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Updated: June 19, 2025
How embarrassing, how awfully embarrassing! KRASNÓV. What, embarrassing? Is some lord coming? What's the odds! Nothing to get excited over! Let him see our relatives. LUKÉRYA. Much he's interested! KRASNÓV. I can't chase my sister away for him. So there's nothing more to be said about it. I haven't set eyes on him yet, I don't know what he's like; these, at any rate, are our own.
I'll fire you out so fast that your skirts will squeak on the gate. TATYÁNA. Well, do what you like, even kill us, but we'll go. We don't want to show him we're boors. We surely have to thank him for remembering us, and wish him a pleasant journey. KRASNÓV. Tatyána Danílovna, please understand what you are told. TATYÁNA. I hope you aren't going to fight? That'll be just like you.
AFÓNYA. Don't know. Oh, I feel sick. Lukérya Danílovna! They don't even answer. What does that mean now? Afanásy, where's my wife? AFÓNYA. Are you lonesome without her? She'll come, don't be afraid. No matter where she's strolling, she'll come home. ULYÁNA comes in. The same and ULYÁNA KRASNÓV. Who's that? Is that you, Ulyana? ULYÁNA. Yes, brother. KRASNÓV. What do you want?
BABÁYEV. You're in business? KRASNÓV. That's my affair. BABÁYEV. No, thank you; I don't care for tea now. LUKÉRYA. Ah, Tánya, we've forgotten that now in St. BABÁYEV. No, please do not trouble yourself; I've already had some. Let us rather sit and talk. Are you happy here? Have you any amusements here? TATYÁNA. No. What sort of amusements can one have here? BABÁYEV. How do you spend your time?
You gave your word that's enough; it's my duty to believe you. TATYÁNA. Then you're not angry with me? KRASNÓV. Not at all! I'm not a man of polished manners; in my excitement I stormed but don't take it ill of me; I did it because I was fond of you. LUKÉRYA. Oh, stop! Who could take it ill of you? TATYÁNA. I've already forgotten it.
You ought to understand it at once. KÚRITSYN. Leave them alone. I like it when the women start a row. KRASNÓV. But I don't like it. ULYÁNA. What do I care what you like! I'm not trying to please you. My, how stern you are! You'd better scold your own wife, not me; I'm not under your orders; you aren't my boss. I have a good husband who can boss me, not you.
KÚRITSYN. That's no invitation, you don't know how to do it. KRASNÓV. Brother, don't be quite so particular! My wife doesn't know your common ways, and there's no use knowing them. Please, without ceremony. Freedom spoils even a good wife. You ought to take example from me, and teach her common sense; that would be lots better. Ask your sister how I trained her; we had a hot time of it.
BABÁYEV. I don't know. Whenever my affairs are settled. KRASNÓV. But when, do you think? BABÁYEV. They tell me, at court, the day after to-morrow. KRASNÓV. So, when that's over you're going directly? BABÁYEV. I think so. What is there to do here? KRASNÓV. Yes, there's nothing to do here. What do we want with him? What use is he to us? I won't have his help; we aren't beggars.
TATYÁNA. What sort of love do you want to have from me? KRASNÓV. You know yourself what sort; but maybe you don't feel it. What's to be done? We'll wait, perhaps it'll come later. Everything can happen in this world! There have been cases where love has come the fifth or sixth year after marriage. And what love! Better than if it came at first. TATYÁNA. Keep on waiting.
If I've done you any wrong whatever, please pardon me. If you wish it, I'll bow down to your feet. KRASNÓV. No, why should you? I can feel it without your doing that. I could never allow you to do that to bow down before me! What kind of man would I be then? TATYÁNA. I'm willing to do anything, only do not be angry with me. KRASNÓV. I need nothing but your word.
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