Aglaya swiftly ran to him and managed to catch him in her arms, and, horror-stricken, her face distorted with pain, heard the wild cry of ‘the spirit that cast down and racked’* the wretched man.
Oh so yea he did have a seizure. Honestly I blame Aglaya for this, since she was the one who’s been ‘tormenting’ him, honestly not even since yesterday but since the start of Part IV. She told him all about his future failures in this situation, about the Chinese vase, and he really did go and embarrass himself and knock over the Chinese vase. That, and the memory of Nastasya. He probably knows the ‘fateful moment’ of choosing between the two women is close, and it’s been harrowing on his soul.
