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He often rode to town with his mother, and they would call on me. Does he live in the country? KARP. No, we are most of the time in St. Petersburg; but now we have come to the country to arrange business matters. PROKÓFYEVNA. So, so. But is he a good man to deal with? KARP. Pretty good. PROKÓFYEVNA. Well, thank the Lord! May He reward him! What business brought you to our town?
The two drunken peasants followed them. "Aye, when I look at you!..." said one of them to Karp. "How can one talk to the masters like that? What were you thinking of, you fool?" added the other "A real fool!" Two hours later the carts were standing in the courtyard of the Bogucharovo house.
KARP. If you begin to be sentimental with 'em, sir, they'll get the habit of calling around here and bewailing their fate. No amount of money will suffice 'em. They're a godless crowd. BABÁYEV. Well, what'll I do? I'd like to go for a walk, but it's still hot. Karp, what shall I do? KARP. I'll tell you what, go to sleep; after travelling it's a good thing. BABÁYEV. But what shall I do at night?
SHISHGÁLEV. My family is large, Your Honor BABÁYEV. What's that? SHISHGÁLEV. Do have the kindness to bestow a little something BABÁYEV. Really, I don't know; how's that? How much do you want? KARP. Give him one ruble, sir; that'll be enough for him. BABÁYEV and KARP BABÁYEV. How rude you are, Karp.
I'm not against the commune," said Dron. "That's it not against it! You've filled your belly...." The two tall peasants had their say. As soon as Rostov, followed by Ilyin, Lavrushka, and Alpatych, came up to the crowd, Karp, thrusting his fingers into his belt and smiling a little, walked to the front. Dron on the contrary retired to the rear and the crowd drew closer together.
I'll drop the business for which I came and will go away immediately. TATYÁNA. Very well, go. BABÁYEV. I'm not joking. KARP. Yes, sir. TATYÁNA. So that's the way? Well, good luck to you! KARP. Well, sir, do you want me to pack up? BABÁYEV. Pack up, for where? KARP. They won't leave. BABÁYEV. That's none of your business! Get out! KARP goes out; LUKÉRYA comes in. BABÁYEV and LUKÉRYA
He provoked quarrels and altercations in defense of him and succeeded in bringing some people round to his side. “It’s the wench’s own fault,” he asserted, and the culprit was Karp, a dangerous convict, who had escaped from prison and whose name was well known to us, as he had hidden in our town.
A sturdy lad came in, in a green nankin long coat, with a blue collar and livery buttons. 'Tell Fomka, said Tchertop-hanov abruptly, 'to bring in Ammalat and Saiga, and in good order, do you understand? Karp gave a broad grin, uttered an indefinite sound, and went away. Fomka made his appearance, well combed and tightly buttoned up, in boots, and with the hounds.
Only I warn you that we must not grant merely an empty liberty, in words alone, like that under the Muscovites, when the late Pan Karp freed his serfs and the Muscovite starved them to death with a triple tax.224 So it is my advice that according to the ancient custom we make the peasants nobles and proclaim that we bestow on them our own coats of arms.
Traitors!" cried Rostov unmeaningly in a voice not his own, gripping Karp by the collar. "Bind him, bind him!" he shouted, though there was no one to bind him but Lavrushka and Alpatych. Lavrushka, however, ran up to Karp and seized him by the arms from behind. "Shall I call up our men from beyond the hill?" he called out.
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