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Updated: June 19, 2025
I respect her and you all must respect her! LUKÉRYA. Sister herself understands that she deserves all respect. KRASNÓV. What's that you were saying, Ulyana? If you're right, then it's all up with me! See here! I have only one joy, one consolation, and I should have to give it up. Is that easy? Is it? I'm not made of stone that I can look at such wifely doings through my fingers!
The samovar is all ready that's good. ULYÁNA. How do you do, sister? You are so proud you never call on us! But we're common folks; so we picked ourselves up and came, uninvited. KÚRITSYN. How do you do, sister? Why are you so contemptuous of your relatives? You might run over once in a while for tea; your feet are able to carry you! KRASNÓV. How has she time to go visiting?
Recollect yourself. AFÓNYA. Brother! You drove sister away. Whether right or not, let God judge you! But I tell you, you'd better watch the gentleman. KRASNÓV. What the deuce have you got to do with this? You hiss like a snake. You want to wound me. Get out of here! Go, I tell you, or I'll kill you. AFÓNYA. Well, kill! My life isn't very sweet to me, and I haven't long to live, anyway.
TATYÁNA brings a plate of cabbage soup, puts it on the table, and goes out with LUKÉRYA. KRASNÓV, after eating several spoonfuls, is lost in thought. ARKHÍP. Lev! I can't see you, but it seems as if you weren't happy. KRASNÓV. What's there to be happy about? ARKHÍP. Why are you so sad? What's your sorrow? KRASNÓV. It's my sorrow, grandfather, mine. My very own. It's for me to judge of it.
I don't suppose you're made of sugar; you won't fall to pieces. TATYÁNA. That's all right. KRASNÓV. I know you didn't mean anything. What's there to complain of! No need to get angry at such treatment! Isn't that so? TATYÁNA. You know yourself, why ask! KRASNÓV. Such is life with a good woman! Peaches and cream! Simply lovely! Nothing on earth is better!
Strikes the spoon against the bowl angrily. LUKÉRYA enters, places a bowl of mush on the table, and goes out. ARKHÍP. Your wife is wiser than you, really wiser. KRASNÓV. If she were wise she'd obey her husband. ARKHÍP. Not necessarily! One can't be on one's guard every minute! Don't you hold anger for every little thing.
That's what's to be expected. KRASNÓV. You're mistaken. You'll never see me do that. I love you so much that this time I'll even respect your caprices. Go along, but never set your foot there again. Understand? KRASNÓV. I think everything will be all right now. They were a little spoiled; in that case sternness will do no harm. If I hold on she'll come to love me.
We want to make peace, and you are starting a quarrel again. LUKÉRYA. He's not even her husband, yet what awful things he says! If you gave him his way, he would make our life unbearable. He's a sick man. KRASNÓV comes in. KRASNÓV, TATYÁNA, LUKÉRYA, ARKHÍP, and AFÓNYA ARKHÍP. Lev, you haven't had any dinner to-day. KRASNÓV. I had no time. TATYÁNA. If you wish, we'll serve you now.
What is the reason that you're so precious to us men? TATYÁNA. I don't know. KRASNÓV. It's the work of Providence truly, of Providence! It's beyond our understanding! We know one thing, that if you're attached to your wife, that's enough. If you're once attached, then that's all. TATYÁNA. What for? You don't need to. KRASNÓV. If I say I'll buy it, then that's my affair. So I do need to buy it.
KRASNÓV. I don't understand the reason for this argument! The whole affair isn't worth discussing. We probably won't ever see him again, and we have no need of him; he went with what he came. We have to live our life together; it isn't worth our having trouble over him. TATYÁNA. Ah, Lusha, what a disgrace! I wonder what he'll think of us now? LUKÉRYA. Yes. He'll soon go back to St.
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