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第145章

AlyoshaChapter 1

The Breath of CorruptionTHE body of Father Zossima was prepared for burial according to the established Ritual.As is well known, the bodies of dead monks and hermits are not washed.In the words of the Church Ritual: "If any one of the monks depart in the Lord, the monk designated (that is, whose office it is) shall wipe the body with warm water, making first the sign of the cross with a sponge on the forehead of the deceased, on the breast, on the hands and feet and on the knees, and that is enough." All this was done by Father Paissy, who then clothed the deceased in his monastic garb and wrapped him in his cloak, which was, according to custom, somewhat slit to allow of its being folded about him in the form of a cross.On his head he put a hood with an eight-cornered cross.The hood was left open and the dead man's face was covered with black gauze.In his hands was put an ikon of the Saviour.Towards morning he was put in the coffin which had been made ready long before.It was decided to leave the coffin all day in the cell, in the larger room in which the elder used to receive his visitors and fellow monks.As the deceased was a priest and monk of the strictest rule, the Gospel, not the Psalter, had to be read over his body by monks in holy orders.The reading was begun by Father Iosif immediately after the requiem service.Father Paissy desired later on to read the Gospel all day and night over his dead friend, but for the present he, as well as the Father Superintendent of the Hermitage, was very busy and occupied, for something extraordinary, an unheard-of, even "unseemly" excitement and impatient expectation began to be apparent in the monks, and the visitors from the monastery hostels, and the crowds of people flocking from the town.And as time went on, this grew more and more marked.Both the Superintendent and Father Paissy did their utmost to calm the general bustle and agitation.

When it was fully daylight, some people began bringing their sick, in most cases children, with them from the town- as though they had been waiting expressly for this moment to do so, evidently persuaded that the dead elder's remains had a power of healing, which would be immediately made manifest in accordance with their faith.It was only then apparent how unquestionably everyone in our town had accepted Father Zossima during his lifetime as a great saint.And those who came were far from being all of the humbler classes.

This intense expectation on the part of believers displayed with such haste, such openness, even with impatience and almost insistence, impressed Father Paissy as unseemly.Though he had long foreseen something of the sort, the actual manifestation of the feeling was beyond anything he had looked for.When he came across any of the monks who displayed this excitement, Father Paissy began to reprove them."Such immediate expectation of something extraordinary," he said, "shows a levity, possible to worldly people but unseemly in us."But little attention was paid him and Father Paissy noticed it uneasily.Yet he himself (if the whole truth must be told), secretly at the bottom of his heart, cherished almost the same hopes and could not but be aware of it, though he was indignant at the too impatient expectation around him, and saw in it light-mindedness and vanity.Nevertheless, it was particularly unpleasant to him to meet certain persons, whose presence aroused in him great misgivings.In the crowd in the dead man's cell he noticed with inward aversion (for which he immediately reproached himself) the presence of Rakitin and of the monk from Obdorsk, who was still staying in the monastery.Of both of them Father Paissy felt for some reason suddenly suspicious- though, indeed, he might well have felt the same about others.

The monk from Obdorsk was conspicuous as the most fussy in the excited crowd.He was to be seen everywhere; everywhere he was asking questions, everywhere he was listening, on all sides he was whispering with a peculiar, mysterious air.His expression showed the greatest impatience and even a sort of irritation.

As for Rakitin, he, as appeared later, had come so early to the hermitage at the special request of Madame Hohlakov.As soon as that good-hearted but weak-minded woman, who could not herself have been admitted to the hermitage, waked and heard of the death of Father Zossima, she was overtaken with such intense curiosity that she promptly despatched Rakitin to the hermitage, to keep a careful look out and report to her by letter ever half hour or so "everything that takes place." She regarded Rakitin as a most religious and devout young man.He was particularly clever in getting round people and assuming whatever part he thought most to their taste, if he detected the slightest advantage to himself from doing so.

It was a bright, clear day, and many of the visitors were thronging about the tombs, which were particularly numerous round the church and scattered here and there about the hermitage.As he walked round the hermitage, Father Paissy remembered Alyosha and that he had not seen him for some time, not since the night.And he had no sooner thought of him than he at once noticed him in the farthest corner of the hermitage garden, sitting on the tombstone of a monk who had been famous long ago for his saintliness.He sat with his back to the hermitage and his face to the wall, and seemed to be hiding behind the tombstone.Going up to him, Father Paissy saw that he was weeping quietly but bitterly, with his face hidden in his hands, and that his whole frame was shaking with sobs.Father Paissy stood over him for a little.

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