THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ANTON CHEKHOV. Anton Chekhov
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Название: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ANTON CHEKHOV
Автор: Anton Chekhov
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9788027201389
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ORLOVSKY: Yes, such things do happen.
ENTER SONYA.
SCENE II
THE SAME AND SONYA
SONYA (aside): I don’t know what to do with myself! …
(Walking about and laughing.)
ORLOVSKY: Puss, darling, where are you going? Do sit with us a while.
SONYA: Fedya, come here… (Taking FYODOR aside.) Come here… .
FYODOR: What do you want? Why such a radiant face?
SONYA: Give me your word that you will do what I ask you!
FYODOR: Well?
SONYA: Drive over to the … Wood Demon.
FYODOR: What for?
SONYA: Just so … just drive over to him … ask him why he has kept away so long … a fortnight now.
FYODOR: Blushing! Shame! Here, Sonya’s in love!
ALL: Shame! Shame!
[SONYA covers her face and runs away.
FYODOR: She’s flitting about, like a shadow, from room to room, and doesn’t know what to do with herself. She’s in love with the Wood Demon.
ORLOVSKY: She’s a glorious little girl. … I love her. I longed, Fyodor dear, that you should marry her, you won’t easily find a better bride. But well, probably God wills it so… And what a pleasure and delight mine would be! Ishould come over to you, you with your young wife, your family hearth, the samovar chirping away on the table… .
FYODOR: I’m unskilled in these matters. If the crazy notion of marriage ever came into my head, I should in any case marry Julie. She, at any rate, is little, and of all evils one should always choose the least. And then, too, she’s a good housekeeper… (Clapping his forehad.) That’s an idea!
ORLOVSKY: What is it?
FYODOR: Let’s have champagt!
VOYNITSKY: It’s too early, and o it’s hot … you wait awhile… .
ORLOVSKY (admiringly): My sonny, my beauty! … He wants champagne, the dear soul! …
ENTER ELENA ANDREYEVNA.
SCENE III
THE SAME AND ELENA ANDREYEVNA
ELENA ANDREYEVNA (walks across the stage).
VOYNITSKY: Look at her: she walks and sways from sheer indolence! Fine! Very fine!
ELENA ANDREYEVNA: Stop it, George! It’s boring enough without your buzzing.
VOYNITSKY (barring her way): A talent, an artist! Well, do yoa look like an artist? Apathetic, indolent, sluggish… . So much virtue that, pardon me, it’s even unpleasant to look at… .
ELENA ANDREYEVNA: Don’t look then … let me go… .
VOYNITSKY: Why are you pining away? (In a lively tone) My dear, my lovely one, be a good girl! There’s mermaid’s blood flowing in your veins, why not be a mermaid?
ELENA ANDREYEVNA: Let me alone!
VOYNITSKY: Let yourself go, if only once in your life, fall in love quickly up to your very eyes with a merman …
FYODOR: And then flop headlong into the water with him and leave the Herr Professor and all of us waving our hands!
VOYNITSKY: Mermaid, eh? Love while you may!
ELENA ANDREYEVNA: And why do you go on teaching me? As if I don’t know, without your telling me, how I should live if I had my will! Like a care-free bird I should fly away, from all of you, from your sleepy faces, from your boring, wearisome conversations. I should forget your very existence in the world, and no one would dare then teach me. But I haven’t my own will. I’m cowardly, shy, and it seems to me all along that, if I were to be unfaithful, all wives would follow my example and leave their husbands; that God would punish me, and my conscience torment me; otherwise I would show you what a free life is like! [Goes out.
ORLOVSKY: Dear soul, the beauty! …
VOYNITSKY: I believe I shall soon begin to despise this woman! She’s shy like a little girl, and philosophizes like an old deacon, adorned with virtues! Curdled milk!
ORLOVSKY: Stop, stop! … Where’s the professor now?
VOYNITSKY: In his study. Writing away.
ORLOVSKY: He called me here by letter on some business. Do you happen to know what the business is?
VOYNITSKY: He can’t have any business. He writes rubbish, grumbles and is jealous, that’s all.
ZHELTOUKHIN and JULIE enter by the door on the right.
SCENE IV
THE SAME, ZHELTOUKHIN AND JULIE
ZHELTOUKHIN: How do you do, all? (Greeting them.)
JULIE: How do you do, godpa dear? (Kissing him.) How do you do, Fedya? (Kissing him.) How do you do, George Petrovich? (Kissing him.)
ZHELTOUKHIN: Alexander Vladiniirovich is at home?
ORLOVSKY: Yes. He’s in his study.
ZHELTOUKHIN: I must go to him. He wrote asking to see me on a matter of business… . [Goes out.
JULIE: George Petrovieh, did you receive the barley yesterday, for which you asked in your note?
VOYNITSKY: Thanks, I did. How much is it? We also had something from you in the spring. I don’t remember what … we must settle our accounts. I can’t bear messing up things and postponing settlements.
JULIE: In the spring you had eight quarters of corn, two heifers, a calf, and also butter for your farm hands.
VOYNITSKY: How much does СКАЧАТЬ