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Updated: June 9, 2025
Well, Lázar, suppose I try to make a match between you and Olimpiáda Samsónovna, eh? That indescribable beauty, eh? PODKHALYÚZIN. Good gracious, would I dare? It may be that Olimpiáda Samsónovna won't look kindly on me, sir! BOLSHÓV. Nonsense! I don't have to dance to her piping in my old age! She'll marry the man I tell her to.
Now, if I could marry a nobleman, I'd go out of this house, and could forget about all that. But now everything will go on as before. PODKHALYÚZIN. No, ma'am, Olimpiáda Samsónovna; it won't be that way! Olimpiáda Samsónovna, as soon as we've celebrated the wedding, we'll move into our own house, ma'am. And then we won't let 'em boss us. No, here's an end to all that, ma'am!
I've already assured him that Olimpiáda Samsónovna is such a beauty, that she's the real ticket for him; "and educated," I said, "in French, and is trained in all sorts of society ways." And now what am I going to say to him? PODKHALYÚZIN. Why, just tell him also: "Now, she is a beauty, and cultivated in a good many ways; only they've lost all their money." And he'll break off himself!
'Arrived yesterday evening, I'm told. I offered him a room here, but he refused. He seems a very nice fellow, though. 'Has he been long with you? 'About an hour. He asked me to introduce him to Olimpiada Nikitishna. 'And did you introduce him? 'Of course. 'And Lizaveta Kirillovna, too, did he ... 'He made her acquaintance, too, of course. I was silent for a space.
LÍPOCHKA. Where'd you get the money? PODKHALYÚZIN. Money! Glory to God, I have more money than any nobleman. LÍPOCHKA. What in the world are they doing to me? PODKHALYÚZIN. Now suppose, Olimpiáda Samsónovna, that you married a nobleman what will that ever amount to, ma'am? Only the glory of being a lady, but not the least pleasure, ma'am.
BOLSHÓV. But am I asking it? I begged out of every one of your kopeks I could; I begged, and bowed down to their feet; but what can I do, when they won't come down one little bit? OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA. We have told you, daddy, that we can't pay more than ten kopeks and there's no use saying any more about it. BOLSHÓV. And so, daughter, you say: "Go along now, you old devil, you, into the pen!
RISPOLÓZHENSKY. Police! All burst out laughing. A richly furnished chamber in the house of PODKHALYÚZIN OLIMPIÁDA SAMSÓNOVNA is sitting luxuriously near the window; she wears a silk waist, and a bonnet of the latest fashion. PODKHALYÚZIN, in a stylish frock coat, stands before the mirror. Behind him TISHKA is adjusting his master's clothes, and adding the finishing touches.
And the baby has been christened Olimpiada, in honour of their kind patroness. . . . I . . . I have just drunk paraffin, Dashenka!" "What next! You don't say they gave you paraffin there?" "I must own I wanted to get a drink of vodka without asking you, and . . . and the Lord chastised me: by accident in the dark I took paraffin. . . . What am I to do?"
AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. Then I'll inquire, otherwise you'll die there without our seeing you. BOLSHÓV. Good-by, daughter! Good-by, Olimpiáda Samsónovna! Well, now you're going to be rich, and live like a princess. That means assemblies and balls devil's own amusements! But don't you forget, Olimpiáda Samsónovna, that there are cells with iron bars, and poor prisoners are sitting in them.
Now, although this here Olimpiáda Samsónovna of course, God give her good health gives presents like a princess, yet, believe me, her origin's no better than ours. Her father, Samsón Sílych, dealt in leather mittens on the Balchug; respectable people called him Sammy, and fed him with thumps behind the ears.
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