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Updated: June 9, 2025
One has to think about the children. OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Why, daddy, we can't strip ourselves bare! We're none of your common townspeople. PODKHALYÚZIN. Daddy, please consider: to-day, without capital, sir, without capital you can't do much business. OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. I lived with you until I was twenty years old, daddy, and was a regular stay-at-home.
If I'm exerting myself on your behalf now, and am putting in my whole strength, too, it may be said, grudging neither sweat nor blood then it's mostly because I'm sorry for your family. BOLSHÓV. Come, really now? PODKHALYÚZIN. If you please, sir. Now, suppose all this ends well. Very good, sir. You'll have something left with which to establish Olimpiáda Samsónovna.
OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Curse away if you want to! AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. Yes, that's it! You'll die, and not rot! Yes! OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Much I shall! PODKHALYÚZIN. Why, daddy, sit still! We've got to settle this business somehow or other. BOLSHÓV. Settle what? I see plainly enough that the jig is up. You'll make a mistake if you don't do me up brown!
Look here, brother, aren't you hinting around a little? PODKHALYÚZIN. Hinting, sir? No, I didn't mean, sir! BOLSHÓV. Aha! Brother, you'd better speak more openly. Are you in love with Olimpiáda Samsónovna? PODKHALYÚZIN. Why, Samsón Sílych, must be you want to joke me. BOLSHÓV. Joke, fiddlesticks! I'm asking you seriously.
PODKHALYÚZIN. What of it won't I learn, though, and the raggiest ever! In the winter we're going to attend the Merchants' Assemblies. You just watch us, ma'am! I'm going to dance the polka. OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Now, Lázar Elizárych, you buy that carriage we saw at Arbatsky's. PODKHALYÚZIN. Of course, Olimpiáda Samsónovna, ma'am! Of course, by all means!
I'm the only one responsible. PODKHALYÚZIN. Why talk about you! You, Samsón Sílych, have already had a long life; thank God, you're in a ripe old age; but Olimpiáda Samsónovna, of course, is a young lady whose like can't be found on earth. I'm speaking to you conscientiously, Samsón Sílych; that is, absolutely according to my feelings.
OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. Bah, what nonsense you're chattering, Ustinya Naúmovna! Now, what struck you to come here? USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. What nonsense, my jewel! Here's what's up. Whether you like it or not, you can't help it. If you like to slide down-hill you've got to pull up your sled. Now, why have you forgotten me completely, my jewels? Or haven't you had a chance yet to look about you?
LÍPOCHKA. You all talk that way before the wedding; but afterwards you cheat us. PODKHALYÚZIN. May I die on the spot, Olimpiáda Samsónovna! Damnation blast me if I lie! Why should I, Olimpiáda Samsónovna? D'you think we'll live in a house like this? We'll buy one in the Karetny, ma'am; and how we'll decorate it!
PODKHALYÚZIN. Now, Olimpiáda Samsónovna, you were pleased to say "break off." Only, if I should break off, what would happen then, ma'am? LÍPOCHKA. Why, the thing that would happen would be that I'd marry an aristocrat. PODKHALYÚZIN. An aristocrat, ma'am! But an aristocrat won't take you without a dowry! LÍPOCHKA. What do you mean, without dowry? What are you talking about?
I promised to jump from the Tower of Ivan the Great, provided I married Olimpiáda Samsónovna; should I jump? USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. Do you think I won't have the law on you? Much I care that you're a merchant of the second guild; I'm in the fourteenth class myself, and even if that ain't much, I'm an official's wife all the same.
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