All he saw before him was the distracted, despairing face which, as he had let slip to Aglaya once, ‘pierced his heart for ever’.
YOU SEE. HE WILL AWAYS CHOOSE NASTASYA. The sword through his heart, all that pain and compassion, will always have trumped his being in love with Aglaya. Especially after how he just saw Aglaya being unjust to Nastasya.
