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Chapter V. A Laceration In The Drawing‐Room But in the drawing‐room the conversation was already over. Katerina Ivanovna was greatly excited, though she looked resolute. At the moment Alyosha and Mada...

Chapter IV. At The Hohlakovs’ Alyosha soon reached Madame Hohlakov’s house, a handsome stone house of two stories, one of the finest in our town. Though Madame Hohlakov spent most of her time in anoth...

Chapter III. A Meeting With The Schoolboys “Thank goodness he did not ask me about Grushenka,” thought Alyosha, as he left his father’s house and turned towards Madame Hohlakov’s, “or I might have to ...

Chapter II. At His Father’s First of all, Alyosha went to his father. On the way he remembered that his father had insisted the day before that he should come without his brother Ivan seeing him. “Why...

PART II Book IV. Lacerations Chapter I. Father Ferapont Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak. Father Zossima woke up feeling very weak, though he wanted to get out of bed and sit up in a chair. H...

Chapter XI. Another Reputation Ruined It was not much more than three‐quarters of a mile from the town to the monastery. Alyosha walked quickly along the road, at that hour deserted. It was almost nig...

Chapter X. Both Together Alyosha left his father’s house feeling even more exhausted and dejected in spirit than when he had entered it. His mind too seemed shattered and unhinged, while he felt that ...

Chapter IX. The Sensualists Grigory and Smerdyakov ran into the room after Dmitri. They had been struggling with him in the passage, refusing to admit him, acting on instructions given them by Fyodor ...

Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy The controversy was over. But, strange to say, Fyodor Pavlovitch, who had been so gay, suddenly began frowning. He frowned and gulped brandy, and it was already a glass t...

Chapter VII. The Controversy But Balaam’s ass had suddenly spoken. The subject was a strange one. Grigory had gone in the morning to make purchases, and had heard from the shopkeeper Lukyanov the stor...

Chapter VI. Smerdyakov He did in fact find his father still at table. Though there was a dining‐ room in the house, the table was laid as usual in the drawing‐room, which was the largest room, and fur...

Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—“Heels Up” “Now,” said Alyosha, “I understand the first half.” “You understand the first half. That half is a drama, and it was played out there. The se...

Chapter IV. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Anecdote “I was leading a wild life then. Father said just now that I spent several thousand roubles in seducing young girls. That’s a swinish inven...

Chapter III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse Alyosha remained for some time irresolute after hearing the command his father shouted to him from the carriage. But in spite of his uneasine...

Chapter II. Lizaveta There was one circumstance which struck Grigory particularly, and confirmed a very unpleasant and revolting suspicion. This Lizaveta was a dwarfish creature, “not five foot within...

Book III. The Sensualists Chapter I. In The Servants’ Quarters The Karamazovs’ house was far from being in the center of the town, but it was not quite outside it. It was a pleasant‐looking old house ...

Chapter VIII. The Scandalous Scene Miüsov, as a man of breeding and delicacy, could not but feel some inward qualms, when he reached the Father Superior’s with Ivan: he felt ashamed of having lost his...

Chapter VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom and seated him on his bed. It was a little room furnished with the bare necessities. There was a narrow iron beds...

Chapter VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive? Dmitri Fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty, of medium height and agreeable countenance, looked older than his years. He was muscular, and showed signs of...

Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It! The elder’s absence from his cell had lasted for about twenty‐five minutes. It was more than half‐past twelve, but Dmitri, on whose account they had all met there, had s...