Book 2, Chapter 8: The Scandalous Scene

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌⁠Miüsov, as a man of breeding and delicacy, could not but feel some inward qualms, when he reached the Father Superior’s with Ivan: he felt ashamed of having lost his temper. He felt that he ought to have disdained that despicable wretch, Fyodor Pavlovitch, too much to have been upset by him in Father Zossima’s cell, and so to have forgotten himself. “The monks were not to blame, in any case,” he r