PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. Here, Lyubov dear! Mitya has come to say good-by; he is
going away from here to his mother's.

MITYA. [Bows] Good-by, Lyubov Gordeyevna! Don't bear me any ill will!

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. Good-by, Mitya! [_Bows_]

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. Kiss each other good-by; it may be that God will not let
you see each other again. Well, never mind! [_MITYA and LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA
kiss each other; she seats herself on the sofa and weeps; MITYA also
weeps_] Stop, stop your weeping! you will drive me wild!

MITYA. Oh, I'll risk everything now; everything in the world! [_Goes to
PELAGEYA EGOROVNA_] Pelageya Egorovna, are you sorry to marry your daughter
to an old man, or not?

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. If I weren't sorry, I shouldn't be crying.

MITYA. Will you permit me to speak, Pelageya Egorovna?

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. Speak!

MITYA. This is what I have to say: Get her ready and put on her warm
clothes. Let her slip out quietly; I'll seat her in my fairy sleigh, and
that's the last of us. Then the old man will never see her any more than
his own ears! And no matter if I do go to ruin! I will take her to my
mother and there we will get married. Oh, just give us a chance! I want
some joy in life! At any rate, if I have to pay the price, at least I shall
know that I've really lived.

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. What do you mean? What do you mean, you scamp?

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. What an idea, Mitya!

MITYA. So you don't love me? Or have you ceased to love me?

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. What you say is dreadful!

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. What an idea, you scamp! Who would dare to take such a
sin on his soul? Yes, come to your senses! What are you thinking of?

MITYA. Why, I said if you're sorry! But if you're not sorry--then give
her to Afrikan Savvich; sell her into slavery forever and ever. You'll be
miserable yourselves when you see her wretched life; you'll come to your
senses, you and Gordey Karpych, but then it will be too late.

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. But how could you, without her father's blessing? How
could you? Judge for yourself!

MITYA. Certainly, how could we live without a blessing! Then you bless us,
Pelageya Egorovna. [_Kneels down_] and Gordey Karpych, it may be--himself,
in time--somehow---

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. What can I say to you? I feel altogether
distracted.--Yes, I'm going out of my mind! I don't know anything! I don't
remember anything! Yes, yes, my head spins. Oh, my darlings, my heart is
torn!

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA.