e was brave, he
was good!"

"Ah, how I loved him!" exclaimed Kolya.

"Ah, children, ah, dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good life is
when one does something good and just!"

"Yes, yes," the boys repeated enthusiastically.

"Karamazov, we love you!" a voice, probably Kartashov's, cried
impulsively.

"We love you, we love you!" they all caught it up. There were tears in the
eyes of many of them.

"Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya shouted ecstatically.

"And may the dead boy's memory live for ever!" Alyosha added again with
feeling.

"For ever!" the boys chimed in again.

"Karamazov," cried Kolya, "can it be true what's taught us in religion,
that we shall all rise again from the dead and shall live and see each
other again, all, Ilusha too?"

"Certainly we shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and
shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!"
Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic.

"Ah, how splendid it will be!" broke from Kolya.

"Well, now we will finish talking and go to his funeral dinner. Don't be
put out at our eating pancakes--it's a very old custom and there's
something nice in that!" laughed Alyosha. "Well, let us go! And now we go
hand in hand."

"And always so, all our lives hand in hand! Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya
cried once more rapturously, and once more the boys took up his
exclamation: "Hurrah for Karamazov!"

THE END

FOOTNOTES

1 In Russian, "silen."

2 A proverbial expression in Russia.

3 Grushenka.

4 i.e. setter dog.

5 Probably the public event was the Decabrist plot against the Tsar,
of December 1825, in which the most distinguished men in Russia were
concerned.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

6 When a monk's body is carried out from the cell to the church and
from the church to the graveyard, the canticle "What earthly joy..."
is sung. If the deceased was a priest as well as a monk the canticle
"Our Helper and Defender" is sung instead.

7 i.e. a chime of bells.

8 Literally: "Did you get off with a long nose made at you?"--a
proverbial expression in Russia for failure.

9 Gogol is meant.

***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV***

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