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Updated: May 24, 2025
Well, now they've finished eating and are getting up; I must set to work. Rises from her chair; the women go out; PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA comes in. ARÍNA and PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. Come along, Arinushka, and help me to get the table ready. Yes, I'll sit down and rest I'm tired. ARÍNA. Of course you are tired, my dear! Day in, day out, on your feet! You aren't as young as you were once!
PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. In my young days I was the merriest sort of girl always singing and dancing -indeed I was. Yes, what songs I knew! They don't sing such songs now. FIRST GUEST. No, they don't sing them; new songs have come in now. SECOND GUEST. Yes, yes, one remembers the old times. PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. Yasha dear! Sing us some good old songs. GÚSLIN takes the guitar.
Pelageya had not come back by the time Grisha went to bed. "The poor thing is crying somewhere in the dark!" he thought. "While the cabman is saying to her 'shut up!" Next morning the cook was in the kitchen again. The cabman came in for a minute. He thanked mamma, and glancing sternly at Pelageya, said: "Will you look after her, madam? Be a father and a mother to her.
ARÍNA. Now you run along quickly and fetch the girls. PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA comes in. ARÍNA and PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. Arinushka, did you send for the girls? ARÍNA. I did, my dear. PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. That's right. Let them have a song with our folks, and cheer up Lyubóv and the guests. This is the time for them to enjoy themselves while they're young.
MÍTYA. Certainly, how could we live without a blessing! PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. What can I say to you? I feel altogether distracted. Yes, I'm going out of my mind! I don't know anything! I don't remember anything! Yes, yes, my head spins. Oh, my darlings, my heart is torn! Already my heart is all withered away within me! God be with you; good-by! MÍTYA. Why did you deceive me and mock at me?
When Grisha woke in the night he heard his nurse and the cook whispering together in the nursery. Nurse was talking persuasively, while the cook alternately sobbed and giggled. When he fell asleep after this, Grisha dreamed of Pelageya being carried off by Tchernomor and a witch. Next day there was a calm. The life of the kitchen went on its accustomed way as though the cabman did not exist.
ARÍNA. I understand, I understand; there'll be enough of everything. Directly, my dear, directly! PELAGÉYA EGÓROVNA. And a snack for the young men. ARÍNA. Everything, everything will be all right. Don't you worry yourself; you join the guests. There's more room here and it's lighter. Enter LYUBÓV GORDÉYEVNA, MÁSHA, LÍZA, ANNA IVÁNOVNA, RAZLYULYÁYEV, MÍTYA, GÚSLIN, and two GUESTS.
"He's gone," she muttered, seeing that mamma would not begin the conversation. "One can see he is a good man," said mamma, not taking her eyes off her sewing. "Sober and steady." "I declare I won't marry him, mistress!" Pelageya cried suddenly, flushing crimson. "I declare I won't!" "Don't be silly; you are not a child.
But this shadow soon melted in his worries over his affairs, and in the caresses of Pelageya. His life streamed on with the swiftness of a river wave, and each day brought to him new sensations, awakening in him new thoughts.
His mother would come to the head-master and beg him for God's sake: 'Be so kind, sir, as to find my Mishka, and flog him, the rascal! And the head-master would say to her: 'Upon my word, madam, our five porters aren't a match for him!" "Good heavens, to think of such ruffians being born," whispers Pelageya Ivanovna, looking at her husband in horror. "What a trial for the poor mother!"
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