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Updated: June 19, 2025
KRASNÓV. So that's the kind of family I have! My luck sticks in their throats. You're a barbarian, you jealous woman. What are you making a row for? KRASNÓV. I'll hang you both on the same poplar! She's telling the truth, the absolute truth. KRASNÓV. You lie, you're jealous, both of you!
Give me the choice: Here, Krasnóv, you can have gold-mines and royal castles, if you'll only give up your wife; or here, you can have a roofless mud hut, all sorts of hard work, but you may live with your wife. I won't utter a sound. I'll carry water on my back, just to be with her always. So listen, grandfather! Is it strange that with my hot temper I hurt her?
KRASNÓV. I tell you that's all past! Now tell me why you love me? How can you be so attached to me? TATYÁNA. I just love you, that's all. KRASNÓV. No, do tell me! It does me good to hear it from you. I want to know what there is in me that could make such a beauty fall in love with me. Did I please you by my wit or by something else? TATYÁNA. By everything. Who could say anything bad of you?
You attend to your business; comfort your husband! I'd better go! I wish I didn't have to leave you. TATYÁNA. Don't go! KRASNÓV. Don't you really want me to go? Don't act spoiled! Business before pleasure! If I don't make the collection to-day, I can't get my money for a whole week. It's so far to go, too! I wish he'd Why, it's on the other side of the river! TATYÁNA. Of course not!
One wrong is no wrong; and two wrongs a half wrong; it takes three wrongs to make a whole wrong. KRASNÓV. What wrongs! All wrongs aren't the same. For some wrongs strangling would be mild. ARKHÍP. What makes you so fierce? Nowadays, they don't hang a man even for highway robbery. KRASNÓV. I can't even eat my food. ARKHÍP. You have a terrible temper!
But don't be blind! KRASNÓV. What are they doing to me? Must I really be on my guard, or are they just frightening me? Where then is love! Is it possible, Lord, that I have taken unto me not a joy but a torture! Rouse yourself, Lev Rodionych, rouse yourself. Hearken not to the fiend. You have one joy he's seizing it, and draining your heart. You will ruin your whole life!
LUKÉRYA. You feel worse because you don't appreciate kindness. AFÓNYA. I don't need it! I don't need anything. LUKÉRYA. Well, then just lie on your couch. Do you think I want anything from you? I'm all a-tremble. KRASNÓV comes in. The same and KRASNÓV KRASNÓV. Well, here I am. What a trick I've played! The joke's on Tatyána Danílovna.
Otherwise I'd really be bound to stay with you. TATYÁNA. Come back soon! KRASNÓV. I'll be back 'fore you can count ten! TATYÁNA alone At last he's gone! I'm unfortunate, unfortunate! They say one ought to love one's husband; but how can I love him? He's vulgar, uneducated and he fondles me as a bear would!
I'm not to blame because your wife wanders around highways and byways, and flirts with young gentlemen for hours. TATYÁNA. I know nothing of highways and byways; I have told you, Lev Rodionych, that I met Valentin Pávlich on the bank, and even everything that we said. LUKÉRYA. Yes, I was there with them. ULYÁNA. Yes, you're the same sort. KRASNÓV. You're a regular snake in the grass!
KRASNÓV. If you were always so kind, you could fairly twist me round your finger. You can do anything with me by kindness, Tatyána Danílovna. But don't think ill of me. Why were you so jealous? Whatever is dear to one he guards. Why, you're dearer to me than everything in the world! What a wife you are! Who else has such a one? You're the envy of the whole city don't I see that?
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