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070 - Book Ten Chapter Seven · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy of The Brother's Karamatza, translated by Constance Garnet.
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  Speaker 1: This liprivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Tony Addison. Chapter seven Ilusha. The doctor came out of
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  Speaker 1: the room again, muffled in his fur coat and with
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  Speaker 1: his cap on his head. His face looked almost angry
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  Speaker 1: and disgusted, as though we were afraid of getting dirty.
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  Speaker 1: He cast a cursory glance round the passage, looking sternly
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  Speaker 1: at Alyosha and Collier. As he did so, Alyosha waved
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  Speaker 1: from the door to the coachman, and the carriage that
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  Speaker 1: had brought the doctor drove up. The captain darted out
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  Speaker 1: after the doctor, and, bowing apologetically, stopped and to get
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  Speaker 1: the last word. The poor Follo looked utterly crushed. There
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  Speaker 1: was a scared look in his eyes. Your excellency, Your excellency,
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  Speaker 1: is it possible, he began, but could not go on,
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  Speaker 1: and clasp his hands in despair. Yet he still gazed
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  Speaker 1: imploringly at the doctor, as though a word from him
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  Speaker 1: might still change the poor boy's fate. I can't help it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not God, the doctor answered, off hand, though with
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  Speaker 1: the customary impressiveness, the doctor, Your excellency, and will it
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  Speaker 1: be soon? Soon? You must be prepared for anything, said
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  Speaker 1: the doctor in emphatic and incisive tones, and dropping his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He was about to step out to the coach, your excellency,
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  Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, the terror stricken captain stopped him again,
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  Speaker 1: Your excellency, but can nothing, absolutely nothing save him. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's not in my hands now, said the doctor impatiently.
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  Speaker 1: But hmm, he stopped suddenly. If you could, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: send your patient at once without delay. The words at
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  Speaker 1: once without delay, the doctor uttered, with an almost wrathful
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  Speaker 1: sternness that made the captain start to Syracuse. The change
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  Speaker 1: to the new beneficial climatic conditions, my possibly effect to Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: cried the captain, unable to grasp what was said. Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: is in Sicily, Collier jerked out suddenly in explanation. The
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  Speaker 1: doctor looked at him. Cecily, your excellency, faltered the captain.
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  Speaker 1: But you've seen, he spread out his hands, indicating his surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: Mamma and my family. No, no, Cecily is not the
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  Speaker 1: place for the family. The family should go to Caucasus
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  Speaker 1: in the early spring. Your daughter must go to the Caucasus,
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  Speaker 1: and your work after a course of the waters in
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  Speaker 1: the Caucasus for her rheumatism must be sent straight to
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  Speaker 1: Paris to the mental specialist La Palettier. I could give
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  Speaker 1: you a note to him, and then that might be
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  Speaker 1: a change. Doctor. Doctor, but you see the captain flung
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  Speaker 1: wide his hands again despairingly, indicating the bare wooden walls
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  Speaker 1: of the passage. Well that's not my business, grinned the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I have only told you the answer of medical science
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  Speaker 1: to your question as to possible treatment. As for the rest,
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  Speaker 1: to my regret, don't be afraid. Apothecurry. My dog won't
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  Speaker 1: bite you, Collier rapped out loudly, noticing the doctor's rather
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  Speaker 1: an easy glance at Parasbond, who was standing in the doorway.
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  Speaker 1: There was a wrathful note in Collier's voice. He used
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  Speaker 1: the word apothecurry instead of doctor on purpose, and, as
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  Speaker 1: he explained afterwards, used it to insult him. What's that?
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  Speaker 1: The doctor plung up his head, staring with surprise at Collier.
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  Speaker 1: Who's this? He addressed Alyosha as though asking him to exclaim,
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  Speaker 1: it's Paret's Bond's master. Don't worry about me. Collier said incisively. Again,
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  Speaker 1: peretz Bon repeated. The doctor perplexed. He hears the bell,
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  Speaker 1: but where it is he cannot tell. Good Bye, we
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  Speaker 1: shall meet in Syracuse. Who's this? Who this? The doctor
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  Speaker 1: blew into a terrible rage. He is a schoolboy, doctor,
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  Speaker 1: he is a mischievous boy. Take no notice of him,
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  Speaker 1: said Alyosha, frowning and speaking quickly. Collier, hold your tongue,
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  Speaker 1: he said to Krassotkin. Take no notice of him. Doctor,
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  Speaker 1: he repeated, rather impatiently. He wants a thrashang, a good thrashang.
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  Speaker 1: The doctor stamped, in a perfect fury. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: apothecarry my perrotswan might bite, said Colia, turning pale, with
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  Speaker 1: quivering voice and blushing eyes. E see Paratz van Carlya.
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  Speaker 1: If you say another word, I'll have nothing more to
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  Speaker 1: do with you, Alyosha cried, peremptorily. There is only one
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  Speaker 1: man in the world who can command Nikolai Krassotkin. This
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  Speaker 1: is the man, Colia pointed to Alyosha. I obey him.
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  Speaker 1: Good bye. He stepped forward, opened the door, and quickly
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  Speaker 1: went into the inner room. Peretz Bom blew after him.
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  Speaker 1: The doctor stood still for five seconds in amazement, looking
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  Speaker 1: at Alyosha. Then with a curse, he went out quickly
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  Speaker 1: to the carriage, repeating, a lad, this is, this is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. The captain darted forward
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  Speaker 1: to help him into the carriage. Alyosha followed Colia into
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  Speaker 1: the room. He was already by Ilusha's bedside. The sick
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  Speaker 1: boy was holding his hand and calling for his father.
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  Speaker 1: A minute later, the captain too came back. Father, Father,
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  Speaker 1: come we. Ilusha faltered in violent excitement, but apparently unable
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  Speaker 1: to go on, he plung his waisted arms round his
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  Speaker 1: father and Collier, uniting them in one embrace and hugging
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  Speaker 1: them as tightly as he could. The captain suddenly began
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  Speaker 1: to shake with dumb sobs, and Collier's lips and chin
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  Speaker 1: touched Father. Father, How sorry I am for you, Ilusha
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  Speaker 1: moaned bitterly. Ilusha, darling, the doctor said you would be
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  Speaker 1: all right. We shall be happy the doctor. The captain began, Ah, Father,
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  Speaker 1: I know what the new doctor said to you about me,
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  Speaker 1: I saw, cried Ilusha, and again he hugged them both
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  Speaker 1: with all his strength, hiding his face on his father's shoulder. Father,
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  Speaker 1: don't cry, and when I die, get a good boy
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  Speaker 1: another one. Choose one of them all a good call
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  Speaker 1: him Ilusha and love him instead of me. Hush, old, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get well, Krasotkin cried suddenly, in a voice that
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  Speaker 1: sounded angry. But don't ever forget me, father, Ilusha went on,
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  Speaker 1: come to my grave, and father bury me by our
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  Speaker 1: big stone where we used to go for our walk,
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  Speaker 1: and come to me there with crostot can in the
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  Speaker 1: evening and Perettespan, I shall expect your father, father. His
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  Speaker 1: voice broke. They were all three silent, still embracing. Nina
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  Speaker 1: was crying quietly in her chair, and at last, seeing
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  Speaker 1: them all crying, Mama too burst into tears. Helusiha Helusha,
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  Speaker 1: she exclaimed. Krasutkin suddenly released himself from Ilusha's embrace. Goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: old man. Mother expects me but to dinner, he said, quickly.
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  Speaker 1: What a pity I did not tell her. She will
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  Speaker 1: be dreadfully anxious. But after dinner, I'll come back to
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  Speaker 1: you for the whole day, for the whole evening, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you all sorts of things, all sorts of things,
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  Speaker 1: and i'll bring thee respond. But now I will take
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  Speaker 1: him with me, because he will begin to harm when
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  Speaker 1: I am away, and bother you goodbye, and he ran
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  Speaker 1: out into the passage. He didn't want to cry, but
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  Speaker 1: in the passage he burst into tears. Alyosha found him, crying, Colia,
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  Speaker 1: you must be sure to keep your word and come,
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  Speaker 1: or he will be terribly disappointed. Alyosha said emphatically, I will, oham.
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  Speaker 1: I curse myself and not having come before, muttered Colia,
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  Speaker 1: crying and no longer ashamed of it. At that moment,
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  Speaker 1: the captain flew out of the room and at once
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  Speaker 1: closed the door behind him. His face looked frenzied. His
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  Speaker 1: lips were trembling. He stood before the two and flung
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  Speaker 1: up his arms. I don't want a goodbye. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want another boy, he muttered in a wild whisper, clenching
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  Speaker 1: his teeth. If I forget thee Jerusalem may not come.
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  Speaker 1: He broke up with a sob and sank on his
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  Speaker 1: knees before the wooden bench. Pressing his fists against his head.
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  Speaker 1: He began sobbing with absurd whimpering cries, doing his utmost
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  Speaker 1: that his cry should not be heard in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Collier ran out into the street. Good Bye, Karamatzop. Will
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  Speaker 1: you come yourself, he cried sharply and angrily to all yoship.
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  Speaker 1: I will certainly come in the evening. What was that
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  Speaker 1: he said about Jerusalem? What did he mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: It's from the Bible. If I forget thee Jerusalem, that is,
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  Speaker 1: if I forget all that is most precious to me,
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  Speaker 1: if I let anything take its place, then make I
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  Speaker 1: understand that enough mind you come is see Paratzwan, He
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  Speaker 1: cried with positive porosity to the dog, and with rapid
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  Speaker 1: strides he went home. And of chapter seventeen,