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“Mitya, dear, what’s the matter with you?” cried Alyosha, jumping up from his place, and looking keenly at his brother’s frenzied face. For one moment the thought struck him that Dmitri was mad. “What is it? I’m not insane,” said Dmitri, looking intently and earnestly at him. “No fear. I am sending you to father, and I know what I’m saying. I believe in miracles.” “In miracles?”
“That’s a woman’s way of looking at it!” “Don’t you make me angry, Rakitin.” Grushenka caught him up hotly. “This is quite different. I love Alyosha in a different way. It’s true, Alyosha, I had sly designs on you before. For I am a horrid, violent creature. But at other times I’ve looked upon you, Alyosha, as my conscience.
“I—I’ll ask him,” muttered Alyosha. “If you would give him three thousand, perhaps he—” “That’s nonsense! You needn’t ask him now, no need! I’ve changed my mind. It was a nonsensical idea of mine. I won’t give him anything, not a penny, I want my money myself,” cried the old man, waving his hand. “I’ll crush him like a beetle without it. Don’t say anything to him or else he will begin hoping.
I have dreams now, Alyosha ... yet they are not dreams, but reality. I walk about, talk and see ... though I am asleep. But he was sitting here, on that sofa there.... He is frightfully stupid, Alyosha, frightfully stupid.” Ivan laughed suddenly and began pacing about the room. “Who is stupid? Of whom are you talking, brother?” Alyosha asked anxiously again.
"Don't kill it," says Alyosha, in his deep bass, "perhaps it's got children . . . ." Sonya follows the black beetle with her eyes and wonders about its children: what tiny little beetles they must be! "Forty-three! One!" Grisha goes on, unhappy at the thought that Anya has already made two fours. "Six!" "Game! I have got the game!" cries Sonya, rolling her eyes coquettishly and giggling.
Alyosha described Ilusha with warm feeling. When he finished describing how the luckless man trampled on the money, Lise could not help clasping her hands and crying out: “So you didn’t give him the money! So you let him run away! Oh, dear, you ought to have run after him!”
"Well, and afterwards.... Did you see her?" "Afterwards ... I don't know, I had no thought to spare for her.... You jumped in ..." David was suddenly roused. "Alyosha, darling, go to her at once, tell her I am all right, that there's nothing the matter with me. Tomorrow I shall be with them. Go as quickly as you can, brother, for my sake!"
He takes no interest in winning, or in the success of the others, because he is entirely engrossed by the arithmetic of the game, and its far from complex theory; "How many numbers there are in the world," he is thinking, "and how is it they don't get mixed up?" They all shout out the numbers in turn, except Sonya and Alyosha.
Alyosha stopped two steps in front of him, looking inquiringly at him. The boy, seeing at once from Alyosha’s eyes that he wouldn’t beat him, became less defiant, and addressed him first. “I am alone, and there are six of them. I’ll beat them all, alone!” he said suddenly, with flashing eyes. “I think one of the stones must have hurt you badly,” observed Alyosha.
During the preceding month it had been several times suggested to him that his brother Ivan was in love with Katerina Ivanovna, and, what was more, that he meant “to carry her off” from Dmitri. Until quite lately the idea seemed to Alyosha monstrous, though it worried him extremely. He loved both his brothers, and dreaded such rivalry between them.
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