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And the old lady I don't know her name promised to set up a soup kitchen on her estate to feed a hundred and fifty people. Thank God... Natalya Gavrilovna has been pleased to arrange that all the gentry should assemble every Friday." "To assemble here, downstairs?" "Yes, sir.
When the mistress really wants something, I have to try to please her in every way; because I was born her servant. NÁDYA. If she had commanded you to kill me, would you have done it? POTÁPYCH. That's not my affair, I can't argue about that. GAVRÍLOVNA. That's enough, Nádya, don't cry! God doesn't abandon orphans. NÁDYA falls upon GAVRÍLOVNA'S bosom.
A silence followed again. "So there's nothing left for me but to reconcile myself to loneliness," I sighed. "One cannot fight single-handed. Well, I will try single-handed. Let us hope that my campaign against the famine will be more successful than my campaign against indifference." "I am expected downstairs," said Natalya Gavrilovna. She got up from the table and turned to Ivan Ivanitch.
The same and LEONÍD LEONÍD. How are you, mamma? MADAM ULANBÉKOV. How are you, my dear? Where have you been? LEONÍD. I went hunting with Potápych. I killed two ducks, mamma. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. You don't spare your mother; the idea, going hunting in your state of health! You'll fall sick again, God forbid! and then you'll simply kill me! GAVRÍLOVNA. Some tea, master? LEONÍD. No, thanks.
You're used to saying over other people's words like a magpie; but just think for yourself. POTÁPYCH. But I don't know ... I don't know anything. GAVRÍLOVNA. You won't gain anything through severity. You may tell 'em, if you please, that they'll be hung for such-and-such; they'll go and do it anyway. Where there's the greatest strictness, there's the most sin.
"My crops have failed, too." He laughed a thin little laugh and gave a sly wink as though this were really funny. "No money, no corn, and a yard full of labourers like Count Sheremetyev's. I want to kick them out, but I haven't the heart to." Natalya Gavrilovna laughed, and began questioning him about his private affairs.
Keep watch, Gavrílovna! GAVRÍLOVNA. What's the use of listening to her, mistress? VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. But really, benefactress, am I saying anything bad? Would I dare to think any harm about him, that little angel? Of course he's still a child, he wants to frisk a little; but here he hasn't any companions, so he plays with the girls. POTÁPYCH takes the cups.
Let us think it over, my friends, and do something." Natalya Gavrilovna looked at me inquiringly and shrugged her shoulders as though to say, "What do I know about it?" "Yes, yes, famine..." muttered Ivan Ivanitch. "Certainly... yes." "It's a serious position," I said, "and assistance is needed as soon as possible.
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Don't you dare talk to me like that. Just remember who you are. I once owned serfs myself; at my place, such people as you didn't dare peep, they walked the chalk. I didn't let your sort get high-headed! GAVRÍLOVNA. That time's gone by. God gives a vicious cow no horns. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Oh, you monsters, wretches! You want me to die.
GAVRÍLOVNA. Yes, mistress. GRÍSHA. Why didn't you put more milk in it? Are you stingy, eh? GRÍSHA takes the cup and goes out through the door into the garden. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. I have thought of marrying NÁDYA to NEGLIGÉNTOV with a decent settlement, of course. You say that he leads a bad life; consequently we must hasten the wedding.
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