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033 - Book Five Chapter Two · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty three of The Brother's Karamatselv by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This librivo's recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison. Chapter two smad Dayakov
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  Speaker 1: with a guitar. He had no time to lose. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: even while he was saying good bye Delisa, the thought
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  Speaker 1: had struck him that he must attempt some stratagem to
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  Speaker 1: find his brother Dmitri, who was evidently keeping out of
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  Speaker 1: his way. It was getting late, nearly three o'clock. Alyosha's
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  Speaker 1: whole soul turned to the monastery, to his dying saint.
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  Speaker 1: But the necessity of seeing Dmitri outweigh everything. The conviction
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  Speaker 1: that a great, inevitable catastrophe was about to happen grew
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  Speaker 1: stronger in Alyosha's mind with every hour. What that catastrophe
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  Speaker 1: was and what he would say at that moment to
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  Speaker 1: his brother, he could perhaps not have said, definitely, even
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  Speaker 1: if my benefactor must die without me anyway, I won't
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  Speaker 1: have to reproach myself all my life with the thought
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  Speaker 1: that I might have saved something and did not, but
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  Speaker 1: passed by and hastened home. If I'd do as I intend,
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  Speaker 1: I shall be following his great precept. His plan was
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  Speaker 1: to catch his brother Dmitri unawares, to climb over the
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  Speaker 1: fence as he had the day before, get into the
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  Speaker 1: garden and sit in the summer house. If Dmitri were
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  Speaker 1: not there, thought Alyosha, he would not announce himself to
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  Speaker 1: Foma or the woman of the house, but would remain
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  Speaker 1: hidden in the summer house, even if he had to
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  Speaker 1: wait that or evening. If, as before, Dmitri were lying
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  Speaker 1: in wait for Grushenka to come, he would be very
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  Speaker 1: likely to come to the summer house. Alyosha did not, however,
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  Speaker 1: give much thought to the details of his plan, but
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  Speaker 1: resolved to act upon it, even if it meant not
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  Speaker 1: getting back to the monastery. That day. Every thing happened
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  Speaker 1: without hindrance. He climbed over the hurdle, almost in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot as the day before, and stole into the
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  Speaker 1: summer house unseen. He did not want to be noticed
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  Speaker 1: the women at the house, and Foma too, if he
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  Speaker 1: were here, might be loyal to his brother and obey
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  Speaker 1: his instructions, and so refused to let Alyosha come into
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  Speaker 1: the garden, or might warn Dmitri that he was being
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  Speaker 1: sought and inquired, for there was no one in the
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  Speaker 1: summer house. Alyosha sat down and began to wait. He
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  Speaker 1: looked round the summer house, which somehow struck him as
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  Speaker 1: a great deal more ancient than before. Though the day
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  Speaker 1: was just as fine as yesterday, it seemed a wretched
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  Speaker 1: little place. This time there was a circle on the table, left,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt from the glass of brandy having been spilt
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  Speaker 1: the day before. Foolish and irrelevant idea strayed about his mind,
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  Speaker 1: as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.
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  Speaker 1: He wondered, for instance, while he had sat down precisely
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  Speaker 1: in the same place as before, why not in the
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  Speaker 1: other seat? At last? He felt very depressed, depressed by
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  Speaker 1: suspense and uncertainty. But he had not sat there more
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  Speaker 1: than a quarter of an hour when he suddenly heard
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  Speaker 1: the thrum of a guitar somewhere quite close. People were
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  Speaker 1: sitting or had only just sat down, somewhere in the bushes,
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  Speaker 1: not more than twenty paces away. Alyosha suddenly recollected that
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  Speaker 1: on coming out of the summer house the day before,
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  Speaker 1: he had caught a glimpse of an old green, low
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  Speaker 1: garden seat among the bushes on the left by the fence.
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  Speaker 1: The people must be sitting on it now, Who were they?
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  Speaker 1: A man's voice suddenly began singing in a sugary falsetto,
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  Speaker 1: accompanying himself on the guitar within vince a bobos, I
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  Speaker 1: am bound to my dear or Lord, have mercy.
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  Speaker 2: On ah and on me on ha, and on me
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  Speaker 2: on ha and on me.
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  Speaker 1: The voice ceased. It was a Lackey's tenor and a
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  Speaker 1: Lakis song. Another voice, a woman's, suddenly asked, insinuatingly and bashfully,
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  Speaker 1: though with mincing affectation, why haven't you been to see
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  Speaker 1: us for so long? Pabel Payodorovitch? Why do you always
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  Speaker 1: look down upon us? Not at all, answered a man's voice, politely,
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  Speaker 1: but with emphatic dignity. It was clear that the man
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  Speaker 1: had the best of the position, and that the woman
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  Speaker 1: was making advances. I believe the man must be Smadayakov,
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  Speaker 1: thought Alyosha from his voice, and the lady must be
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of the house here, who has come from Moscow,
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  Speaker 1: the one who wears the dress with the tail and
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  Speaker 1: goes to Mapa for soup, I am awfully fond of
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  Speaker 1: verses of all kinds, if they rhyme. The woman's voice continued,
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you go on? The man sang again.
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  Speaker 2: What do I cow for? Rohie, I'll wealth if only
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  Speaker 2: my dear won't be in health? Lawn a must they
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  Speaker 2: on ah and on me, on ah, and on me
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  Speaker 2: on ah and on me.
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  Speaker 1: It was even better last time, observed the woman's voice.
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  Speaker 1: You sang, if my darling be in health, it sounded
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  Speaker 1: more tender. I suppose you've forgotten today. Poetry is rubbish,
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  Speaker 1: said Smerdyakov, curtaining, Oh no, I am very fond of poetry.
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  Speaker 1: So far as it's poetry, it's essential rubbish. Consider yourself,
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  Speaker 1: whoever talks in a round? And if we were all
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  Speaker 1: to talk in rhyme, even though it were decreed by government,
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't say much, should we. Poetry is no good?
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  Speaker 1: Marya Gandratyevna, How clever you are? How is it you've
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  Speaker 1: gone so deep into everything? The woman's voice was more
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  Speaker 1: and more insinuating. I could have done better than that,
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  Speaker 1: I could have known more than that. If it had
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  Speaker 1: not been for my destiny from my childhood up, I
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  Speaker 1: would have shot a man in a duel if he
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  Speaker 1: called me names, because I am descended from a filthy
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  Speaker 1: beggar and have no father. And they used to throw
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  Speaker 1: it in my teeth in Moscow. It had reached them
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  Speaker 1: from here thanks to Grigory vasil Yevitch. Grigory vassil Yevitch
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  Speaker 1: blames me for rebelling against my birth. But I would
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  Speaker 1: have sanction their killing me before I was born, that
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  Speaker 1: I might not have come into the world at all,
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  Speaker 1: they used to say in the market. And your mamma too,
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  Speaker 1: with great lack of delicacy, set up telling me that
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  Speaker 1: her hair was like a mat on her head, and
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  Speaker 1: that she was sure of five foot by a wee bit?
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  Speaker 1: Why talk of a wee bit? While she might have
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  Speaker 1: said a little bit like everyone else, she wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make it touching a regular peasants feeling. Can a Russian
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  Speaker 1: peasant be said to feel in comparison with an educated man.
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  Speaker 1: He can't be said to have feeling at all in
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  Speaker 1: his ignorance. From my childhood up, when I hear a
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  Speaker 1: wee bit, I am ready to burst with rage. I
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  Speaker 1: hate all Russia. Marya Ratayevna, if you've been a cadet
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  Speaker 1: in the army or a young huszar. You wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: talked like that, but would have drawn your saber to
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  Speaker 1: defend all Russia. I don't want to be a hussar
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  Speaker 1: a Mariah Kundratyevna. And what's more, I should like to
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  Speaker 1: abolish all soldiers. And when an enemy comes, who is
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  Speaker 1: going to defend us? There's no need of defense. In
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  Speaker 1: eighteen twelve there was a great invasion of Russia by Napoleon,
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  Speaker 1: first Emperor of the French, father of the present one.
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  Speaker 1: And it would have been a good thing if they
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  Speaker 1: had conquered us. A clever nation would have conquered a
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  Speaker 1: very stupid one and annexed it. We should have had
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  Speaker 1: quite different institutions. Are they so much better in their
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  Speaker 1: own country than we are? I wouldn't change a dandy
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  Speaker 1: I know of. For three young englishmen observed Mariah A
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  Speaker 1: Kandaratayevna tenderly, doubtless accompanying her words with a most languishing glance.
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  Speaker 1: That's as one prefers. But you are just like a foreigner,
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  Speaker 1: just like a most gentlemanly foreigner. I tell you that,
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  Speaker 1: though it makes me bashful. If you care to know
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  Speaker 1: the folks there and ours here are just alike in
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  Speaker 1: their vice. They are swindlers. Only there the scoundrel wears
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  Speaker 1: polished boots. In here he grovels in filth and sees
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  Speaker 1: no harm in it. The Russian people want fashion, as
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  Speaker 1: Bayodor Pavlovitch said very truly yesterday, though he is mad
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  Speaker 1: and all his children. You said yourself you had such
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  Speaker 1: a respect for Ivan Fyodorovitch, but he said I was
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  Speaker 1: a stinking lacking. He thinks that I might be unruling.
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  Speaker 1: He is mistaken there. If I had a certain sum
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  Speaker 1: in my pocket, I would have loved here long ago.
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch is lower than any lucky in his behavior,
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  Speaker 1: in his mind, and in his poverty. He doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: how to do anything, and yet he is respected by
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  Speaker 1: every one. I may be only a soup maker, but
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  Speaker 1: with luck I could open a cafe restaurant tim Petrovka
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  Speaker 1: in Moscow. For my cookery is something special, and lest
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  Speaker 1: no one in Moscow accept the foreigners whose cookery is
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  Speaker 1: anything special. Dmitriy Byodorovitch is a beggar, But if he
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  Speaker 1: were to challenge the son of the first count in
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  Speaker 1: the country, he'd fight him, though in what way is
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  Speaker 1: he better than I am? For he is ever so
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  Speaker 1: much stupider than I am. Look at the money he
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  Speaker 1: has wasted without any need. It must be lovely a duel,
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  Speaker 1: Marya Kandaratyevna observed suddenly. So it must be so dreadful
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  Speaker 1: and so brave, especially when young officers with pistols in
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  Speaker 1: their hands pop at one another for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: some lady. A perfect picture are If only girls were
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  Speaker 1: allowed to look on, I'd give anything to see one.
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  Speaker 1: It's all very well when you are firing at someone,
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  Speaker 1: but when he is firing straight in your mum, you
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  Speaker 1: must feel pretty silly. You'd be glad to run away,
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  Speaker 1: Marya Kandratyevna, you don't mean you would run away. But
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  Speaker 1: Smadayaka did not deign to reply. After a moment's silence,
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  Speaker 1: the guitar tinkled again, and he sang again in the
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  Speaker 1: same falsetto.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you may say, I shall go far away, like
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  Speaker 2: will be bright and gay in the city far away.
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  Speaker 2: I shall not grieve. I shall not grieve at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'd intend to grieve hurt all. Then something unexpected happened.
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  Speaker 2: Alyosha suddenly sneezed. They were silent. Alyosha got up and
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  Speaker 2: walked towards them. He found Smerdyakov dressed up and wearing
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  Speaker 2: polished boots, his hair permaded and perhaps killed. The guitar
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  Speaker 2: lay on the garden seat. His companion was the daughter
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  Speaker 2: of the house, wearing a light blue dress with a
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  Speaker 2: train two yards long. She was young and would not
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  Speaker 2: have been bad looking, but that her face was so
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  Speaker 2: rand and terribly freckled. Will my brother Dmitri soon be back,
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  Speaker 2: asked Alyosha with as much composure.
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  Speaker 1: As he could. Smerdyakov got up slowly. Mariyah Kandratyevna rose too.
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  Speaker 1: How am I to know about Dmitri Poyo Duorovitch. It's
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  Speaker 1: not as if I were keeper, answered Smerdyakov quietly, distinctly
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  Speaker 1: and super silliestly. But I simply asked whether you do know?
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  Speaker 1: Alyosha explained, I know nothing of his whereabouts and don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. But my brother told me that you let
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  Speaker 1: him know all that goes on in the house, and
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  Speaker 1: promised to let him know when Agrafena Alexandrovna comes. Smurred
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  Speaker 1: Dyakov turned a deliberate, unmoved glance upon him, And how
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  Speaker 1: did you get in this turn since the gate was
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  Speaker 1: bolted an hour ago, he asked, looking at Alyosha. I
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  Speaker 1: came in from the back alley, over the fence and
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  Speaker 1: went straight to the summer house. I hope you'll forgive me,
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  Speaker 1: he added, addressing Marya Kandotyevna, I was in a hurry
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  Speaker 1: to find my brother, h as though we could take
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  Speaker 1: it a missing you, drawled Marya Kondratyevna, fluttered by Alyosha's apology,
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  Speaker 1: for Dmitri Fyodorovitch often goes to the summer house in
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  Speaker 1: that way, we don't know he is here, and he
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  Speaker 1: is sitting in the summer house. I am very anxious
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  Speaker 1: to find him or to learn from you where he
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  Speaker 1: is now. Believe me, it's on business of great importance
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  Speaker 1: to him. He never tells oh list, Mariah Kondratyevna. Though
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  Speaker 1: I used to come here as a friend, Smerdyakov began again.
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch has pestered me in a merciless way, even here,
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  Speaker 1: by his incessant questions about the master. What news? He'll ask?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on in there?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Who's coming and going? Can't I tell him something more.
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  Speaker 1: Twice already he threatened me with death, with death, Alyosha
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed in surprise. Do you suppose you'd think much of that?
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  Speaker 1: With his temper which you had a chance of observing yourself? Yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: He says, if I let Agrafena Alexandrovna in and she
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  Speaker 1: passes the night there, I'll be the first to suffer
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  Speaker 1: for it. I am terribly afraid of him, and if
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  Speaker 1: I am not even more afraid of doing so, I
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  Speaker 1: ought to let the police now. God only knows what
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  Speaker 1: he might not do. His honor said to him the
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  Speaker 1: other day, I'll pound you in a mortar, added maryah Akondratyevna. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if it's pounding in a mortar, it may be only talk,
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  Speaker 1: observed Alyosha. If I could meet him, I might speak
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  Speaker 1: to him about that too. Well. The only thing I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you is this, said Smerdyakov, as though thinking
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  Speaker 1: better of it. I am here as an old friend
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  Speaker 1: and neighbor, and it would be odd if I didn't come.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, Ivan Fyodorovitch sent me first thing
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  Speaker 1: this morning to your brother's lodging in Lake Street, without
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  Speaker 1: a letter, but with a message to Dmitri Fyodorovitch to
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  Speaker 1: go to dine with him at the restaurant here in
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  Speaker 1: the market place. I went, but didn't find Dmitri Fyodorovitch
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  Speaker 1: at home, though it was eight o'clock. He's been here,
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  Speaker 1: but he is quite gone. Those were the very words
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  Speaker 1: of his landlady. It's as though there was an understanding
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  Speaker 1: between them. Perhaps at this moment he is in the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant with Ivan Fyodorovitch. For Ivan Fyodorovitch not been home
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  Speaker 1: to dinner, and Fayodor Pavlovitch dined alone an hour ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gone to lie down. But I beg you
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  Speaker 1: most particularly not to speak of me and of what
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  Speaker 1: I have told you, for he'd kill me for nothing
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  Speaker 1: at all. Brother Ivan invited Dmitri to the restaurant to day,
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  Speaker 1: repeated Alyosha quickly. That's so the Metropolis tavern in the
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  Speaker 1: market place, the very same. That's quite likely, cried Alyosha,
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  Speaker 1: much excited. Thank you, Smadyakov. That's important. I'll go there
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  Speaker 1: at once. Don't betray me, smiled Dyakov called after him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'll go to the tavern as though by chance.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be anxious. But wait a minute, I'll open the gate,
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  Speaker 1: do you, cried marr Kandratyevna. No, it's a short cut.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get over the fence again. What he had heard
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  Speaker 1: through Alyosha into great agitation. He ran to the tavern.
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  Speaker 1: It was impossible for him to go into the tavern
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  Speaker 1: in his monastic dress, but he could inquire at the
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  Speaker 1: entrance for his brothers and call them down. But just
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  Speaker 1: as he reached the tavern, a window was flung open,
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  Speaker 1: and his brother Ivan called down to him from it. Alyosha,
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  Speaker 1: can't you come up here to me? I shall be
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  Speaker 1: awfully grateful. To be sure, I can only I don't
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  Speaker 1: quite know whether in this dress, But I am in
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  Speaker 1: a room apart. Come up the steps. I'll run down
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  Speaker 1: to meet you. A minute later, Alyosha was sitting beside
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  Speaker 1: his brother Ivan was alone dining and of Chapter thirty three,