ry well that you are my master, and that I, because of my
poverty, cannot be her equal; but however, think as you please. Here I am;
I've fallen in love with your daughter with all my heart and soul.

LYUBIM KARPYCH _comes in and takes his stand in the crowd._

SCENE XV

_The same and_ LYUBIM KARPYCH

GORDEY KARPYCH. Well, how could you help loving her? Your taste isn't bad!
And you'll get plenty of money with her, which is fine for a penniless
fellow like you--without a rag to your back!

MITYA. It is so insulting for me to hear this from you, that I have no
words. Better keep silent. [_Walks away_] If you please, Lyubov Gordeyevna,
you speak.

LYUBOV GORDEYEVNA. Father, I have never gone against your will! If you wish
for my happiness, then give me to Mitya.

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. Why, why, really, Gordey Karpych, why do you keep
changing your mind so? Why do you? I was beginning to feel happy; my heart
was just beginning to feel easy, and now you begin again. Do stick to
something; otherwise what does all this mean? Really! First you say to one
man, and then to the other! Was she born your daughter just to be a martyr?

LYUBIM KARPYCH. [_From the crowd_] Brother, give Lyubov to Mitya!

GORDEY KARPYCH. You here again! Do you understand what you've done to me
to-day? You've put me to shame before the whole town! If you felt this you
wouldn't dare to show yourself in my sight--and then you slink in and give
me advice! If it were only a man talking and not you.

LYUBIM KARPYCH. You'd better bow down to Lyubim Tortsov's feet, just
because he has put you to shame.

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. That's it, dear Lyubim! We ought to bow down to your
feet; that's just it! You have taken a great sin from our souls; all our
prayers could never have freed us from this sin.

GORDEY KARPYCH. What, am I a monster to my own family?

PELAGEYA EGOROVNA. You're no monster, but you would have ruined your
daughter through your own folly; I tell you this straight out! They marry
girls to old men who are a lot better than Afrikan Savvich, and even so
they live miserable lives.

LYUBIM KARPYCH. Permit me! [_Sings_] Tum-ty-tum, tum-ty-tum! [_Dances_]
Look at me, here's an example for you! Lyubim Karpych stands before you
large as life! He went along that road, he knows what it is! And I was rich
and respected, I drove about in coaches, I played such pranks as would
never come into your head; and then head over heels down. Ju