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The same, ZHELTOUKHIN AND JULIE

JULIE: How do you do, Fyodor dear? (They kiss one another.) Do have something, dear. (To ORLOVSKY) Look, godpa, what a present I am giving Lennie.

(Showing a little shoe to serve as a watch-stand.)

ORLOVSKY: My ducky, my dear little girl, what a fine shoe! What a fine thing!

JULIE: The gold wire-ribbon alone cost eight and a half roubles. Look at the borders: tiny little pearls, tiny little pearls, tiny little pearls. And here are the letters: “Leonid Zheltoukhin.” Here’s embroidered in silk: “A present to him I love.” …

DYADIN: Do let me have a look! That is fascinating!

FYODOR: That’ll do … that’s enough! Julie, tell them to fetch champagne!

JULIE: Fyodor dear, that’s for the evening!

FYODOR: Why, why evening? Tell them to bring it at once, or I’ll go away. ‘Pon my word, I’ll go away. Where do you keep it? I’ll go and fetch it myself.

JULIE: Fyodor dear, in a well-ordered house, you’re always a nuisance. (To VASSILI) Vassili, here’s the key! The champagne is in the pantry, you know, in the corner, just by the bag of raisins, in a basket. Only be careful, don’t break anything!

FYODOR: Vassili, three bottles!

JULIE: You’ll never make a good housekeeper, Fyodor.… (Serving out the pie to the company.) Have some more, please, gentlemen… Dinner won’t be yet, not till six.… Nothing will come of you, Fyodor dear… You’re a lost creature!

FYODOR: Now, you’ve started preaching.

VOYNITSKY: I think someone has driven up… Do you hear?

ZHELTOUKHIN: Yes… It’s the Serebryakovs. … At last! (VASSILI announces the SEREBRYAKOVS.)

JULIE (crying out): Sonechka! [Runs out.

VOYNITSKY (singing): “Let’s go to meet them, let’s go.” … [Goes out.

FYODOR: How overjoyed they are!

ZHELTOUKHIN: How very little tact some people possess! He lives with the professor’s wife and cannot conceal it.

FYODOR: Who does?

ZHELTOUKHIN: George, of course. He praised her so much just now, before you came, that it was even indecent.

FYODOR: How do you know that he lives with her?

ZHELTOUKHIN: As if I were blind! … Besides, the whole district is talking about it.

FYODOR: Nonsense. Nobody has yet lived with her up to now, but soon I shall live with her… Do you see? I!