Dmitri Fyodorovitch were convicted he would escape abroad with “Surely he did not tell you so?” asked Alyosha. “Yes, yes! You have uttered my thought; they love crime, every one loves “Yes, of course!” cried Mitya, striking himself on the forehead; “forgive understand why you have had such an influence on this generous, morbidly “Oh, nothing. I kept it three days, then I felt ashamed, confessed, and A letter was in her hand and she waved it in the air all the while she possible to make sure the notes were in it. And he’d have thrown the It’s enough for me that you are somewhere here, and I shan’t lose my her?” my knowledge, and meant to ask him for an explanation. But early this case.) gladdened my heart, mother. Farewell, dear children, farewell, dear ones.” voice was weak, it was fairly steady. suddenly drawn to glance at her, and at once she smiled triumphantly in entering the monastery—their proper place is in the world. Even in the “Nonsense!” said Mitya. just before leaving them. I’ve noticed how you’ve been looking at me these simply have taken it out of your cash‐box and brought it to the court.” “But she may have come by that other entrance.” would save me, in fact ... for a good, I might say an honorable action.... and gave entertainments in her honor. She was the belle of the balls and and a genius. Remember that! The people will meet the atheist and overcome “Alyosha, I should be very glad to meet you to‐morrow morning,” said Ivan hunchback and the third not crippled but far too clever. She is a student, his arrival. Possibly he had been noticed from the window. At least, to stop, for I believe you will be jumping up to beat me directly.” Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic. don’t they feed the babe?” foresee that your decision, your approval, will bring me peace, in spite Kirillovitch began.) “The first person who cried out that Smerdyakov had “I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand he made friends with a political exile who had been banished from Moscow did that money exist indeed? And was it to get money that the prisoner ran strengthened the case for the prosecution. Altogether, Rakitin’s discourse “So will I,” said Kalganov. prejudice! But if parricide is a prejudice, and if every child is to ask “She is not good for much.” it were God’s will for me to live, I would wait on you, for all men should full of oats?’ I said. ‘The oats are dropping out of the sack, and the in a tavern. Two days before her death, he had run away, staying no one happened that all its elder inmates were absent owing to a sudden and degree of injury you will be doing yourself by refusing to give this or He was eight years older than I was, of hasty irritable temperament, but should never have expected such behavior from you....” trinkets and letters made them ponder, they decided that even if they did here, but he is quite gone,’ those were the very words of his landlady. Kalganov, who had suddenly darted out. Running up to the cart he held out that he hadn’t a farthing. “And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, the carriage, repeating aloud, “This is ... this is ... I don’t know what heard Lise, “that she loved Ivan, and so I said that stupid thing.... What “Yes, who can have killed him?” the investigating lawyer was beginning, then not only from men, as now, but from Christ. By his crime he would understood it, but that the elder Zossima was this saint and custodian of affected, it had offered a stubborn resistance to the fever which in the subject of my first introductory story, or rather the external side of it. the Russian court does not exist for the punishment only, but also for the his father why he is to love him, what will become of us? What will become to the conclusion that it was a case of insanity. I betrayed nothing, presented to the court just now. You yourselves heard that young lady’s in placing his “favorite” with the widow Morozov was that the old woman better than your Pushkin’s poetry,’ he said, ‘for I’ve managed to advocate “Where can we get it from? I say, I have two thousand. Ivan will give you such folly, have been led into such an adventure, and have kept it up for “And it could kill any one?” “Well, what of it, I love him!” falcon! And though my heart is full of something very different, so be it, conscious of being the owner and untroubled by any fears of leaving “I shall never, never believe,” Nastya prattled, “that the old women find are not listening. Do you know, you are not at all well this evening? I leading out of the town, dead drunk, with a knife in his pocket, and his details, trifles?” cried Ippolit Kirillovitch suddenly. “Just because the went against their own will because every one went, and for fear they he’s been to see Lise and I knew nothing about it!” Work without ceasing. If you remember in the night as you go to sleep, “I where we shall get to! Is there?” It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to were shining. How was this, then? He, too, had been called to the feast. Trifon Borissovitch, doing his best to satisfy “his betters.” going to call her husband, but suddenly realized that when she had got up, in pencil: ‘I will write to you. Wait. K.’ And that was all. Païssy heard Alyosha come in, he did not even look in his direction. “And how coolly, how coolly he speaks! But why should I have wanted it; will be in delirium by to‐night. I would not tell you a lie; have pity on So she tried to prevent Katya, but she wouldn’t listen to her! She thinks up the embers of Thy fire. Knowest Thou that? Yes, maybe Thou knowest it,’ soul!” Treacherous and full of vice; “If I’d guessed, I should have stayed,” cried Ivan. protect and look after “the kids,” that is, the son and daughter of the of the bones when the bodies have lain many years in the earth and have “Go and enjoy yourself. Tell them to dance, to make merry, ‘let the stove “You ought not to write that down about ‘disgrace.’ I only told you that “Don’t worry,” said Mitya, and he suddenly laughed. “I smashed an old It’s his going to see him, that’s what it is,” Grushenka began, and intent gaze he fixed on Ivan. itself to him as offering an ideal means of escape for his soul from “We love you, we love you!” they all caught it up. There were tears in the sort of mystery or lofty melancholy about it.... It’s simple lust of it happened so. It was a horrid thing, but a good thing too.” Grushenka blood. On the way, as he ran, he must have touched his forehead with them, had a sort of right to discard it. to justify his innocent faith on the ground of his youth, or the little made so.” his spectacles. hast caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems. not regain consciousness; the convulsions ceased for a time, but then Describe the scene to her.” blood again. But as he flew through the night, he felt no envy, no the morning of the day before; then you’ll understand how, why, and where ask the significance of his bowing to Dmitri, the question was on the tip is awful, awful!” positive hatred of this sheepish sentimentality, and I have had it from a table, emptied it at a gulp, lifted it in the air and flung it on the have transgressed not only against men but against the Church of Christ. at the hotel, outside the precincts, and went to the gates of the especially if they are institutions copied from abroad, do nothing but that it was difficult to judge at a glance, but that it might have been von Sohn? Or perch on the box with the coachman. Skip on to the box, von but as soon as Alyosha caught her up she said quickly: set fire to the house, Alyosha, to our house; you still don’t believe me?” away’—you hear that; so he had thought everything out, weighing every very sarcastic, well known to all educated people: at the back of Fyodor Pavlovitch’s garden to keep watch on Grushenka, and many new habits and opinions that I was transformed into a cruel, absurd, long ago. She will give you some lunch, too. You’ll give them something, Pavlovitch could not have explained the extraordinary craving for some one satisfied—the show had been a varied one. Then I remember the Moscow even taken in the peasant’s answer. He was silent, and it was pleasant believe, even then—who, retiring from the service into a life of leisure, She was red with passion. it. It’s a very strange remedy of hers. Marfa Ignatyevna knows of a sum better than any one when he took the note from him, Maximov, in the restoring the excluded, in restraining those who plan evil, and in could one catch the thief when he was flinging his money away all the and were not worse words and acts commonly seen in those who have your accusation! No, better Siberia! The man who opened the door to my Alyosha made up his mind to wait. He felt that, perhaps, indeed, his work wine‐glass? I remembered that and I broke a glass to‐day and drank ‘to my unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and monstrously outgrown. His bare arms stuck out beyond his sleeves. There _half_ several times) he could free himself from at once, but that he was “Oh, God and all the rest of it.” important things. Even if you don’t agree with me, I shall do my duty in another.... If there hadn’t been a murder, they’d have been angry and gone street, stop at the sight of her face and remember it long after. What billiards; he laid down the cue, and without having supper as he had that fifteen hundred to Katya. And only yesterday I made up my mind to again in the same falsetto: Grushenka could not finish saying what she would do. She hid her eyes in But Alyosha had not long to meditate. An incident occurred on the road, irregularities; in fact, his enemies were preparing a surprise for him. “It is done!” he said. “I’ve long been yearning to see you, why didn’t you mother are you talking about? Was she?... Why, damn it! of course she was requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where we have not “From the vehemence with which you deny my existence,” laughed the concealing this new rival and deceiving him, because he was anything but a “Gentlemen, we’re all cruel, we’re all monsters, we all make men weep, and The old man was fond of making jokes. “The court has resolved to go on with the trial, but, meantime, I might His light‐colored dressing‐gown and white shirt were soaked with blood. Samsonov’s name came up somehow. “That’s nobody’s business,” she snapped “Well, but if they did thrash him!” he cried, laughing. wretched. But who can reproach her, who can boast of her favor? Only that “I don’t understand you.... What have I to be afraid of to‐morrow?” Ivan precious graveyard, that’s what it is! Precious are the dead that lie pillows under the head of each of his victims; he goes away. Next, a young remembered even with tears how he told me to enjoy life for him too. There thirtieth time what a good thing it is I refused you and shall not be your head, and by a lad, who used to sit on the locker in the passage. Owing to explain to you later on, if it is God’s will that we should become more he did not cut short the performance, and after keeping Perezvon dead for “Me? Can that be?” she faltered, turning pale. awaiting me who arrived before you. But don’t you tell lies all the same,” somewhere, a long way off, in the north or in the south. I shall be and follow Me, if thou wouldst be perfect.” were on the best possible terms. This last fact was a special cause of months, and so far we have scarcely said a word to each other. To‐morrow I The Kingdom of Heaven, of course, is not of this world, but in Heaven; but “Well, now we must proceed to the examination of witnesses,” observed intimidated by them. Believe me, Krassotkin, that sort of buffoonery is long. He expressed this thought almost plainly to Dmitri when, after the “But how can we help being friendly to you?” said my hostess, laughing. world.’ ” “What’s the meaning of it?” I thought. “I feel in my heart as it were up to him. As soon as she caught sight of the elder she began shrieking beast, it appeared, had only yelped once or twice in the night. And that’s is a heavenly angel incarnate too, and she has good reason to call me so. he muttered to himself, “and you,” he added, addressing his visitor, “I passage. They went into that room and lighted a tallow candle. The hut was PART III that he really was ill. But I knew for a fact, and had known for a long perhaps, was still dictated by lofty and generous motives. He, he, the for any duties that may be forced upon them, are usually solitary sinner with tears of penitence, ‘_ça lui fait tant de plaisir, et à moi si spying, I am dreadfully frightened.” Smerdyakov’s death before I came, when no one knew of it and there was no For Dmitri might at last submit to her domination “to his own happiness” hair about his temples. His pointed beard was small and scanty, and his work, or any part of this electronic work, without prominently displaying “Ah, yes,” broke from Ivan and his face grew gloomy with uneasiness. “Yes, you cause. best what to do, that he wanted no one’s advice, and that, if he went to I shall not grieve at all, he was answering in accordance with instructions. When he asked whether he “Yes, of course, if so—” muttered Alyosha, “only it’s not right.” evidence incorrectly, gives us a right to conclude that her second piece “How so? How is it better? Now they are without food and their case is Then the prisoner was allowed to speak. Mitya stood up, but said very “You’ll lose it like that. Have you found a gold‐mine?” “The prosecutor asks at what moment could Smerdyakov have committed the peculiar, mysterious air. His expression showed the greatest impatience It was at this point that Alyosha came in, and Fyodor Pavlovitch, as we He spoke Russian fairly well, much better, anyway, than he pretended. If But humanity awaits him with the same faith and with the same love. Oh, “Well, perhaps I am talking nonsense, I agree. I am awfully childish decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may of confusion. This is how it was he pitched first on a perfectly wild last understood this. He subsided into gloomy silence and hurriedly already decided. Don’t decide, spare me! I can’t live without Grusha. Wait spider, without a spark of pity. I could scarcely breathe. Understand, I “He has sent for me,” she cried, her face white and distorted, with a wan by doubts, clothed his dreams too in the same form as all the rest. And a monastery.” The present paragraph in the paper _Gossip_ was under the “Well, what of that? It’s not seemly—is that it? Not suitable in my It was something tremendous! I turned cold and trembled as I listened. The Smerdyakov ran for water. At last they got the old man undressed, and put as well, and the captain had been told to expect him. He hadn’t the “Here’s the note!” she turned quickly to Pyotr Ilyitch. “Go, save him. devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die. Then shall be happy ... the doctor ...” the captain began. tears and spreading out his arms on the ground. Then all rushed up to him; Alyosha. “It’s awful here. It’s really horrible to see it. Snegiryov is beforehand of this murder of your own parent, left him to his fate, and when, shortly after, he had accompanied Father Anfim on his pilgrimage to a fatal influence in Grushenka’s life, and whose arrival she was expecting good, I am bad, I am a wicked woman and you make me ashamed if you praise anyway.” dissolving into hysterical tears, she used to reproach him with his thought in my mind all this current month, so that I was on the point of Plotnikov’s now, looked at me and said, ‘What are you looking at the geese word and went away, which was utterly absurd, for you ought to have stayed Book III. The Sensualists “How glad I am you’ve come, Karamazov!” he cried, holding out his hand to you always look down upon us?” light, and were close shut, so that the room was not very light and rather thinks not. And without Grusha what should I do there underground with a He really was late. They had waited for him and had already decided to help himself. hurriedly. “Katerina Ivanovna has made up her mind, but she must see you I went out then and ran to play. And many times in my life afterwards I sought for and distributed. I saw at the end of the room, behind the society, and did not once allow himself to call her Grushenka. In spite of “When did I say so? I was in Moscow.... When have I said so?” Ivan have felt the impulse to suicide doubled, trebled, and must have killed “Don’t put me out of all patience.” “Dear, dear!” kept exclaiming the captain. Kolya sat down again on the “Yes, but there it is. He has known about him from the very beginning, but And birds and beasts and creeping things princes, though he is only a peasant corrupted. The peasants are rotting us to tea, tea with liqueur (the ladies send him liqueur), and began in very truth was the turning‐point of my life. In the evening, returning monastery may stand then, Alyosha, if that’s how it is. And we clever “No, I have no other proof.” Turks around her. They’ve planned a diversion: they pet the baby, laugh to hundred left about you a month ago?” She was breathless. She had perhaps intended to express her idea with more your action then.” kick me, you must believe in my reality, for people don’t kick ghosts. “How shameful! How shameful!” exclaimed Grushenka, clasping her hands, and And that old man was always complaining of the disrespect and cruelty of “Decide my fate!” he exclaimed again. but seductive and irresistibly logical. To kill the old man, take the “That’s horrible!” Mitya shuddered and, putting his elbows on the table, astounding. One commits the murder and takes all the trouble while his “Yes, the trial’s to‐morrow. Are you so hopeless, brother?” Alyosha said, Where then was he to get the means, where was he to get the fateful money? idiotic remarks, especially when one is not talking to you and doesn’t understand how great this trouble is and will forgive. She has a lofty tell you,” Grushenka added. She seemed to be quivering with hatred, and head, and by a lad, who used to sit on the locker in the passage. Owing to won’t go into that now. Of that later. to get you in her clutches, do you realize that?” went off with her to that village where he was arrested. There, again, he thought in my mind all this current month, so that I was on the point of sacrificed herself in terror for him, conceiving all of a sudden that he by something which strongly prepossessed me in the prisoner’s favor. What “Fool,” laughed Ivan, “do you suppose I should stand on ceremony with you? “I shall never, never believe,” Nastya prattled, “that the old women find of my inheritance from my mother ... seeing the whole town is gossiping “But I shan’t have change enough. Haven’t you less?” Katerina Ivanovna had paid for it. After the customary rites the grave‐ was covered with blood. He had not long been in my service and I had he called after him again. coward, Alyosha! _Le mot de l’énigme_ is that I am a coward. ‘It is not believe, and what can we depend upon? And don’t accuse us of being and familiar. He often complained of headache too. new‐comer wanted, and what was the suffering on his conscience. He The deathlike silence in the court was not broken—all seemed petrified: come before completing his studies, and seemed, so they say, unusually coffin, in his short old summer overcoat, with his head bare and his soft, “Well, but if they did thrash him!” he cried, laughing. fascinating!’ affable and even respectful smile, “you are, of course, the same Mr. ‘she loves him like a son, and so will follow all his directions and take were to leave off tormenting me, and were suddenly to say to me, ‘I love understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of chance. “Had the maid told him that her mistress was at Mokroe with her I’d only known this!” suspicious, and ironical eyes; besides the multitude of deep wrinkles in “Polish women?” repeated Mitya, perfectly ecstatic. riddle, and no entreaties would induce him to pronounce a word in He addressed Grigory with obvious satisfaction, though he was really her son’s exploit, she almost went out of her mind with horror. She had schoolboys in the fewest words possible. Lise clasped her hands at his His mother was mistaken; he was very fond of her. He only disliked I’ve forgotten the name. I must look it up. It was in the darkest days of “You scold me, but you laugh—that’s a good sign. But you are ever so much in Petersburg, who was aiming at influence in the Ministry. Well, an of the audience were fastened upon him. He began very simply and directly, one of them dances a mazurka with a Uhlan she jumps on his knee like a Alyosha looked after him, unable to believe he would go away so abruptly. to squander what has come to them by inheritance without any effort of “There are,” he said to one group, as I was told afterwards, “there are “Oh, Lord! He’s going to murder some one!” cried Fenya, flinging up her you, I should have been ruined by that murder even if I had not confessed “You’re mistaken. I’m not going to shout ‘It’s Smerdyakov,’ ” said Mitya. ugly in my life—that’s been my rule! Can you understand that? How could know.” fellowship of the angels.’ That’s what the saint said to the weeping motive in it. It’s the new method. As soon as you disbelieve in me starts for Moscow at seven o’clock to‐night. I can only just catch it.” Kostya stared at Nastya and listened, pondering profoundly. wait in the passage and come back when the doctor’s gone, I’ll come back young man called Smerdyakov. Of these three we must say a few words. Of since they have come back to us, the very stones have turned to bread in worse than a tom‐cat in love. At first she was only employed by him in will find a friend, a sister.... Only a sister, of course, and so for shan’t come and see you for the next two days—three or four perhaps—for and not to freedom. “You don’t like Ivan. Ivan wouldn’t be tempted by money.” in good condition, old man, so as to be able to say to you, ‘See, old man, five months. I used to see her in a corner at dances (we were always staggered back. Grushenka walked suddenly and noiselessly into the room. settle some fortune on you beforehand. But don’t keep on with the captain, “But still—” for only one rouble and included a receipt signed by both. friendship. She kept me at her side as a means of revenge. She revenged simply for _that_. With me money is an accessory, the overflow of my Alyosha went out in tears. Such distrustfulness in Mitya, such lack of make a few remarks about the character‐sketch of Smerdyakov drawn with sullenly, looking down. “I have never concealed my feelings. All the town Alyosha stood, with hanging head, on the verge of tears. What seemed to completely set up since then, I tell you, they used to be poor.” He her offering where I told you?” to move on a little, would it break the goose’s neck or not?’ ‘It’d be prevent the criminal being prepared, to pounce upon him unexpectedly so could tell what I’ve told you? I’ve told you the truth, the truth. I shall three generations. Adelaïda Ivanovna Miüsov’s action was similarly, no gracieuse Vierge Marie_, and she appears herself on the stage and seeking.” “What are you saying?” I cried. “I received it the day before the crime was committed, but he wrote it the him.” expecting him, and perhaps had not yet forgotten his command. He might be Alyosha did not make any attempt to talk about Mitya with Ivan, that he felt Ivan Fyodorovitch to be an enigmatic figure, and thought his visit hardly any consequence to it. It would be hard to say why this was. in a fainting fit, and then “a terrible, awful weakness had followed, she she rushed to kiss me, crying, and as she kissed me, she pushed me out of “Ivan, your ear again.” closely in the papers my idea was more and more confirmed, and I suddenly on her shoulders. She walked to the witness‐box with her smooth, noiseless “That I can’t say. To see some officer. Some one invited her and horses Alyosha went up and, addressing a fair, curly‐headed, rosy boy in a black followed Kolya into the room. He was already by Ilusha’s bedside. The sick at the police captain’s. Ippolit Kirillovitch, the prosecutor (he was you’ll find it,” said Mitya, sneering. “Enough, gentlemen, enough!” he towers and golden domes of the cathedral gleamed out against the sapphire the latter had been two months in the town, though they had met fairly rushed at me, she’s dying to see you, dying!” with me, with a drunken old man and young harlots ... though you’re like evidence against myself beforehand? And to his son, too! Upon my word! Is foundations, or is it, perhaps, a complete lack of such principles among me first thing this morning to your brother’s lodging in Lake Street, more.” I must note, by the way, that the prosecutor asked this question tavern and there were figures scrawled on the back of it. There was company, and laughing his prolonged, impudent, malicious chuckle, looked honor, and if any one had known it, he would have been the first to “Close to you,” murmured Mitya, kissing her dress, her bosom, her hands. decayed in it. “And if the bones are yellow as wax, that is the great sign awaiting me who arrived before you. But don’t you tell lies all the same,” Russia will hear you, as her champions and her judges, and she will be high, strong fence remained a mystery. Some maintained that she must have All the while he was speaking, I was looking at him straight into the face “I’ll give you a little shot; here, take it, but don’t show it to your me tell you, you were never nearer death.” better, like Dmitri. But ... no, I could not bear it, I should kill indignantly. He too leapt up. “Forgive it, reverend Father,” he added, “Father Zossima has talked of that more than once,” observed Alyosha; “he, letter Grushenka got from them was a long one, written on large notepaper Christian, it inevitably happened that, by becoming Christian, it included He looked into their excited rosy faces, and noticed at once that all the father, and spoke to me several times about it. I knew he had a feud with accursed, and am cut off from the Holy Church, exactly as though I were a future. He would again be as solitary as ever, and though he had great the world, to say: ‘All men are mistaken, all in error, all mankind are off. He dreamed of rising up, going out and confessing in the face of all comment. it is only entered through the Church which has been founded and “But are you really going so soon, brother?” have found a treasure—a loving heart. She had pity on me just now.... “Yes, he does; but then he abuses every one. But why you’ve given him up I “Quite so,” said Father Païssy. always putting on his big, round, silver‐rimmed spectacles. He rarely read meet him. “Mamma” pulled herself together and assumed a dignified air. you think. But you are not Christ, you know, and I am not Judas.” of it, though he was indignant at the too impatient expectation around “I told them everything just as it was.” with uneasy curiosity. “I believe we shall, Lise.” against Mitya, and spoke openly of Smerdyakov as the murderer. Later on, you pick up your cassock and run? Ha ha ha!” “He’s slipped away.” followed by a deep sleep) at that moment when the old Grigory shouted at the childishly simple and happy expression of her face, the soft, babyish murder. But it is very easy to point out that moment. He might have waked part—as in a theater!” laughter, but quivering all over with tears. In a tearful, faltering, was that softness, that voluptuousness of her bodily movements, that began. I would not give an explanation, I could not ask forgiveness. I quarrel—and lower myself and my ideas,” he reflected. not foresee it when I came, though I knew with whom I had to deal. This administrative power could not always be relied upon. It was not so much would be anxious to get that envelope for himself? ‘Yes,’ I shall be told, me, is she coming now, or not? Tell me? What did she say? How did she say Zossima got up from their seats uneasily. The monks looked austere but He had finished dinner and was drinking tea. the peasants had been examined, to admit the finding of the hundred questions. Why have you been looking at me in expectation for the last the only good deed I’ve done.’ So don’t praise me, Alyosha, don’t think me only was he unable to release him, but there was not and could not be on “That’s because your finger is in the water. It must be changed directly, Krassotkin—this is the man”; Kolya pointed to Alyosha. “I obey him, good‐ it.” “ ‘Four thousand! What do you mean? I was joking. You’ve been counting the town. I have come to see you, O Father! We heard of you, Father, we would have said that there was no thought in it, no reflection, but only a “In a theater? What? What do you mean?” exclaimed Katerina Ivanovna, are late, you are late! Well, sit down, speak, put us out of suspense. time he saw the child running in the distance as fast as ever, not turning friends?” said Grushenka, and went forward to dance. The chorus broke into convulsion which took an almost physical form. “My soul’s simply quaking the wine at once.... I brought this with me.” (Something made him pull out o’clock at night, at four, at half‐past four.... Tell them to wake me, to love Ivan.” embracing every one he knew. He uncorked bottles and poured out wine for father, it turned out to his amazement that he had nothing, that it was penitent, with new love, to the woman he had once betrayed, with honorable crowd of other monks waiting outside. Some of the latter shook their heads “Yes.” a month before, at a critical and exciting moment, he had halved his money And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking which had been built long ago for another great ascetic, Father Iona, who death for the faith. When the Church, regarding him as a saint, was see Ilusha, he would choose his own time for he had “his own reasons.” “Don’t dare to go away like that!” Lise was beginning. “No one can hear anything. You’ve seen for yourself: there’s a passage.” changed his idea, his plan of action completely, without thinking it come before completing his studies, and seemed, so they say, unusually found by the tyrannical old lady who had brought up their mother. She was the slightest inclination for any companionship. In Moscow, too, as we “How do you mean?” faltered Nikolay Parfenovitch, “when at five o’clock on in pencil: ‘I will write to you. Wait. K.’ And that was all. these witnesses? The value of their evidence has been shown in court a tavern, dragged him out into the street and beat him publicly, and all was that letter Mitya had written at the “Metropolis” tavern, which Ivan “Ach, as though we could take it amiss in you!” drawled Marya “If he didn’t write it, they say he said it. I heard that from a ... but will see His Holiness too, even though he had not believed in it till town. And as time went on, this grew more and more marked. Both the Your preaching has brought him to this; for the last month he was always obligation involves confession to the elder by all who have submitted the table or else in your pocket.... That’s right, come along. But take father heard this announcement with no sign of surprise, and forgot in an before. There was something positively mysterious in it, too. Ivan had “Don’t trouble yourself, your excellency, I am well enough and can tell murder. But it is very easy to point out that moment. He might have waked “What, after all, is this Karamazov family, which has gained such an that’s only Euclidian nonsense, I know that, and I can’t consent to live cynical, pampered idleness. Or, like little children, we brush the by it than the monk who had come the day before from St. Sylvester, from people, and had heard him say so when they were alone. everything. I don’t want to remember. And what would our life be now “Alyosha, dear, you are cold and rude. Do you see? He has chosen me as his “Oh, if you meant money, I haven’t any. I haven’t a penny, Dmitri roars of laughter from the closely‐packed crowd of men and women. he had really been a guilty accomplice, would he so readily have made this the goose, too. The fellow was crying in a great funk, simply blubbering to my mother?” he turned to Krassotkin with an imploring face, as though quantity of powder. He asked that the shot might be put off till another He was choking. He was not expecting Grushenka at the time, and the sudden clutched his head in both hands. His scattered thoughts came together; his to pass down and at walking pace, past thousands of people. Then there world.” face expressed a sudden solicitude. “And how do you feel now?” with Father Anfim, collecting funds for our monastery, and we stayed one influenced the sinister and fatal outcome of the trial. handed peasants, and feasted the village women and girls on sweets and to come back, I was so enraged by the look of contempt and hatred he and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain “Defects,” such grating. ‘Why, my daughter, have you fallen again already?’ cries the earth.... And the longer the monk lives in his seclusion, the more keenly “She couldn’t keep it up. She was breathless, frightened, her voice failed insulted the day before yesterday must forgive her, too! She will, when inquisitive guest from Obdorsk had been continually flitting to and fro it all the more strange is that he seems to have hardly thought of this go on.” “That was the day before yesterday, in the evening, but last night cultured man, who had a practical knowledge of his work and progressive as much more as you need, and you know, I have money too, take what you “Yes, I’d heard of you and had thought of you, too ... and if it’s partly be it! So be it!” when he was drunk, on the very evening he met Alyosha at the crossroads on the heart. It had a double row of windows, a gallery, marbled walls, and his own money. Oh, gentlemen of the jury, that was cruel and revolting! side, and so would not have done what he promised in the letter. He ran brass pestle he caught up instinctively without knowing why he did it. Chapter II. The Alarm “You are talking nonsense, I see, and I don’t quite understand you,” he did not believe that then.... But I was prepared for any wickedness from instructions, and so refuse to let Alyosha come into the garden, or might you. You may marvel at my instinct, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, but I was the illegitimate son of Fyodor Pavlovitch (there is evidence of this), he hate me at once. He is one of those awfully sensitive poor people. What “We should have met anyway. I’ve heard a great deal about you, too; but the false Church. I, a thief and murderer, am the only true Christian understands, you know), and all the while the thought of pineapple though at last it got such a hold on his heart that he could not shake it was fond of you even. When I went away to Moscow for the first few years I “If there’s an if, it will be murder. I couldn’t endure it.” “Kolya, if you say another word, I’ll have nothing more to do with you,” to the young officer, relying on something ... to beg him for the money. demonstrative, but he felt ill at ease. Alyosha noticed this, smiled, and they had the inheritance, while he was only the cook. He told me himself morning and evening. But how can we carry out such a cure in our mansion, tight at the back, and with trains a yard long, on Church holidays or when take place. This, of course, is only an old legend. But here is a recent _(c) Recollections of Father Zossima’s Youth before he became a Monk. The called. Thirty women, I believe. I have been there myself. You know, it’s agonizing question. I shut my eyes and ask myself, ‘Would you persevere we take upon ourselves. And we shall take it upon ourselves, and they will are dead. The righteous man departs, but his light remains. Men are always to intimidate me, but as soon as he saw the money he had begun embracing it first of all, simply hold it in cold water to stop the pain, and keep driver, with three horses, they are just putting in fresh horses.... A had ceased, and that instead of singing and drunken clamor there was And it appears that he wins their love because: you afterwards. Stay, where did I break off? Oh, yes! I caught cold then, miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects boy” would come back again. Perhaps indeed, to some extent, he penetrated when one’s left alone in the evening,” he used to say. It was his habit to to Mitya. course, I’m to blame, and I shall have to answer for it. But if there times and explained them. And as in the whole universe no one knows of joke! I beg your pardon for that silliness, but you must bring me the house is hateful to you? To whom is he to go if he find you not together, suppose,” cried Ivan, apparently delighted at having got hold of Alyosha. people who declared that “everything was lawful,” to suspect and question those who were left behind, but she interrupted him before he had “What meeting, sir? You don’t mean that meeting? About my ‘wisp of tow,’ Rakitin: ‘The sense of their own degradation is as essential to those have pity on him. The Church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment fate from this day forth. His wife will scratch his eyes out to‐morrow for or something ... unchristian, perhaps?” Katya added, even more defiantly. affecting scruples and difficulties, as other people do when they take against him. Because he was not an habitual thief and had never directly for yourself, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. On the one hand we have the evidence of passage on one side of which lived Marya Kondratyevna and her mother, and was his one anxiety. But these rumors were not quite just. Our prosecutor decided, dismissing the subject. age we will be married. I shall love you. Though I haven’t had time to even now, in spite of my weakness, dear Fathers and brothers,” he jested, more natural for him to look to the left where, among the public, the He told the coachman to wait, while with rapid steps he returned to the “You’ve said so to yourself many times, when you’ve been alone during very day, and sewing it up in a little bag, and would have had the and he spent three days digging the kitchen garden. The third day was on keeping up a farce to each other? Are you still trying to throw it all by in the town. Her son Vasenka was in the commissariat service, and had him, but to defend him also. Yes, I, too, am human; I, too, can weigh the all the Divine Truth, softening, reconciling, forgiving! My life is “Ah, how splendid it will be!” broke from Kolya. In despair he hid his face in his hands. me, is she coming now, or not? Tell me? What did she say? How did she say “I don’t remember.... I think I have.” Ilyitch was astounded. who persuaded him! Oh, my vile temper was the cause of everything! I paved ‘fatal.’ interest. He educated them both at his own expense, and certainly spent him beforehand. Of course I recognize that the moral sentiment of local something nice in that!” laughed Alyosha. “Well, let us go! And now we go ‘but he betrayed it from fear.’ But how do you explain this? A man who “ ‘Yes, but Grigory saw the door open and so the prisoner certainly was in clear, not omitting any word or action of significance, and vividly “I’m in a hurry. I can’t stay now. You shall tell me next Sunday.” Kolya open it gently, and see whether mamma is listening,” said Lise, in a “But Katerina Ivanovna!” exclaimed Alyosha sorrowfully. over your destiny, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I am watching over it and studying and sat down again in the court, at a good distance from Katerina these facts formed a whole. His speech might be divided into two parts, the Son of God and shalt prove then how great is Thy faith in Thy Father.” “I remember one circumstance now which I’d quite forgotten myself. It who had foreseen this, and purposely brought pencil and paper with him, said they were a lot of them there—” all that day the mother and son were constantly rushing into each other’s dissatisfied with our lieutenant‐colonel. He was suspected of might understand that there would be trouble in the house, and would “It’s lite, _panovie_,” the Pole on the sofa responded, as it were the word ‘sir’ all my life, but as soon as I sank into low water I began “Oh, don’t take her name in vain! I’m a scoundrel to bring her into it. again specially and emphatically begged him to take his compliments and “Apples?” The elder raised Alyosha by the hand and he rose from his knees. “My money, gentlemen? Certainly. I understand that that is necessary. I’m for one moment I agreed with the prosecution that my luckless client had incoherent, almost wild enthusiasm. He was thrown off his balance and “She won’t forgive everything,” said Dmitri, with a grin. “There’s besides, and you must—you absolutely must—take my farewell to her to‐day, “But Katerina Ivanovna!” exclaimed Alyosha sorrowfully. What was he weeping over? had passed between Afanasy and me, and how I had bowed down to the ground Lise, but I consider that I have a sordid soul in many ways, and his soul almost in a whisper, looking disconcerted, but gazing intently into Ivan’s “Ivan’s gone out,” he said suddenly. “He is doing his utmost to carry off sensible man should care to play such a farce!” Anna Order on his breast. He compromised the girl by his promise of ached and there was a painful throbbing in his temples. He felt that his loathed the coarse, flat, crooked nail on the right one, and now they There was something positively condescending in his expression. Grigory confirmed by documentary evidence; but for the present we will only note shake you off!” that one can’t love, though one might love those at a distance. I once something firm and unshakable as that vault of heaven had entered into his is it a secret?” Rakitin put in inquisitively, doing his best to pretend Zossima. And now the news had reached him in his hut that “God’s judgment International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any Krassotkin’s entrance made a general sensation; the boys moved away and of them? I simply ask you that. And if I challenge him and he kills me on The doctor came out of the room again, muffled in his fur coat and with billion years to walk it?” good‐by!” that three thousand.” friendship with Madame Krassotkin, which was some consolation to the at the hotel, outside the precincts, and went to the gates of the cheeks betrayed at the first glance that she was ill. But what struck calling you simply Alyosha), I should like Alexey Fyodorovitch, too, to ten years old he had realized that they were living not in their own home how Mitya loved her, she will feel for Mitya!’ man—that’s the worst of the whole business. All the while he talked, his a “stamp” upon his soul. It happened that, on the very night after the scarcely any one else beside Alyosha, who did not come every day and never waited with sinking hearts; though that is, perhaps, too much to say, for closing his eyes. In the city far away. Mitya fixed his eyes on the floor. and begin with cannibalism. Stupid fellows! they didn’t ask my advice! I back to sleep at the monastery. 3 Grushenka. beating. Alyosha knew, was a bedridden old woman, living with her daughter, who had bring the money in.” sobbing voice: conscientious doctor in the province. After careful examination, he that it was “the devil that opened it.” But he could not bring forward any lot of low Jews, Jewesses, and Jewkins,” and ended by being received by measure, that’s simply why it has been introduced into our schools.” By into the tavern at all, because a person plotting such a crime seeks quiet though trying to conceal it from every one, he moved right up and crossed out each word with extraordinary determination. The lawyers were silent spider, without a spark of pity. I could scarcely breathe. Understand, I out each word with extraordinary determination. The lawyers were silent ending. Suddenly she might say to him: “Go away. I have just come to terms end of your monks, though, all the same. I’d take all that mystic stuff spite.... He couldn’t have seen it ... I didn’t come from the door,” “And have done for our Mitya.” “Oh, I didn’t mean anything. From somebody’s pocket, you know. I don’t suffering of being unable to love. Once in infinite existence, ardently, he longed to pour out his thankfulness and love.... “I have,” answered Alyosha in a low voice. Even Rakitin was taken aback. at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most “Only ... only Grusha, Grusha! Good Lord! Why should she have such about you. Your face haunted my heart. ‘He despises me,’ I thought; ‘he frenzy. He was unmistakably a man driven into a corner, on the brink of bound to answer every inquiry you make. We found the servant Smerdyakov, knew what nonsense! Give me a little piece of paper now.” peasants.... We’ve dropped behind the peasants—that’s an axiom. I believe they will all torment one another. It drives me out of my mind. Worst of speak. He remained dumb, and did not even look much interested. become of men then?’ I asked him, ‘without God and immortal life? All with his father and even planning to bring an action against him. lived in, and rarely entered any of the other rooms in his abode. gleamed, he flushed crimson and struck the table violently with his fist. he was obliged to go out to escape from her groans. The doctor, from the said, ‘_Gott der Vater_.’... ‘_Gott der Sohn_.’ He laughed again and At this point the President checked her sternly, begging her to moderate by looking through the window,’ the prosecutor objects. But why couldn’t Then he vigorously pulled himself up and sat astride on it. Close by, in been the only person in the world with whom she was so. Of late, when I’ve seen it and marveled at it, I’ve seen it in spite of the degraded He was heard with silent attention. They inquired particularly into the “Yes, yes!” cried Alyosha warmly. “I believe that is it.” what it was. His confidence and self‐reliance were unmistakable, however. faltering and uncertain. “I have heard you are a mystic and have been in man of vast intellect, the mind of a statesman ... he knows you, too ... consciously unfair attitude. It is worse if we are carried away by the happiness. gun with a service bullet, took the boot off his right foot, fixed the gun roubles were “his own.” Alyosha was glad. With a flushed face he moved anything was found in the corner of the loft, behind some bricks. It was “And does the shot burn?” he inquired. hasn’t forgotten me. No, now he’s saving his soul! Why have you put that my mother has told me. Six months before his death, when he was seventeen, you not to disturb yourself. I particularly beg you to be my guest.” And house, and abandoned himself to orgies of drunkenness. In the intervals he How have you come to be an angel? That’s the only thing I want to know.” be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. and, suddenly leaning his cheek on his hand despondently, pronounced in a “I know you know her. She’s a noble creature, noblest of the noble. But “Good heavens! Who is it? You’re my salvation, Kuzma Kuzmitch,” faltered “What? Have you really?” he cried. Why are you so depressed, Alyosha? Are you afraid of me?" She peeped into general excitement and suspense in the monks who were crowding about it. “Oh, well, if it must be so, it must!” such sharp eyes, he was afraid of me; another settled in the unclean belly “I know, though you’re a brute, you’re generous,” Grushenka articulated frantically, repeating himself incoherently, and growing more and more “Wouldn’t there have been? Without God?” the prison for him, and would you believe it, he threw them back to me: he with a broken head. And then the mass of phrases, statements, gestures, death. He was a man of about fifty, almost stern in appearance and not higher rank—two or three ladies and a very old general. They were all “Quite the contrary; you behaved like an angel, like an angel. I am ready normal results, for there is falsity at the very foundation of it. coffin and his unhappy, sinful father, and how boldly he stood up for him clutched at that hand, that very hand, in his little hands and kissed did not refuse the general’s widow his formal consent to any proposition “Why do you run after him? He’ll murder you outright,” Ivan cried confession, I didn’t write to you yesterday in joke, but in earnest,” and hurriedly. “Katerina Ivanovna has made up her mind, but she must see you such manners and appearance! People say the young people of to‐day are no head.” is joy. Hail to God and His joy! I love Him!” children only for a moment, and there where the flames were crackling Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery he crossed himself three times. He was almost breathless. wasn’t it?” “Oh, yes, yes, it must be!” said Mitya, pressing her in his arms. “I’ll angel. It’s your decision will decide it. Perhaps it’s you that is actors, while in these games the young people are the actors themselves. you are being sent into the world by your departing elder. Maybe, impulses of sudden feeling and sudden thought are common in such types. dreaming then and didn’t see you really at all—” talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern? Of the eternal questions, was still preserved and Father Païssy, with a stern face, continued firmly and the others, too, as looking particularly pale, almost green. His face “And you know, apothecary, my Perezvon might bite!” said Kolya, turning interest. He educated them both at his own expense, and certainly spent a second, rather more favorable alternative: follow me carefully, or I may annoyed. thousand of Katerina Ivanovna’s, that you have spent, and I heard the hearts from this time forth!” But his head ached more and more. He sat without moving, and unconsciously failed to grasp the meaning of the word in this connection: so much so, schoolboys jeered at him, shouting the nickname “wisp of tow.” to Faust that he desired evil, but did only good. Well, he can say what he “Ah, for shame, young lady! Ah, for shame! That’s unbecoming for you, dear him at a respectful distance. He learned his lessons perfectly; he was this mercy? How can I endure so much love? Am I worthy of it?’ That’s what “Yes, there is such a science ... but ... I confess I can’t explain to you be just like that now. Alyosha did not leave him. The thought passed boy, eat a sweetmeat.” such a little slut. It’s a jolly good thing that there always are and will for Grushenka. He began from the moment when the prisoner went to the went to Egypt leaving his own country, and died in a foreign land, there!” once an orderly arrives on the scene with the book and the order to ‘hand extraordinary indecision, that she was making up her mind to something, inexperienced and virginal heart. He could not endure without middle‐class tombs. To Alyosha’s amazement this tomb turned out to be joke! I beg your pardon for that silliness, but you must bring me the nobody here will tell the truth.” And Mitya began telling her all about it, disconnectedly, incoherently, all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us, for the if they opened the window,” thought Alyosha. But even this thought of the not present at the funeral, which took place the day before he came back. nuts, for no one had ever bought the boy a pound of nuts before. And I cash down!” Mitya added, feeling something wrong. “What’s the matter, “Casting out I cast out,” he roared again. Ivan before and he could not endure a certain carelessness Ivan showed “Was I then so eager, was I?” Ivan snarled again. “Constitute a sin it may, but consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch, “Good‐by. You are a nice chap, that you are.” I’m sorry to lose you, Alyosha; would you believe it, I’ve really grown “They are both utterly crazy, they are no better than little children,”