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066 - Book Ten Chapter Three · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty six of The Brother's KARAMATZLV by Fayodor Dostayevski,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnett. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter three, the schoolboy.
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  Speaker 1: But Collier did not hear her. At last he could
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  Speaker 1: go out. As he went out at the gate, he
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  Speaker 1: looked round him, shrugged up his shoulders and saying it
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  Speaker 1: is freezing, went straight along the street and turned off
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  Speaker 1: to the right towards the market place. When he reached
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  Speaker 1: the last house but one before the market place, he
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  Speaker 1: stopped at the gate, pulled the whistle out of his pocket,
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  Speaker 1: and whistled with all his might, as though giving a signal.
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  Speaker 1: He had not to wait more than a minute before
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  Speaker 1: a rosy cheeked boy of about eleven, wearing a warm,
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  Speaker 1: neat and even stylish coat, darted out to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: This was Smrrov, a boy in the preparatory class, two
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  Speaker 1: classes below Collier, Krazotkev, son of a well to do official. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: he was forbidden by his parents to associate with Krassotkin,
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  Speaker 1: who was well known to be a desperately naughty boy.
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  Speaker 1: So Smrrov was obviously slipping out on the slive. He was,
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  Speaker 1: if the reader has not forgotten, one of the group
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  Speaker 1: of boys who two months before had thrown stones at Ilusha.
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  Speaker 1: He was the one who told Alyosha Karamatzov about Ilusha.
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  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for you for the last hour, Krassotkin said,
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  Speaker 1: smeirrop stolidly, and the boy strode towards the marketplace. I
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  Speaker 1: am late, answered Krassotkin. I was detained by circumstances. You
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  Speaker 1: won't be thrashed for coming with me. Come, I say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm never thrashed. And you've got Perespon with you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking him too, Yes. Ah, if it were only Zuchka,
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  Speaker 1: that's impossible. Zuchka's non existent. Zuchka is lost in the
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  Speaker 1: mists of obscurity. Ah, couldn't we do this? Smear up
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  Speaker 1: suddenly stood still. You see, Ilusha says that Zuchka was
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  Speaker 1: a shaggy, grayish, smoky looking dog like peretzwom. Couldn't you
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  Speaker 1: tell him this is Zuchka and he might believe you.
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  Speaker 1: Boy shun a lie. That's one thing, even with a
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  Speaker 1: good object that's another. Above all, I hope you've not
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  Speaker 1: told them anything about my coming. Heaven forbid, I know
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  Speaker 1: what I am Abad, But you won't comfort him with
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  Speaker 1: Peretzban said, smear up with a sigh. You know, his father,
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  Speaker 1: the captain the wisp of Tow, told us that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to bring him a real mastive pup with
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  Speaker 1: a black nose to day. He thinks that would come
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  Speaker 1: butt Ilusha. But I doubt it. And how is Ilusha? Ah?
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  Speaker 1: He is bad, very bad. I believe he's in consumption.
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  Speaker 1: He is quite conscious, but he's breathing. His breathing's gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The other day he asked to have his boots on
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  Speaker 1: to be led round the room. He tried to walk,
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  Speaker 1: but he couldn't stand. Ah, I told you before father
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  Speaker 1: he said that those boots were no good. I could
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  Speaker 1: never walk properly them. He fancied it was his boots
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  Speaker 1: that made him stagger, but it was simply weakness. Really,
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  Speaker 1: he won't live another week. Herds and Stuba is looking
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  Speaker 1: after him. Now. They are rich again. They've got heaps
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  Speaker 1: of money. They are rogues, who are rogues, doctors and
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  Speaker 1: the whole crew of quacks collectively and also of course individually.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe in medicine. It's a useless institution. I
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  Speaker 1: mean to go into all that, but what's that sentimentality
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  Speaker 1: you've got up there? The whole class seems to be
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  Speaker 1: there every day. Not the whole class. It's only ten
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  Speaker 1: of our fellows who go to see him every day.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing in that. What I don't understand in all
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  Speaker 1: this is the part that Alexei karamutz Up is taking
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  Speaker 1: in it. His brother's going to be tried tomorrow or
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  Speaker 1: next day. But such a crime, and yet he has
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  Speaker 1: so much time to spend on sentimentality with boys. There's
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  Speaker 1: no sentimentality about it. You're going yourself now to make
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  Speaker 1: it up with Ilusha. Make it up with them? What
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  Speaker 1: an absurd expression. But I allow no one to analyze
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  Speaker 1: my actions. And how pleased Ilusha will be to see you.
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  Speaker 1: He has no idea that you are coming. Why was it?
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  Speaker 1: Why was it you wouldn't come all this time? Smeerov
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  Speaker 1: cried with sudden warmth. My dear boy, that's my business,
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  Speaker 1: not yours. I am going of myself because I choose to.
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  Speaker 1: But you've all been hauled there by Alexei Karamatzov. There's
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  Speaker 1: a difference, you know, And how do you know, I
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  Speaker 1: may not be going to make it up at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's a stupid expression. It's not Karamatzov at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: not his doing. Our fellows began going there of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they went with Karamatzov at first, and there's
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  Speaker 1: been nothing of that sort, no silliness. First one went
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  Speaker 1: and then another. His father was awfully pleased to see us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he will simply go out of his mind
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  Speaker 1: if Ilusha dies. He sees that Ilusha's dying, and he
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  Speaker 1: seems so glad we've made it up with Ilusha. Ilusha
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  Speaker 1: asked up to you. That was all. He just asks
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  Speaker 1: and says no more. His father will go out of
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  Speaker 1: his mind or hang himself. He behaved like a madman before.
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  Speaker 1: You know. He is a very decent man. We made
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. Then it's on the fault of that murderer
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  Speaker 1: who beat him. Then Karamatzov's a riddle to me all
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  Speaker 1: the same. I might have made his acquaintance long ago,
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  Speaker 1: but I like to have a proper pride in some cases. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: I have a theory about him which I must work
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  Speaker 1: out and verify. Colia subsided into dignified silence. Smearrov too,
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  Speaker 1: was silent. Smeirov, of course, worshiped Krazotkin and never dreamed
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  Speaker 1: of putting himself on a level with him. Now he
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  Speaker 1: was tremendously interested at Colius, saying that he was going
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  Speaker 1: of himself to see Ilusha. He felt that there must
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  Speaker 1: be some mystery in Colius, suddenly taking it into his
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  Speaker 1: head to go to him. That day, they crossed the
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  Speaker 1: market place, in which at that hour were many loaded
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  Speaker 1: wagons from the country, and a great number of live fowls.
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  Speaker 1: The market women were selling rolls, cottons, and threads, et
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  Speaker 1: cetera in their booths. These Sunday markets were naibly called
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  Speaker 1: fairs in the town, and there were many such fairs
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  Speaker 1: in the year. Paretzpah ran about in the wildest spirits,
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  Speaker 1: snipping about, first one side, then the other. When he
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  Speaker 1: met other dogs, they zealously smelt each other over according
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  Speaker 1: to the rules of canine etiquette. I like to watch
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  Speaker 1: such realistic scenes. Smear up, said Colia. Suddenly, have you
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  Speaker 1: noticed how dogs sniffet one another when they meet? It
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a law of their nature. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: a funny habit. No it's not funny. You are wrong.
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  Speaker 1: There there's nothing funny in nature, however funny it may
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  Speaker 1: seem to man with his prejudices. If dogs could reason
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  Speaker 1: and criticize us, they be sure to find just as
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  Speaker 1: much that would be funny to them, if not far more,
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  Speaker 1: in the social relations of men their masters, far more. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I repeat that, because I am convinced that there is
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  Speaker 1: far more foolishness among us. That's a Rakitin's idea, a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable idea. I am a socialist, smear up. And what
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  Speaker 1: is a socialist, asked Smerrap. That's when all are equal,
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  Speaker 1: and all have property in common, there are no marriages,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone has any religion and laws he likes, past,
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  Speaker 1: and all the rest of it. You are not old
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  Speaker 1: enough to understand that yet. It's cold, though, yes, twelve
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  Speaker 1: degrees of frost. Father, looked at the thermometer just now.
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  Speaker 1: Have you noticed, smear Up, that in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: winter we don't feel so cold even when there are
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  Speaker 1: fifteen or eighteen degrees of frost as we do now
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of winter. When there is a sudden
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  Speaker 1: frost of twelve degrees, especially when there is not much snow,
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  Speaker 1: it's because people are not used to it. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: habit with men, everything, even in their social and political relations.
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  Speaker 1: Habit is the great motive power. What a funny looking peasant.
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  Speaker 1: Colia pointed to a tall peasant with a good natured
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  Speaker 1: countenance in a long sheepskin coat, who was standing by
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  Speaker 1: his wagon, clapping together his hands in the shapeless leather
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  Speaker 1: gloves to warm them. His long, fair beard was all
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  Speaker 1: white with frost. Fat peasant's beard's frozen, Collier cried in
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  Speaker 1: a loud, provocative voice as he passed him. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: people's beards are frozen. The peasant replied, calmly and sententiously.
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  Speaker 1: Don't provoke him, observed Smearra. It's all right, he won't
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  Speaker 1: be crossed. He's a nice bullow. Goodbye, mac Bay, goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: Is your name Matvey? Yes? Didn't you know? No? I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was a guess. You don't say so you're a schoolboy.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose. Yes, you get whipped. I expect nothing to
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  Speaker 1: speak of. Sometimes does it hurt? Well, yes it does? Eh,
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  Speaker 1: what a life. The peasant heaved a sigh from the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of his heart. Goodbye, Macvebe, goodbye. You're a nice
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  Speaker 1: chap that you are. The boys went on that was
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  Speaker 1: a nice peasant. Collier observed to Smera, I like talking
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  Speaker 1: to the peasants and am always glad to do them justice.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you tell a lie pretending we are thrashed,
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  Speaker 1: asked Smera. I had to say that to please him.
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  Speaker 1: How do you mean you know, Smerra, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: being asked the same thing twice. I like people to
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  Speaker 1: understand at the first word. Some things can't be explained.
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  Speaker 1: According to a peasant's notions, schoolboys are whipped and must
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  Speaker 1: be whipped. What would a schoolboy be if he were
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  Speaker 1: not whipped? And if I were to tell him we
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  Speaker 1: are not, he'd be dis appointed. But you don't understand that.
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  Speaker 1: One has to know how to talk to the peasants.
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  Speaker 1: Only don't tease them, please, or you'll get into another
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  Speaker 1: scrape as you did about that goose. So you're afraid,
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  Speaker 1: don't laugh, Colia. Of course, I'm afraid. My father would
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  Speaker 1: be awfully cross. I am strictly forbidden to go out
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  Speaker 1: with you. Don't be uneasy. Nothing will happen this time.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Natasha, he shouted to a market woman in one
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  Speaker 1: of the booths. Call me Natasha, what next? My name
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  Speaker 1: is Mariah, the middle aged market woman, shouted at him.
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  Speaker 1: I am so glad it's Mariah. Goodbye, ah, you young rascal,
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  Speaker 1: a brat like you to carry on so I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry. I can't stay now. You shall tell me
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  Speaker 1: next Sunday. Colier waved his hand at her, as though
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  Speaker 1: she had attacked him, and not he her. I've nothing
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  Speaker 1: to tell tell you next Sunday. You've sat upon me,
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  Speaker 1: your impudent young monkey. I didn't say anything, poor Mariah,
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  Speaker 1: you want a whipping. That's what you want, your saucy jackanapes.
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  Speaker 1: There was a roar of laughter among the other market
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  Speaker 1: women round him. Suddenly, a man in a violent rage
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  Speaker 1: darted out from the arcade of shops close by. He
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  Speaker 1: was a young man, not a native of the town,
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  Speaker 1: with dark curly hair and a long, pale face marked
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  Speaker 1: with smallpox. He wore a long blue coat and a
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  Speaker 1: peaked cap and looked like a merchant's clerk. He was
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  Speaker 1: in a state of stupid excitement and brandished his fist
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  Speaker 1: at Collier. I know you, he cried angrily. I know you.
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  Speaker 1: Collier stared at him. He could not recall when he
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  Speaker 1: could have had a row with the man but he
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  Speaker 1: had been in so many rows in the street that
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  Speaker 1: he could hardly remember them all. Do you, he asked sarcastically.
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  Speaker 1: I know you, I know you, the man repeated idiotically,
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  Speaker 1: So much the better for you. Well, it's time I
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  Speaker 1: was going good bye. You are at your saucy pranks again,
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  Speaker 1: cried the man. You are at your saucy pranks again.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are at it again. It's not your business, brother,
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  Speaker 1: if I am at my saucy pranks again, said Collier,
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  Speaker 1: standing still and scanning him. Not my business. No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not your business. Who's then? Who's then? Who's then? It's
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  Speaker 1: tripe on Nikititch's business and not yours. What tripe on Nikititch?
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  Speaker 1: Asked the youth, staring with loutish amazement at Colier, but
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  Speaker 1: still as angry as ever. Colier scanned him gravely. Have
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  Speaker 1: you been to the Church of the Ascension, he suddenly
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  Speaker 1: asked him, with stern emphasis, What Church of Assansion? What for? No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't, said the young man, somewhat taken aback. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know Sabanief? Colier went on, even more emphatically and
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  Speaker 1: even more severely, What Sabanief? No? I don't know him? Well,
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  Speaker 1: then you can go to the devil, said Colier, cutting
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  Speaker 1: short the conversation and turning sharply to the right. He
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  Speaker 1: strode quickly on his way, as though he disdained further
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  Speaker 1: conversation with a dog who did not even know Sabanief. Stop, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what Sabanief? The young man recovered from his momentary stupefaction
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  Speaker 1: and was as excited as before. What did he say?
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  Speaker 1: He turned to the market women with a silly stare.
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  Speaker 1: The woman laughed. You can never tell what he's after,
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  Speaker 1: said one of them. What Sabaniev is it he's talking about?
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  Speaker 1: The young man repeated, still furious and brandishing's right arm.
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  Speaker 1: It must be a Sabanief who worked for the Kutsmichoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's who it must be, one of the women suggested.
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  Speaker 1: The young man stared at her, wild lidden for the
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  Speaker 1: kuts Mitchops, repeated another woman. But his name wasn't trip On.
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  Speaker 1: His names Kutzma, not Tryphon, But the boy said Trypon nikititch,
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  Speaker 1: So it can't be the same. His name is not
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  Speaker 1: Trifon and not saban yet it's Cheetsop put in. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: a third woman, who had hitherto been silent listening gravely.
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  Speaker 1: Alexei Ivanitch is his name, chisof Alexi even it not
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  Speaker 1: a doubt about it. It's cheatso a fourth woman emphatically
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the statement. The bewildered youth gazed from one to another.
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  Speaker 1: But what did he asked for? What did he ask for?
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  Speaker 1: Good people? He cried, almost in desperation. Do you know Sabaniev?
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  Speaker 1: Says he? And who? There's devils to know? Who is Sabane?
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  Speaker 1: You're a senseless fellow. I tell you it's not Sabaniev
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  Speaker 1: but Chisov, Alexei Ivanich, Cheatso that's who it is. One
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  Speaker 1: of the women shouted at him, impressibly, What cheatsof who
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  Speaker 1: is he? Tell me? If you know that tall, sniveling
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  Speaker 1: fellow who used to sit in the market in the summer,
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  Speaker 1: And what's your cheats up to do with me? Good people?
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  Speaker 1: How can I tell what he's to do with you?
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  Speaker 1: Put in another you ought to know yourself what you
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  Speaker 1: want with him? If you make such a clamor about him.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke to you, He did not speak to us.
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  Speaker 1: You're stupid. Don't you really know him? Know whom cheats up?
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  Speaker 1: The devil take cheats up? And you with him? I'll
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  Speaker 1: give him a hiding, that I will, he was laughing
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  Speaker 1: at me. We'll give cheats up a hiding. More likely
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  Speaker 1: he will give you when you are a fool, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you are, not cheats up. Not cheats up, you spiteful,
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  Speaker 1: mischievous woman. I'll give the boy a hiding. Catch him,
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  Speaker 1: catch him, he was laughing at me, the woman Gifford.
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  Speaker 1: But Collier was by now a long way off, marching
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  Speaker 1: along with a triumphant air smear off walk beside him,
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  Speaker 1: looking round at the shouting group far behind. He too
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  Speaker 1: was in high spirits, though he was still afraid of
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  Speaker 1: getting into some scrape in Collier's company. What's upon ev
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  Speaker 1: did you mean? He asked Collier, foreseeing what his answer
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  Speaker 1: would be. How do I know now? There'll be a
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  Speaker 1: hubbub among them all day? I like to stirrup fools
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  Speaker 1: in every class of society. There's another blockhead, that peasant there.
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  Speaker 1: You know. They say there's no one stupid than a
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  Speaker 1: stupid Frenchman. But a stupid Russian shows it in his
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  Speaker 1: face just as much. Can't you see it all over
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  Speaker 1: his face? That he is a fool, that peasant day?
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  Speaker 1: Let him alone? Collier let's go on. Nothing could stop
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  Speaker 1: me now I am once off. Hey, good morning, peasant.
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  Speaker 1: A sturdy looking peasant with a round, simple face and
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  Speaker 1: grizzled beard, who was walking by, raised his head and
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  Speaker 1: looked at the boy. He seemed not quite sober. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not laughing at me, he said deliberately
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  Speaker 1: in reply. And if I ah laughed Colier, well, a
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  Speaker 1: joke's a joke. Laugh away. I don't mind. There's no
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  Speaker 1: harm in a joke. I beg your pardon, brother, it
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  Speaker 1: a joke. Well, God forgive you. Do you forgive me too?
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  Speaker 1: I quite forgive you. Go along. I say, you seem
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  Speaker 1: a clever peasant, cleverer than you. The peasant answered, unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 1: with the same gravity. I doubt it, said Collier, somewhat
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  Speaker 1: taken aback. It's true, though perhaps it is. It is, brother, goodbye, peasant, goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: There are all sorts of peasants. Colier observed to smear
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  Speaker 1: up after a beep silence. How could I tell I
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  Speaker 1: had hit on a clever one. I'm always ready to
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  Speaker 1: recognize intelligence in the peasantry. In the distance, the cathedral
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  Speaker 1: clock struck out past eleven. The boys made haste and
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  Speaker 1: they walked as far as Captain Snegiryov's lodging, a considerable distance,
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  Speaker 1: quickly and almost in silence. Twenty paces from the house,
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  Speaker 1: Colia stopped and told Smerrav to go on ahead and
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  Speaker 1: ask karamutz Up to come out to him. One must
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  Speaker 1: snip round a bit first, he observed to smear Up.
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  Speaker 1: Why ask him to come out? Smeruf protested, you go in.
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  Speaker 1: They will be awfully glad to see you. What's the
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  Speaker 1: sense of making friends in the frost out here? I
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  Speaker 1: know why I want to see him out here in
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  Speaker 1: the frost. Colier cut him short in the despotic tone.
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  Speaker 1: He was fond of adopting with small boys, and Smearuff
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  Speaker 1: ran to do his bidding. End of Chapter sixty six