‘So there is a man, then, whom I love. Here he is, that man, my dear little brother, whom I love more than anyone in the world, the only one I love in the world. And I loved you so much, that at that moment I thought, ‘I’ll fall on his neck at once.’ Then a stupid idea struck me, to have a joke with you and scare you. I shouted, like a fool, ‘Your money or your life!’ Forgive my foolery, it was only nonsense and there is nothing unseemly in my soul...’ is very prevalent within my mind, as Mitya has a heart only for Alyosha, so much that it is spent on no one else, and detests even himself for wounding him.












