MÍTYA. [_Turning towards the crowd_] What's all this noise? GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. Here, I'll marry her to Mítya! MÍTYA. What, sir? GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. Silence! Yes--I'll marry her to Mítya--to-morrow! And I'll give her such a wedding as you never saw! I'll get musicians from Moscow! I'll ride alone in four coaches! KÓRSHUNOV. We'll see, we'll see! You'll come to ask my pardon, you will! [_Goes out_. SCENE XIV _The same without_ KÓRSHUNOV PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. To whom, Gordéy Kárpych, did you say? GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. To Mítya--Yes! What airs he put on! As if I were worse than he! "You'll come and bow down!" He lies! I won't go and bow down! Just to spite him I'll marry her to Dmitry. [_All are astonished_. MÍTYA. [_Takes_ LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA _by the hand and goes to_ GORDÉY KÁRPYCH] Why out of spite, Gordéy Kárpych? One does not do such things out of spite. I don't want you to do it out of spite. I'd rather suffer torment all my life. If you are kind enough, then give us your blessing as is proper, in a fatherly fashion, with love. Because we love each other, and even before this happened, we wanted to confess our guilt to you. And now I'll be a true son to you forever, with all my heart. GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. What, what, "with all your heart"? You're glad of the chance! But how did you ever dare to think of it? Is she your equal? Remember to whom you're talking. MÍTYA. I know very 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. LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH _comes in and takes his stand in the crowd._ SCENE XV _The same and_ LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. 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! MÍTYA. It is so insulting for me to hear this from you, that I have no words. Better keep silent. [_Walks away_] If you please, Lyubóv Gordéyevna, you speak. LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA. Father, I have never gone against your will! If you wish for my happiness, then give me to Mítya. PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. Why, why, really, Gordéy Kárpych, 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? LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH. [_From the crowd_] Brother, give Lyubóv to Mítya! GORDÉY KÁRPYCH. 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. LYUBÍM KÁRPYCH. You'd better bow down to Lyubím Tortsóv's feet, just because he has put you to shame.