Old Karamazov Readings Pt. 7

Book 8:

This is without a doubt my favorite book, bar none. It plays out like a thriller, with Mitya as the main character. After two unsuccessful attempts to borrow money, one from a scheming businessman and the other from a drunk, Dmitri goes to Madame Khokhlakov to ask her for funds. She refuses to hand over any moolah so he asks the servants of the woman where Grushenka is. They refuse to tell him, and he becomes enraged because he thinks that she is at his father's house.

When he goes there, he sees through the window that Father Karamazov is actually alone, and when Grigory accosts him for sneaking around in the garden, the two men fight. Dmitri uses the pestle he got at Madame Khokhlakov's place to attack him, and Grigory falls to the ground, bleeding.

Dmitri leaves the scene, goes back to the servants to find out where Grushenka is once and for all, and somehow comes up with A LOT of money. Hey buys back his pistols and buys several hundred's rubles worth of wine and food. This he takes to Grushenka's place, where she is staying with her long lost love. The threesome play cards, and Grushenka realizes that Dmitri is really the man she loves. After a scuffle, Mitya locks the Polish officer in another room, and the two lovers start talking. But then, officers storm into the room and Dmitri is arrested for the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.