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Katerina Ivanovna will understand it all, Alyosha said solemnly. Shell understand how great this trouble is and will forgive. She has a lofty mind, and no one could be more unhappy than you. Shell see that for herself. She wont forgive everything, said Dmitri, with a grin. Theres something in it, brother, that no woman could forgive. Do you know what would be the best thing to do? What? Pay back the three thousand. Where can we get it from? I say, I have two thousand. Ivan will give you another thousandthat makes three. Take it and pay it back. And when would you get it, your three thousand? Youre not of age, besides, and you mustyou absolutely musttake my farewell to her to-day, with the money or without it, for I cant drag on any longer, things have come to such a pass. To-morrow is too late. I shall send you to father. To father? Yes, to father first. Ask him for three thousand. But, Mitya, he wont give it. As though he would! I know he wont. Do you know the meaning of despair, Alexey? Yes. Listen. Legally he owes me nothing. Ive had it all from him, I know that. But morally he owes me something, doesnt he? You know he started with twenty-eight thousand of my mothers money and made a hundred thousand with it. Let him give me back only three out of the twenty-eight thousand, and hell draw my soul out of hell, and it will atone for many of his sins. For that three thousandI give you my solemn wordIll make an end of everything, and he shall hear nothing more of me. For the last time I give him the chance to be a father. Tell him God Himself sends him this chance. Mitya, he wont give it for anything. I know he wont. I know it perfectly well. Now, especially. Thats not all. I know something more. Now, only a few days ago, perhaps only yesterday he found out for the first time in earnest (underline in earnest) that Grushenka is really perhaps not joking, and really means to marry me. He knows her nature; he knows the cat. And do you suppose hes going to give me money to help to bring that about when hes crazy about her himself? And thats not all, either. I can tell you more than that. I know that for the last five days he has had three thousand drawn out of the bank, changed into notes of a hundred roubles, packed into a large envelope, sealed with five seals, and tied across with red tape. You see how well I know all about it! On the envelope is written: To my angel, Grushenka, when she will come to me. He scrawled it himself in silence and in secret, and no one knows that the moneys there except the valet, Smerdyakov, whom he trusts like himself. So now he has been expecting Grushenka for the last three or four days; he hopes shell come for the money. He has sent her word of it, and she has sent him word that perhaps shell come. And if she does go to the old man, can I marry her after that? You understand now why Im here in secret and what Im on the watch for. For her? Yes, for her. Foma has a room in the house of these sluts here. Foma comes from our parts; he was a soldier in our regiment. He does jobs for them. Hes watchman at night and goes grouse shooting in the |
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