838 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Yes, yes, for ever, for ever ! ” the boys cried in their ringing voices, with softened faces. " Let us remember his face and his clothes and his poor little boots, his coffin and his unhappy, sinful father, and how boldly he stood up for him alone against the whole school.” ” We will remember, we will remember,” cried the boys. He was brave, he was good I ” Ah, how I loved him I ” exclaimed Kolya. " Ah, children, ah, dear friends, don't be afraid of life I How good life is when one does something good and just! ” “ Yes, yea,” the boys repeated enthusiastically. " Karamazov, we love you I ” a voice, probably Kartashov's, cried impulsively. “ We love you, we love you I ” they all caught it up. There were tears in the eyes of many of them. " Hurrah for Karamazov I " Kolya shouted ecstatically. “ And may the dead boy’s memory live for ever I ” Alyosha added again with feeling. ”For ever I” 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 i and see each other again, all, Ilusha too f ” ! “ Certainly wo shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened I ” Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthu¬ siastic. ” Ah, how splendid it will be I ” 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 1 ” laughed Alyosha. " Well, let us go 1 And now we go hand in hand.” ! ” And always so, all our lives hand in hand I Hurrah for Karamazov 1 ” Kolya cried once more rapturously and once more I the boys took up his exclamation: I “ Hurrah for Karamazov I ” THE END Original from UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Digitized by i
