But listen to me, my child, permit me to give you advice.

I am a man of the law.

He, that Kayazev, is a rascal! True! But you must not thrash even a rascal, for he is a social being, under the paternal custody of the law.

You cannot touch him until he transgresses the limits of the penal code.

But even then, not you, but we, the judges, will give him his due.