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028 - Book Four Chapter Four · Brothers Karamazov

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight of The Brothers Karamazza by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter four at the Holokhovs,
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  Speaker 1: Alyosha soon reached Madame Hohlokov's house, a handsome stone house
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  Speaker 1: of two stories, one of the finest in Arturn. Though
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  Speaker 1: Madame Holokov spent most of her time in another province
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  Speaker 1: where she had an estate, or in Moscow, where she
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  Speaker 1: had a house of her own, yet she had a
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  Speaker 1: house in Aartan too, inherited from her forefathers. The estate
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  Speaker 1: in our district was the largest of her three estates.
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  Speaker 1: Yet she had been very little in our province before
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  Speaker 1: this time. She ran out to Alyosha in the hall.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get my letter about the new miracle? She
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  Speaker 1: spoke rapidly and nervously. Yes, did you show it to
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  Speaker 1: every one? He restored the son to his mother. He
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  Speaker 1: is dying to day, said Alyosha. I have heard I
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  Speaker 1: know or how I longed to talk to you, to
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  Speaker 1: you or some one about all this. No to you,
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  Speaker 1: to you, and how sorry I am. I can't see him.
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  Speaker 1: The whole town is in excitement. They are all suspense.
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  Speaker 1: But now do you know Katerina Ivanovna is here? Now, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's lucky, cried Alyosha. Then I shall see her here.
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  Speaker 1: She told me yesterday to be sure to come and
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  Speaker 1: see her to day. I know, I know all. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard exactly what happened yesterday and the atrocious behavior of
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  Speaker 1: that creature sitrajiqu And if i'd been in I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I should have done. And your brother, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think of him? My goodness, Alexey Fyodorovitch,
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  Speaker 1: I am forgetting. Only fancy your brother is in there
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  Speaker 1: with her, Not that dreadful brother who was so shocking yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but the other Ivan Fyodorovitch. He is sitting with her talking.
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  Speaker 1: They are having a serious conversation. If you could only
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  Speaker 1: imagine what's passing between them now, it's awful, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it's lacerating. It's like some incredible tale of horror. They
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  Speaker 1: are ruining their lives for no reason anyone can see.
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  Speaker 1: They both recognize it and revel in it. I've been
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  Speaker 1: watching for you, I've been thirsting for you. It's too
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  Speaker 1: much for me. That's the worst of it. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you all about it presently, But now I must speak
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  Speaker 1: of something else, the most important thing I had quite forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: What's most important? Tell me? Why has Lisa been in hysterics?
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she heard you were here, she began
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  Speaker 1: to be hysterical. Mamma, it's you who are hysterical now,
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  Speaker 1: not I. Lisa's voice caroled through a tiny crack of
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  Speaker 1: the door at the side. Her voice sounded as though
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to laugh, but was doing her utmost to
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  Speaker 1: control it. Alyosha at once noticed the crack, and no
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  Speaker 1: doubt Lisa was beeping through it, but that he could
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  Speaker 1: not see. And no wonder, Lisa, no wonder, your caprices
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  Speaker 1: will make me hysterical too. But she is so ill,
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  Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch, she has been so ill all night, feverish
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  Speaker 1: and moaning. I could hardly wait for the morning and
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  Speaker 1: for hudson Stubor to come. He says that he can
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  Speaker 1: make nothing of it, that we must wait. Hudson's Stubor
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  Speaker 1: always comes and says that he can make nothing of it.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as you approached the house, she screamed, fell
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  Speaker 1: into hysterics and insisted on being well back into this
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  Speaker 1: room here, Mamma, I didn't know he had come. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't on his account. I wanted to be wheeled into
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  Speaker 1: this room. That's not true, Lisa. Yulia ran to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that Alexey Fyodorovitch was coming. She was on the
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  Speaker 1: lookout for you, my darling. Mamma. It's not the tll
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  Speaker 1: clever of you. But if you want to make up
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  Speaker 1: for it and say something very clever, dear Mamma, you'd
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  Speaker 1: better tell our honored visitor Alexei ya Duorovitch that he
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  Speaker 1: has shown his want of wit by venturing to us
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  Speaker 1: after what happened yesterday. And although everyone is laughing at him, Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: you go too far, I declare, I shall have to
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  Speaker 1: be severe. Who laughs at him? I am so glad
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  Speaker 1: he has come. I need him. I can't do without him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch. I am exceedingly unhappy. But what's the matter
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  Speaker 1: with you, mamma, dar Ah, Your caprices, Lisa, your fidgettiness,
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  Speaker 1: your illness, that awful night of fever, that awful, everlasting
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  Speaker 1: hurt since stupor everlasting, everlasting, that's the worst of it, everything,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, everything, even that miracle too. Oh, how it
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  Speaker 1: has upset me, How it has shattered me. That miracle,
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  Speaker 1: dear alexey Foya Duovich, and that tragedy in the drawing room.
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  Speaker 1: It's more than I can bear. I warn you, I
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  Speaker 1: can't bear it. Come I perhaps not a tragedy. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: will fathers seem a little tomorrow? Will he? Oh? My god,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening to me? Ever in minute, I close
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  Speaker 1: my eyes and see that it's all nonsense, all nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: I should be very grateful. Alyosha interrupted suddenly, if you
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  Speaker 1: could give me a clean rag to bind up my
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  Speaker 1: finger with. I have heard it, and it's very painful.
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  Speaker 1: Alyosha and bound his bitten finger. The handkerchief was soaked
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  Speaker 1: with blood. Madame Hohlakov screamed and shut her eyes. Good heavens,
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  Speaker 1: what a wound? How awful. But as soon as Lisa
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  Speaker 1: saw Alyosha's finger through the crack, she flung the door
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  Speaker 1: wide open. Come come here, she cried, imperiously, No nonsense. Now,
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  Speaker 1: good heavens, why did you stand there saying nothing about it?
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  Speaker 1: All this time? He might have bled to death? Mamma,
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  Speaker 1: how did you do it? Water water. You must wash
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  Speaker 1: it burst a ball simp. Behold it in cold water
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  Speaker 1: to stop the pane, and keep it there. Keep it there.
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  Speaker 1: Make haste, mamma. Some water in a slop basin, But
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  Speaker 1: do make haste, she finished nervously. She was quite frightened
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  Speaker 1: at the sight of Alyosha's wound. Shouldn't we send for
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Stuba, cried Madame Hohlakov. Mamma, you'll be the death
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  Speaker 1: of me. Your Hudson Stuba will come and say the
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  Speaker 1: tea can make nothing of it. Water water, Mamma, for
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  Speaker 1: goodness sake, go yourself and hurry Julia. She is such
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  Speaker 1: a slow coach and never can come quickly. Make haste, Mamma,
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  Speaker 1: I shall die. Why it's nothing much, cried Alyosha, frightened
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  Speaker 1: at this alarm Yulia ran in with water and Alyosha
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  Speaker 1: put his finger in it. Some lint, mamma, for mercy's sake,
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  Speaker 1: bring some lint, and that muddy caustic lotion for wounds.
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  Speaker 1: What's it called. We've got some. You know where the
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  Speaker 1: bottle is, mamma. It's in your bedroom, in the right
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  Speaker 1: hand cupboard. There's a big bottle of it there with
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  Speaker 1: the lint. I'll bring everything in a minute, Lisa, only
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  Speaker 1: don't scream and don't fuss. You see how bravely Alexei
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  Speaker 1: for your Duorovitch bears it. Where did you get such
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  Speaker 1: a dreadful wound? Alexey for your Duorovitch, Madam Holokov hastened away.
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  Speaker 1: This was all Lisa was waiting for. First of or
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, where did you get hurt like this?
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  Speaker 1: She asked Alyosha quickly, And then I'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about something quite different well, Instinctively feeling that the time
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  Speaker 1: of her mother's absence was precious for her, Alyosha hastened
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  Speaker 1: to tell her of his enigmatic meeting with the schoolboys
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  Speaker 1: in the fewest words possible. Lisa clasped her hands at
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  Speaker 1: his story. How can you and in that dress too,
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  Speaker 1: associate with schoolboys, she cried angrily, as though she had
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  Speaker 1: a right to control him. You are nothing but a
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  Speaker 1: boy yourself if you can do that, a perfect boy.
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  Speaker 1: But you must find out for me about that horrid
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  Speaker 1: boy and tell me all about it. But there's some
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  Speaker 1: mystery in it. Now for the second thing, But first
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  Speaker 1: a question, does the pain prevent you talking about utterly
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  Speaker 1: unimportant things. But talking sensibly, of course not. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel much pain. Now that's because your finger is
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  Speaker 1: in the water. It must be changed directly, but it
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  Speaker 1: will get warm in a minute. Yulia, bring some ice
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  Speaker 1: from the cellar and another basin of water. Now she
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  Speaker 1: is gone, I can speak. Will you give me the
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  Speaker 1: letter I sent you yesterday, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, be quick,
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  Speaker 1: for Mamma will be back in a minute. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't want I haven't got the letter. That's not true,
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  Speaker 1: you have. I knew you would say that you've got
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  Speaker 1: it in that pocket. I've been regretting that joke all night.
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  Speaker 1: Give me back the letter at once, Give it me.
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  Speaker 1: I've left it at home. But you can't consider me
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  Speaker 1: as a child, a little girl after that silly joke.
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon for that sulliness. But you must
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  Speaker 1: bring me the letter. If you really haven't got it,
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  Speaker 1: bring it to day, you must, you must to day.
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  Speaker 1: I can't possibly fram going back to the monastery, and
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  Speaker 1: I shan't come and see you for the next two days,
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  Speaker 1: three or four, perhaps for Father Zossima, for days? What nonsense? Listen,
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  Speaker 1: did you laugh at me very much. I didn't laugh
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  Speaker 1: at all. Why not because I believed all you said.
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  Speaker 1: You are insulting me, not at all. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: I read it, I thought that all that would come
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  Speaker 1: to pass. For as soon as Father Zassima dies, I
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  Speaker 1: am to leave the monastery, then I shall go back
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  Speaker 1: and finish my studies, and when you reach the legal age,
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  Speaker 1: we will be married. I shall love you, though I
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  Speaker 1: haven't had time to think about it. I believe I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find a better word than you. And Father Zossima
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  Speaker 1: tells me I must marry, but I am a cripple.
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  Speaker 1: We'll depart in a chair, laughed Lisa, flushing Crimson. I'll
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  Speaker 1: will you about myself, but I'm sure you'll get well
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  Speaker 1: by then. But you are mad, said Lisa nervously, to
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  Speaker 1: make all this nonsense out of a joke. Here's mamma
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  Speaker 1: very apropos perhaps, Mamma, how slow you always are? How
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  Speaker 1: can you be so long? And here's Julia with the ice. Oh, Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: don't scream above all things, don't scream. That scream drives me.
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  Speaker 1: How can I help it? When you put the lint
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  Speaker 1: in another place? I've been hunting and hunting I do
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  Speaker 1: believe you did it on purpose, But I couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: that he would come with a bad finger or else.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I might have done it on purpose, My darling, Mamma,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to say really witty things. Never mind my
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  Speaker 1: being witty, but I must say you show nice feeling
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  Speaker 1: for Alexei, for yr Dorovich's sufferings. Oh, my dear Alexey
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  Speaker 1: fyr Duovitch. What's killing me is no one thing in particular,
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  Speaker 1: not Hudson Stupor, but everything together. That's what is too
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  Speaker 1: much for me. That's enough, mamma, Enough about Hudson Stupor.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa laughed, gaily, make haste with the lint and the lotion, mamma,
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  Speaker 1: That simply Goulard's water. Alexei for ya Duorovitch. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the name now, but it's a splendid lotion, would you
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  Speaker 1: believe it, mamma. On the way here, he had a
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  Speaker 1: fight with the boys in the street, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a boy bittery's finger. Isn't he a child? A child himself?
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  Speaker 1: Is he fit to be married? After that? For only
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  Speaker 1: fancy he wants to be married, mamma. Just think of
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  Speaker 1: him married, wouldn't it be funny? Wouldn't it be awful?
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  Speaker 1: And lee? Lisa kept laughing, her thin hysterical giggle, looking
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  Speaker 1: slyly at Alyosha. But why married Lisa? What makes you
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  Speaker 1: talk of such a thing. It's quite out of place?
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps the boy was rabbid? Why mamma, as though
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  Speaker 1: there were rabbid boys? Why not, Lisa? As though I
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  Speaker 1: had said something stupid? Your boy might have been bitten
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  Speaker 1: by a mad dog, and he would become mad and
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  Speaker 1: bite anyone near him. How well she has bandaged it,
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  Speaker 1: Alexey Fyodorovitch. I couldn't have done it. Do you still
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  Speaker 1: feel the pain? It's nothing much now? You don't feel
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  Speaker 1: afraid of water, asked Lisa. Come, that's enough, Lisa. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I really was rather too quick talking of the boy
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  Speaker 1: being rabbied, and you punched upon it at once. Katerina
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  Speaker 1: Ivanovna has only just heard that you are here, Alexei,
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  Speaker 1: for your Duovitch. She simply rushed at me. She's dying
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  Speaker 1: to see you dying. Ah, Mama, go to them yourself.
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  Speaker 1: He can't go just now, he is in too much pain.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. I can go quite well, said Alyosha.
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  Speaker 1: What you're going away? Is that? What you say, Well,
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  Speaker 1: when I've seen them, I'll come back here and we
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  Speaker 1: can talk as much as you like. But I should
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  Speaker 1: like to see Katarina Ivanovna at once, for I am
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  Speaker 1: very anxious to be back at the monastery as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I can. Mamma, take him away quickly, Alexei, Pya Duovitch.
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  Speaker 1: Don't trouble to come and see me afterwards, but go
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  Speaker 1: straight back to your monastery under good riddance. I want
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. I didn't sleep all night. Ah, Lisa, you
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  Speaker 1: are only making fun. But how I wish you would sleep,
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  Speaker 1: cried Madame Hohlakov. I don't know what I've done. I'll
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  Speaker 1: stay another three minutes by if you lie, I muttered,
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  Speaker 1: alyosha even five. Do take him away quickly, mamma. He
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  Speaker 1: is a monster. Lisa, you are crazy. Let us go
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  Speaker 1: Alexei for your Duovitch. She is too capricious today. I
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  Speaker 1: am afraid to cross her. Oh the trouble one has
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  Speaker 1: with nervous girls. Perhaps she really will be able to
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  Speaker 1: sleep after seeing you. How quickly you have made her sleepy,
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  Speaker 1: And how fortunate it is, ah, mamma, how sweetly you talk.
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  Speaker 1: I must kiss you, bar it, mamma, and I kiss
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  Speaker 1: you too, Lisa, listen, Alexei for Yo Duovitch. Madame Holokov
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  Speaker 1: began mysteriously and importantly, speaking in a rapid whisper. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to suggest anything. I don't want to lift
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  Speaker 1: the veil. You will see for yourself what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's appalling. It's the most fantastic fasts. She loves your
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  Speaker 1: brother Ivan, and she is doing her utmost to persuade herself.
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  Speaker 1: She loves your brother Dmitri. It's appalling. I'll go in
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  Speaker 1: with you, and if they don't turn me out, I'll
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  Speaker 1: stay to the end end of chapter twenty eight