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SCENE XI
ОглавлениеThe same and KHROUSCHOV
KHROUSCHOV (shouting): Ilya Ilyich!
DYADIN: Here! What is it you want?
KHROUSCHOV: I can’t walk, let me have your horse.
SONYA (recognizing KHROUSCHOV, and crying out joyfully): Mikhail Lvovich! (To ORLOVSKY) GO away, godpa dear, I have something to say to him. (To KHROUSCHOV) Mikhail Lvovich, you said that you would love another. … (To ORLOVSKY) GO away, godpa! … (To KHROUSCHOV) I am another now … I only want the truth… Nothing, nothing but the truth! I love you, I love you, I love …
ORLOVSKY: Now I see! (Laughing.)
DYADIN: That is fascinating!
SONYA (to ORLOVSKY): Go away, godpa dear! (To KHROUSCHOV) Yes, yes, only the truth and nothing else! … Speak then, speak! … I’ve said everything… .
KHROUSCHOV (embracing her): My darling!
SONYA: Don’t go, godpa dear! … When you told me of your love, I panted for joy, but I was fettered by prejudices. Iwas prevented from giving you a true answer just as father is prevented from smiling on Elena. Now I am free! …
ORLOVSKY (laughing aloud): Singing in tune at last! Scrambled out on to the bank! I have the honour to congratulate you. (Bowing low). Ah, you naughty, naughty children!
DYADIN (embracing KHROUSCHOV): Misha, my dear boy, how glad you make me! Misha, dear boy!
ORLOVSKY (embracing and kissing SONYA): My darling, my little canary! … My dear little goddaughter! (SONYA laughs aloud.) Now you’ve started!
KHROUSCHOV: I can hardly grasp it all! … Let me have a word with her. Don’t get in our way… Pray, go away! . .
ENTER FYODOR AND JULIE.
