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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chapter thirty nine of The Brother's Karamatza by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
- 0:09Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This LibriVox recording is in the
- 0:16Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter seven. It's always
- 0:27Speaker 1: worth while speaking to a clever man, and in the
- 0:35Speaker 1: same nervous frenzy too, he spoke, meeting Fyodor Pavlovitch in
- 0:43Speaker 1: the drawing room. Directly he went in, he shouted to him,
- 0:48Speaker 1: waving his hands, I am going upstairs to my room,
- 0:55Speaker 1: not into you, goodbye, and passed by, trying not even
- 1:03Speaker 1: to look at his father. Very possibly the old man
- 1:09Speaker 1: was too hateful to him at that moment. But such
- 1:13Speaker 1: an unceremonious display of hostility was a surprise even to
- 1:19Speaker 1: Fyodor Pavlovitch, and the old man evidently wanted to tell
- 1:25Speaker 1: him something at once, and had come to meet him
- 1:29Speaker 1: in the drawing room on purpose. Receiving this amiable greeting,
- 1:37Speaker 1: he stood still in silence, and with an ironical air,
- 1:42Speaker 1: watched his son going upstairs till he passed out of sight.
- 1:50Speaker 1: What's the matter with him, he promptly asked Smadayakov, who
- 1:56Speaker 1: had followed Ivan, angry about something. You can tell the
- 2:06Speaker 1: valet muttered evasively, confound him, Let him be angry, then
- 2:16Speaker 1: bring in the Samma barn, get along with your lucks
- 2:19Speaker 1: sharp No news. Then followed a series of questions, such
- 2:27Speaker 1: as Smerdyakov had just complained of to Ivan, all relating
- 2:34Speaker 1: to his expected visitor, And these questions we will omit.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Half an hour later, the house was locked, and the
- 2:45Speaker 1: crazy old man was wandering along through the rooms in
- 2:51Speaker 1: excited expectation of hearing every minute the five knocks agreed
- 3:00Speaker 1: upon now and then he peered out into the darkness,
- 3:06Speaker 1: seeing nothing. It was very late, but Ivan was still
- 3:13Speaker 1: awake and reflecting. He sat up late that night until
- 3:18Speaker 1: two o'clock. But we will not give an account of
- 3:22Speaker 1: his thoughts. And this is not the place to look
- 3:26Speaker 1: into that soul. Its turn will come, and even if
- 3:33Speaker 1: one tried, it would be very hard to give an
- 3:36Speaker 1: account of them, for there were no thoughts in his brain,
- 3:40Speaker 1: but something very vague and above all intense excitement. He
- 3:47Speaker 1: felt himself that he had lost his bearings. He was
- 3:52Speaker 1: fretted too, by all sorts of strange and almost surprising desires.
- 3:59Speaker 1: For instant after midnight, he suddenly had an intense irresistible
- 4:06Speaker 1: inclination to go down, open the door, go to the
- 4:11Speaker 1: lodge and beat Smerdyakov. But if he had been asked why,
- 4:18Speaker 1: he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps
- 4:23Speaker 1: that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted
- 4:27Speaker 1: him more gravely than anyone in the world. On the
- 4:32Speaker 1: other hand, he was more than once that night overcome
- 4:38Speaker 1: by a sort of inexplicable, humiliating terror, which he felt
- 4:45Speaker 1: positively paralyzed his physical powers. His head ached, and he
- 4:53Speaker 1: was gidd eaten. A feeling of hatred was rankling in
- 4:59Speaker 1: his heart, as though we meant to avenge himself on
- 5:03Speaker 1: some one. He even hated Alyosha, recalling the conversation he
- 5:11Speaker 1: had just had with him. At moments, he hated himself intensely.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Of Katerina Ivanovna. He almost forgot to think, and wondered
- 5:25Speaker 1: greatly at this afterwards, especially as he remembered perfectly that
- 5:32Speaker 1: when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina Ivanovna that
- 5:38Speaker 1: he would go away next day to Moscow, something had
- 5:42Speaker 1: whispered in his heart, that's nonsense. You are not going,
- 5:48Speaker 1: and it won't be so easy to tear yourself away.
- 5:52Speaker 1: As you are boasting now. Remembering that night long afterwards,
- 6:01Speaker 1: Ivan recalled with peculiar repulsion how he had suddenly got
- 6:07Speaker 1: up from the sofa and had stealthily, as though he
- 6:12Speaker 1: were afraid of being watched, opened the door, gone out
- 6:17Speaker 1: on the staircase, and listened to Fyodor Pavlovitch stirring down below.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Had listened a long while, some five minutes, with a
- 6:30Speaker 1: sort of strange curiosity, holding his breath while his heart throbbed.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And why he had done all this, why he was listening.
- 6:45Speaker 1: He could not have said that action all his life.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Afterwards he called infamous, and at the bottom of his
- 6:58Speaker 1: heart he thought of it as the basest action of
- 7:04Speaker 1: his life. For Fyodor Pavlovitch himself, he felt no hatred
- 7:11Speaker 1: at that moment, but was simply intensely curious to know
- 7:17Speaker 1: how he was walking down there below and what he
- 7:21Speaker 1: must be doing now, He wondered, and imagined how he
- 7:28Speaker 1: must be peeping out of the dark windows and stopping
- 7:32Speaker 1: in the middle of the room listening, listening for someone
- 7:38Speaker 1: to knock. Ivan went out onto the stairs twice to
- 7:46Speaker 1: listen like this about two o'clock, wheneverything was quiet, and
- 7:54Speaker 1: even Fyodor Pavlovitch had gone to bed. Ivan had gotten too,
- 8:00Speaker 1: had firmly resolved to fall asleep at once, as he
- 8:05Speaker 1: felt fearfully exhausted, and he did fall asleep at once
- 8:10Speaker 1: and slept soundly without dreams, but waked early at seven
- 8:15Speaker 1: o'clock when it was broad daylight. Opening his eyes, he
- 8:22Speaker 1: was surprised to feel himself extraordinarily vigorous. He jumped up
- 8:28Speaker 1: at once and dressed quickly, then dragged out his trunk
- 8:33Speaker 1: and began packing immediately. His linen had come back from
- 8:39Speaker 1: the lawn dress the previous morning. Ivan positively smiled at
- 8:44Speaker 1: the thought that everything was helping his sudden departure, and
- 8:51Speaker 1: his departure certainly was sudden. Though Ivan had said the
- 8:57Speaker 1: day before to Katerina Ivanovna, Alyosha and Smadayakov that he
- 9:05Speaker 1: was leaving next day, yet he remembered that he had
- 9:10Speaker 1: no thought of departure when he went to bed, or
- 9:14Speaker 1: at least had not dreamed that his first act in
- 9:18Speaker 1: the morning would be to pack his trunk. At last,
- 9:23Speaker 1: his trunk and bag were ready. It was about nine
- 9:27Speaker 1: o'clock when Marfa Ignatyevna came in with her usual inquiry
- 9:35Speaker 1: where will your honor take your tea in your own
- 9:38Speaker 1: room or downstairs. He looked almost cheerful, but there was
- 9:44Speaker 1: about him about his words and gestures something hurried and scattered.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Greeting his father affably and even inquiring specially after his health,
- 10:01Speaker 1: though he did not wait to hear his answer. To
- 10:04Speaker 1: the end, he announced that he was starting off in
- 10:08Speaker 1: an hour to return to Moscow for good, and begged
- 10:12Speaker 1: him to send for the horses. His father heard this
- 10:16Speaker 1: announcement are with no sign of surprise, and forgot in
- 10:22Speaker 1: an unmannerly way to show regret at losing him. Instead
- 10:27Speaker 1: of doing so, he flew into a great flutter at
- 10:32Speaker 1: the recollection of some important business of his own. What
- 10:37Speaker 1: a fallow you are not to tell me yesterday. Never mind,
- 10:40Speaker 1: we'll manage it all the same. Do me a great service,
- 10:43Speaker 1: my dear boy. Go to Tchutchmashnya. On the way, it's
- 10:48Speaker 1: only to turn to the left from the station at Bolovia.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Only another twelve versts and you come to Tchuchmashnya. I'm sorry,
- 10:56Speaker 1: I can't. It's eighty versts to the railway and the
- 11:00Speaker 1: train starts for Moscow at eleven o'clock to night. I
- 11:04Speaker 1: can only just catch it. You'll catch it to morrow
- 11:07Speaker 1: or the day after. But to day turn up to
- 11:09Speaker 1: chutch Mashnir. It won't put you out much to hume
- 11:13Speaker 1: your father. If I havn't had something to keep me here,
- 11:18Speaker 1: I would have run over myself long ago while I'm
- 11:21Speaker 1: some business there in a hurry. But here I it's
- 11:24Speaker 1: not the time for me to go now. You see,
- 11:29Speaker 1: I've two pieces of CoP's lamb there the Maslovs. An
- 11:33Speaker 1: old merchant and his son will give eight thousand for
- 11:37Speaker 1: the timber. But last year I just missed a purchaser
- 11:41Speaker 1: who would have given twelve. There's no getting any one
- 11:44Speaker 1: about here to buy it. The mask loobs have it
- 11:47Speaker 1: all their own way. One has to take what they'll give,
- 11:51Speaker 1: but no one here Dad bid against them. The priest
- 11:55Speaker 1: at il Yinsko wrote to me last Thursday that a
- 11:59Speaker 1: merchant called God and man I know, had turned up.
- 12:04Speaker 1: What makes him valuable is that he is not from
- 12:07Speaker 1: these parts, so he is not afraid of the Maslovs.
- 12:12Speaker 1: He says he will give me eleven thousand for the cops.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Do you hear? But he'll only be here, the priest writes,
- 12:21Speaker 1: but a week altogether. So you must go at once
- 12:24Speaker 1: and make a bargain with him. Well, you write to
- 12:28Speaker 1: the priest, he'll make the bargain. He can't do it.
- 12:31Speaker 1: He has no wife for business. He's a perfect treasure.
- 12:35Speaker 1: I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for
- 12:38Speaker 1: me without a receipt. But he has no eye for business.
- 12:41Speaker 1: He is a perfect child, a crow. Good to see him,
- 12:45Speaker 1: and yet he is a learned man. Would you believe it?
- 12:49Speaker 1: This godskin looks like a peasant. He wears a blue captain.
- 12:53Speaker 1: But he is a regular rogue. That's the common complaint.
- 12:58Speaker 1: He is a liar. Sometimes he tells such lies that
- 13:04Speaker 1: you wonder why he is doing it. He told me
- 13:07Speaker 1: the year before last that his wife was dead and
- 13:10Speaker 1: that he had married another, And would you believe it?
- 13:16Speaker 1: There was not a word of truth in it. His
- 13:19Speaker 1: wife has never died at all. She is alive to
- 13:22Speaker 1: this day and gives him a beating twice a week.
- 13:26Speaker 1: So what you have to find out is whether he
- 13:30Speaker 1: is lying or speaking the truth when he says he
- 13:33Speaker 1: wants to buy it and would give eleven thousand. I
- 13:37Speaker 1: shall be no use in such a business. I have
- 13:39Speaker 1: no eye either. Stay ye wait a bit and you
- 13:43Speaker 1: will be of use. But I will tell you the
- 13:46Speaker 1: signs by which you can judge about Goatskin. I've done
- 13:49Speaker 1: business with him a long time. You see, he must
- 13:52Speaker 1: watch his beard. He has a nasty, thin red beard.
- 13:56Speaker 1: If his beard shakes when he talks and he gets cross,
- 14:00Speaker 1: all right, he is saying what he means. He wants
- 14:03Speaker 1: to do business. But if he strokes his beard with
- 14:06Speaker 1: his left hand and grins, he is trying to cheat.
- 14:09Speaker 1: You don't watch his eyes. You won't find out anything
- 14:13Speaker 1: from his eyes. He is a deep one our own,
- 14:16Speaker 1: but watch his beard. I'll give you a note, and
- 14:19Speaker 1: you show it to him. He's called Godskin, though his
- 14:23Speaker 1: real name is the Jugaby. But don't call him so.
- 14:26Speaker 1: He will be offended. If you come to an understanding
- 14:30Speaker 1: with him and see it's all right right here at once.
- 14:34Speaker 1: You need only right he's not lying. Stand out for
- 14:39Speaker 1: eleven thousand, one thousand you can knock off, but not more.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Just think there's a difference between eight thousand and eleven thousand.
- 14:49Speaker 1: It's as good as picking up three thousand. It's not
- 14:53Speaker 1: so easy to find a purchaser, and Tom in desperate
- 14:57Speaker 1: need of money, only let me know it's as and
- 15:00Speaker 1: I'll run over and pick it up. Must snatch the
- 15:03Speaker 1: time somehow, But what's the good of my galloping over?
- 15:07Speaker 1: If it's all the notion of the priest? Come? Will
- 15:10Speaker 1: you go? Oh? I can't spur the time. You must
- 15:14Speaker 1: excuse me. Come, you must oblige your father. I shan't
- 15:19Speaker 1: forget it. You have no heart, any of you. That's
- 15:22Speaker 1: what it is. What's a dal or two to you?
- 15:25Speaker 1: Where are you going now? To venice? Your venice will
- 15:29Speaker 1: keep another two days? I would have sent Alyosha, But
- 15:32Speaker 1: what use is alyosha in a thing like that? I
- 15:36Speaker 1: send you just because you are a clever fellow? Do
- 15:39Speaker 1: you suppose I don't see that you know nothing about timber,
- 15:43Speaker 1: but you've got an eye. All that is wanted is
- 15:47Speaker 1: to see whether the man is in earnest. I tell
- 15:50Speaker 1: you what she is beard. If he's beard shakes, you
- 15:53Speaker 1: know he is in earnest. You force me to go
- 15:57Speaker 1: to that damn chech mashnir yourself, then cried Ivan, with
- 16:02Speaker 1: a malignant smile. Fayodor Pavlovitch did not catch or would
- 16:08Speaker 1: not catch, the malignancy, but he caught the smile. Then
- 16:13Speaker 1: you'll go, you'll go. I'll scrubble the note for you
- 16:15Speaker 1: at once. I don't know whether I shall go. I
- 16:19Speaker 1: don't know. I'll decide on the way. None sands decide
- 16:24Speaker 1: at once, My dear Valah, decide. If you settle the matter,
- 16:29Speaker 1: write me a line, give it to the priest, and
- 16:32Speaker 1: he'll send it on to me at once, and I
- 16:34Speaker 1: won't delay you more than that. You can go to Venice.
- 16:37Speaker 1: The priest will give your horses back to bolov yestation.
- 16:42Speaker 1: The old man was quite delighted. He wrote the note
- 16:47Speaker 1: and sent for the horses. A light lunch was brought
- 16:50Speaker 1: in with brandy. When Fyodor Pavlovitch was pleased, he usually
- 16:55Speaker 1: became expensive, but to day he seemed to restrain himself
- 17:00Speaker 1: of Dmitri. For instance, he did not say a word.
- 17:04Speaker 1: He was quite unmoved by the parting, and seemed, in fact,
- 17:08Speaker 1: at a loss for something to say. Ivan noticed this particularly.
- 17:14Speaker 1: He must be bored with me, he thought. Only when
- 17:18Speaker 1: accompanying his son out unto the steps, the old man
- 17:22Speaker 1: began to fuss about. He would have kissed him, but
- 17:26Speaker 1: Ivan made haste to hold out his hand, obviously avoiding
- 17:30Speaker 1: the kiss. His father saw it at once, and instantly
- 17:35Speaker 1: pulled himself up. Well, good luck to you, Good luck
- 17:38Speaker 1: to you, he repeated from the steps. You'll come again
- 17:42Speaker 1: some time or other. Mind you do come, I shall
- 17:44Speaker 1: always be glad to see you. I'll christ be with you.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Ivan got into the carriage. Good Bye, ye Ban, don't
- 17:53Speaker 1: be too hard on me, the father called for the
- 17:57Speaker 1: last time. The whole household came out to take leave
- 18:03Speaker 1: smud Dyakov, Marfa and Grigory. Ivan gave them ten roubles each.
- 18:09Speaker 1: When he had seated himself in the carriage, Smuddyakov jumped
- 18:14Speaker 1: up to arrange the rug. You see, I am going
- 18:19Speaker 1: to Chutchmashnya broke suddenly from Ivan again, as the day before.
- 18:26Speaker 1: The words seemed to drop of themselves, and he laughed too,
- 18:31Speaker 1: a peculiar, nervous laugh. He remembered it long after. It's
- 18:37Speaker 1: a truth, saying then that it's always worth while speaking
- 18:42Speaker 1: to a clever man, answered Smerdyakov, firmly, looking significantly at Ivan.
- 18:52Speaker 1: The carriage rolled away. Nothing was clear in Ivan's soul,
- 18:58Speaker 1: but he looked eagerly around him, at the fields, at
- 19:02Speaker 1: the hills of the trees, at a flock of geese
- 19:05Speaker 1: flying high overhead in the bright sky, and all of
- 19:08Speaker 1: a sudden he felt very happy. He tried to talk
- 19:11Speaker 1: to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an
- 19:16Speaker 1: answer the peasant maidem But a minute later he realized
- 19:20Speaker 1: that he was not catching anything, and that he had
- 19:23Speaker 1: not really even taken in the peasant's answer. He was silent,
- 19:28Speaker 1: and it was pleasant even so. The air was fresh,
- 19:32Speaker 1: pure and cool, the sky bright. The images of Alyosha
- 19:38Speaker 1: and Katarina Ivanovna floated into his mind. But he softly smiled,
- 19:45Speaker 1: blew softly on the friendly phantoms, and they flew away.
- 19:50Speaker 1: There's plenty of time for them, he thought. They reached
- 19:55Speaker 1: the station, quickly changed horses and galloped Volovya. Why is
- 20:03Speaker 1: it worth while speaking to a clever man? What did
- 20:08Speaker 1: he mean by that? The thought seemed suddenly to clutch
- 20:14Speaker 1: at his breathing. And why did I tell him I
- 20:18Speaker 1: was going to Judge Mashnia. They reached Volofia station, Ivan
- 20:25Speaker 1: got out of the carriage and the driver stood round him,
- 20:30Speaker 1: bargaining over the journey of twelve bursts to Judge Mashnya.
- 20:36Speaker 1: He told them to harness the horses. He went into
- 20:40Speaker 1: the station house, looked round glanced at the obseer's wife
- 20:46Speaker 1: and suddenly went back to the entrance. I won't go
- 20:50Speaker 1: to Judge mashna Am. I too late to reach the
- 20:54Speaker 1: railway by seven brothers. We shall just do it, shall
- 20:58Speaker 1: we get the carriage out at once? Will any one
- 21:03Speaker 1: of you be going to the town to morrow to
- 21:06Speaker 1: be sure? Miitri here, well, can you do me a service,
- 21:12Speaker 1: Dmitri go to my father's, to Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamatzov and
- 21:20Speaker 1: tell him I haven't gone to Chechemashnyet. Can you? Of
- 21:24Speaker 1: course I can. I've known Fyodor Pavlovitch a long time,
- 21:29Speaker 1: and here's something for you. For I daresay he won't
- 21:32Speaker 1: give you anything, said Ivan, laughing gaily. You may depend
- 21:37Speaker 1: on it. He won't mitya laugh too, Thank you, sir,
- 21:41Speaker 1: I'll be sure to do it. At seven o'clock, Ivan
- 21:46Speaker 1: got into the train and set off to Moscow. Away
- 21:50Speaker 1: with the past. I've done with the old world for ever,
- 21:54Speaker 1: and may I have no news, no echo from it,
- 21:58Speaker 1: to a new life, new places, and no looking back.
- 22:02Speaker 1: But instead of delight, his soul was filled with such gloom,
- 22:07Speaker 1: and his heart ached with such anguish as he had
- 22:10Speaker 1: never known in his life before. He was thinking all
- 22:14Speaker 1: the night the train flew on, and only at daybreak,
- 22:20Speaker 1: when he was approaching Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from
- 22:24Speaker 1: his meditation. I am a scoundrel, he whispered to himself.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Fyodor Pavlovitch remained well satisfied at having seen his son
- 22:38Speaker 1: off for two hours. Afterwards, he felt almost happy and
- 22:42Speaker 1: sat drinking brandy. But suddenly something happened which was very
- 22:47Speaker 1: annoying and unpleasant for every one in the house and
- 22:51Speaker 1: completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch's equanimity. At once, Smadayakov went to
- 22:58Speaker 1: the cellar for something and fell down from the top
- 23:01Speaker 1: of the steps. Fortunately, Marfa Ignatyevna was in the yard
- 23:07Speaker 1: and heard him. In turn, she did not see the fall,
- 23:10Speaker 1: but heard his scream, the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar
- 23:16Speaker 1: to her, the scream of the epileptic falling in a fit.
- 23:21Speaker 1: They could not tell whether the fit had come on
- 23:24Speaker 1: him at the moment he was descending the steps, so
- 23:27Speaker 1: that he must have fallen unconscious, or whether it was
- 23:31Speaker 1: the fall and the shock that had caused the fit
- 23:33Speaker 1: in Smadayakov, who was known to be liable to them.
- 23:38Speaker 1: They found him at the bottom of the cellar steps,
- 23:41Speaker 1: writhing in convulsions and foaming at the mouth. It was
- 23:46Speaker 1: thought at first that he must have broken something, an
- 23:49Speaker 1: arm or a leg, and hurt himself, but God had
- 23:54Speaker 1: preserved him. As Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it, nothing of the
- 24:00Speaker 1: kind had happened. But it was difficult to get him
- 24:04Speaker 1: out of the cellar. They asked the neighbors to help
- 24:08Speaker 1: and managed it somehow. Fyodor Pavlovitch himself was present at
- 24:13Speaker 1: the whole ceremony. He hoped, evidently alarmed and upset. The
- 24:20Speaker 1: sick man did not regain consciousness. The convulsion ceased for
- 24:25Speaker 1: a time, but then began again, and everyone concluded that
- 24:30Speaker 1: the same thing would happen as had happened a year
- 24:34Speaker 1: before when he accidentally fell from the garret. They remembered
- 24:40Speaker 1: that ice had been put on his head. Then there
- 24:43Speaker 1: was still ice in the cellar, and Marfa Ignatyevna had
- 24:48Speaker 1: some brought up. In the evening, Fyodor Pavlovitch sent for
- 24:54Speaker 1: doctor Hudson's tuba, who arrived at once. He was a
- 24:58Speaker 1: most estimable of old man and the most careful and
- 25:02Speaker 1: conscientious doctor in the province. After careful examination, he concluded
- 25:09Speaker 1: that the fit was a very violent one and might
- 25:13Speaker 1: have serious consequences. That meanwhile, he the Hrdzon's Tuba, did
- 25:20Speaker 1: not fully understand it, but that by to morrow morning,
- 25:25Speaker 1: if the present remedies were unavailing, he would venture to
- 25:29Speaker 1: try something else. The invalid was taken to the lodge,
- 25:34Speaker 1: to a room next to Grigory's and Marfa Ignatyevna's. Then
- 25:41Speaker 1: Fayodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with.
- 25:46Speaker 1: That day, Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup,
- 25:52Speaker 1: compared with Smadyakov's, was no better than dishwater, and the
- 25:57Speaker 1: fowl was so dried up, but it was impossible domesticate it.
- 26:03Speaker 1: To her master's bitter, though deserved reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied
- 26:11Speaker 1: that the fowl was a very old one to begin with,
- 26:14Speaker 1: and that she had never been trained as a cook.
- 26:19Speaker 1: In the evening, there was another trouble in store for
- 26:22Speaker 1: Fyodor Pavlovitch. He was informed that Grigory, who had not
- 26:28Speaker 1: been well for the last three days, was completely laid
- 26:32Speaker 1: up by his lumbago. Fayodor Pavlovitch finished his tea as
- 26:37Speaker 1: early as possible, and locked himself up alone in the house.
- 26:42Speaker 1: He was in terrible excitement and suspense. That evening he
- 26:48Speaker 1: reckoned on Grushenka's coming, almost as a certainty. He had
- 26:53Speaker 1: received from Smerdyakov that morning, an assurance that she had
- 26:58Speaker 1: promised to come without fail. The incorrigible old man's heart
- 27:04Speaker 1: throbbed with excitement. He paced up and down his empty rooms, listening.
- 27:10Speaker 1: He had to be on the alert. Dmitri might be
- 27:14Speaker 1: on the watch for her somewhere, and when she knocked
- 27:17Speaker 1: on the window, Smerdyakov had informed him two days before
- 27:23Speaker 1: that he had told her where and how to knock.
- 27:27Speaker 1: The door must be opened at once. She must not
- 27:30Speaker 1: be a second in the passage for fear which God forbid,
- 27:34Speaker 1: that she should be frightened and run away. Fayodor Pavlovitch
- 27:39Speaker 1: had much to think of, but never had his heart
- 27:42Speaker 1: been stooped in such voluptuous hopes. This time he could
- 27:48Speaker 1: say all most certainly that she would calm and of
- 28:00Speaker 1: Chapter thirty nine,