He gathered loose women into his house, and carried on orgies of debauchery in his wife’s presence. Making her feel that she had ‘wronged’ him, he took advantage of her phenomenal meekness and submissiveness to trample on the elementary decencies of marriage. As he had received no dowry with his wife, and had, so to speak, taken her ‘from the halter,’ he did not stand on ceremony with her. In a man so depraved this might, of course, mean no more than sensual attraction. The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama. ‘Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor,’ he used to say afterwards, with his loathsome snigger. The award-winning translation of Fyodor Dostoevskys classic novel of psychological realism. But he had not reckoned on a dowry what allured him was the remarkable beauty of the innocent girl, above all her innocent appearance, which had a peculiar attraction for a vicious profligate, who had hitherto admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty. She gave them nothing and cursed them both. Fyodor Pavlovitch did not get a penny this time, for the general’s widow was furious. So the poor child exchanged a benefactress for a benefactor. But she lived in another province besides, what could a little girl of sixteen know about it, except that she would be better at the bottom of the river than remaining with her benefactress. Read 16.5k reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.

There is very little doubt that she would not on any account have married him if she had known a little more about him in time. There is assumed to be a fourth son, Smerdyakov, born. But again, as in his first marriage, he proposed an elopement to the orphan girl. In Part I, the Karamazov family is introduced: Fyodor and his three sons Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha.

Fyodor Pavlovitch made her an offer inquiries were made about him and he was refused.

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