Book 5, Chapter 2: Smerdyakov With A Guitar

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​⁠He had no time to lose indeed. Even while he was saying good-by to Lise, the thought had struck him that he must attempt some stratagem to find his brother Dmitri, who was evidently keeping out of his way. It was getting late, nearly three o’clock. Alyosha’s whole soul turned to the monastery, to his dying saint, but the necessity of seeing Dmitri outweighed everything. The conviction that a great