Thanks! And if you give me fifteen more I'll crawl on all fours right up to that tavern.

Do you want me to ?" proposed the barefooted man.
"Go, leave me alone!" said Foma, waving him off with his hand.
"He who gives not when he may, when he fain would, shall have nay," said the barefooted man, and stepped aside.
Foma looked at him as he departed, and said to himself: "There is a ruined man and yet how bold he is.

He asks alms as though demanding a debt.

Where do such people get so much boldness ?" And heaving a deep sigh, he answered himself: "From freedom.

The man is not fettered.