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Updated: June 19, 2025
Brother, sister, have a cup of tea. All excepting AFÓNYA seat themselves at the table. KÚRITSYN. Brother, this is a holiday occasion, so it is customary before tea to just a little. Don't you drink, yourself? KRASNÓV. From the day I married Tatyána Danílovna I stopped all that. Tatyána Danílovna, treat brother and sister with some vodka.
KRASNÓV. What I think is my business, and you can't understand it with your wits. You'd better keep still. LUKÉRYA. What an interesting conversation worth while hearing! ULYÁNA. It seems to me she doesn't come from nobles but from government clerks. Not a very great lady! Goats and government clerks are the devil's own kin. KRASNÓV. I told you to keep still! I shouldn't have to tell you ten times.
Is it possible you are always at home? TATYÁNA. Mostly. KRASNÓV. And that is proper among such as us. Our Russian way is: husband and dog in the yard, and wife and cat in the house. KRASNÓV. I know my business. BABÁYEV. So you're a housekeeper. I should think it must have been hard for you to get used to your new duties. LUKÉRYA. But considering your noble birth, that's beneath your knowledge.
We saw how you went over there and came back. KÚRITSYN. Trample on her, brother, trample on her hard; she'll talk. KRASNÓV. Don't torment me! Tell me, what am I to think of you? What? Are these people lying? Then I'll turn 'em out, head over heels! Or maybe they're telling the truth? Deliver me from my sinful thoughts! Tell me, which of you is my enemy? Were you there?
ULYÁNA. Yes, that's so, that used to happen. I can say that without shame, to everybody. KRASNÓV. There's nothing good in that, just swagger. KÚRITSYN. Ah, brother! Beat your overcoat and it will be warmer; beat a wife she'll be smarter. TATYÁNA. Not every wife will allow herself to be beaten, and the one that allows it, isn't worth any other treatment.
Petersburg; a fine opinion of us he'll take away with him! KRASNÓV. I tell you again, that you should dismiss him and his opinions from your mind. The whole affair isn't worth a kopek. I think that whether he's alive or no, it's all the same to us. TATYÁNA. It may be all the same for you, but not so for us. Sister and I have promised to visit him and we want to go to-day.
I had such thoughts in my head that I can't make up for them by praying all my life. The devil was surely near me. ARKHÍP. What! At whom? KRASNÓV. Well, what's past is past. God preserve me from such torment in the future! I wouldn't wish such for my enemy. ARKHÍP. You'd better calm your heart! KRASNÓV. Ah, grandfather! I'd be glad to, but one can't restrain oneself.
KRASNÓV. There's nothing vulgar about it. BABÁYEV. Really, what is there vulgar in it? LUKÉRYA. The words are low and even quite coarse, and they aren't usually spoken before people of good breeding. BABÁYEV. Well, imagine that I'm a man of no breeding. What are the words, tell me? LUKÉRYA. You're embarrassing Tánya and me. But if you're interested to hear those words, all right!
LUKÉRYA. You're very hot in your love; but we're of entirely different bringing up. KRASNÓV. You speak of bringing up? I'll tell you this, that if I were younger, I'd take up and study for Tatyána Danílovna. I know, myself, what I lack, but now it's too late. I've a soul but no training. If I were trained KRASNÓV. Where so suddenly? What are you running after? LUKÉRYA. What do you mean?
KRASNÓV. There's no need. TATYÁNA. How, no need? I tell you that I want to see him. KRASNÓV. You want to, but I'm not anxious. Ought you to consider my wishes or not? TATYÁNA. You seem to have assumed authority all of a sudden. You certainly don't imagine that we'll obey you. No, indeed, we won't. What torture! KRASNÓV. What are you cackling about?
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