all the sooner that I didn’t murder him. Oh, in such cases the criminal is
suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another.
“the captain.” Mitya, running up to the gate, knocked. The lad instantly
listened and looked at him blankly, but his face gradually relaxed into a
the first time on this very visit, though he had before leaving Moscow
drunk on it, and all the women and girls. I sent the thousands flying. In
easily comply with the terms of this agreement by keeping this work in the
“You’ve had another glass. That’s enough.”
“Yes. She did run away. I’ve had that unpleasant experience,” Maximov
uncultivated. But that morning in the cart a brilliant idea had struck
The story is told, for instance, that in the early days of Christianity
talk. I gave up society and visited my neighbors much less frequently.
“In the yard. He’s got a headache. He’s on the watch.”
them, but judged it unfitting to go over to the new faith. His habit of
horses, and galloped to Volovya. “Why is it worth while speaking to a
“Sensible advice from a sensible young man. Am I to understand that you
from the first moment by the appearance of this man. For though other
people don’t know that side of me. I wrote a letter to the author,
it.
“No, I’m not going to play any more,” observed Kalganov, “I’ve lost fifty
“Witness, your words are incomprehensible and impossible here. Calm
somewhere, a long way off, in the north or in the south. I shall be
If I go into the world, I must marry. I know that. _He_ told me to marry,
earthly force. Does the spirit of God move above that force? Even that I
a shindy. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to retire. I won’t tell you
refund in writing without further opportunities to fix the problem.
That is true. But what happened? Instead of taking men’s freedom from
struck him for the first time, “and I am not angry with you. But if Ivan
come on him at the moment he was descending the steps, so that he must
witnesses for the prosecution, and as far as possible perplexed them and,
with her hands behind her head. She was dressed as though expecting some
fiction. But his wounded heart grasped instantly that the woman had been
Word and for all that is good.
“Then he’s expecting Grushenka to‐day?”
determined to make him his cook, and sent him to Moscow to be trained. He
“For mercy’s sake! I’m Karamazov, Dmitri Karamazov. I have an offer to
based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg are
And taking the topmost note from the bundle he held it out to Pyotr
“Grushenka had come.”
And lay aside thy doubts.
Chapter III. An Onion
thousand roubles in seducing young girls. That’s a swinish invention, and
“But maybe they’re not in bed!” Andrey went on after a pause. “Timofey
they will show it to the tottering creeds of the world. That is a great
man in a duel if he called me names because I am descended from a filthy
on the contrary, that I have genuine respect for the qualities of his
you now.”
I am approaching the sudden catastrophe which was perhaps the final cause
episode occurred. The President, turning to the prisoner, asked him
Outraged morality, and still more outraged taste, is often relentless. We
smile, and blessed her tenderly. As she kissed his hand she suddenly
alone against the whole school.”
think—Tfoo! how horrible if he should think—!”
telling it! Thousands of things are unconsciously remembered like that
say.”
from Mitya. Enraged by the tone in which Rakitin had referred to
paragraphs on street incidents into the newspapers under the signature of
night at Mokroe only about old Grigory and praying to God that the old man
“And why were you so surly with Alyosha just now? He is a dear; I’ve
case.” He told the story without going into motives or details. And this
for my angel Grushenka, if she is willing to come.” And below had been
“From Vyshegorye, dear Father.”
“He’s a fool, though he’s a good fellow,” he muttered as he went. “I’ve
Lise, the young daughter of Madame Hohlakov, who had laughed at him before
retreating figure. “He was sitting here, laughing and cheerful, and all at
his head, and no doubt still keeping up his tearful wail. He made up his
I can’t bear liqueurs. And best of all, you’ve come yourself. We were
“Where was it, exactly?”
“Much you know about balls.”
have given me a punch in the face on the spot, but you were not a bit
suffer for it. I am terribly afraid of him, and if I were not even more
witness saw the prisoner running out of the garden with a weapon in his
repeated once more in his delight.
false to the fact, and I have determined to stick to the fact.”
Chapter VII. The Controversy
‘Well,’ I said, ‘that’s a matter of taste; but you are a little spitfire.’
of serving the cause of brotherly love and the union of humanity have
unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether
a sign from me will hasten to heap up the hot cinders about the pile on
instinctively that a character like Katerina Ivanovna’s must dominate, and
Then I cried and kissed him.
suspense, Kuzma Kuzmitch pronounced at last in the most positive and
“What led you to be so liberal to Mr. Rakitin?” Fetyukovitch asked, in
out awkwardly.
I’d go about with him. On Sundays, too. They always laugh when an older
efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self‐destruction, for
significant and touching. My heart is full of tenderness, and I look at my
bent an intent look upon the elder. He had a high opinion of his own
ideas.”
your elder, he takes a stick to a just man and falls at the feet of a
the apple and know good and evil, and they have become ‘like gods.’ They
“That’s interesting. But in what sense?” Father Zossima asked Ivan.
he had read, or what he remembered of his childhood. Sometimes they had
I was unfair to her; she is a Christian soul, gentlemen, yes, I tell you,
coldness. The boy disliked this, and the more demonstrations of feeling
“Because I believed all you said.”
“No, fourteen—that is, I shall be fourteen very soon, in a fortnight. I’ll
to her feelings than the tension of course was over and she was
can stand it. Go to her, Alyosha, ask her not to speak of that in the
alley, and she will marry Ivan.”
communication with heavenly spirits and would only converse with them, and
had got up from the floor, but still seemed stunned. Ivan and Alyosha ran
your conscience at rest about escaping. If Ivan is not well by then she
of the bones when the bodies have lain many years in the earth and have
Alyosha, I am not worthy to repeat those lines in my vulgar words and in
madness and insanity, but also an impulse of nature, irresistibly and
talk, for what brought us here. Why do you look so surprised? Answer: why
patrician of the decadent period.” He seemed proud of it.
Moscow, if anything should happen here.”
the throat of her lover’s lawful wife.”
transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual property
Doctor Herzenstube and Varvinsky, the doctor he met in the hospital,
hysterics she even lost her reason. Yet she bore Fyodor Pavlovitch two
those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it
and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and
stupid to me at the time ... I remember its seeming stupid ... it flashed
at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will
friend; he won’t know me, and looks on me merely as a woman. I’ve been
himself a growing feeling that was almost of hatred for the creature.
“To tell no one, and especially not you; on no account to tell you. He is
Ferapont himself made his appearance, as though on purpose to increase the
moved like this, could I have looked at you and at the world like this, if
clever man comes to visit him, it would be better still, for then there
feeble little nag has foundered under too heavy a load and cannot move.
little room with one window, next beyond the large room in which they had
from the examination that has been made, from the position of the body and
show you in detail the whole plan which Ivan Fyodorovitch left me on the
couple of cocks. Pan Vrublevsky was specially furious.
All were delayed, however, by the inquiry, the search, and the
the same day, from your own confession—”
true that that’s the whole secret, but isn’t that suffering, at least for
been serious. Alyosha listened with distress, and was beginning to
Christ has sent you those tears.”
something of the fundamental, elemental, so to speak, faith of his soul
Chapter I. The Engagement
this or any Project Gutenberg™ work, (b) alteration, modification, or
condemnation. Sometimes she spoke as though she were taking a desperate
at the table, finishing the fried eggs. He was spare, small and weakly
could not go on for emotion. “Oh, I understand the people’s love for you.
longed to spare her. It made the commission on which he had come even more
a huge bed with a puffy feather mattress and a pyramid of cotton pillows.
apiary. He was seldom even seen at church and they overlooked this neglect
Ivan was also at table, sipping coffee. The servants, Grigory and
“What? He offered you money for me?” cried Grushenka, hysterically. “Is it
utter a word for fear of being overheard. Alyosha ran up to the hurdle.
salvation and the reformation of the lost. If this is true, if Russia and
towards some goal, perhaps very hard to attain, and that that was why he
the lady of the house herself ran in, and declared at once that she was
Agrafena Alexandrovna, in your presence.”
Alyosha went to Katerina Ivanovna’s to talk over a matter of great
Alyosha jumped up and ran after Ivan, who was not fifty paces ahead of
shop. There’s no time to lose. Last time I drove with Timofey, but Timofey
plunge; as though she felt, “I don’t care what happens, I’ll say it....”
“Why, it’s you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch! What do you mean?” answered Kalganov
“Come, you might oblige your father. I shan’t forget it. You’ve no heart,
hurt him. Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would
were expecting something, and again there was a vindictive light in his
He certainly was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before. He had
firmly believed that Kolya was so good at universal history that he could
fallen greatly under the influence of his protégée, whom he had at first
dear young lady.’ She knows it! Your brother’s a scoundrel, Alexey
nestling kitten, with her right arm about his neck. “I’ll cheer you up, my
emphatically repeated that he considered the prisoner’s mental condition
Alyosha stood, with hanging head, on the verge of tears. What seemed to
into it, on his return from Smerdyakov. This was a person or, more
noiseless, movements, softened to a peculiar over‐sweetness, like her
thought she was hopping; she kept hopping.... I thought it was for fun.”
into the house—well, what then? How does it follow that because he was
Mitya dropped his eyes and was a long time silent.
taught. Besides, what I said just now about the classics being translated
“And how glad she will be, how delighted!” he muttered, but lapsed into
“Well, now we will finish talking and go to his funeral dinner. Don’t be
feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from him—Thou who hast loved
“Yes, he tries to alarm us, he kept trying to alarm us. Do you remember
I will have anything to do with you in the future or whether I give you up
it. But don’t believe him, that was only his cunning; he didn’t really
It was true that Ivan had come of late to feel an intense dislike for the
“Well, damn him, then! I don’t know either,” swore Mitya. “A scoundrel of
suddenly echoed in his head.
at last they learnt that this holy man had broken his vow of obedience and
“Good heavens!” cried Mitya. “If only you knew how important it is to me
course, worshiped Krassotkin and never dreamed of putting himself on a
“No, I haven’t read it yet, but I want to read it. I have no prejudices,
Nevertheless, he went to see Mitya ten days before the trial and proposed
better than I, every one of them? I hate that America already! And though
everybody. The Tsar will reward me, I will come back here and then no one
solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his
nothing but the Church. When the pagan Roman Empire desired to become
by sacrificing thirty thousand, but for another reason. “Is it because I
Treacherous and full of vice;
contemptuously at Grigory’s evidence about the open door, and declared
it so much, most honored Karl von Moor.”
“of an unstable and unbalanced mind,” as our justice of the peace,
be over ...”
Smerdyakov? And no one else?” Nikolay Parfenovitch inquired once more.
the left was a large Russian stove. From the stove to the window on the
some surprise for a moment.
“I will tell you all our secret,” Mitya whispered hurriedly. “I meant to
it she informed Alyosha of a strange and very opportune incident. It
could not but turn towards that ideal, even to the forgetting at the
speech. But as soon as he had finished, he almost fainted.
your chickens too easily, madam. Two hundred, if you like, with all my
“Only ... only Grusha, Grusha! Good Lord! Why should she have such
about a thousand souls, to reckon in the old style. His splendid estate
room?”
murdered victim, by the young life he had destroyed, by the blood that
streamed in at the little window. I was stirred by the sight, and for the
restaurant.
at that conclusion became more and more apparent every moment. Soon they
“I understand, I quite understand,” cried Fetyukovitch, as though he, too,
she ran in to him, that he had perhaps been utterly mistaken. This time
happiness. Stay ... listen, Alyosha, I always used to surprise your
“Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the last time, your compact, do you hear? Behave
of the head, replied:
hid himself, stood still, and began to listen. But there was dead silence
Païssy, a very learned man, so they said, in delicate health, though not
created him in his own image and likeness.”
the stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is,
your son, or he will be sure to send a letter. Go, and henceforward be in
Came no fruits to deck the feasts,
word “scoundrel” and begged that it should be put down in the protocol.
thousand entrusted to my honor, I spend it on a spree, say I spend it all,
world is arranged as it is. Men are themselves to blame, I suppose; they
not. So at least it seemed to Ivan. At last he moved to get up. Smerdyakov
now.”
the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is
her, for they knew that if she saw thousands of roubles overlooked by
‘Will you preach this in your reviews?’ I asked him. ‘Oh, well, if I did
tell you everything. We’ve something tremendous on hand.... And you shall
disorderly life, and there were everlasting scenes between them. It was
have just referred. That’s the misfortune. And indeed some fathers are a
there’s a fence here” (he looked at her as though setting her a riddle),
the novice, and Alyosha remained standing. The cell was not very large and
streets. The doctor from Moscow, at my request, examined him the day
“I know nothing of his whereabouts and don’t want to.”
longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He
departure certainly was sudden. Though Ivan had said the day before (to
ranks of the revolutionists, and would perhaps play a conspicuous part....
whether the absence of curiosity and sympathy in Ivan might be due to some
ready to give his evidence as soon as he recovered. But no one seemed to
understand. Stepan and Semyon heard it, and Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov, too,
to utter a word. Something moved Kolya to raise his hand and pass it over
“The lady’s drunk too much,” Maximov explained to the girls, giggling.
Dmitri leapt up with a sort of fury. He seemed all at once as though he
will be my last gift to you. To you, dear son, because you love me. But
there’s nothing else for you to do.”
you. I see that from your eyes. You led me on to it, prosecutor? Sing a
province, making a tour of inspection in our town, saw Lizaveta, and was
“Faro? Splendid!” cried Mitya. “If only the _panovie_—”
“No.”
the glass and drink to the woman I adore and her new‐found happiness! And
withdrew into his corner again for some days. A week later he had his
that many people mentioned that she looked particularly handsome at that
“Brother, let me ask one thing more: has any man a right to look at other
hearted thoughts at the very time when his eyes were so gloomy. A certain
ready for action. Pyotr Ilyitch was met with the astounding news that old
upon all of them, have all these unhappy and turbulent souls in Thy
Alyosha, in conclusion, looking intently into Ivan’s face. He had not
that’s enough to make any one angry!”
in the orphans. He became especially fond of the younger, Alexey, who
teaching him all sorts of tricks, so that the poor dog howled for him
being glad that he is reading to them and that they are listening with
“I told them everything just as it was.”
fever, nervous fever. The doctor told me so. Go, run after him....”
sat, one at the door and the other at the window. The divinity student,
months before, going first to Orenburg and then to Tashkend, and for the
necessary to announce the fact to Smerdyakov beforehand. And if there is
about nothing, and that doctor has been a long time in there. But perhaps
master wishes you long life and happiness and tells you to forget him.”
envelope in which the three thousand roubles had been put ready for
There was a feverish look in her eyes, her face was pale and yellow.
To anticipate things: he did, perhaps, know where to get the money, knew,
“Stay,” Ivan interrupted; “if he had killed him, he would have taken the
“Of that later; now I must speak of something else. I have said nothing
“Ivan, and is there immortality of some sort, just a little, just a tiny
satisfied—the show had been a varied one. Then I remember the Moscow
his bell. The suppression of such an enthusiasm would be the suppression
elders, to see and hear whom pilgrims had flocked for thousands of miles
That’s why I see and then think, because of those tails, not at all
that had to be so watched over, what a love could be worth that needed
was brought together and set in a strong and significant light, and I took
Alyosha; his was the only opinion he was afraid of there. But Alyosha was
“Why, the man’s drunk, dead drunk, and he’ll go on drinking now for a
“Yes, yes, mamma!” Snegiryov suddenly recollected, “they’ll take away the
condescends to abuse me, you know. Why haven’t I a right to abuse him?”
explain to you in there, but here I will describe that scene to you. My
His voice quivered and he stretched out his hand, but Nikolay
till the evening before implicitly believed that Katerina Ivanovna had a
death. I was impressed by all this at the time, but not too much so,
all those people instantly. That tall, stout old man in the overcoat and
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before, solely to please her kinsman, the merchant Samsonov, who was known
State is eliminated and the Church is raised to the position of the State.
“Last night? But you said that it’s a month since you ... obtained it?...”
prosecutor knew that the witness was preparing a magazine article on the
mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the
“And mushrooms?” asked Father Ferapont, suddenly.
here but in other worlds. That is why the philosophers say that we cannot
dawn. Grigory took the baby, brought it home, and making his wife sit
“He boasted aloud that he would kill his father; we all heard him, here.
the shelf from which it was snatched by the prisoner, but had been put
“If I could meet him, I might speak to him about that too.”
without orders from my master. And as for Grigory Vassilyevitch hearing
“Why do you sigh? You knew of it all along,” Ivan blurted out.
our monasteries the institution was at first resisted almost to
“And what has he told you, gentlemen—Smerdyakov, I mean?” he added
you ever seen von Sohn?”
very common, ordinary Russian girl, who was not even pretty.”
“You’d better take off your greatcoat, or you’ll be too hot.” Ivan, as
not been able to walk for the last six months, and was wheeled about in a
Chapter II. At His Father’s
with Perezvon.”
Several times afterwards he wondered how he could on leaving Ivan so
priest will give you horses back to Volovya station.”
be suspected and that he told the prisoner of the money and the signals to
The little pig says—umph! umph! umph!
That is, not every one, but all the clever people who come to him. He said
her yesterday, I believe?”
only to know about that blood!”
gone on without interruption for so many years, ceased. Grushenka had
“It’s only Mitya Karamazov, you know, so you can overlook it. It would be
“By the way, gentlemen of the jury, we’ve just touched upon that three
the door to see Lise.
betrothed in the locket, her notebook and two letters; one from her
diseased, Ilya used to beat Lizaveta inhumanly whenever she returned to
plaintive “O—oh!” and then was silent. Ivan stepped up to him. He was
as he liked, to Grigory’s room at the other end of the lodge, where he was
long sentences.”
“Oh, she’s only just come. She’s sitting with them.”
roubles were “his own.” Alyosha was glad. With a flushed face he moved
faltering.
abusing me for all he was worth—you see what an interest he takes in your
girl looked with mild serenity at Alyosha. A man of forty‐five was sitting
repeated and confirmed what had been said before, though all with their
pistols. Here’s the letter. Read it! It’s not for you I tell it,” he added
“Not coming? Well, I will knock them up, I will!” he muttered at each
dare to try her further. She understands now, I think, that Katya no
“Yes, yes; it was Grigory. He lay as Dmitri Fyodorovitch struck him down,
Why am I, of all creatures in the world, doomed to be cursed by all decent
“Yes, my dear, I am called, too, called and bidden,” he heard a soft voice
what caused his excitement.
hotly:
“I’ve got it. Here it is. I’ll read it to you. You don’t know—I haven’t
somewhere, on the edge of the horizon. So to the country of the _Last of
one night and the following day, and had come back from the spree without
pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second,
it to me. Wine doesn’t give peace. Everything’s going round, the stove,
“Grushenka, is it you? Is it you?” he said, in a sort of trembling half‐
uttered a cry and waked up.
and explain that it was not our doing. What do you think?”
father that a wild beast had devoured him, and showed him his blood‐
and then take a little bread and water and drink a single cup of wine. On
refuse to agree with me; he’d argue, fly into a rage. I used sometimes to
that last mystic limit beyond which a prank becomes an unpardonable breach
honor. Such gentlemen of accommodating temper and dependent position, who
less.
of curiosity.... That doctor was with us yesterday and saw Lise.... I paid
won’t let her follow me to Siberia? Do they let convicts get married? Ivan
He is alive, he has recovered, and in spite of the terrible blows
“Father, I will stay here with a light, and seize the favorable moment. As
She was breathless. She had perhaps intended to express her idea with more
From the hall they could hear Grushenka leap up from the sofa and cry out
wasn’t it?”
forth.... They all pronounced with lofty repugnance that it was
time—and am prepared to admit that it might be difficult to defend my
listened to hear what his father was doing below? Why had he recalled that
will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of
dispersed, hastening to service. Father Païssy let Father Iosif read in
in our power, and you can see for yourself how we are conducting the case.
who came between us has ruined him; she is the cause of it all, let me
Fyodorovitch, in its most secret details. I’ll prove it.... Would you
“Whatever he says, he won’t get round our peasants.”
too.” Ivan rose suddenly from the bench. He was about to pass straight
It’s as though there was an understanding between them. Perhaps at this
breathless. “But I’ve got a dog, Perezvon ... A Slavonic name.... I’ve
whistle to him when I think fit, and you’ll see, he’ll dash in like mad.
But suddenly, as gently and mildly as a gentle and affectionate child, he
brother, mysteriously come back to me at the end of my pilgrimage, as a
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waiting there now with her sick daughter. Probably he has promised to come
‘fundamental and essential’ propositions of his opponent, who is, you must
I knew nothing. I was filled with sudden irrepressible fury. With flushed
fallen, on the contrary, into dissension and isolation, as my mysterious
already begin to sound. Do not tempt them! Do not heap up their growing
rushed at me, she’s dying to see you, dying!”
Mitya, Mitya, how could I be such a fool as to think I could love any one
twenty‐five thousand, he might say twenty‐eight thousand, in fact,
knows she hates him. It’s all a lie—lie upon lie! As long as I don’t break
“Yes, gentlemen, I was in want of it, and suddenly thousands turned up,
“By all means, Mihail Makarovitch,” answered the investigating lawyer. “In
“She won’t marry him.”
and how I snatched up the pestle—I suddenly run away from the window. A
feelings. You’re not angry with me, Alyosha? My dear little Alexey!”
“Your hands keep twitching,” observed Smerdyakov, and he deliberately
explanation. He was not a priest, but a simple monk. There was a strange
the last time I repeat, it wasn’t I killed him! I was erring, but I loved
retired colonel called von Schmidt, who owned the house at that time. It
enough, do you hear, enough. I mean even if I don’t go away to‐morrow (I
The peasant sat watching him and grinning. Another time Mitya might have
Alyosha stood rooted to the spot, watching the scene in silence.
the People! There was in those days a general of aristocratic connections,
laughing aloud, “and, if you like, we won’t begin from yesterday, but from
night, feverish and moaning! I could hardly wait for the morning and for
diseased, Ilya used to beat Lizaveta inhumanly whenever she returned to
containing a little real gunpowder. He had some shot, too, in a screw of
the eve of the attack of brain fever by which he has been stricken down
carried out after him. Ippolit Kirillovitch went out, too. Mitya was left
cases the first duty, the chief task of the investigating lawyers, is to
means to do so. I fancy he loved no one but himself and had a strangely
had obviously just been drinking, he was not drunk. There was
likely to raise the price of meat, if it suits you, and make a rouble on
regarded the question as idle and frivolous. But the boys remained
tried to tear himself away. It took three or four men to hold him. She was
And now as they sat at the table, the sharp‐witted junior caught and
angry, I assure you; on the contrary, he is surprised that you could
cases the first duty, the chief task of the investigating lawyers, is to
other woman!”
at Mokroe weighed on the old man’s conscience, and when he learned the
scream—the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar to her—the scream of
delighted, and that was mortifying. Ah, Lise, he is a good and truthful
girl begged him to allow the house‐porter to be present, “because of her
“Here’s the note!” she turned quickly to Pyotr Ilyitch. “Go, save him.
whole month, this had been going on, a secret from him, till the very
question stared me in the face. Her first rightful lover had come back,
“If I were able to play such a trick, that is, pretend to have a fit—and
mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly. As
regiment like this, facing your antagonist and begging his forgiveness! If
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