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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Dear Sasha," she said, "you are ill." "No, it's nothing, I am ill, but not very . . ." "Oh, dear!" cried Nadya, in agitation. "Why don't you go to a doctor? Why don't you take care of your health?
After dinner Granny went off to her own room to lie down. Nina Ivanovna played on the piano for a little, and then she too went away. "Oh, dear Nadya!" Sasha began his usual afternoon conversation, "if only you would listen to me! If only you would!" She was sitting far back in an old-fashioned armchair, with her eyes shut, while he paced slowly about the room from corner to corner.
It would be better for you to go off somewhere: out of my sight. LEONÍD. Yes, really, it would be better for me to spend a week with our neighbors. NÁDYA. For God's sake, do! LEONÍD. But Nádya, if it should be awfully hard for you to live with your husband, what then? Go away! LEONÍD. Why do you drive me out? I guess I'm sorry enough for her!
"Well, good-bye. . . . God give you all happiness." Von Koren gave Laevsky his hand; the latter took it and bowed. "Don't remember evil against me," said Von Koren. "Give my greetings to your wife, and say I am very sorry not to say good-bye to her." "She is at home." Laevsky went to the door of the next room, and said: "Nadya, Nikolay Vassilitch wants to say goodbye to you."
We had hardly strength to breathe from the pressure of the wind. It seemed as though the devil himself had caught us in his claws and was dragging us with a roar to hell. Surrounding objects melted into one long furiously racing streak . . . another moment and it seemed we should perish. "I love you, Nadya!" I said in a low voice.
Nadya had grown used to being at home. Granny busied herself about the samovar, heaving deep sighs. Nina Ivanovna talked in the evenings about her philosophy; she still lived in the house like a poor relation, and had to go to Granny for every farthing. There were lots of flies in the house, and the ceilings seemed to become lower and lower.
Nina Ivanovna got up, made the sign of the cross over Nadya and the windows. "I have become religious, as you see," she said. "You know I am studying philosophy now, and I am always thinking and thinking. . . . And many things have become as clear as daylight to me. It seems to me that what is above all necessary is that life should pass as it were through a prism."
NÁDYA. Why are you bothering? You see, there's nothing you can do: better leave me! Now you'll soon go away to Petersburg; you will be happy: why should you think about such trifles, or disturb yourself? LEONÍD. Why, you see, I'm sorry for you! NÁDYA. Don't be sorry, if you please! I ran to my own destruction of my own free will, like a mad girl, without once stopping to think.
I thought; "then come what may, I don't care to inquire. Marry me off to a herdsman, lock me in a castle with thirty locks!.... it's all the same to me!" LÍZA. I think the master's coming. LEONÍD enters from the opposite side, in a cloak. NÁDYA. Well, Líza, isn't he handsome, ha? LÍZA. Oh, stop! You're either sick or half out of your head! The same and LEONÍD NÁDYA. Why did you think so?
It announced that the previous morning Alexandr Timofeitch, or more simply, Sasha, had died at Saratov of consumption. Granny and Nina Ivanovna went to the church to order a memorial service, while Nadya went on walking about the rooms and thinking.
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